CHAPTER ONE
“By the Grace of God, I Am what I Am.”
(1Cor.15:10)
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains… For then shall be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
(Mat.24:15-21)
The words “Great Tribulation” and the mystery of who or what that “abomination of desolation” is have sent a chill down many a spine and made many an overeager would-be expounder grab their typewriter to splash out their fantasies and dishing it out to the gullible for fame and fortune.
My aim is different. I firmly believe that I am God’s last prophet of flesh and blood and precursor of man’s divine End time destiny. On April 5, 1985, I had a close encounter with the Divine. Ever since that fateful day I was sitting at the feet of an angelic Teacher who eventually convinced me that I am the LORD’s Chosen Last Prophet, the One to be God's Light-Bearer into the End time.
My mission is to inform those who have ears to hear and eyes to see about what is already starting to happen in the world, to bring the unknown into the open and prepare humanity for what is coming, because forewarned is forearmed.
Ever since Jesus spoke these prophetic words, the fundi started to excavate all imaginable possibilities in the quest to pull the cover off this prophecy, obviously forgetting the Bible says it takes a True Prophet to unveil a True Prophecy: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as the Holy Ghost moved them.” (2Peter 1:20-21)
The prophet Isaiah has this mouthful to say about visions and prophecies from God that is entrusted to so-called experts and the learned:
“And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.” (Isa 29:11-12)
This book is my final prophetic exams and you, the reader, are my judge. The verdict should be simple: If I am wrong in these predictions and explanations about the End time, then count me as one of those spurious “prophets” who took a nosedive into oblivion. However, “…when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet is among them.” (Ezekiel 33:33)
If I truly am that prophet, a trail of proof will surely follow in my wake in the form of ‘signs and wonders,’ by the time this Book is revealed on this website. Things that look so natural to human eyes are in fact Divine constructs, like COVID-19 and (wait for it) the War in Ukraine, which is just another prophecy being fulfilled. It may sound vague now, but I will explain along the way exactly how these pieces fit together in this End time prophetic jigsaw.
The demise of COVID-19 is my “test of the wool fleece,” (see Judges 6:36-40) my proof that God will use me (or not) as His final Judge to lead eschatological Israel. I will expound further on this in a later chapter. However, that is not what this book is about. My business here lies in the Title and Sub-title.
The Title of the Book is THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR which is "the bearer of divine light" to the dark prophecies about the End time. The Subtitle is THE BUDDING CROSS, a theme about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in Christianity as well as the Resurrection of the Absolute Truth in the world. These things will come to the fore as we progress. This is my mission, and it will be your test to determine whether you can trust me or not as God’s final prophet.
My Roots: I am from South Africa and the DNA headwaters of my River of Life lies in the Khoisan Mountains with many side streams from those who settled at the Foot of Africa, putting me squarely and proudly in that famous “coloured” pot of gold at the end of the human rainbow.
Your question may be something like that of Nathaniel: “South Africa! Can anything good come from there?” My answer will be like that of Phillip: “Come and see!” (John 1:46)
TRUE PROPHETIC ENGINEERING
Many people putting a hand to the unveiling of Bible prophecies reach one of two extreme positions. They either conclude conjecturally that all Bible prophecies have been fulfilled within the Bible, or they come to some weird conclusions, like that with the 666 of Revelations 13:18.
The LORD taught me to keep my ear to the ground and my eyes peeled for the world news, because successful unveiling of a prophecy very much depends on how it plays out in real life. A splendid example of this modus operandi is the fulfilment of Psalm 22 in the crucifixion of Jesus. It certainly would not have been possible to make the Psalm point to the crucifixion, but it certainly works the other way round.
In Chapter Three I do exactly that with the narrative of David and Goliath in the Bible and matching that with what happens in current history with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. You will be amazed to see how many prophetic gems I unearthed about the End time, just because I joined those dots correctly.
Another is the proof Jesus gave in his speech in Matthew 12:39-41 that Jonah was not a historical figure as Jewish and Christian experts assume, but that the Book of Jonah should be totally understood as a prophecy, with the first two chapters coming to pass with Jesus the real-life Jonah, His grave the fish, and Him being “spat out of the fish’s belly” as the prophecy of His resurrection.
