This webpage is one portion of a much longer profile of the ministry of Michael Rood on this Field Guide website. Click here to go to Michael Rood and His "Rood Awakenings".
In 1999 self-
In a tape made in early 1999, later distributed as Tape 1 of The 70 Week Ministry of the Messiah tape album, Rood had the following to say:
Right now we are 210 days I believe it is, it's 211 days on the calendar, but, it is 210 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes and 24 seconds until Tishri 1, 6001, which will happen September 11, 1999 at sundown in Jerusalem this coming years. Two hundred and ten days away.
Note that there was no mention before this on the tape that the statement above was "speculative" in any way. There were no comments such as "if my calculations are correct," or "If my theory of how the chronology of the End Times is correct". The statement was just as stark and bold on the tape as it is in print above. And what significance did Rood place on the Tishri 1 date?
That is when the seventh millennium begins, the Sabbath Millennium, the Day or Millennium of the Lord. That is when the Lord does the judging. That is when the Book of Revelation WILL unfold in order, in the progression, in which God has given to the Messiah for the Messiah to show unto His people the things which must come to pass.
The material on his 6001.com website in early October 1999 included the following excerpts which outlined his prophetic speculations . [PLEASE NOTE: In this and succeeding sections in this profile, red highlighting is occasionally added to the original text of quotations to emphasize the most significant points.]
March 29, 1998 at sundown, the first new moon after the vernal equinox appeared. The first sliver of the new moon was sighted at 3% illumination, 18 degrees above the horizon,over the city of Jerusalem. At that moment, for the first time in this millennium, we knew where we were on God's sacred calendar. It was Nisan 1, in the Biblical year 5999, precisely 5,998 1/2 years after the creation of Adam. At that moment, we were exactly 18 Biblical months from the beginning of the 7th, or Sabbath millennium: the Day (or millennium) of the LORD. Our countdown to Tishri 1, 6001: September 11, 1999 at sundown, had begun.
The Hebrew rabbis have taught for thousands of years: "In that God created the heavens and the earth in six days and on the 7th day he rested...man will have his time of reign on earth for 6,000 years and the Messiah will reign in the 7th millennium." When speaking of the last days before the Messiah's return, Peter wrote, " Do not be ignorant of this one thing: a day with the LORD is as a millennium, and a millennium is as a day." Tishri 1, 6001 will be the first day of the millennium of the LORD. It will also be Yom Teruakh, the high Sabbath of the Feast of Trumpets. The Day of Trumpets is the Feast of the LORD that occurs on a day and hour that no man knows. Because this feast day is determined by the visible sighting of the new moon by two concurring witnesses testifying before the High Priest and elders, the day and hour of the Day of Trumpets cannot be determined in advance. But, according to astronomical computer models, the new moon should appear 3% illuminated, 13 degrees above the horizon over Jerusalem, at sunset on the Gregorian date September 11, 1999.
That day will not be the much anticipated rapture of the church. At that time, the intermediate fulfillments of the fall feast will commerce with Yom Teruakh. We need to step out of the paradigm of the pagan calendar initiated by Roman traditions, and we need to leave behind outdated provisions introduced into the modern Jewish calendar by Rabbi Hillel II in the 4th century. When we understand God's method of reckoning time, and get a working knowledge of the Feasts of the LORD, which are all prophetic shadow pictures, we will see the prophecies that were sealed until the time of the end can now be be understood with simplicity as we peel 1,900 years of pagan traditions from our eyes and look at the Hebrew scriptures through a Hebrew lens.
Note that Rood said that the prophecies could be understood "with simplicity" ... but his understanding was proven later to be totally false. In fact, the material above was still on his website when the date of September 11 was already past. As was the following excerpt, posted under the title "Countdown to the Seventh Millennium".
For centuries, the rabbis have taught that a day with the LORD is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day: what this means is that man would have his time of rule and reign upon the earth for six thousand years, and on the seventh millennium, the Messiah would reign. We are fast approaching the Great and Notable Day of the LORD. The Biblical Hebrew year 6001 will mark the first year of the Seventh Millennium, the seventh "day," the Day of the LORD. This epoch will not begin on January 1, 2000 or 2001: those dates are inventions of man, throughly fictitious and impertinent. We must look to the Creator's calendar, which points to Tishri 1, 6001 (September 11, 1999 at sundown) as the beginning of the seventh period of one thousand years since creation ... Does this mean that the Messiah will arrive on September 11? No! In the Bible we read of the Great and Notable Day of the LORD. This Day, or Millennium, starts out with bloodshed, plagues, and all manner of pestilence.
