Destruction of Babylon is close, but God will give us a last moment warning.

“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.” (Proverbs 25:2 KJV)

It felt like I had the same dream all night.  This is what I remember as I awoke on March 10th, 2018:

I saw the number 239 over and over again, even talking about it. Once, seeing the number on three white blocks, each with one number lined up in order to show 2 3 9 together.

I saw an old man with long white hair.  His role was to be a guide to me. I believe the color white represents the Spirit of the Lord.  The man’s long white hair as well as his old age represents wisdom.

I woke up during the night looking at my watch thinking it would be the 9th (March 9th), but it was already March 10th.  (The dream was not pointing me to the day that it was.)  I went back to sleep. When I woke in the morning, the number 239 was the first thing I thought of, but I didn’t know what it meant.

The Lord asked me a question, “When did Noah enter the ark?”

He asked me this question several times as I began to get up for the day.  I did not know the answer.

Issue #1: 239
I continued to ponder the meaning of the 239.  Was it 23-9 which I’ve dreamt of more than once and thought about before?  A few years ago, I was pointed to the date of September 23, along with lots of other people.

There was a significant event that occurred on Sept. 23, 2015 when Obama (antichrist) met with the Pope (false prophet) in Washington, D.C.  Then, this past year on Sept. 23rd, 2017, the fulfillment of the Revelation 12:1-2 occurred in the stars.

Just like God’s Word, I believe dreams and things He speaks to us have many layers.  239 might be continuing to point to what has happened 9/23, Sept. 23rd and it might also point to what will happen in some future year, especially since the Lord asked me a question related to time.  However, I felt like that was not the full message God was wanting to convey.

I reached out to a friend who is a researcher for the Lord as a Watchman, Dr. David Carmack.  He too thought there might be significance with September 23.

For some reason, I found myself texting David that the Lord had given me a warning back in August 2016 of an earthquake that was to happen.  He gave me the warning at 4 am Sunday and said it would go off Saturday, about a week later, and it did. From my journal 8.28.16,

I was awoken to hear the Lord speak to me “It is time.  It is time to lead.  It is time to lead your brothers, the tribe of Manasseh, to me.”

I thanked God for being my friend.  He said He called me friend!

I asked what “sell okay see oh ku so shay” meant.  (This is what the tongues I pray sound like at times and I wondered about it because I knew in my spirit it had purpose.)

He told me it meant, “You are mine and I am yours”.

I asked him why He chose me.  He said I had a contrite heart.

He said, “The earthquake is going to go off Saturday.”

This Saturday during Nate and Eleni’s wedding, I asked?  (Friends were getting married that day.)

The Lord said He wanted me to go slow.  I thought about Him healing me (shoulder injury from a car accident April 2015) and He said it will heal.  I got the sense that it will take time and that the injury will slow me down which is what He wants.  (Ironically, I am presently healing from a broken ankle 6 weeks ago.  The Lord is still teaching me to slow down and to learn to rest in Him.)

I wrote down the warning the Lord then spoke to me that day, which I shared in my 2016 post, “The High Places Will All Be Shaken.”

An earthquake did go off the following Saturday, September 3rd, 2016, just as He said it would and I felt it.  I awoke around 7 am to my bed shaking.  We were feeling an earthquake in Omaha, Nebraska from a 5.8 originating in Oklahoma! That was a first for me!

The 2016 Oklahoma earthquake occurred on September 3, 2016 near Pawnee, Oklahoma. Measuring 5.8 on the moment magnitude scale, it is the strongest in state history. At 5.8 magnitude, this ties it with the 2011 Virginia earthquake, which was determined after it struck to be the most powerful quake in the eastern United States in the preceding 70 years.(Source: Wikipedia.org)

The Lord led me to look up 239 in the Strong’s Concordance, which I have not used before that I can recall.  I usually use ESword and can pick out words for greater understanding in the Hebrew or Greek, but I don’t know how to use this tool to look up assigned numbers first.

