The Covenant With Death

An Oracle of Warning for the Final Year and Beyond

The Restrainer and the Coming Storm

Hear the word of the Lord all you people of the world:

The time of testing is at hand, the earth will be sifted--all the heavens will be shaken, and the earth will reel from the shaking. Upon you all--there is a time of reckoning. The signs are clear and are manifest--those with eyes to see will see; those with ears to hear shall hear. This is a time like no other--woe to those who are unprepared and sleep when they should be awake. Woe to those who slumber when told--get up and arise; for they shall miss their moment of visitation; they will wail and mourn. Sorrow and grief shall be upon them. Yet still those who seek me shall find me; be faithful--be vigilant--do not look back.

The hand that restrains death is lifting. Not the Church's presence, as many suppose, but the divine restraint upon death itself—the katechon of which Paul wrote—holds back the full maturity of the fourth seal. Restraining its full blow until the appointed time. That time is now close; within the next six months—restraint shall cease.

Since 2020, when the pale horse began its ride, death has claimed its preliminary harvest through pandemic, war, and systemic collapse. Yet this is but the birth pang before the labor. The restrainer's removal approaches, and when it comes, death will explode from its current trickle of 150,000 daily to a torrent exceeding 10 million per day. Two billion souls—one quarter of earth's inhabitants—will perish before the sixth seal breaks.

This is not speculation drawn from human calculation but the explicit declaration of Scripture: "Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts" (Revelation 6:8). The text does not speak in metaphor. It quantifies. One quarter means one quarter. Two billion means two billion. That hasn't happened yet; though the vectors for it are clearly active since 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Hamas-Israeli war from 2023 that has evolved into a regional security dilemma, the pending China-Taiwan conflict, and the heightened nuclear posture of Russia versus NATO. The vectors are active—full blown release is what is restrained.

The Season-Bound Gathering

The Church's departure is not the trigger, as commonly taught—but the consequence; and indeed a vector of cataclysmic shock—for on that day it is written (Rev 6:15-17):

"Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?'"

Scripture locks the rapture-resurrection event to specific celestial signs and seasonal boundaries that cannot be moved. Joel prophesied: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes" (Joel 2:31). John saw these very signs at the sixth seal: the sun becoming black as sackcloth, the moon like blood, the stars falling as figs from a shaken tree (Revelation 6:12-13). These events immediately PRECEDE the great and awesome day of the LORD. They can't be long before the day itself as no one would take notice as eclipses are not rare events in and of themselves. They must immediately precede the day of YHWH; and of that day the Psalmist says in Psalm 47:5 "God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet." Which mirrors Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 saying "for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." Now Paul is clearly referencing the Psalmist writer of Psalm 47.

As a Pharisee who was deeply entrenched in the traditions of Judaism, Paul knew that Psalm 47 is sung every year on Rosh Hashanah—and so not only was he telling us how the Lord would call up his people on the day of the resurrection of the righteous—he was telling the Church on what Levitical Feast this occasion would fall! You may say—O but Psalm 47 does not refer to the resurrection. But it does, and I will get into that later. My point at this moment is this: these signs converge with mathematical precision in August 2026: a solar eclipse on the 12th darkening the sun, the Perseid shower providing the falling stars, a lunar eclipse on the 28th turning the moon to blood. The Feast of Trumpets—Rosh Hashanah—follows immediately, September 11-13, 2026. This is not one possibility among many; it is the ONLY alignment WITHIN the generational boundary.

For Jesus declared, "This generation will not pass away until all these things take place" (Matthew 24:34). The fig tree generation began with Israel's rebirth in 1948. The Psalmist defines a generation's strength as eighty years (Psalm 90:10). Simple arithmetic yields 2028 as the outer boundary. Only 2026 provides the required eclipse pattern proximate to Rosh Hashanah. The astronomical lock is absolute as no other possible date yields all three astronomical signs within 30 days of Rosh Hashanah. We are in 2025—which would mean either the day has passed us—which it has NOT, or the boundary does not exist—which is IMPOSSIBLE as Jesus gave an oath saying in Matthew 24:31-35:

"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS, till all these things be fulfilled. HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY."

Now in the next verse, Jesus proceeds to say "But of that DAY and HOUR knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Which is itself a signal of two things—(1) the specific day and hour is subject to the Father's command which will be executed through Jesus (2) the season itself is known—and is reflected in Jesus' choice of terminology for unlike Passover which has a fixed day, or Yom Kippur which also has a fixed day; both of which are not on a new moon; Rosh Hashanah is on the new moon of the 7th month; which date is not knowable because the last day of a new moon and the first day of a new moon are indistinguishable, indeed even the third day after a new moon is difficult to discern for the crescent of the moon on that date can be extremely thin.

