We are continuing to look at Jonah, chapter 3. This is study #3 of the Jonah 3 Series and, again, it says in Jonah 3:1-4:

And the word of JEHOVAH came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of JEHOVAH. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

In our last study, we were looking at Exodus 19 and we will turn there again. It says in Exodus 19:13:

There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

We saw that the word “trumpet” in Exodus 19:13 is the Hebrew word “yo-bale,” the word for “jubile,” which is found 27 times in the Old Testament. It was translated as “jubile” twenty-one times; it was translated as “ram’s horn” five times; and once as “trumpet.” We also saw that God speaks of this trumpet and identifies it with the jubile and with “sounding long,” so it is a prolonged blast or sounding of the Jubilee. It says in Exodus 19:19:

And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

So, again, two times it mentions sounding long regarding the “voice of the trumpet.” We were looking at John 10 which spoke of the voice of Christ and it said that the sheep hear His voice and know His voice. We also saw in Revelation 1:12 that the voice of Christ identifies with a trumpet.

Now let us go to Joshua 6:1-4:

Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And JEHOVAH said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns…

This word translated as “rams’ horns” is the Hebrew word “yo-bale,” Strong’s #3104, and it is the word for “jubile.” To say, “seven trumpets of jubilees” did not make much sense to the translators in this passage, so the King James translators translated it as “rams’ horns,” but it is the same word as “jubile,” where it speaks of the jubile. Then it says in Joshua 6:4-5:

…and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn…

The word “long blast” is the same word translated as “sounded long” in Exodus 19, so you could read this, When they “sound long” with the “jubile.” It is basically saying the same thing as Exodus 19, verse 13. The jubilee will sound long and to “sound long” means an extended period of time that is going to stretch out. And God is identifying this with the jubile. He uses the word “ram’s horn” five times in Joshua, chapter 6. Again, it says in Joshua 6:5:

And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet...

Remember the word “sound” in the New Testament is the same word as “voice” or “fo-nay.” John heard Christ’s voice. He turned around because he had heard a voice as the sound of the trumpet and it was the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, “and when ye hear,” and that is important because certain individuals have ears to hear, but many do not. Jesus said in Matthew 13:11: “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.” This means that God’s people have that ability and perception. You know, some people have the ability to perceive things that others do not. They just seem to have that kind of gift in the natural world. You can have ten people and nine of them are not able to perceive something, but there is that one person out of the ten that perceives certain information the others missed.

It is that way with God’s elect because God has given us a new heart and new spirit and equipped us with ears to hear. We are able to hear things, like a dog can hear a whistle that a human cannot hear. The elect of God are able to hear the voice of Christ as He speaks through His Word, the Bible. We are able to discern truth and that is why it says in Daniel 12:9:

And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

The implication is that at that time, the Word would be opened. Then it says in Daniel 12:10:

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

It is just incredible how God can speak the same words that are coming forth from the Bible and if you have 100 people, maybe 99 do not understand, but one does. Or, if you have 1,000 people, 999 do not understand, but one person does. That one person hears on “another wave length,” to use a figure of speech used in the world, but it is not a “wave length” because that would be something physical, and it is really a spiritual perception that has been granted by God.

You know, in the Garden of Eden mankind died in his soul or spirit and from that point he could not perceive or understand spiritual things because of being dead in his soul. That is why it is so easy for people to be atheists or unbelievers. That is the natural condition of their hearts. There is no true belief in God coming forth from the heart of (unsaved) man.

Going back to Joshua chapter 6, God says in Joshua 6:5:

And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

This is similar to 1Thessalonians 4, verse 16 where Christ comes with the sound of a trumpet and a great shout. Then it says in Joshua 6:6-8:

And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of JEHOVAH. And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of JEHOVAH. And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before JEHOVAH, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of JEHOVAH followed them.

They did this once a day for seven days. Then it says in Joshua 6:13:

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of JEHOVAH went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of JEHOVAH, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

Again, the word translated as “rams’ horns” is “jubile.” Then, finally, on the seventh time around, it says in Joshua 6:16:

And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for JEHOVAH hath given you the city.

