9/17

By Deborah Strickland

This will be one of the most amazing and revealing books that you have ever read. You cannot skip through it or put it down. It takes you on several literary paths that are clear in understanding, but have been hidden to us, some for many, many years. Its revelation has always been right in front of our eyes. It shows the understanding that the early church disciples would have had and can now be understood by us. The emphasis attributed to world events that only God controls compels you to immediately think about what is going on.

If you read the Bible, the issues addressed in this book will help you understand with full assurance of clarity some of your questions of doctrine. You will have one regret after reading it, and that is, that you didn't read it sooner. If your desire is to be inspired and to know your Lord, you will definitely be affected, your eyes will be opened, and your heart will be glad!

Some of the insights in this book can instill a revival in the Christian faith to know the God of Israel. There will be revelations that will open up your heart to a great deal of understanding and perception to open the eyes of your heart to really see your God, that he is the only one who is worthy to be praised. It will show you groups of facts and how they all fit amazingly perfectly together. It will make you think and to honor the glory of God that you will find in his word. To let you know our God is an awesome God, who is the creator of heaven and Earth, that time is very short and that our Lord Jesus Christ is coming back again very soon.

How great is our God! Gadol Elohai!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798885404938

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9 -17

Deborah Strickland

ISBN 979-8-88540-492-1 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88540-493-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Deborah Strickland

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Table of Contents

The 17th!

17 = 7

The Girls Had a Plan!

Salvation

Life Is Only a Test

Chronological List of Holidays

Our World History

Who Would Believe?

Why 17?

Is the Seventeenth Day of Nisan an Intermediate Passover?

Judgment

The 9th!

What Is 280?

Wake Up! Wake Up! God's Promises to Israel

The 9th of Av Verses Read from the Torah on Tisha B'Av (9/11)

Germany Declares War on Russia

Turkey and September 11, 1922

The Temple

The Millennium

Two Peace Plans: Two Plagues

Pre-Tribulation, Mid-Tribulation, or Post-Tribulation

Two Peace Plans: Two Plagues

God Shall Judge the Nations for Dividing the Land

Two Peace Plans = Two Plagues

Two Peace Plans = Two Plagues

Two Peace Plans = Two Plagues

Eve and Adam's Choice

2017 Was This the Year of the Lord?

Historical 2017

About the Author

The 17th!

17 = 7

Read

your

Bible

and seek the Lord for

this

is

the

will

of

God!

The Girls Had a Plan!

I wanted complete answers to a caveat of questions that began when I was a little child and was asked to read the Bible by my mother and grandmother. They both gave way to acceptance of my inability to read well, but it was to their good pleasure and inability that they had me read to them both. And what I mean by their inability was that my mom was sick with cancer and my grandmother was going blind. Later in my life, my questions of faith, I believe, caused my disambiguated concession to rebellion. I wanted conclusive answers from ministries to important inquiries, but what I received were inadequate answers based on their inability to comprehend and also because of what they had been taught and believed. So 17 is my perception of God's amazing evidence realized in part now, but God will make all things known to all of us in the near future.

This book will inspire your desire to know your Lord, to read your Bible, and will allow you to grow in your knowledge and wisdom in clarifying confusing issues and also some issues that others have mislead us to believe.

Salvation

Deborah's husband, Paul Strickland

Read Your Bible

If I wanted to write a book, I would have to write a book just saying Read your Bible, read your Bible, read your Bible! God is in complete control and time is very short.

Over the years, my wife, Deborah, and my five sons have given me notebooks and tablets to write in. A few family and friends have encouraged me to share what I wrote, and I love to hear people get excited about God's Word. Not mine—His! And I am sure you will be excited about it too. If someone is seeking truth, God's truth, then maybe here is some.

To understand your Christian existence, you have to know your Jewish roots. These two things are a must! A King James NIV Bible is good and a Zola Levitt fifteen-month Jewish Heritage Calendar with a chronological list of holidays for three years. You can get one of these calendars from Zola Levitt Ministries, PO Box 12268, Dallas, TX 75225. Their phone number is 214-696-8844 or go to www.levitt.com to order. Zola Levitt Ministries is not endorsing this book at this time, but I love their ministry. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that their Jewish calendar will greatly enhance your Christian faith as you see the dates and events timelines come alive!