To remedy this, Rosh Hashanah is celebrated over two days to ensure that one way or another the feast will be kept on the correct date—since the exactness is difficult to discern. Now the Lord has kept all the other feasts within his redemptive plan—Passover for his death, Unleavened Bread whilst in the tomb, First Fruits on his resurrection, and Pentecost when the Spirit was poured on the Church. The next feast is Rosh Hashanah. However unlike the spring feasts which were fulfilled in rapid succession; the end of the age will see them fulfilled in a date-counted schematic originated in Daniel and given again in Revelation. The counts start with the covenant of death, the covenant with many—not with the rapture. From the date of the covenant there shall be 1260 days, then a 3.5 day break when the two witnesses are dead, then upon their resurrection the count starts again 1260 days per Revelation—which equals the 42 months of the Beast's rule; and then an additional 30 days to reach 1290 days per Daniel. Now the return of Jesus shall itself coincide with Yom Kippur; and so the temple shall be cleansed as Daniel was told. However between seal 4 maturity and the return of the Lord Jesus—there will be desolation upon the earth; mass death the likes of which has never been seen.

The Antichrist's Rise Through Death

When seal 4 matures—two billion people will lie dead, and the cosmic signs of seal 6 will have shattered human comprehension, the world will beg for salvation. Enter the one Daniel foresaw: "In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by intrigue" (Daniel 11:21). Not through election, not through succession, but through the exploitation of unprecedented crisis. This individual is the successor of Donald Trump. That will happen next year (2026). When you close your eyes to imagine all this—can you even fathom how 2 billion people would be buried? One in four people across the world? The pain—the anguish? The disillusionment and mourning?

This is the little horn whose "power shall be mighty, but not by his own power" (Daniel 8:24), who already commands the technological infrastructure required for global control: satellite communication blanketing the earth, artificial intelligence approaching omniscience, neural interfaces promising transcendence, robotic systems ensuring enforcement. When civilization collapses under the weight of two billion corpses, only one will possess functional systems. Only one will offer solutions. Only one will promise escape from death: Elon Musk. This is not the distant future. This is next year! You've already seen the unusual, an eccentric billionaire promise to fix America via DOGE, standing next to the President of the USA dressed casually, very at home despite not being a natural born American. His son held by the hand and led to Marine One, by the President no less. Whilst he may appear to have fallen out of favour with Trump—that was a dress rehearsal for what is to come.

The Covenant That Brings Death

On October 7, 2026—exactly three years after the Hamas attacks that initiated the current Middle Eastern conflagration—a covenant will be confirmed with many. Isaiah names it truly: "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement" (Isaiah 28:15). The world, traumatized by incomprehensible loss and cosmic terror, will embrace this covenant believing it offers protection. They could not be more deceived.

For this covenant does not prevent death—it accelerates it. You will notice that Isaiah calls it a covenant with death and Sheol; this corresponds to John's use of the same terms but in the Greek "death and Hades." It is the same thing. Scripture here is giving us direct reference between the covenant of Daniel—the context in which it is signed "seal 4 maturity", the motivation (to flee death); and the consequence in verse 18 saying, "then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, YOU WILL BE BEATEN DOWN BY IT." The consequence of the covenant is not safety—it is judgement; more death.

The moment the covenant is signed, heaven responds. The two witnesses, empowered with authority to shut the sky, turn waters to blood, and strike the earth with every plague, begin their 1,260-day testimony from Jerusalem (Revelation 11:3-6). Seven angels prepare their trumpets. The first four devastate earth's ecosystems: one third of trees burned, one third of seas turned to blood, one third of fresh water poisoned, one third of celestial light darkened.

Then comes the sixth trumpet's horrific arithmetic: "Kill a third of mankind" (Revelation 9:15). One third of those who survived the seal judgments—another two billion souls—perish. Scripture's explicit mathematics are relentless: one quarter at Seal 4 plus one third of survivors at Trumpet 6 equals a minimum 50% global mortality. Four billion dead. And this is merely the textual floor. This all happens between 2026 and 2030! This means at minimum—4 billion people will die between next year (2026) and 2030. If you consider potential impacts of the trumpets and plagues in the 1260 days of the two witnesses ministry—the overall impact is likely to be far greater. The exact number would be a speculation—however it is clear that the impact of a third of fresh water being turned to blood, a third of ecosystems being destroyed—would be extremely significant.

The Desolation Beyond Counting

Though Revelation provides only two explicit percentages, the prophets paint a picture of devastation approaching extinction. Isaiah sees the earth "utterly broken," its inhabitants becoming "rarer than fine gold," with only the smallest remnant remaining like gleanings after harvest (Isaiah 24:1-6, 13:12). Daniel watches the fourth beast "devour the whole earth, trample it and break it to pieces" (Daniel 7:23), the little horn "destroying to an extraordinary degree" (Daniel 8:24), bringing "a time of trouble such as never has been" (Daniel 12:1).