And then the wall came tumbling down after that seventh time on the seventh day. How many times did the people of Israel go around Jericho? It was 13 times. There were six in the first six days, once a day for six days. Then they went around seven times on the seventh day and there was a shout and the wall came tumbling down. God identifies this with the jubile.

When was the first Jubilee after 13,000 years of earth’s history? It was the year 1994, the first Jubilee after the world had gone around, so to speak, “1,000 x 13.” The year 1988 was the 13,000th year of earth’s history when God began His judgment on the house of God, the corporate church. But it would not be until 2,300 days after that date on September 7, 1994 when the 40th Jubilee (since 7BC) would come to pass. So, this is emphasizing the number “13” and we could make a long list of scriptures in the Bible where God links the number “13” with the end of the world. God is doing so here as well, and we can know that because Jericho was destroyed after 13 times around the city.

Yes, 1994 is not exactly the 13,000th year of earth’s history, but it was the year 13,006 from creation, but we have to keep in mind that in order for God to make identification with major events in His salvation or judgment programs, they have to be done with “full” numbers. God speaks of Jacob being 130 years old when he entered into the land of Egypt, which was after two years of the seven-year famine, with five more years of famine to come. When Jacob went before Pharaoh and Pharaoh asked him how old he was, did Jacob say he was 130 years and six months? No – he did not say that. The 130 years would point to 13,000 years and then maybe six months could point to six years and almost four months after, because it is actually pointing to the year 1994, the dividing point of the Great Tribulation after the 2,300 evening mornings, but you cannot do that.

Just try to imagine yourself doing this. You want to give a number that points to a significant time post that is thousands of years in the future. How are you going to do it? How are you going to make that identification? You can point to the date using 13,000 because it is a “full” number and you can identify with that number, but you cannot get any more exact when you are giving someone’s age. Or, when they are going around Jericho, how are you going to indicate that it is the first Jubilee after 13 times around (after 13,000 years) with the number of times they go around? You cannot say that they went around 13.2 times. It would not work and the decimal you came up with would not be understood. You have to use the “fulness” of the number and then give other clues, like God is doing, by speaking of the rams’ horns (jubiles) five times to indicate He is speaking of the Jubilee period that first comes after we enter the end stage of world history, the 13,000th year of earth’s history in 1988.

Again, in Exodus 19:13 God speaks of the trumpet in association with the jubile “sounding long” and He did the same thing in Joshua 6 with the jubile “sounding long.” And we have to start identifying it with 1994, which was the last Jubilee. I would say there is no way we will be here in the year 2044AD, which would be the next Jubilee period. By the way, that would be the 41st Jubilee, whereas 1994 was the 40th Jubilee since 7BC, which is significant. And I believe that, overall, it was the 68th Jubilee, which can be broken down to significant numbers. If you go beyond this Jubilee that started in 1994, you do not find that kind of significance, unless you were to go another thousand years in to the future. Who thinks the world can last another thousand years, with things like gay marriage and transgender issues? No – that is not going to happen. We are at the end of the world. That is very clear.

So, God is giving us a signal to look to the Jubilee. You can find some of this information in the book “1994?”, if anyone still has a copy because it did appear it might be the year 1994 based on what we are reading in Joshua, chapter 6 where it speaks of 13 times around and looking to the “jubile.” And September 1994 was the Jubilee. But it did not happen because there were many other things we had to learn and other parts of God’s judgment program that had to be worked out.

We find two verses that speak of a trumpet or the jubile “sounding long” and we understand that God began to open the scriptures regarding His second coming with the advance information about 1994, which was that Jubilee year. From that time until now, which is about 24 years, the people of God have been hearing the scriptures and understanding things like May 21, 2011. No – we have not “let it go” and we have not turned away from these things. How can we? How can a true child of God go back from and “unhear” the voice of Christ that he has heard? It is just something that you know. For some that do not hear that voice of Christ, they have no way of understanding and they think you are crazy, a fool or the most stubborn person they have ever met because you will not “let it go” and you just keep on believing it. They do not hear the voice of Christ that the child of God hears – that “trumpet sound” that identifies with the voice of Christ and has been continually sounding all the way back to 1994.