However, at the time in October that the above was still on the site, September 11 had already passed. So the following "explanation" was added to the site. It appears to have been an attempt to push the speculation on events forward just one month, to October 11. However, this was still on the site after that date had also come and gone.
The Countdown to the 7th Millennium clock has been reset on the Day of Atonement
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September 11, 1999 at 19:35 hours I was flying at 30,000 feet southwest of Paris,
high above the heavy cloud cover that lay over most of Europe and the Mid-
All was quiet. No rockets red glare. No bombs bursting in air. Only the noxious chants
of the Arabs over their high powered bull horns atop the minarets on the temple mount.
Later that morning, Bruce Brill informed me that the new moon was sighted from the
Negev (southern desert area of Israel) the previous evening by one of our faithful
Jewish moon watchers, just as I had witnessed from the window of my plane. In the
succeeding days we explored the battle tank emplacements on the Golan Heights. They
were deserted except for Leigh, Jamie, Jim Rutz, Bo Coffey, Terry Telligman, Dave
and Mike Schutt, Melissa Laturno, and myself -
The warning that was delivered to us in Texas by the Israeli Colonel who warned of
an imminent attack seemed premature. The countdown to the 7th millennium came and
went without incident. What was wrong? The year? Probably, but still I had no way
to correct the date. Brill handed me an English language publication of "Israel Today"
dated May 1999 -
If he is correct on the 240 years, as opposed to my 241 year assertion, the year 6000 is not a "prophetic year", but it is still one year away from the beginning of the 7th Millennium. The article does not go into all of the details, so it is not available for close scrutiny.
I doubt however, that any of us would not make good use of one more year before the Day of the LORD begins the great shaking of the earth. But the weight of evidence, at least astronomically and mathematically, would point to another explanation. And the evidence points to a month more of preparation, rather than a year.
Don't you just love these dress rehearsals for the Day of the Lord? ... ... When
I say that I feel that I was led to determine September 11, 1999 at sundown to be
the beginning of the 7th millennium, I see it in two ways. As Bob Wadsworth and I
were setting the calendar, we prayed that we would do the right thing concerning
the setting of Nisan this last year. That calendar has made news in Israel and has
provoked Jewish scholars to re-
If I had published the calendar to not only challenge them on the monthly reckoning
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To correct the calendar by a month now over the next year will be very simple, but
I cannot do so unless we see the events of the 7th millennium as the indisputable
benchmark by which these things can be judged. This year would give God the wonderful
opportunity of showing all of us which method of reckoning the month of Nisan is
His method. If it is the first new moon on or after the Vernal Equinox, and if this
is indeed the beginning of the 7th Millennium, it will take all but those who watch
and wait -
I will be watching and waiting here to see what transpires. If the year 6001 does
not begin on October 10th or 11th at sundown, we will continue to call God's people
to repentance -
At this point, it seemed he might be about to tone down the stridency of his speculations, admitting that he really didn't understand the details of prophecy with such "simplicity" as he first thought.
Back to the Drawing Board
By November 1999, the following had been added to the website:
NEW! The latest update from Michael Rood. What happened this fall? What about Tishri 1, 6001? Includes pictures from Israel and an introduction into some electrifying information. Also reconciles materials to reality. Check out Michael's latest letter to you.
Unfortunately, this NEW update didn't back away from dogmatic speculation at all, it just shoved the speculation forward six months:
My last month in America can best be typified by Sir Winston Churchill's statement:
"There is nothing so exhilarating in life as being shot at -
Since my arrival in Jerusalem I have been physically and emotionally drained. Jamie canceled my last meeting in Colorado. I was spent. It was over. These last few months have been exhausting. If I had not been convinced that September 11th at sundown began the 7th Millennium, we would not have been able to push as hard as we did. ...