The bowls of wrath complete what the trumpets began: all seas become blood, all fresh water turns to blood, the sun scorches with killing heat, darkness engulfs the beast's kingdom, Euphrates dries for Armageddon's gathering, the greatest earthquake in history levels every city while hundred-pound hailstones crush what remains. Scripture does not quantify these final deaths, but when all water becomes blood and all cities fall, when the earth itself staggers like a drunkard, the survival rate approaches zero. It's easy to imagine the impact on final mortality being near terminal on all remaining humanity, which is why Jesus said with divine certainty: without divine [his] intervention, "no flesh would be saved" (Matthew 24:22). He returns in judgment yes—but also in mercy to prevent human extinction even as he judges the world with the full wrath of God; he allows a remnant to remain.

The Machinery of Annihilation

Daniel provides some context that provides enhanced understanding of Revelation—some of the mechanism of destruction other than that of divine wrath. The beast of Rev 13 does not merely kill; it processes humanity through systematic annihilation. "Devour" speaks of consumption. "Trample" describes crushing. "Break in pieces" indicates fragmentation. "Stamp what remains" completes obliteration (Daniel 7:7, 19, 23). This is not random death but engineered extinction.

The little horn "by peace shall destroy many" (Daniel 8:25). Not through war alone but through systems—the mark that prevents buying or selling, the image that demands worship, the surveillance that permits no escape. When neural interfaces monitor thoughts, when satellites track every movement, when AI algorithms determine resource allocation, when robotic enforcers need no sleep—then one man can indeed "devour the whole earth." Indeed some of the Beast's names that appear to = 666 include סותר ("one who contradicts/destroys"). Similarly, the Greek letters ΧΑΕΙ (xAI in English) sum to 616, the earliest textual variant of the number of the beast (noted by some second-century witnesses). When extended to the infinitive ΧΑΕΙΝ the total becomes 666. Both forms carry the same χαι-/χα- root behind χαίνω/χάω—"to gape, yawn wide, devour." The warning regarding the mark of the Beast could not be clearer—the intent of the Beast is destruction.

Consider the bitter irony: humanity will accept the mark to avoid death, yet the mark guarantees death. They will covenant with the supposed savior from death, not recognizing him as Death's very avatar—a human embodying the spirit of the one the ancients called Apollyon, the Destroyer, the one whose number calculated across both Greek and Hebrew crystallizes as 666. A false savior—in Greek soter (savior)—in Hebrew סותר—"to destroy"—a false savior who in reality destroys.

The Avalanche of Judgment

The tribulation period witnesses cascading death from multiple sources simultaneously. While divine judgments rain from heaven—trumpets and bowls systematically destroying earth's life-support systems—the Antichrist wages relentless warfare below. Daniel 11:40-45 chronicles his campaigns: nations falling like dominoes, millions perishing by sword and flame, the holy people shattered. Revelation 13:7 confirms his authority "over every tribe and people and language and nation."

When Michael casts Satan to earth at the midpoint (Revelation 12:7-12), demonic fury joins human and divine destruction. Every fallen angel, barred from heaven, vents rage upon earth's inhabitants. All of this happening after the demonic locusts of the fifth trumpet have tormented for five months. The four angels bound at Euphrates lead an army of 200 million, killing with fire, smoke, and sulfur. Earth becomes hell's playground; and then Michael casts down Satan—it is no wonder the scale of wrath and judgment—and therefore death is unprecedented. The events themselves are unprecedented; judgment over angels and humanity is taking place. This is not the distant future—this starts next year.

The Timeline of Terror

Mark these dates, for they are derived from Scripture's explicit chronology:

2025-2026: The restrainer weakens. Death accelerates. Nuclear tensions escalate. Systemic failures cascade.

February 5, 2026: The New START treaty expires, removing the last nuclear restraint.

August 12, 2026: Seal 6 would have opened; Solar eclipse darkens the sun. Perseid meteors appear as falling stars.

August 28, 2026: Lunar eclipse turns moon to blood.

September 11-13, 2026: Rosh Hashanah. The last trumpet sounds. The Church departs. Death toll climbing to 2 billion; 1/4 of the world.

October 7, 2026: The covenant with death confirmed. The 70th Week begins. The witnesses commence testimony.

2026-2030: First half. Temple rebuilt. Witnesses prophesy. Trumpets sound. Two billion more die.

March 20, 2030: Midpoint. Abomination of desolation. Witnesses killed and resurrected. Satan cast down.

2030-2033: Great Tribulation. Bowl judgments. Mark enforced. Near extinction approaches as the full weight of God's wrath is poured on humanity.

