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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Flynn's book is light on 2012, heavy on Biblical & Secular history, September 29, 2008
As a sincere follower and believer in Jesus Christ, Flynn does a good job issuing a prophetic "watch" notice, blending Biblical and secular accounts of historical facts with 'new' data. Most of this 'new' data is centered around linking distances from Jerusalem's Temple Mount to key historical dates which seem to defy mere coincidence. (Of course, most Hebrew Rabbis will tell you coincidence is not a Kosher word!)
While some of the logic and calculations may seem contrived, Flynn does a good job using new technology (specifically NASA's World Wind program) in calculating distances to key locations in London, Washington, Babylon, Mecca, Egypt and other nations who possess unique historical relationships with Jerusalem's ancient Jewish Temples. Many of these "distances that match key dates and symbols" range from 1,948 nautical miles from the center of London to the corner stone of Solomon's Temple. This matches up to 1948AD, when the British Empire established the Modern Nation of Israel. Flynn also shows there are 666 nautical miles between Mecca, Saudi Arabia and the Temple corner stone.
Flynn does a good job linking these calculations back to Biblical prophecies of Daniel, with some unique insights not published before. For example, Flynn calls out the unique properties of numbers such as 2,520 (equivalent to the number of days in Daniel's "week of years" as well as the gematria of Babylon's King Nebuchaadnezzar's `writing on the wall' interpreted by Daniel), 1,260 (half of 2,520) the constant pi and other numbers with their roots in the ancient Jewish Temples' architecture. He also makes some other very unique, interesting observations between the geo-positioning of ancient sites and their relation to the Temple. Flynn does NOT put forth this type of distance / date observation as a new "bible code" but rather explores Isaac Newton's Bible research as it relates to ancient prophecy and world events.
Other calculations are not as straight forward, such as the year 2012 calculated through a series of conversions between Lunar (Hebrew) and Solar (Gregorian) calendars, multiplication against Pi and offset by the dedication year of Solomon's Temple. These calculations are all contained within less than 6 pages of the Epilogue out of 296 total pages which doesn't warrant it as a sub-title for the entire book.
Beyond the time / distance parallel calculations, Flynn does an interesting job linking post-renaissance "illuminated" world leaders' beliefs from the Jewish Temple's vantage point. Facts are well cited in each respective chapter's end notes, such as the origin of the word "church", "ark" and "tau" in how they are inter-related to the "primal knowledge" or "priscia sapientia" avidly pursued by many renaissance scholars. Flynn makes subtle reference to the growing tension around 2012 as the end of the Mayan calendar and the potential for that time being a star gate through which the 'watchers' (implicit in Genesis 6, Matthew 24 and Jude) return to earth. Under no circumstances does Flynn pick any second advent, rapture or other prophetic dates but merely puts the reader on 'watch notice' similar to a meteorological tornado watch.
Bottom line: read the book. Flynn's ambassadorship for the King of kings is well reflected in this thoughtful piece of work.
John Hoben, Soldiersbibleministry.org
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Every educated Christian needs to read this book!, September 25, 2008
Every educated christian should read this book, it crosses the gap between physics, math and spirituality! It lays down in simple terms the science of God's work. Definite must have for your library. It is as useful in biblical numerics as Strong's Concordance is in other places of the bible.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
some questions, October 27, 2008
For all the information packed into this work, it is very short, very direct. It is a starting point for further study. Some questions: why does the author tie his findings to the Gregorian Calendar? Is this calendar without error? How would his figures fit into the Hebrew Calendar? Why is it significant that the distance between Jerusalem and Babylon equal the years before Christ? Are there other mile/time connections of intrigue? What would a circle of X number of miles around Jerusalem encompass?
I found the chapter, "A third of time", most interesting; it hints at a cosmic (as opposed to the Gregorian) calendar of which we know almost nothing. It hearkens back to Genesis chapter one where Elohim sets the stars and moon in place to measure times and seasons. I would like to ask the author these questions.
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