Tishri 1 comes and goes in peace
September 11, 1999 at 19:35 hours I was flying at 30,000 feet southwest of Paris,
high above the heavy cloud-
..."This is not revelation from God. I have had no angelic visitation from Gabriel,
and I cannot say, "Thus saith the LORD." The year calculations are based on mathematical
and astronomical data that I will show you. I believe that this is the last year
of the 6th Millennium and I live like it. I am here to deliver my soul. When the
7th Millennium begins, Tishri 1 will begin the prophetic fulfillment of the fall
Feasts of the LORD. If this is not the year 6000, then I am going to throw up my
hands on Tishri 1 and say that I don't know what year it is -
I was at the end of my 40-
A month passed... slowly. Late one evening several people were exchanging greetings with new acquaintances in the street of the old city, when I was asked by a messianic congregation leader from Canada, "Who are you?" I was stalled. I couldn't say anything. The only answer I could think was, "I am an idiot." I replied, "I don't know".
It was time to get away into the wilderness. By the third day of my stay in the Judean
wilderness, my water store was nearly exhausted. The air was clear and the Dead Sea
and the distant mountains of Jordan could be seen through the gap in the Judean mountains
that was cut by the wadi that ran by my mountain refuge. All was quiet from Heaven
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I again read the Prophet Amos' vision of the Day of the LORD. I gazed over the mountainside that had once been a thriving village and again plead with the LORD to answer me. A bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky to end my anguish would suffice. Anything. I wanted constructive reproof concerning my error in pronouncing the Day of the LORD beginning on Tishri 1, 6001 at sundown on September 11, 1999.
I got nothing. I had no reason to return to the States. No reason to stay here. No
reason to breathe. And I certainly had no right to open my mouth with an opinion
about anything. The howl of the morning wind amplified my desolation. I longed to
just go home. But I had no home. The recollection of my personal choices over the
last several years stung like a scorpion. I sat in the rubble of a civilization long
ago destroyed when the first of Amos' prophecies were fulfilled. Clay potshards -
Who was I to even sit in the dung of the sheep of the poor Tekoan prophet who died
proclaiming "The Day of the LORD" and complain about my job? Who was I to bewail
my ignorance to the One who answered the venerated King Solomon only twice in his
lifetime? Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man. A simple course became clear. I determined to
not profit from my error, recall my material from bookstores and start over by keeping
my mouth shut and keeping God's commandments -
That would indeed have been a simple ... and wise ... course.
Unfortunately, he did not choose to stay on that course. While still in Israel, he was introduced to a man name Nehemiah Gordon who convinced him that he had misunderstood some of the details of the Hebrew calendar. And these details could account for the miscalculations he had made regarding the timing of the beginning of the Day of the Lord.
Without time for a proper explanation of his position, Nehemiah unceremoniously repudiated
the tradition of reckoning the head of the year (Rosh Hashanah) at Tishri 1, rather
than Abib 1 (Nisan). Still, the importance of this concept evaded me -
Today I purchased the 30 shekels of native barley seed to plant the first kadosh barley fields for sanctifying the New Year since the destruction of Jerusalem. According to the ancient method, we tilled the soil after the (correctly determined) feast of Sukkot and we will plant the barley on the first day of the eighth month, Marheshwan. The previous evening we will be at the Hulda gate on the south wall of Jerusalem with the Temple Mount Faithful to declare the new month, and we have planned a moon sighting on Mount Scopus that evening with the Israeli New Moon Society.
For the first time in nearly 2,000 years, we will have a barbecue to honor the "two
witnesses" who come up to declare their sighting. The next day we will plant in hope
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Still other new contacts convinced him of some other calendar details:
A small paperback would be required to capsulate the events of that day, but the most significant for the moment is the confirmation of Abib 1 being the beginning of the Biblical year, with the last seven days of Adar as the creation week. The stage was being set to deprive me of a great deal of sleep. Traditions die hard. When you have years of theology and a thousand chronological charts built on them, they can be especially painful to have dislodged from your cranium.
And reading the materials of yet another contact convinced him of further information that would allow him to "correct" his errors of 1999.