I was blown away at what 239 pointed to.  I learned that the word assigned with 239 is only found 4 times in the entire Bible, though it is a term of praise and means “Hallelujah”, a word you would expect to find often in praise to God.  The 4 times this specific word 239 is found occurs in Revelation 19 alone.

239

Transliteration –  hallēlouïa

Pronunciation –  häl-lā-lü-ē-ä’

Strong’s definition –  ἀλληλουϊα allēlouïa, al-lay-loo’-ee-ah; of Hebrew origin (imperative of H1984 and H3050); praise ye Jah!, an adoring exclamation:—alleluiah  (Source: Bible.com)

“And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (Revelation 19:1-6 KJV)

As I read commentaries on this, I learned that Handel’s Messiah was inspired by verse 6.

Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
For the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
For the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth
For the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth
For the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah

Yesterday afternoon while riding in our car, the Pentatonix version of Hallelujah came on and it caused me to weep.  It’s not uncommon for me to cry listening to any music when I feel the Lord, but God reminded me of this tonight as another confirmation.

239 – Greek Lexicon:  praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah: Revelation 19:1, 3, 6

Revelation 19:1-6 portrays the response of Heaven to the destruction of Mystery Babylon as recorded in Revelation 17 and 18.  Many people today believe Mystery Babylon includes The United States.  I believe that too.  The Lord showed that to me a couple of years ago and has confirmed it over and over again.  We’ve been warned of the impending judgment by men and women of God for decades and have not turned from our evil ways, but in fact, as a people, only become more depraved.  We’ve faced drought, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes.  These will continue to increase in frequency and severity, with the addition of tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, pestilence, and war on our shores.  We will be attacked by an alliance of nations that will be led by Russia and China.  The question is when and how.  Is this what the Lord is warning about?

I believe the Lord is using and will use all this to cause His people to come out of Babylon… He will make a way, just as He did in the days of Noah.

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4 KJV)

Issue #2: “When did Noah enter the ark?”
I did a little research trying to answer the question I heard the Lord ask me to determine when Noah entered the ark.  In Genesis 7, it says he entered the ark in the 600th year of his life, in the 2nd month and 17th day.  However, God invited him to enter the ark 7 days (or one week) before he actually did, which was the very day the flood began.

“And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.”
Genesis 7:1, 4-7, 10 KJV

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.” (Genesis 7:11-15 KJV

I found many different calculations leading to different conclusions on the actual Hebrew calendar or Gregorian calendar date that the flood actually began, and Noah and his family entered the ark.

David texted me, “I’m not positive, but the consensus from multiple sources was that (Noah entered the ark and the flood began) it was the 2nd month of the year, right after the month of Nissan.”

This would be the month of Iyyar.  This year, 2018, the 17th day of Iyyar falls on Wednesday, May 2nd.  The month of Iyyar holds many historical events. Could these foreshadow what the Lord will do in future months of Iyyar?

Key historical events in the month of Iyyar:

• It was during this month that those who were unable to observe Passover were allowed to celebrate a “second Passover” exactly 30 days later, on Iyyar 14-15 (Num. 9:9-12).  God gave a 2nd chance!
• On the Torah’s calendar, the month of Iyyar falls between the great month of redemption (i.e., Nisan) and the great month of revelation (Sivan), and is therefore primarily commemorated as a “month of passage” leading up to the awesome revelation given at Sinai (mattan Torah).
• Recall that exactly one month after the Exodus (i.e., Iyyar 15) God led the Israelites from the oasis and palm trees at Elim into the deeper part of the desert, to midbar Sin (מִדְבַּר־סִין), a desolate region that was about midway to Sinai going southeast (Exod. 16:1). About this time, the food provisions the people had brought with them ran out, and the Israelites began grumbling against Moses and Aaron, saying: “If only we had died by the hand of God in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to our fill, for you have brought us out into this desert to starve to death!” (Exod. 16:3). God then said to Moses, “‘Look I am going to rain down bread from heaven (לֶחֶם מִן־הַשָּׁמָיִם) for you. The people will go out and gather a portion for that day so that I might test whether they will walk in my Torah (תּוֹרָה) or not” (Exod. 16:4).  God provides!
• According to Jewish tradition, it was also during the month of Iyyar that the “Well of Miriam” began to flow (zuv) to provide fresh water for the people. The war with Amalek – Israel’s first national enemy – also took place during the month of Iyyar just before the revelation was given at Sinai.
• It was also during the month of Iyyar – during the second year after the Exodus – that the Israelites began their travels through the desert with the newly completed Mishkan (Tabernacle) in their midst (Exod. 40:17). The Torah relates that  it was on Iyyar 1 that the first “census” (i.e., שְׂאוּ אֶת־ראשׁ, lit. “counting of heads”) of the Jewish people was taken, so that each person could find his or her place in the fourfold formation of tribes that made up the camp of Israel that surrounded the Tabernacle in the desert (Num. 1:1-4). In other words, Iyyar represented the first month that the Shekhinah Glory began leading the tribes to the promised land of Zion.  His glory led them!
• This was prophetic, of course, since the Scriptures later reveal that it was during this same month that King Solomon began to build the Holy Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 6:1).
• By far the greatest of these modern holidays is Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Israel’s Independence Day, which was originally announced on before sunset on Friday, May 14th (i.e., Iyyar 5, 5708). And of course the liberation of the Temple Mount on June 7th, 1967 (i.e., Iyyar 28, 5727) is also highly prophetic. (Source: Hebrew4Christians.com)

“As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the son of man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the son of man be. (Mat 24:37-39)

Noah (age 600) went into the ark with his family on the same day as the flood began in the 2nd month on the 17th day, though he was invited one week before.  I believe Noah’s age points to the 6000 years or 6 millennia God appointed for man, and the Final 1000 years which are before us of the Millenial Reign of Christ.

Summary:
I believe the Lord gave me the number 239, the Hallelujah of Revelation 19, in my dream and then led me to dig into the timing of Noah’s invitation to enter the ark 7 days prior to the day the destruction was to occur – to warn that the destruction of Babylon is very close, but that He will give us a last moment warning (perhaps a week) so those who are following Him (His Bride) will be led to safety.

Questions for reflection:
Will you be ready to leave Babylon when the Lord gives His final warning?

What is He asking you to prepare even right now so that you are ready for the 7-day warning?

He gave Noah 100 years to build the ark.  We can trust that He has given each of us plenty of time to prepare, but have we been obedient to our call?

If you have not, just like in the month of Iyyar, God even gave His people a 2nd chance to observe Passover.  That is how good He is.  Start preparing now!

“Obviously closing the door on the ark was very significant to the timeline.  No chance to be saved from the flood after that moment.” (Text from David)

Revelation 19 goes on to talk about the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  We don’t want to miss that!  Prepare now!

“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” (Revelation 19:7-9 KJV)

Author: Rachel Baxter

Rachel Baxter is a wife and mother of four children. She earned a
Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA.

Rachel was baptized, confirmed, and married in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. She was never taught about the power of the Holy Spirit. In 2013, she was baptized into the Holy Spirit while in her bedroom crying out from her floor. Since that time, the Lord has changed her life in every way.

She felt called by God to help establish the Lord’s Mountain of Education and has a heart to see children and adults alike set into the destiny God has for them. In 2014 she founded Valor Christian Academy Omaha, a Spirit-Led Missional school in Omaha, Nebraska. The focus of the school is equipping children to walk in their God-given destiny according to Ephesians 4.

That same year the Lord began to speak to her about the things that are coming upon the earth from His redemptive judgments and from the plans of the enemy.

Rachel is also a part of One Whole Heart Ministry, an inner healing ministry, that seeks to set people free from hurt through forgiveness and repentance, and to help them hear the Lord’s voice and follow Him. She shares her insights on her blog site, called Scroll and Fig Leaf.

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