Perry Stone - Deciphering End-Time Prophetic Codes: Cyclical and Historical Biblical Patterns Reveal Americas Past, Present and Future Events, including Warnings and Patterns to Leaders

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom ofheaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.

MATTHEW 13:52

D URING MY FIRST trip to Israel I discovered how spiritually ignorant I was. I grewup in church and attended services three times a week. Adding revivals, conventions,and special events to the list of spiritual enrichment one would think I had a fullunderstanding of the Biblethat is, until 1985. Thats when I heard my Jewish tourguides explain the Bible from a Hebraic perspective, adding details I had never heardpreached. At the time I was twenty-six, but I had never heard one minister in mydenomination speak about the seven festivals of Israel and their prophetic fulfillments.Classified as New Testament believers while growing up, we considered the Old Testamentas primarily a collection of powerful, ancient stories.

The Bible itself has various layers of wisdom and understanding; this had not beentaught in my denomination. There is the plain simple meaning of Scripture, and whenthe plain sense of the Scripture makes sense, seek no other sense! This is the levelof casual readingapplying a particular passage to your situation or building faiththrough the promises of God. This is the main application taught from most pulpitsin North America, and Christians learn at this limited level. Regrettably most believersare uninterested in digging deeper into the other spiritual and prophetic applications.This requires time, effort, and understanding Hebraic levels of hermeneutics (methodsof interpreting the Scriptures).

For example, there is the level of types and shadows (Col. 2:17). A type is a person,event, or thing designed to represent or picture something else. A shadow is somethingconcealed in the story or narrative that connects the future with past events. Agood example is Genesis 22, where Abraham is taking his only son with Sarah, Isaac,and offering him on a mountain (in Jerusalem) called Moriah. Abrahams binding ofIsaac was a shadow of the coming redemptive process revealed in Christ.

Many shadows in the Torah reveal details about the future plan of redemption unknownduring the Old Testament events. The redemption plan was revealed and understoodwhen the set time of Christs suffering occurred. These shadows include the ritualsduring Passover (Exodus 2) and the sacrifice of the red heifer (Numbers 19). Bothexamples hide numerous and precise details of what would occur during the crucifixionof Christ!

After my initial Israel tour in the late 1980s, many more tours would follow. Tothe dismay of my more traditional colleagues in ministry, who felt I was slippingoff a cliff to plunge into a river of heresy, I began researching and teaching theHebraic roots of Christianity. I began adding to my prophetic emphasis the propheciesbeing fulfilled inside Israel, including a unique message: The Ashes of the RedHeifer. This message taught the future rebuilding of a Jewish temple. Mixing propheticmessages with an emphasis on our Jewish roots packed out churches with curious listeners;however, it also threw the doors open to critics who distanced themselves from meas if I had a contagious plague. They did not understand teaching on biblical types,shadows, patterns, or cycles. To prevent exposing their ignorance on the subject,they found it easier to say, Perry has gone off the deep end.

Despite the verbal attacks and slander, I continued to dig deeper. I discoveredthe Bible is a divinely layered book; too often it is read and not studied. It isviewed as a storybooka nice story here, an interesting narrative there. However,the words of the Bible are more than ancient stories; they are divinely inspiredwritings that can have many practical applications. You will discover that someconceal prophetic codesevents from the past whose details will repeat at some pointin the future. To tap into these hidden truths requires knowledge of the Bible inits entirety, historical context and details of parallel events, and an understandingof biblical prophecies. It demands insight to prophecy predicting the signs and circumstancesprior to the return of Christ. One of my most amazing discoveries is how God movesworld events in a circular motion. These events are repeated sometimes hundreds orthousands of years apart, yet using parallel dates, the same names often mirrorthe same type of event or place. It is God Himself who said:

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are notyet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.

ISAIAH 46:10

I have declared the former things from the beginning; they went forth from My mouth,and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

ISAIAH 48:3

That is what this book is abouthow the past can repeat in the future and how whathas been is what will be. Through divine wisdom we can see what is coming based onwhat has occurred. It is not a theological thesis on doctrine, but an explanationon how prophetic revelation is continually in motionnot so much in a vertical lineas Westerners think, but in a circular motion to repeat over time. This repetitivecycle, when properly understood, can allow us to imagine the future and at timespredict outcomes before they occur.

I will share with you some very important and at times sensitive stories. I havepurposely chosen not to give the names of some individuals. My desire is to protecttheir privacy in the same manner you often hear the secular media say, an insidesource, a source in the administration, or a source asking not to be identified.We hear this every day on the news. When I do this, please understand these are peopleI personally know and their stories are true.

There will also be a strong emphasis on Americas link with former empires and whatthe past can reveal about our futureincluding how past patterns of presidents mayreflect a warning for future presidents and leaders. Because we have new friends,partners, and television viewers who have not read or researched some of our pastinsights, I have placed in this book material that our partners and longtime friendsmay have heard. Bear with me, as we will use numerous links to tie some previouspoints together with new insights.