In Joshua, chapter 6 there were seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns or seven trumpets of jubilees. Does that remind you of anything? How about the Book of Revelation? Let us go to Revelation 8:2:

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

They were given seven trumpets, but let us back up to Revelation 8:1:

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

There was silence in heaven for about “half an hour” and that identifies with the 2,300 evening mornings. The Great Tribulation is typified as “one hour,” so it cannot be represented by exactly “half an hour” but “about half an hour” because it is speaking of that grievous first part of the Great Tribulation in which virtually no one became saved. The 2,300 evening mornings began on May 21, 1988 (the 13,000th year of earth’s history) and continued through September 7, 1994. I always thought that was when the trumpets began to sound, but it says there was silence in heaven, so how could there be silence if the trumpets were sounding? No – there were no trumpets sounding in 1988. The way God has written about them, we do not read about them until after the (about) half hour of silence, which means that they will begin to sound in chapter 8 and the first four trumpets will sound in Revelation 8 and after each sounding, God speaks of judgment being brought upon the “third part.” Just look at Revelation 8:6-13:

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

The word “voices” is the word “fo-nay” and the word as translated as “sound” of the trumpet in the verses we looked at earlier. So, here, we see a prolonged sounding of the trumpet. Did it last for 23 years? If there was silence in heaven for the space of about a half hour and if the first trumpet began to sound after the silence in heaven, then he began to sound in 1994 and the others sounded throughout the remaining portion of the Great Tribulation, the second part of the Great Tribulation that lasted from 1994 to May 21, 2011. These four angels sounded.

Sometimes, people see the “three woes” and the three remaining trumpets and they try to arrange a sequence of events for Judgment Day, like from May 21, 2011 to 2017 is the first trumpet; from 2017 to 2025 is the second one and from 2025 to whenever is the third one. But the problem is that this is not how it was regarding the first four trumpets. Each of the first four trumpets were declaring that the church age is over and God’s wrath was upon the churches; the second trumpet sounded and declared the same thing, as well as the third and the fourth. They were all declaring the judgment of God upon the churches and congregations.

Yet, I think we can see that their beginning to sound the trumpet after the 2,300 evening mornings was in the year 1994, which agrees with Joshua, chapter 6 where it says when the trumpet of the jubilee “sounds long.” Also, in Exodus, chapter 9, verse 13 the trumpet or jubilee sounds long. It is a long blast that was continuing. The first four in Revelation, chapter 8 are the Great Tribulation and then there are the “three woes” which are the final three trumpets and they identify with Judgment Day. It covers the entire period of Judgment Day and they are not trying to divide it in to segments. They are all pronouncing judgment on the world equally, as God is doing the same thing with them that He did with the same trumpets that He sounded upon the churches and congregations.

So far, I think we can see that Christ comes with the voice of a trumpet and the trumpet sounds long and the trumpet begins to sound and identifies with the Jubilee period in 1994. We see the year 1994 continually coming up and being brought in to view.

Going back to the Book of Jonah, it says in Jonah 3:1:

And the word of JEHOVAH came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh…

Jonah is the “dove.” Turn to Genesis 8 and every time we read “dove,” it is Strong’s #3123 and the word translated as “Jonah” is Strong’s #3124. I do not know why they distinguish between them because they are the same consonants and the same vowels, which means it is the exact same word. It says in Genesis 8:8-9:

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot…

The word “dove” is “yo-naw,” the same word translated as “Jonah,” and that is how you would pronounce Jonah’s name in the Hebrew.

Then it says in Genesis 8:10:

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

It says in Genesis 8:12:

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

The word “dove” is used five times and it is the identical word for “Jonah.” I know I have mentioned it, but it is always good to read this in Matthew 3:16-17:

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

The Spirt of God was “like a dove.” That is a spiritual definition, just like the field represents the world, according to the parable that Christ spoke. And what can the “rock” represent? That rock was Christ. God gives these spiritual definitions that help us as we read the Bible and we are developing a Biblical vocabulary to aid our understanding in hearing the voice of Christ. He speaks in the spiritual realm and in order to understand something spiritual (and the Law is spiritual), we must compare spiritual with spiritual and then the Holy Ghost teaches, but we need to develop our spiritual vocabulary, the definitions the Bible provides.

And this is another definition, where it says the Holy Spirit is like a dove. Jonah was chosen to be a prophet by God. God is the one who selected him. Yes, Jonah’s father picked his name, but who put it in his mind to do so? Who chose that man to be a prophet and sent him to Nineveh? God did. How many times did God send this man Jonah (whose name is “dove,” which is likened to the Holy Spirit) to Nineveh? Twice. There are no coincidences about any of it. We can even map out chapters 1 and 2 of Jonah with the first coming of Christ and chapters 3 and 4 with the second coming of Christ that began with the Jubilee year in 1994. That was the time of the second outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as it says in Isaiah 11:11:

And it shall come to pass in that day…

By the way, I mentioned this recently, but we see this term “in that day” so often and sometimes it is difficult to understand or discern whether it is speaking of Judgment Day or the Great Tribulation. In the Old Testament, you can find God referring to both in one context and one of the most difficult things is to try to understand if it refers to judgment on the churches or judgment on the world. In this case we see the term back to Isaiah 11:10:

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse…

And then it says in Isaiah 11:11:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people…

God views the final judgment as one prolonged period of time that He also identifies with “forty years.” He identifies that time of the Great Tribulation and also the time of the final judgment because judgment began at the house of God. It is very obvious, is it not? When does Judgment Day begin? Judgment begins at the house of God. It is not the word “chastisement” or some other word, but it is the word “judgment” and it tells us when it began. Judgment begins at the house of God.

Some people talk about how men tend to “compartmentalize” their brain and they use one part or the other and there is no middle portion. Well, that is what we have done, in a way, with the Great Tribulation over here and Judgment Day over here. Yes, May 21, 2011 was the end of the Great Tribulation and we thought that was the beginning of Judgment Day. It was the expanded portion of the final judgment, but the final judgment began at the house of God in the year 1994. “Hold it,” some will say and you should be saying “Hold it,” because we thought it was 1988. And, yes, God did depart out of the churches in the year 1988 and, as far as we know, Satan did enter in at that point, but it is the program of God to send a rain followed by famine. The early rain ceased to fall on May 21, 1988 and ended the church age and the time when God would bring in the firstfruits. Then there were the 2,300 evening mornings when virtually no one was saved in the entire world, but if no one was saved out in the world, it is hard to make the distinction that God was just judging the churches – it was something impacted the entire earth because there was no one being saved anywhere in the world.

It was in 1994 when God sent forth the Spirit the second time to recover the remnant of His people, but He was not sending it in to the churches. He was not saving people in the churches, but He was saving people out in the world. You can see what a terrible judgment that was upon the congregations. There were always periods of an occasional famine, but he rain would begin to fall again. But there was a famine of hearing the Word of God that took place in the churches for that 2,300 evening mornings and then when it was time for the Latter Rain they did not receive the rain – they did not receive the blessing of God. In the Book of Jeremiah, it says there was no Latter Rain for the churches and congregations of the world.

So, the revealing of the judgment of God upon the churches began in 1994 because then you could see the distinction. You could see that God was working in the world, but where He had worked for nearly two thousand years He was no longer working. I think that is the reason that God is directing us through these verses to look at the Jubilee and 1994 for the beginning of the sounding of the trumpet, as it says in Revelation chapter 8, for judgment on the “third part.” After the about half hour of silence, then the trumpet began to sound and the “third parts” were being impacted because there was now a clear distinction. By sending forth the Gospel into the world God was clearly showing His wrath was upon the congregations, which could not be seen before that time.