Dedicated to late George T. Curle

By Gvozden Rovina
gracisce@gmail.com

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 1Pe 4:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Amo 3:7

What can be made of these two parallel curves of oil price and peak oil literature? The most important thing that can be said is that we are in a situation where the oil price is responding to the continual decreasing of production spare capacity. This is an event prerequisite to Peak Oil. Crude oil prices do not begin to rise when oil production hits a peak. Rather they begin to rise when it is perceived that spare capacity may be dwindling in an unsustainable manner. When the Herald of diminishing spare capacity gives his message and departs, then King Peak Oil arrives in all his terrible force. With that in mind, I note that more and more commentators are predicting this year as the "Big Rollover". Commentators like Richard Deffeyes, Matt Simmons and T. Boone Pickens have targeted 2005 as the year of peak oil. Richard Deffeyes has backed his prediction with analysis based on R/P projections. Matt Simmons no doubt has factored an imminent peak in Saudi production into his calculations.

Published on 15 Jul 2005 by New Era Investor. by Roland Watson

Many prophecies, date fixing and such has failed because they’ve clung to just one bearing aka. “The year X is the year when …”. I will show you that the year 2005 like no other year stands out in human history as MULTIPLE Biblical bearings pinpoint it. How? Eight years ago (1997) I’ve stumbled upon a book named Times of the Signs by George

T. Curle, now late Christian evangelist from New Zealand. In this book of prophecy he demonstrated a complete, harmonious interlocking pattern from Genesis to Revelation. He has found approximately TWENTY Bible bearings all converge into a single year. In this article I will show three major bearings, called Times of the Millennia, Times of the Gentiles and Times of the Temples and some “minor” ones. Back then I’ve wondered what will happen in the year 2005. Surely something very important. Curle has speculated and failed. He just couldn’t know. Sure some discontinuity will happen that will shatter the world and mark the beginning of the end of the age and will be closely connected with the Israel and the Middle East. What could it be? Now, something of major importance is happening this year, virtual unrecognized by many, something that is closely connected with the Middle East and Israel, something unparalleled in our history. In the summer of 2004 I’ve heard about Peak Oil.

Do you see? This picture is worth thousand words. The implications of this graph above are described in my article about Peak Oil. See how the curve which represent oil extraction (not counting heavy, polar deepwater and NGL) comes to a peak in the year 2005. The extraction of oil and gas liquids combined will peak in 2007 never to recover again. And yes, don’t forget Peak Oil is closely connected with the Middle East and Israel. It will impact all of us. Now let’s see what George Curle has found out.

The Times of the Millennia

In the first chapter of the Bible we are told that God created all in just six days and then rested on the seventh. Now, some Bible scholars believe that this has major implications. The belief is that likewise on the scale of a day God would work for 6000 years to restore the creation and then rest for another 1000 years.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2Pe 3:8

This belief has persisted for centuries and has been held by many Bible scholars.

Col 2.16… or of the Sabbath [days]: Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come”

Important thing is that the years which God want us to reckon on are revealed in The Bible. We must deal with revealed years and stop arguing about actual years. So, if we count years which has been revealed to us the following pattern emerges.

There are 2000 years from Adam to Abraham. There are 2000 years from Abraham to Christ. There are 2000 years from Christ to Millennial kingdom (which will last for 1000 years).

Sum of these revealed years gives us 7000 years.

The focal point of these 7000 years is death and resurrection of Christ, not his birth! From this we can conclude that the fifth millennium began in the year 33* (see note 1) when Jesus endured crucifixion in Jerusalem and rose from the dead three days after.

Now, this 2000 years are not our solar years (solar year last 365.2421 days) but Prophetic years (prophetic year last 360 days). This is based on Daniel’s prophecy. The Jews measured duration by the moon not the sun.

As Sir Isaac Newton pointed out: “All nations, before the just length of the solar year was known, reckoned months by the course of the moon, and the years by the return of winter, summer, spring and autumn, and in making calendars for their festivals, they reckoned thirty days to a lunar month, and twelve lunar months to a year, taking the nearest round numbers, whence came the division of the ecliptic into 360 degrees”.

Very important footnote to Daniel 9:24-27 in the Scofield Bible. “Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy ‘sevens’ (weeks) (v. 24-27) provides the chronological frame for Messianic prediction from Daniel to the establishment of the kingdom on earth and also a key to its interpretation. Its main features are as follows:

1. The entire prophecy is concerned primarily with Daniel’s “people” and the “holy city” – i.e. Israel and Jerusalem.

1. Two princes are mentioned; the first is named “the Anointed One, the ruler” (i.e. Messiah, the Prince) (v.25); the second is described as “the ruler who will come”

2. (v. 26), a reference to the little horn of the chap. 7:8, whose “people” would destroy the rebuilt Jerusalem after the cutting off of the Messianic Prince (v. 26).
2. The “seventy sevens” of the prophecy are weeks of years, an important sabbatical time-measure in the Jewish calendar. Violation of the command to observe the sabbatical year brought the judgement of the Babylonian captivity and determined its length of seventy years. Compare Leviticus 25:1-22, 26:33-35; 2 Chronicles 36:19-21; Daniel 9:2. Compare also Genesis 29:26-28 for use of “week” to indicate seven years.

1. These 490 prophetic years are each 360 days long. This is proved by the Biblical references to the seventieth week of seven years, which is divided into two halves

2. (v. 27), the latter half being various designated as “a time, times, and half a time” (Daniel 7:25; cp Revelation 12:14); forty-two months (Revelation 11:2; 13:5); or 1260 days (Revelation 11:3, 12:6). In this connection it should be remembered that, in the grand sweep of prophecy, prophetic time is invariably so near as to give full warning, so indeterminate as to give no satisfaction to mere curiosity (cf Matthew 24:36; Acts 1:7).
3. The beginning of the seventy weeks is fixed as “the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem” and its wall (v. 25). The only decree in Scripture authorizing the rebuilding of the city and its wall is recorded in Nehemiah 2; dated in “the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes” (i.e. 444 BC.), it is well attested in ancient history. From this date as a beginning, the first sixty-nine weeks reach to “the Anointed One, the ruler.”

4. At a later time, after the “sixty-two ‘sevens’” which follow the first “seven weeks” i.e. after sixty-nine weeks, two important events will take place: (1) Messiah will be “cut off” and will have none of His regal rights (“will have nothing”). And (2) the rebuilt city and sanctuary will again be destroyed, this time

by the people of another ruler who is yet to come. It is generally agreed that these two events were fulfilled in the death of Christ (33 AD.) and the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome in AD. 70. Both events are placed before the seventh week of

v. 27. Hence a period of at least thirty-seven years between the death of Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem must intervene between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks.

7. The main events of the final “one ‘seven’” (v. 27) are as follows: (1) There is a seven-year “conveniant” made by future Roman prince (the “little horn” of 7:8) with the Jews. (2) In the middle of the week there is a forcible interruption of the Jewish ritual of worship by the Roman prince who introduces “abomination” that renders the sanctuary desolate. (3) At the same time he launches persecution against Jews . And (4) the end of the seventieth week also brings judgement upon the desolator and also brings “everlasting righteousness” (v. 24 – i.e. the blessings of the Messianic Kingdom.)

The proof that his final week has not yet been fulfilled is seen in the fact that Christ definitely relates its main events to His second coming (Matthew 24:6,15). Hence, during the interim between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks there must lie the whole period of the Church set forth in the N.T. but not revealed in the O.T.”

End footnote

444 BC + 476 years (69 ‘weeks’ is 69x7 or 483 prophetic years or 476 solar years) gives us 33 AD -the year when Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead!