(The Economic Collapse Blog)—As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 on April 8th draws near, the mainstream media has been packed with stories that debunk various “conspiracy theories”. Of course in order to have a “conspiracy theory”, you have got to have more than one individual that is alleged to be involved in some sort of a “conspiracy”, and so I have no idea how that term can possibly be applied to what is going on in the heavens.
In any event, there are certainly a lot of “theories” about this eclipse that are clearly not accurate, and the mainstream media has successfully debunked a number of them. However, there is one “theory” regarding this eclipse that the mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about, and I will discuss that “theory” in this article.
In Genesis chapter 1, God specifically told us that one of the reasons why He created the sun and the moon is because they would be used as “signs”…
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years
Anyone that has read the first page of the Bible should know this. This is extremely basic stuff.
In Luke chapter 21, Jesus specifically warned us that “there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” during the years just prior to His return.
So we should be watching for “signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” in the end times because Jesus instructed us to watch for “signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” in the end times.
Once again, this is extremely basic stuff. Of course the mainstream media would like to convince all of us that anyone that believes that the Great American Eclipse of 2024 has any sort of special significance is a few bricks short of a load. And you can believe that if you want. But the mainstream media can never “debunk” the Aleph and the Tav that are being completed on April 8th.
As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 passes over the United States on April 8th, it will cross over the path of the “ring of fire” solar eclipse of October 14th, 2023 and the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2017. In the process, an absolutely enormous paleo-Hebrew “Aleph” will be completed over America.
According to eclipsewitness.com, there “has never been such a tightly formed obvious Aleph over the interior borders of any nation in at least the last thousand years”.
The Aleph that is being formed does not look anything like the Aleph that has evolved in modern Hebrew. Rather, the Aleph that is being formed looks just like the Aleph that was commonly used when many of the books of the Bible were being written in ancient Israel.
The Aleph has always been the very first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and from the earliest times it has always meant “strength”, “authority” or “power”. Remember that, because it will be important later.
If you remove the “ring of fire” solar eclipse of October 14th, 2023 from the equation, the paths of the Great American Eclipse of 2024 and the Great American Eclipse of 2017 form a giant paleo-Hebrew “Tav” over America.
At the heart of that “Tav” is a giant “X” that intersects directly over the New Madrid fault zone in southern Illinois. The Tav has always been the very last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and from the earliest times it has always meant “mark” or “covenant”. And in the earliest forms, the Tav was simply a picture of two wooden sticks crossing one another. In other words, the Tav was simply a wooden cross.
Ultimately, the Tav represents the covenant that God made with humanity at the wooden cross. And when you see the Aleph and Tav together, “strength”, “authority” and “power” is being combined with the covenant that God made with humanity at the wooden cross.
The Aleph Tav is actually in the original Hebrew in Genesis 1:1, but it is never translated in any of our English versions. And the Aleph Tav is also found thousands of other times throughout the Old Testament. But today I want to talk about the appearances of the Aleph Tav in the Book of Revelation.
In the very first chapter of the Book of Revelation, Jesus identifies Himself as “the Alpha and the Omega”…
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
And in the very last chapter of the Book of Revelation, Jesus once again identifies Himself as “the Alpha and the Omega”…
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
If Jesus is telling us the exact same thing in the very first chapter of the Book of Revelation and the very last chapter of the Book of Revelation, it must be important.
Needless to say, the Alpha and the Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
But I believe that the original conversations between Jesus and the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation were not in Greek.
You see, the truth is that the Apostle John did not speak Greek. He spoke Hebrew. And so when Jesus appeared to John, He would have spoken to him in a language that he could understand.
So in the original conversations that we find in the Book of Revelation, I believe that Jesus and the Apostle John were speaking to each other in Hebrew.
Instead of saying that He is “the Alpha and the Omega”, during the original conversations Jesus would have said that He is “the Aleph and the Tav”.
The Apostle John would have immediately recognized that Jesus was saying that He is the Aleph Tav that we find in Genesis 1:1.
And he would have immediately recognized that Jesus was saying that He is the Aleph Tav that appears thousands of times throughout the Old Testament.
Now the Aleph Tav is literally being painted in the skies above America, and hardly anyone is even talking about this.
The two Hebrew letters that Jesus specifically identified Himself with will be completed in the heavens on April 8th, and meanwhile the sun, the moon and the other seven planets in our solar system will all be lined up in the night sky.
And all of this is happening on the first day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar. Can you understand why the mainstream media does not want to talk about any of this?
The heavens are literally screaming out that Jesus is Lord, and we are very fortunate to be living during the times just prior to His return.
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