I've been reading about this in Thomas Horn's book
The Messenger. I am not convinced that Horn is 100% legitimate, however I do believe that the demons (Fallen Angels and Demons are the same thing, BTW), while they don't know the future precisely, are extremely intelligent and can "calculate" the future better than any normal human who has ever lived.
2029's date may be legitimate, as might the 2036 date. If the 2029 date is accurate, then that puts the start of the Tribulation around October of 2025 (Thomas Horn has another book,
Zeitgeist 2025, I haven't started yet, that might indicate a 2025 start for the Tribulation as well). Wormwood, from my recollection, doesn't hit exactly 3.5 years in, but somewhere in the middle (The 3rd Trumpet according to
Revelation 8:10-11). And it does make sense that Wormwood would come
after the Antichrist stands in the newly rebuilt Jewish Temple and claims to be God (), which happens at the midpoint, 3.5 years, or 42 months remaining (
Revelation 13:5).
I also think that Apophis is the reason for "Space Force" and the DART mission; perhaps this will be the reason that Apophis misses us in 2029, but I hits us in 2036. Why do I think 2036 is the year for Wormwood? That's going to take a bit of explaining, so bear with me.
For the sake of brevity, I am going to reference scriptures here, without quoting them; click the link to see the referenced scripture in context.
There are prophecies that are tied to the rebuilding of the Hebrew Temple following their captivity in Babylon. Specifically, there are 3 historic dates (by our modern calendar) that relate to the rebuilding of this temple:
- 536-538 BC (Depending on which historian you listen to), the 1st year of Cyrus's reign, he authorized the Hebrews to return to Israel in order to rebuild the temple (Ezra 1:1-4).
- 517 BC, Darius follows up Cyrus's decree about 20 years later with a decree of his own to rebuild the temple (Ezra 5:3-6:13)
- March 14, 445 BC (we have an exact date here because of the wording of Ezra 7:9) where Artaxerxes basically commanded that all Hebrews return to their land and rebuild Jerusalem.
Now we have 3 decrees, the first authorizing Hebrews to return to the land and rebuild the temple. The second giving them further permission and resources to rebuild the temple (which it was rebuilt). But most of the Hebrews didn't want to go back to the ruins of Jerusalem, they had businesses, houses, lives in Babylon, so the last decree was to rebuild Jerusalem itself and for the Hebrews to "get out" and go back to their land. Keep in mind these 3 decrees and the resulting behavior of "God's People".
Here comes the first specific prophecy; this one from
Daniel 9:25 I will quote:
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Now, these are not "weeks of days" but "weeks of years"; this was common to refer to years this way because of the Biblical law of the Sabbath Year (where they were commanded to not plant crops every 7 years). So, from the going forth of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem (March 14, 445 BC) until the Messiah (Christ) comes will be 69 years. Another important aspect of Biblical record keeping is that a "prophetic year" is 360 days, not 365 (there are reasons for this, which books have been written on).
If we take 69 "Prophetic Years", that is 173,880 days, which when added to March 14, 445 BC you arrive at Palm Sunday, April 5, 32 AD. What happened on that day?
Luke 19:35-44 gives you the answer: Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, the
exact day He was prophesied to do so hundreds of years before it happened.
Ok, so what about the other "decrees"; bear with me here.
In
Ezekiel 4:4-6, God has Ezekiel lie on his side a certain number of days representing years that Israel "owed" to God. Israel owed these years to God because they failed to observe the Sabbath Year and just kept planting right on through it. If you add the 390 years for Israel and 40 years for Judah, you come to 430 years total. Now, some of that they repaid by their Babylonian captivity which lasted 70 years. Meaning they still "owed" God 360 years (prophetic years).
Ok, you might say, 360 years from 445-537 BC is still "BC". This is where
Leviticus 26:15-18 comes in; this is also a prophetic chapter as God is warning Israel of what will happen to them, if they disobey God. In this passage God tells Israel that if they break His covenant that He will cause them to flee (Babylonian captivity, those who weren't captured abandoned Jerusalem and the land of Israel) and their enemy (Nebuchadnezzar) would defeat them. The important part is verse 18, where, if after all of that, they still won't obey God (and they didn't) then He would "punish you seven times more for your sins".
Here's where it really gets interesting. If you multiply the years Israel still "owes" God by 7, you get 2520 prophetic years, or 907,200 days.
If we add those days to our first decree (537 BC) we arrive at 1948; on May 14, 1948, an interesting thing happened: Israel became a nation again; the Hebrew people were free to "go home" again, just like the 537 BC decree.
When we add those days to our second decree (517 BC) we arrive at 1967; on June 7, 1967, Israel recaptured Jerusalem. Now, they haven't been able to rebuild the 3rd Temple (yet), but there is a theological reason for that: Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross was the final sacrifice. When Israel builds the next temple, it won't be for the One True God, but it will be for the false god, the Antichrist.
This brings us to our last and final decree. The one on which the coming (and the return) of the Messiah is related to. If we add those days to 445 BC, we arrive at Jan 6, 2040. However, there is an issue; several times (again depending on which historian you listen to) the calendar changed. There was a year which had 400-something days. When you take into account these modifications, sometime in September 2039 is the actual date we're looking for.
What happens around September ever year? The Jewish feast of Trumpets, which because it required 2 Rabbi's to agree that they could see the sliver of the moon, was known in Jesus's day as the Feast which "of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only". A.k.a. the day of the Rapture and return of Christ (these are both the same day, sorry to inform the Pre-Tribbers).
If Apophis is Wormwood, then it's 2036 fly by is more prophetically accurate, if my interpretations here are indeed correct.
The bad news for us, is that things are going to continue to get worse until 2032; the world will get darker and darker (wars and rumors of wars), nation after nation may fall into Civil War (including the U.S.) or nation against nation (will Russia and China team up to take us out?). The world needs to be a dark, dark scary place for the false light of the Antichrist to shine well enough to give people hope. And for the first 3 1/2 years, he will do exactly that, until the day he stands in the newly rebuilt Temple and proclaims that he is god.
After that happens, all Hell breaks loose (literally) on earth.