For the next three days I dozed off on the couch when my eyes crossed from gleaning
details from Faulstich's work. Then I found this treasure. A singular occurrence:
the singularly significant planetary alignment that set the course of nature in motion
on the week of creation, and also provided an astronomical landmark from which time
from creation can be reckoned. Now you will understand that which has evaded my tradition-
The year begins, according to earlier rabbinical tradition, astronomical proofs, the Biblical text, and numerous Jewish confirmations, on the first day of Abib, 0001. That means that the 7th millennium begins exactly 6 months later than I had projected.
That is the difference between Faulstich's correct 240-
All of the materials are still valid with the correction of the beginning of the
year, which buys us an additional year before the fall Feast fulfillments. The extra
preparation time is an unexpected blessing. The fall Feasts will not begin their
prophetic fulfillment until Tishri 1, 6001 -
This, incidentally, is the deadline for implementing the division of Jerusalem and declaring the Philistine state according to the Oslo (Hebrew for "toilet seat") agreement of Tishri 22, 6000.
Next year an Adar bet is projected in March 2001, and will provide the requisite
7 months to cleanse the land of dead bodies before Passover. The seals in the book
of Revelation will be stripped in their stated chronological progression, at the
beginning of the Day of the LORD, which will initiate the havoc that brings about
the 10-
Again, This is NOT Armageddon. The Gog-
The world is going to be producing a lot of death, disease and destruction. Learn
to keep a kosher camp. Remember, millions of Christians died of the Black Death while
the Jews who kept the commandments of God concerning quarantine, unclean meats, and
purification never even got sick. So, if you don't want to take part in the diseases
of the Gentiles -
We had a rest after Tishri 1 this year. There will be no rest after April 5. Gird up the loins of your mind; strip down to fighting weight, the Day of the LORD is at hand. I hope to see you before the smoke clears, Michael John Rood
After such a dogmatic statement, he perhaps thought better again of it, and hedged it about with an "if":
P.S.-
If he would have "left it right there," it might be possible to give him credit for softening his stance on the reliability of his own speculations. But for some strange reason, he must have thought it necessary to immediately downplay that hedging with another dogmatic statement:
All of the Feasts of the LORD are Mikrot -
This has been the typical tactic of many bombastic, dogmatic prophecy speculators-
And when all of that fails, deny any responsibility for misleading others. For, after all, aren't others responsible for making their own decisions on whether to believe the teachings presented? Indeed they are ... but the scripture makes it clear that the greater responsibility is on the shoulders of the one presenting himself as a teacher gifted by God.
James 3:1 1 Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (NIV)
Or, as the KJV even more ominously puts it, "we shall receive the greater condemnation."
The appeal of teachers like Rood and William Miller of the 1800s is often not primarily
to the spiritually mature and Biblically-
The excitement generated in the hearts and minds of many by reading and listening
to charismatic, dynamic teachers and their speculations on prophecy (seldom presented
as mere speculation, but as near-
History Repeats Itself
Consider this description of the ministry of William Miller (from the Field Guide Seventh Day Adventist movement profile.) And compare Miller's methods with those of Rood:
William Miller was a Baptist "lay leader" in New York state who began studying Biblical prophecy in earnest around 1820, and developed elaborate theories about the timing of the Second Coming. He attempted at first to present his theories to the ordained ministers in his area, hoping that they would preach them to the public. But his attempts to convince others to spread his ideas were mostly ineffective. So in 1831 he reluctantly started preaching about them himself.
In 1833 he published his first official pamphlet on end-
Dan 8:13-
Miller accepted a popular theory proposed by many Bible students of his time (and still popular in many circles today) that a day in prophetic passages is almost always intended to stand for a year in fulfillment. (This theory is based on passages such as Ezekiel 4:6.) And thus he taught that this prophecy would be 2300 years in fulfillment. He believed that the 2300 years started in 457 BCE with a decree from Babylonian monarch Artaxerxes allowing those Israelites in Babylon who wished to, to return to the land of Israel and rebuild the Temple.
Thus Miller was convinced that the "cleansing of the temple" (which he believed to
be symbolic of the Second Coming-
By the early 1830s, he was circuit-
Conservative estimates indicate Miller and his associates presented his theories
ultimately to hundreds of thousands of people in America (Miller himself claimed
to have spoken to over 500,000 people, in over 4,500 meetings), along with large
numbers overseas, particularly in English-
Many newspapers ridiculed his ideas as fanaticism and his supporters as fanatics, while at the same time appreciating the fact that sensational stories about his meetings increased the sales of their papers.
For the first several years of his preaching efforts, Miller encouraged his supporters to remain in their local church denominations and just attempt to share their beliefs with their brethren there. Toward the approach of the predicted dates, it became obvious that the beliefs such supporters embraced from Miller's teachings left them more and more estranged from the religious mainstream. And thus in the final years and months before the expected Advent, many left their former congregations and formed independent fellowship groups based on their distinctive beliefs.
Outsiders usually referred to such groups as "Millerites," but their preferred designation for themselves was "adventists." Since there was no specific "organization" that such individuals and fellowship groups could "join," it is impossible to accurately estimate their numbers. But it seems likely from various records of the time period that from 25,000 to 50,000 people were ultimately committed to various levels of involvement in the Millerite movement by 1843.
When both March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844 passed without the Return, Samuel Snow, one of Miller's followers, suggested that a prophetic principle regarding "tarrying" in Hab. 2:3 might be used to extend the expected date by 7 months and 10 days. This would push the Return forward to October 22, 1844, mistakenly believed by Miller and others to be the date of the annual Biblical Holy Day of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in that year. Miller accepted this reasoning and he and many of his followers once again waited in anticipation.
But that date too, passed, and Miller finally gave up the effort to pinpoint a specific date. How did Miller himself deal with what later became known as "The Great Disappointment"? From The Disappointed, p. 32 (Chapter 2, "William Miller: Disappointed Prophet" by Wayne R. Judd)
He refused to bear responsibility for deception. 'No one can honestly say that he has been deceived by me. My advice has always been for each to study the evidence of his faith for himself.' [letter from Miller to T.E. Jones, 11/29/44] He speculated that God may have designed the delay so that people would turn to the Bible to study further and be reconciled to God. After all, to have erred in the precise date did not reduce the advent urgency. Every passing day was one day nearer the end.
But many thousands of former "True Believers" who had cut ties with their former religious affiliations were now left wondering how to pick up the pieces of their lives and move on. Many swallowed their pride and went back to their old churches. Others became greatly disillusioned with religion in general and drifted away from any specific faith. Some stayed together and created their own new small denominations, still convinced that the Return would be "soon," but realizing now that it was foolish to set dates. One such group developed into the Advent Christian Church, which still exists to this day.
(For an overview of the psychology of the choices people make when confronted with the fact that they have believed in a false prophecy, see the When Prophecy Fails section of the Field Guide.)
Forging Onward
At this point in Rood's ministry, he was again predicting a cataclysm was imminent, connected to the fall Feasts, this time for September 29, 2000.
Throughout 2000 he once again made many public "Rood Awakening" appearances, promoting
this new scenario, including an 80-
Sundown, September 28, 2000, I stopped on a hill north of Dallas and stood on the
roof of the car to watch the setting of the new moon. It was Elul 1, 6001, on the
corrected calendar, which started the 40 Days of Repentance leading to the Day of
Atonement. It also started our 40-
The week before, I stated that, "If I have corrected the calendar accurately, we
will see violence erupt in Israel on Elul 1, and escalate into full-
... The violence began to subside in Israel. The 10 Days of Awe were relatively quiet.
It was obvious that I was wrong on either one of two points. Either the calculated
year was wrong (in which case I don't know yet how to correct it) or the events that
I maintained to occur at the onset of the 7th Millennium would occur deeper into
the Day of the LORD. I now knew that the order of events detailed in the Fall Feasts
would not be forthcoming THIS YEAR. We have at least one more year before the MAJOR
shake-
To be frank with you, I was not looking forward to being right this year. I know these things must come to pass, but I do not desire the trouble that is on the way. I cannot blame "the LORD", an "angel", or anyone else for my being wrong. I'm wrong all by myself. Some people have attached prophetic weight to my personal interpretation of scenarios that would transpire if the Fall Feasts were to begin their intermediate fulfillment this past fall. The Feasts of the LORD are prophetic. I am not.
Time will prove whether my interpretation of HOW they will be fulfilled is reality,
or if reality will surprise us all. I do not foretell the future. I did project geo-
Yes, this sounded as if he was finally going to admit that he really had no clue
about when the actual end-
Once again, if he had decided to just shift to "calling people back to the Torah," it would have been a wise course.
If he would have quit saying at the end of every presentation "I'll see you when the smoke clears" (an obvious reference that he was sure "the end" was excruciatingly imminent) he might have regained some measure of credibility to his ministry.
If he would have quit implying that his every move was being orchestrated by God, and admitted that he was just a plain old "Bible Teacher" (not even a "Messianic Rabbi") and not a man on a very specific "Mission From God," he might have become believable.
But it appears that he had become totally addicted to using prophetic speculation
to gather crowds, and had no clue how to just let go of his thrice-
After the Day of Atonement (and the U.S. election) Jamie, Joshua, Bill, Herb and I were making the last whirlwind preparations before our plane left for Israel the next morning. On day 41 of my fast (I determined to break my fast in Israel) I was flooded with incredible energy. Everything worked with perfection that day. I knew that I was in God's will.
At the last minute, the State Department refused to renew my washing-
The IDF reservist and Levite, Bruce Brill, asked me to express his appreciation for your help. I hope that we can do more for them. As the Torah commands concerning the tithe: "remember the Levite" and that is what we do with what is shared with us. When we return to America after each Feast, we start over from financial ground zero. I was stranded in America. My voice and my passport were gone.
I prayed for direction and ended up in the top floor of the old train station in Two Harbors, Minnesota with a 30 degree below zero wind howling past my window. Clayt Sonmore sent me some books, which I devoured three at a time, while taking a break from reading the Torah and the Prophets day and night. At the end of the week, I wrote on the board 10 things that were moving in my spirit. A couple days later, the enumerated items appeared as an outline, which was already in order.
I felt compelled to again address the saints that I met on the Prophecy Club tour concerning these issues, but the Prophecy Club monthly meetings were no longer extant. Jamie called Don Visser at the Prophecy Club headquarters and found that they too had desired for me to do a singular tour concerning the same issues that had been burning in me. It appears that the "Boss" is still in charge.
When we get together again, it will be a different format. If at all possible, we
will set up in an ancient synagogue style forum -
Unfortunately, his plans for an "interactive assembly" like an "ancient synagogue style forum" went quickly by the wayside. When I attended a live "Rood Awakening meeting" on May 1, 2001, it was most assuredly not "interactive," and most assuredly was "performance theater."
He spoke in his usual rapid-
This clearly shows in the following excerpts of a letter written on 9/7/01 :
September 7th, Elul 18, 6001 -
In the fall of 1951 the Rabbinic Court in Jerusalem ruled that the land of Israel
was to observe a Sabbath year until the fall of 1952, in accordance with the instructions
recorded in Leviticus chapter 25. In the Fall of 2000 the court declared the 8th
Sabbath year rest since their re-
In 53 years, two Jubilees are possible, and one jubilee is required. If any year
after 1951 were considered a Jubilee, it would have pushed subsequent Sabbath years
ahead by one year, and the Fall of 2000 would not be a Sabbath, using the Rabbinic
court´s reckoning. According to our astronomical calculations, the corrected Day
of Atonement will fall on either the 27th or 28th day of September -
This will begin the 120th Jubilee year from creation. Counting creation year (001) as the first Sabbath year, just as Adam´s first full day was the Sabbath, the Jubilees conveniently fall on the 51st and 1st years of every century. Each century has exactly 14 Sabbath years and two Jubilee years. Depending on atmospheric conditions in the land of Israel, we will witness the first sliver of the 7th new moon at sundown on either the 18th or 19th of September. The date, if all of my calculations are correct, will be Tishri 1, 6001. I expect that the new moon will not be witnessed until the 19th at sundown which will cause all of the Feast days in my calendar to be shifted one day into the future.
If this is the year that we have calculated, the night of Tishri 1, the skies will glow red over the land of Israel. For the next ten days there will be a shaking of the earth that will cause all to tremble as Israel is brought to the brink of destruction. The leaders of Israel, who have done wickedly against God´s covenant with Abraham, will see their covenant with death turn into a flood of troops that will pummel their peace and security dreams into smoldering ash.