The second part of the prophecy of Jonah happens in the End time, when the first of “two Witnesses” of Revelations 11 make his appearance on to the world stage. We will discuss their contributions in detail in later chapters because their presence is the surest sign the world will ever get that the Christian Fig Tree has started to bud. This means the true understanding of the prophecy makes a mockery of the ‘Jonah and the fish’ tug of war between theists and atheists.
The Book of Jonah is the tale of the two Messiahs. The first was Jesus that was sent to the world (John 3:16) but landed up in Christianity, to which Tarsus, the birthplace of Paul, the most prominent Christian of the New Testament, alludes to. The second Messiah is the “son, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre.” (Rev.12:5) The second Messiah is he who will be Divinely anointed (the meaning of Messiah) to become the twofold Witness of Revelations 11.
Before we can explore the Great Tribulation, there is just a small matter that I must direct your attention to namely, this is NOT the Return of Jesus Christ that we are discussing. About that day Jesus Christ is adamant: “But of that day and hour know no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Mat.24:36)
What we discuss here is the fact that the spring of Matthew 24 has indeed sprung on February 24, the day Putin invaded Ukraine. This means “the Return-of-Christ-summer is nigh: So likewise, ye, when ye shall see all these things (that I bring your attention to with the unveiling of this prophecy), know that it is near, even at the doors.”
This book is about the budding of this Fig Tree of Christ (Christianity). Here we will discuss and explain the exact “day and hour” of the Great Tribulation. And the reasons why it is important for the world to know that specific time? Simple: In the first place, the time has come for the human clock to be synchronized with God’s Ultimate Blueprint for the celestial future of humanity. The second reason says something about the heavenly rank of this person.
The End time Prophet is the third most senior Being in the Kingdom of God after Jesus and Isa (of the Quran). JESUS and ISA are both “exact representations” (Heb.1:3) of “the Eternal who lives in unapproachable light” (1Tim.6:16). The ENDTIME PROPHET is the Image of YHWH Elohim (LORD of the Gods) and High Priest-elect that will connect humans on earth with the Elohim in heaven and, in the afterlife, the Elohim with the Unapproachable Light.
I already said that ‘signs and wonders’ will follow in my wake by the time this Book is finish, but this eating is not the proof of the pudding. When the disciples of Jesus went to Him where He was sitting on the Mount of Olives and asked Him privately about His return and to give them a sign of the “end of the age.” Jesus replied: “Take heed that no man deceives you. For many (!!!) shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Mat 24:1-5)
The wheat must be separated from the chaff and that will be done with a simple lie detecting test.
THE POLYGRAPH
This is no ordinary lie detecting test because this is no ordinary situation. The Polygraph here is the Great Tribulation, and the screening question was included in the Torah more than three thousand years ago:
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken… I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall happen, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follows not, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
(Deu.18:15-22)
The “thing” (H1697) that must happen is the same “thing” that was revealed to Daniel (10:1), the same “thing” that will be revealed to the “prophet like Moses,” so, foreseeing the exact DAY AND HOUR of the Great Tribulation is what is needed to pass this test. An extraordinary assignment for an extraordinary Prophet.
FINALLY
This Book is also about how God chose an ordinary human, Barend Ben Joseph, which means Barend (my official registered first name at birth) the son of Joseph (the name of my physical father), anoint him to become Messiah Ben Joseph, which means the “anointed son of Joseph.” Joseph also has a connection with the Eschatological Israelite Tribe of Joseph (which is End time Christianity) as referred to in Rev.7:8. This means Barend is a Christian and as Eliah alias the Second Jonah, he is exclusively on a mission to Christianity and the secular world in South Africa.
As Elishah or Messiah Ben David the prophetic prayer of Jabez (1Chr.4:10) will finally come to pass when the whole world will be regarded as his territory: “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, oh that thou would bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.”
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains… For then shall be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
(Mat.24:15-21)
The words “Great Tribulation” and the mystery of who or what that “abomination of desolation” is have sent a chill down many a spine and made many an overeager would-be expounder grab their typewriter to splash out their fantasies and dishing it out to the gullible for fame and fortune.
My aim is different. I firmly believe that I am God’s last prophet of flesh and blood and precursor of man’s divine End time destiny. On April 5, 1985, I had a close encounter with the Divine. Ever since that fateful day I was sitting at the feet of an angelic Teacher who eventually convinced me that I am the LORD’s Chosen Last Prophet, the One to be God's Light-Bearer into the End time.