October 3, 2033: Yom Kippur. Christ returns. Beast destroyed. Survivors enter millennium.

The Terrible Purpose

Why does God permit such devastation? To demonstrate conclusively that the wages of sin is death—not metaphorically but literally. To prove that human technology cannot defeat divine judgment. To force the final choice between Christ and Antichrist with no neutral ground remaining. To show that apart from divine grace, humanity would self-annihilate.

Every soul who enters the millennium will know beyond doubt: they live solely by divine mercy. Every knee will bow not from philosophical conviction but from witnessed reality. The covenant with death will be annulled exactly as Isaiah prophesied, proven bankrupt by the mountain of corpses it produced.

The Final Warning

To those who read these words: you stand at history's most critical juncture. In perhaps months, certainly less than a year, the restrainer will be removed. The dying will begin in earnest. Once that cascade starts, choice becomes nearly impossible. Trauma destroys discernment. Terror eliminates reason. Desperation accepts any solution.

Now—today—while rational thought remains possible, while the gospel can still be heard, while the Spirit still calls—choose life. Not the false life the Antichrist will promise through his mark, but eternal life through Jesus Christ who conquered death itself.

The Church will endure Seal 4's maturity but escape before the trumpets. Those who come to Christ now, who walk in Him faithfully, will be spared the time of trial. But the window closes rapidly. When death begins its exponential explosion, when millions die daily, when governments collapse and infrastructure fails—then it will be too late for careful consideration.

The Conclusion of the Matter

The coming seven years will witness death on a scale that defies human comprehension. From today's 150,000 daily deaths to millions, then tens of millions. From two billion to four billion to perhaps seven billion or more. The earth itself will reel, its ecosystems destroyed, its waters turned to blood, its cities rubble, its population reduced to a remnant so small that Isaiah says men will be "rarer than fine gold."

This is not pessimism or religious hysteria. This is the literal common-sense and mathematical reading of prophetic scripture, validated by astronomical alignment, confirmed by technological readiness, and approaching with measurable certainty. The covenant with death stands ready for signing. The machinery of annihilation is built and tested. The restrainer's hand grows weary.

Those with ears to hear, let them hear: Death comes. Not as metaphor or symbol but as literal, quantifiable, unstoppable reality. The fourth horseman rides toward his full gallop. The little horn awaits his moment. The covenant prepares its signatories for slaughter.

In my conversations with many people about these things—I frequently am asked—how should we prepare? When I tell them to leave their lives behind and go to a quiet rural location to wait this out; or to prepare their families for the worst and start stocking up medicines and foods. They seem perplexed. "But we are always supposed to be ready" they respond. To which I say—yes, spiritual vigilance is key. But it doesn't deal with the fact that the world around you will fundamentally be different and you need to make adjustments or practically ready yourself. The cost of preparation is social misunderstanding—people thinking you are crazy or obsessed or another date setter who will be wrong. These are valid concerns; however they must be weighed up against the evidence available. In the past date setters used the most flimsy of evidence to mislead. Often times relying solely on a single line of hermeneutic invented by them. That is not what this is. All the evidence that has been provided on this website has been weighed against historical evidence, and existing realities.

Over 107 individual lines of evidence have been collected and then mathematically organized and analyzed to demonstrate objectively that what is being shared to you is not based on fake hermeneutics, or forced narratives—it is testable; it is observable—and even to a great extent forecastable. That should provide you with some assurance that as you pray and as you study for yourself—and weigh up decisions...You are not doing so on the basis of following a random and anonymous crazy person. No, you are looking at the world as it actually is and making logical decisions. Ultimately you must pray, and fast and search the scriptures for yourself. It is Christ who you serve and follow—not man. It is Jesus upon whom your trust and faith must be placed; not mathematics. These things, the math, this blog, these are tools. They are servants—the Lord is Jesus Christ. Trust in him and follow him. Even if you decide to stay put and do nothing—to allow the lots to decide—as long as your trust is in Jesus—that is fine; only do so with full assurance of your trust in him. My goal here is to warn and to inform, to sound the alarm.

The Church to the extent it can must start to stock up food and supplies for what is to come; if you are a Pastor and you are reading this and are convicted—ask your congregation to defer big capital expenses and instead build a food bank. Ask your members to cut lavish expenses and build savings that may be useful in days to come. Even if just as an exercise to show them that there is prudence in thrift—the exercise will yield its fruit regardless.

To all of us, myself included I say this:

Choose this day whom you will serve. Choose quickly. Choose wisely.

For the days of choosing are nearly over, and the days of dying are about to begin.

Hear the word of the Lord Jesus:

All you who slumber, the time to rise is here--rouse yourself whilst time still stands. The day of my coming is near. Rise, or it will take you by surprise; coming like a thief in the night.

Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.