Know the Time, Change Your World

The book goes on sale through normal channels today

Find the book's website here

Advance Book Launch and Ice Cream Party, June 25, 2015, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

The public is welcome to an ice cream social featuring the new book  “Know the Time, Change Your World”.  Advance copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing by the author at the event. We hope to see you! Feel free to extend the invitation to anyone who may be interested.

RSVPs on Linked In or Facebook requested but not required.

Brick Gables is located at 800 E Newport Rd, Lititz, PA 17540. In front of the Newport Commons complex, along Newport Road.

Advance copy books are here!

Books Arrived today!

I will be in Ephrata all day and into the evening either at the house or the shop if you want to pick one up! Sales tax and a $5 donation to Casa Ray orphanage in Romania is included in the price of $20 for paperback and $30 for the hardcover.

The hardcovers are a limited run of 500 copies,

As I travel around South Central PA in the next few months I will post other locations that you can catch up with me.

Don’t be afraid to email or call me to set a meeting location.

Just in time for your summer reading

After almost a quarter century of tinkering with the idea, I have finally written the book!

Official release date is September 29, 2015, however, I will have advance copies in early June.

I have posted Chapter One at my new web site: http://7and50rhymes.com/

If you want an advance copy let me know by dropping me an email at barry@7and50rhymes.com

Paperback Retail $17.99, Hardcover TBD

Expect Anything

“I am not good at predictions, especially about the future”

I have no idea who originated this quote, but it is a favorite of mine. As we head toward the end of year seven this fall, what is really happening around us will become even more obscure. On the time scale of seven years we are now at the furthest point from the "Divine Light" which came into our situation in year one, six plus years ago, and the “Divine Light” we know is coming in the upcoming year one is still hidden from us.

Fourteen years ago at this point Muhammad Atta and his boys where learning about big airplanes and Ken Lay and Jeffery Skilling where still cooking the books at Enron.

Seven years ago the banking industry was still handing our liar loans and Bernie Madoff was still using creative accounting to keep his Ponzi scheme afloat.

So what is happening now? We have no idea.

Twenty-one years ago there was no financial crisis but instead the new set of seven years kicked off the best six economic years this country has ever seen. Remember Fed Chair, Allen Greenspan calling it "irrational exuberance" . Greenspan made that remark in 1996, the markets did not stop going up until March of 2000, spring of year six, by the way.

So what should we be doing? What does rest look like in a Year Seven? Do we just sleep a lot? I don’t think so, remember slaves where to be set free, land was to remain un-plowed and at the very end of the seventh year debts where to be forgiven. 

I think it’s a time of tinkering, doing those little things you thought about over the last few years that would improve your performance. Take the time to read a book, Take a class, try to make a prototype of that idea you had a while back. Write out your point of view on a subject you care about, it is likely you don’t even know what you really think about something until you write about it.

If you have gotten yourself into a good, restful, place this is a great time to help someone else who may be having a difficult time.

Recently in speaking with a fellow businessman about what to be doing at this juncture, I described the position we are attempting to be in as we enter year one as the equivalent of a football linebacker before the ball is snapped. Having no idea which direction the play may go, the player in a completely balanced stance is ready for anything. This is exactly the purpose of the seventh year, to be ready for anything.

In the end it may appear you predicted the future. But that is not the case you simply will be ready to go any direction when the Divine Light reveals what is really going on.

Happy Tinkering  

Charisma Magazine?

This is so amazing!
I have been expecting something like this for a long time, but now that it has happened it almost takes my breath away. Charisma Magazine of all places calls for a return to God's calendar!
So Happy! 
Enjoy,

http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/standing-with-israel/21053-it-s-time-to-get-on-god-s-calendar

Better days ahead?

This past Wednesday the 27th of August was the first day of the Hebrew Month of Elul, the sixth month, if you start a count at Nissan, the month of Passover.

By the way there is a great smart phone app out there for converting dates from the modern calendar to the Hebrew calendar produced by appstudio.

Therefore it’s the sixth month of the six year in what I count as the fifth, seven year cycle. If that sentence means nothing to you, reading my previous posts #1, #10 and #11 may help.

I want to focus on what we observed in the last six years. There can be no doubt now that this seven year segment, which started in the fall of 2008 and is slated to end next fall, has bitten a lot a people just as you would expect from the birds and fish of day five. It often seemed like buzzards and sharks were the order of the day.

As always some of us were at the right place at the right time and caught some of that explosive new life but for many, this has truly been a difficult six years.

Regardless what situation you find yourself in now, this is not the time to panic. Consider Noah’s story about the birds. He had survived a great tumult, but was anxious to find out when things would get better. Sound familiar?

The text tells us that;    

The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.  Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.  But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.  He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.  When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. Genesis 8:5-12

So let’s walk this through, you can make the case that the story is telling us that the birds begin to fly from Noah’s ark the 10^th day of the eleventh month, 40 days after the tops of the mountains where seen on the first day of the tenth month. The eleventh month can be considered a fifth month if you count the seventh month as a new beginning, just as the Hebrew calendar counts the seventh month, Tishrei, as the first month of the annual year. (I know this is a difficult concept for westerners to get in our heads, you are going to have to study it. There are plenty of sources out there to explain it)

So 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 could be thought of at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I understand this is may seem a reach, but is it not logical that a month with so much information about birds, would have a fifth day connection?

Therefore the indication is that the raven left the ark on the tenth day of the month of birds, month five.  As each seven days pass the indications improve. Of course right from the start the raven has no problem, he has plenty of carrion to cleanup, so his food needs are taken care of immediately. The next bird sent out is a dove which needs vegetation. The dove soon returns as it cannot find even a perch. Interestingly the third time a bird is sent out, the dove stays out till evening and returns with vegetation, an olive leaf. (New life in the third) The fourth time Noah sends out a bird, the dove does not return indicating the dove has found food and shelter.

Therefore the implication is that in a fifth day pattern, if things have been bad, they begin to improve slowly as the fifth segment of time moves along. I feel strongly that this is exactly what I have seen in the last six years, in other words in my view the events of the fall of 2008 seem to have started a day five like, pattern for this seven year segment which ends next fall.  

Thus I expect the business climate will continue to slowly improve as we begin this last year of the fifth set of sevens. Things are still volatile, the buzzards and the sharks are still out there but now the doves also start to find places to rest and feed.

There you go. How about that for an alternative way to read the Bible?

Gather what you can as you prepare to remember the economic reset which should happen next fall. If you find yourself a long way from where you wish you were, as we head to the end of the seventh, take some comfort in the indication that things are improving and from this passage out of Zephaniah.

“I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feasts—
They came from you, O Zion; The reproach of exile is a burden on them.  

Zephaniah 3:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Zephaniah has given me a lot of comfort over the years with these words. Clearly the prophet is commending those who grieve the appointed times, he recognizes that often we cannot do all that we wish we could in regards to following all the revealed instruction about the appointed times. 

Zephaniah is telling us that living in a place that ignores these things is a burden on those who wish to follow the instructions concerning the appointed times.

That would be us.

Always remember, timing matters. But God looks on the Heart!