My mission is to inform those who have ears to hear and eyes to see about what is already starting to happen in the world, to bring the unknown into the open and prepare humanity for what is coming, because forewarned is forearmed.
Ever since Jesus spoke these prophetic words, the fundi started to excavate all imaginable possibilities in the quest to pull the cover off this prophecy, obviously forgetting the Bible says it takes a True Prophet to unveil a True Prophecy: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as the Holy Ghost moved them.” (2Peter 1:20-21)
The prophet Isaiah has this mouthful to say about visions and prophecies from God that is entrusted to so-called experts and the learned:
“And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.” (Isa 29:11-12)
This book is my final prophetic exams and you, the reader, are my judge. The verdict should be simple: If I am wrong in these predictions and explanations about the End time, then count me as one of those spurious “prophets” who took a nosedive into oblivion. However, “…when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet is among them.” (Ezekiel 33:33)
If I truly am that prophet, a trail of proof will surely follow in my wake in the form of ‘signs and wonders,’ by the time this Book is revealed on this website. Things that look so natural to human eyes are in fact Divine constructs, like COVID-19 and (wait for it) the War in Ukraine, which is just another prophecy being fulfilled. It may sound vague now, but I will explain along the way exactly how these pieces fit together in this End time prophetic jigsaw.
The demise of COVID-19 is my “test of the wool fleece,” (see Judges 6:36-40) my proof that God will use me (or not) as His final Judge to lead eschatological Israel. I will expound further on this in a later chapter. However, that is not what this book is about. My business here lies in the Title and Sub-title.
The Title of the Book is THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR which is "the bearer of divine light" to the dark prophecies about the End time. The Subtitle is THE BUDDING CROSS, a theme about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in Christianity as well as the Resurrection of the Absolute Truth in the world. These things will come to the fore as we progress. This is my mission, and it will be your test to determine whether you can trust me or not as God’s final prophet.
My Roots: I am from South Africa and the DNA headwaters of my River of Life lies in the Khoisan Mountains with many side streams from those who settled at the Foot of Africa, putting me squarely and proudly in that famous “coloured” pot of gold at the end of the human rainbow.
Your question may be something like that of Nathaniel: “South Africa! Can anything good come from there?” My answer will be like that of Phillip: “Come and see!” (John 1:46)
TRUE PROPHETIC ENGINEERING
Many people putting a hand to the unveiling of Bible prophecies reach one of two extreme positions. They either conclude conjecturally that all Bible prophecies have been fulfilled within the Bible, or they come to some weird conclusions, like that with the 666 of Revelations 13:18.
The LORD taught me to keep my ear to the ground and my eyes peeled for the world news, because successful unveiling of a prophecy very much depends on how it plays out in real life. A splendid example of this modus operandi is the fulfilment of Psalm 22 in the crucifixion of Jesus. It certainly would not have been possible to make the Psalm point to the crucifixion, but it certainly works the other way round.
In Chapter Three I do exactly that with the narrative of David and Goliath in the Bible and matching that with what happens in current history with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. You will be amazed to see how many prophetic gems I unearthed about the End time, just because I joined those dots correctly.
Another is the proof Jesus gave in his speech in Matthew 12:39-41 that Jonah was not a historical figure as Jewish and Christian experts assume, but that the Book of Jonah should be totally understood as a prophecy, with the first two chapters coming to pass with Jesus the real-life Jonah, His grave the fish, and Him being “spat out of the fish’s belly” as the prophecy of His resurrection.
The second part of the prophecy of Jonah happens in the End time, when the first of “two Witnesses” of Revelations 11 make his appearance on to the world stage. We will discuss their contributions in detail in later chapters because their presence is the surest sign the world will ever get that the Christian Fig Tree has started to bud. This means the true understanding of the prophecy makes a mockery of the ‘Jonah and the fish’ tug of war between theists and atheists.
The Book of Jonah is the tale of the two Messiahs. The first was Jesus that was sent to the world (John 3:16) but landed up in Christianity, to which Tarsus, the birthplace of Paul, the most prominent Christian of the New Testament, alludes to. The second Messiah is the “son, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre.” (Rev.12:5) The second Messiah is he who will be Divinely anointed (the meaning of Messiah) to become the twofold Witness of Revelations 11.