Life Is Only a Test

It is good to believe what you believe is what to believe. One day while reading to my mom when I was about ten or eleven years old, a charismatic minister showed up at our door preaching Mark 16:18. I was not allowed to let anyone in, but I said, Come on in. He said it was his job to heal the sick. I said, Say hello to my mom, who was very sick. He preached, he prayed, and he left. I joined his church, my mom died, and I then left the church. I was confused for years as a result of my mom's death, and that was my first falling away from a church.

However, so many people had so many questions, and they would ask me for guidance of my little belief that I still clung to. I was looking for truth, and inside I was screaming out just as loud as I could, asking God, If you're real, show me a miracle. Show me a sign. Please help me, Lord.

I joined the service when I was sixteen. I was in the army when I turned seventeen. My most impressive tour was on the line in the demilitarized zone in Korea. I saw extreme hatred from two large groups of people just because of what they each believed. After seeing this, I realized that this world is not perfect because of what we believe and that God puts all of us through tests. So after I came home from the service, people were still coming to me with questions of faith that pushed me to study my own faith. I began again to read God's Word and to have faith and trust again in God's Word, which in turn gave me the integrity and principles to endure and know God's tests.

In the book of Job, Satan goes to God and tells God it is because you bless and protect him he (Job) praises you. Satan said if we take away his blessings, he will curse you. So all of Job's children died, and he lost everything. Now what did Job's sons and daughters do wrong to die? It mentions nothing, yet were not their lives important? Why? Many times God in His word makes it clear that life is only a test. Look at when God tested Abraham to offer Isaac.

Genesis 22:1–2 states,

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham! And he said, "Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell thee of.

My question is, So what did Isaac do to deserve this? He was going to be sacrificed just to prove Abraham's faith. Now back to Job, from Job 1:1–2:9, everything we may encounter we may never know the answer to some things. Why? Until we see God. Don't you think Isaac had a few questions for Abraham who was to be slain, so God provided the lamb in the thicket of the bushes. So Isaac's life was spared right to the brink of extinction. God stopped it. It was a test.

In the book of Job, what of Job's children and servants, and why did they perish in extreme situations so that Job's faith could be tested by Satan? Is that fair to the children? Job knew and believed in God; this is easily assumed in all his language. For instance, in Job 1:21, Job said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly (Job 1:22). (This makes it clear, that charging God with wrong, is wrong.)

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God and die. (Job 2:9)

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:10)

(To maintain integrity, we don't blame God in cursing Him.)

So is their understanding in all this? Do we walk away with wisdom? Job could have been filled with anger and opposition to understanding. Job could have cursed God, and that would have been extremely detrimental to Job's wisdom. For in wisdom, Job knew that God's path for him may not always be what Job wants. Sometimes good people suffer in the test of their loved ones or other things, but just for a moment. For Job knew that his redeemer (Jesus) lived. If Jesus was his redeemer and in control of all things, Job knew when he died and went before God his redeemer, that he was going to be blessed.

Many times you read over and over fear God. "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil" (Eccles. 12:13–14).

How are we to expect God the Father, being so loving toward us, yet we are to fear God. Job clarifies this apparent misconception in Job 28:28, which is And unto man he said, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." God gives instructions throughout the Bible in regards to our choices for life. In most, God uses Israel as an example for us. In Ezekiel 18:29–32, God says,

Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves and live ye.

We read in the book of Ecclesiastes 7:11–14:

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defence and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

God in verse 7:19–20 says, "Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not."

So to have wisdom and understanding is the greatest of all, for He has made us. Now even in troubles and fear, I rest easy knowing that my Redeemer lives. The creator of heaven and Earth is in charge. I shall go to be with my mother and father and grandmother, and I shall meet Job and his children. I will also meet my own two children who have passed. I shall be with them all. We know that to the righteous, to those who have suffered around us, because of our testing, we have not suffered in vain, for in Romans 8:28, it says, And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. And in John 6:47 God says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

Years ago, I remember one of the most compelling, amazing passages at the time to me was Matthew 1:17. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.

I was astonished at fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. Wow! What a coincidence, I