For ten days there will appear to be no hope for the nation of Israel as 2/3 of their
inhabitants are gathered to their fathers. BUT, on the 10th day, the Day of Atonement,
the trumpet will sound that will announce the 120th Jubilee. The LORD of Hosts -
YHWH will be sanctified in the eyes of all nations as he rewards those who would divide Abraham´s land for a spoil. His right arm will be revealed against those who have conspired against YHWH and against His anointed! The heathen have had their days of rage since Ariel Sharon read the last days prophecy concerning the reunification of Judah and Israel from the temple mount a year ago. But YHWH will laugh as He has their conspiracy in derision (Psalm 2).
On the Day of Atonement -
The sheep will be released from the bondage of false shepherds who have been clothing
themselves with fine Italian wool suits -
Get ready mountains of Israel. Get ready Judah Get ready Israel
The world will be in a panic in a few short days, but you will know what to do. If you do not, gather your family and friends and watch the following videos in order:
The Great Secret of Solomon´s Temple; The Feasts of the LORD and their Prophetic Fulfillment (10 hours); The Mystery of Solomon´s Laver
I have sounded the alarm since my release 7 years ago this month. Last fall my throat was bleeding after sounding the warning for over 500 hours in 100 cities in 9 months. I have been on a forced Sabbath year since my health failed last October. But I had given my best in front of the television cameras in a final warning as to what is about to transpire. Get the videos now! Do not wait until this whole thing goes up in smoke and you are ready to grasp for any plausible concoction that shows up on "Christian" television.
ARE YOU READY!
Each year the Fall Feasts of YHWH have been a rehearsal for the exciting events that
transpire at the beginning of the 7th millennium -
At this point, Rood traveled to Reyjavik Iceland, and was there when the Twin Towers were demolished by terrorists on 9/1/01. And from there he wrote the following:
September 13th, Elul 24, 6001 -
The Neverending Story
But, of course, 2001 also came and went without the fulfillment of Rood's predictions. Did that finally convince him to quit setting dates? Of course not.
The following was posted on his website in August 2002:
We are concluding our filming for the fall season, and getting ready to go into our
concrete closet and shut the doors behind us for a little time, until the indignation
is past. I will be here in Jerusalem-
Still on his website in March 2003 was the following statement, written in the spring of 2002 ...
Whereas we may have expected that the land (from the Euphrates to the Nile) would go back to its owners (the sons of Israel) at the beginning of the Jubilee, we hope that we will see that reality come to pass before the end of the year. This would indicate that a war of apocalyptic proportions is due from Tishri 1 to Tishri 10 in the fall of 6002 / 2002. Waiting for you in Jerusalem, Michael John Rood
The following, written by a Mark Aaron Robinson, was put on his website in October
2003, and was still up there in August 2004. It was some rambling speculation that
the Tribulation might begin on Tishri 1 2003, based in part on the controversial
so-
It is well understood by Messianic believers that Ya’Shua was born on Yom Teruah
in 3 BC (Tishri 1, 3759) –you may research this elsewhere, at http:www.aroodawakening.tv
or at http://www.atlbible.org/astronomy.htm, for example. Passover in His 12th year
would have been Aviv 10, 3771 (9/25/10). "After two days" would then be after Passover
in 5771 (2010). Most Messianic believers hold that the Tribulation, or the 7-
What is bewildering is that this appears to have been put on the website only days before the suggested date was to arrive, and yet when the date came and went with no fulfillment, it was left on the site indefinitely. It was still there in November 2005. To what purpose? ... other than to give moot testimony to the constant fruitless speculations of the Rood ministry.
Since 2005, Rood’s ministry has undergone two major upheavals. Twice he has been
expelled by his closest associates from Rood Awakening ministries, under serious
accusations of wrong-
The Bottom Line
Can Michael John Rood be "forgiven" for setting false dates and misleading people by his teachings to look to those dates? Of course. The question is not "forgiving" Rood.
The question is this: Rood has had an unending record of setting dates which prove over and over again ... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 ... to be utterly meaningless. Not one thing that he has dogmatically and bombastically declared to audiences who hang on his every word has come to pass.
Yet he refuses to quit using loaded words such as "See you in Jerusalem when the smoke clears" to his audiences. Given this track record, why should anyone give credence to the idea that the man has credentials as an "expert" in the area of Biblical prophecy? And why should anyone continue to look to him for his opinion on events of the future?
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