Before we can explore the Great Tribulation, there is just a small matter that I must direct your attention to namely, this is NOT the Return of Jesus Christ that we are discussing. About that day Jesus Christ is adamant: “But of that day and hour know no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Mat.24:36)
What we discuss here is the fact that the spring of Matthew 24 has indeed sprung on February 24, the day Putin invaded Ukraine. This means “the Return-of-Christ-summer is nigh: So likewise, ye, when ye shall see all these things (that I bring your attention to with the unveiling of this prophecy), know that it is near, even at the doors.”
This book is about the budding of this Fig Tree of Christ (Christianity). Here we will discuss and explain the exact “day and hour” of the Great Tribulation. And the reasons why it is important for the world to know that specific time? Simple: In the first place, the time has come for the human clock to be synchronized with God’s Ultimate Blueprint for the celestial future of humanity. The second reason says something about the heavenly rank of this person.
The End time Prophet is the third most senior Being in the Kingdom of God after Jesus and Isa (of the Quran). JESUS and ISA are both “exact representations” (Heb.1:3) of “the Eternal who lives in unapproachable light” (1Tim.6:16). The ENDTIME PROPHET is the Image of YHWH Elohim (LORD of the Gods) and High Priest-elect that will connect humans on earth with the Elohim in heaven and, in the afterlife, the Elohim with the Unapproachable Light.
I already said that ‘signs and wonders’ will follow in my wake by the time this Book is finish, but this eating is not the proof of the pudding. When the disciples of Jesus went to Him where He was sitting on the Mount of Olives and asked Him privately about His return and to give them a sign of the “end of the age.” Jesus replied: “Take heed that no man deceives you. For many (!!!) shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Mat 24:1-5)
The wheat must be separated from the chaff and that will be done with a simple lie detecting test.
THE POLYGRAPH
This is no ordinary lie detecting test because this is no ordinary situation. The Polygraph here is the Great Tribulation, and the screening question was included in the Torah more than three thousand years ago:
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken… I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall happen, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follows not, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
(Deu.18:15-22)
The “thing” (H1697) that must happen is the same “thing” that was revealed to Daniel (10:1), the same “thing” that will be revealed to the “prophet like Moses,” so, foreseeing the exact DAY AND HOUR of the Great Tribulation is what is needed to pass this test. An extraordinary assignment for an extraordinary Prophet.
FINALLY
This Book is also about how God chose an ordinary human, Barend Ben Joseph, which means Barend (my official registered first name at birth) the son of Joseph (the name of my physical father), anoint him to become Messiah Ben Joseph, which means the “anointed son of Joseph.” Joseph also has a connection with the Eschatological Israelite Tribe of Joseph (which is End time Christianity) as referred to in Rev.7:8. This means Barend is a Christian and as Eliah alias the Second Jonah, he is exclusively on a mission to Christianity and the secular world in South Africa.
As Elishah or Messiah Ben David the prophetic prayer of Jabez (1Chr.4:10) will finally come to pass when the whole world will be regarded as his territory: “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, oh that thou would bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.”
The names Messiah Ben Joseph and Messiah Ben David can be googled at: messiah ben david and ben joseph - Search (bing.com). However, this Book shows how the Jewish Messianic thoughts are realized very unexpectedly and not in any way they could ever have dreamed of. This also shows to us that God laid the groundwork for the exposition of these End time prophecies right there in the beginning of the time of this Heavenly Generation of ours. At the right time every piece will eventually fall into its correct niche.
IN THE QURAN
The coming of Messiah Ben David is at the same time also the fulfilment of the prophecy of TALUT in the Quran (S2:249-253), the story about an End time Gideon that plays out against the backdrop of the “Talut and Jalut” (David and Goliath) prophetic enactment happening in the Zelensky (David) against Putin (Goliath) War in Ukraine. The day when the 'test of the wool fleece' realises, that is the day when Barend Ben Joseph is confirmed to be TALUT the Quran prophesies about.
The coming of Messiah Ben David is at the same time also the fulfilment of the prophecy of TALUT in the Quran (S2:249-253), the story about an End time Gideon that plays out against the backdrop of the “Talut and Jalut” (David and Goliath) prophetic enactment happening in the Zelensky (David) against Putin (Goliath) War in Ukraine. The day when the 'test of the wool fleece' realises, that is the day when Barend Ben Joseph is confirmed to be TALUT the Quran prophesies about.
In the next chapter we will take a look at who "this generation" is whom Jesus refers to in Mat.24:32-35, the generation that will suffer the Great Tribulation. If you want to revert to the Index page, click here.