Prophecy and science converge — Gary Wentz
See also The Biblical Age of Earth and The Broken Planet Model.
Key Date: April 13, 2029 | 28 Nisan 5993 | One Week After Passover | 7 years before 2036
I. THE NAME
Apophis is a meteor or asteroid that is going to pass very close to Earth in 2029 and again in 2036—as long as its course doesn’t change. But that is entirely possible.
They Named It After the Egyptian God of Chaos, Darkness, and Fire
When astronomers discovered asteroid 99942 in 2004, they named it after Apep — the ancient Egyptian serpentine deity of chaos, darkness, destruction, and fire. The Greek rendering of that name is Apophis. The Egyptians believed Apep was the enemy of the light, a creature that threatened to devour the sun itself. They chose this name because, for a brief period after discovery, this asteroid was calculated to have a 2.7% chance of striking the Earth in 2029 — the highest impact probability ever assigned to a known near-Earth object.
They named it after chaos. They had no idea how precisely they had chosen.
For students of Biblical prophecy, naming a potentially Earth-threatening asteroid after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction carries a resonance that is difficult to dismiss. It will pass closest to Earth on April 13, 2029: exactly one week after Passover ends. God’s people celebrate the deliverance from Egypt, and the enemy’s namesake arrives in the sky above them.
II. THE TECHNICAL FACTS
What We Know — The Technical Picture
Designation: 99942 Apophis (NEO / PHA — Near-Earth Object / Potentially Hazardous Asteroid)
Discovered: June 19, 2004 — Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
Size: ~340–375 meters (approx. 1,100 feet) across — peanut-shaped
Structure: Rubble pile breccia — ~40% porosity, loosely aggregated material
Spectral Class: Sq-class asteroid
Closest Analog: LL ordinary chondrite meteorites
Primary Minerals: Olivine and pyroxene
Iron Composition: 19–22% total iron, predominantly as iron oxide (FeO / Fe₂O₃)bound in silicates
Color Implication: Reddish — iron oxide is rust
Close Approach Date: April 13, 2029 — 21:46 UT (5:46 PM EDT)
Closest Distance: ~31,600 km (19,600 miles) from Earth’s surface
Comparison: Inside the geostationary satellite belt (35,786 km) — closer than hundreds of active satellites
isible to naked eye: Yes — magnitude ~3.1, visible across Europe, Africa, and Western Asia
Tidal Effect: Earth’s gravity will alter Apophis’s spin state and orbital trajectory during the pass
Post-Pass Monitoring: NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will rendezvous with Apophis in June 2029
To put the distance in perspective: 31,600 kilometers is one-tenth the distance to the Moon. It is five times Earth’s radius. The International Space Station orbits at roughly 400 km. Apophis will pass at 79 times that altitude — far enough to miss us, close enough that Earth’s gravity will measurably reshape the asteroid’s future path.
This is the closest approach of an asteroid this size, with advance notice, in all of recorded history. It will be watched by every space agency on the planet. Millions will see it with the naked eye as it streaks across the night sky of the Eastern Hemisphere. There has never been an event like this in the human era.
III. THE COMPOSITION
Iron Oxide — The Red Substance
Spectroscopic analysis classifies Apophis as an Sq-class asteroid whose closest meteorite analog is the LL ordinary chondrite — Low total iron, Low metal. The designation is somewhat misleading. “Low iron” refers to the low content of metallic iron. The total iron content is 19–22% by composition. The critical detail is what form that iron takes:
LL Chondrite Iron Chemistry
In LL chondrites, only 0.3–3% of the iron exists as metallic iron. The rest — the vast majority — is present as iron oxide (FeO and Fe₂O₃) bound in silicate minerals, particularly in olivine (26–32 mol% fayalite).
Iron oxide is rust. It is red. It is what makes Mars red. It is what gives the surface of many asteroids and meteorites their characteristic reddish-brown appearance.
When iron oxide particulate contacts water at scale — particularly saltwater — it rapidly colors the water red-brown. It disrupts ocean chemistry. It drops pH through the formation of iron hydroxide compounds. It is toxic to marine organisms at sufficient concentration. The ocean does not merely look like blood. It behaves like a contaminated medium hostile to life.
John saw what he saw. He described it in the vocabulary available to him in the first century: “the sea became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.”
This is not speculation imposed on the text. It is the plain reading of a first-century eyewitness account of a vision, cross-referenced with the known mineralogy of an asteroid that will pass closer to Earth than our own satellites — an asteroid whose closest meteorite analog is classified by its iron oxide content, whose color is red, and whose name means chaos.
IV. THE PASSOVER CONNECTION
Passover, the Great Sabbath, and the 28th of Nisan
The Calendar Facts — 2029
Passover 2029 (Pesach): Begins sundown Friday, March 30 — ends sundown Saturday, April 7 (Diaspora: April 7; Israel: April 6)
The Great Sabbath (Shabbat HaGadol): The Sabbath immediately before Passover — March 29, 2029. In Jewish tradition, this is the Sabbath on which Moses told Israel to prepare the Passover lamb — the last Sabbath before the first Exodus.
Apophis closest approach: April 13, 2029 — 28 Nisan 5993 (my year)
Gap between end of Passover and Apophis pass: Six to seven days — one week in the Hebrew reckoning.
The timing is layered. The week of Passover commemorates God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt — from the land of the Pharaohs, from the shadow of a civilization that worshiped, among other things, the sun, the Nile, and Apep, the god of chaos. The ten plagues of Egypt were not random catastrophes. They were a systematic dismantling of the Egyptian pantheon, delivered one by one, each plague targeting a god the Egyptians worshiped. The Nile turned to blood. The sun went dark. The firstborn died.
In 2029, the week after Passover ends, an asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos will pass closer to Earth than our own satellites. It is reddish. It is composed largely of iron oxide. It is a rubble pile — loosely held together — subjected to tidal forces from Earth’s gravity during its pass. And it is heading into a gravitational influence zone that could alter its trajectory for decades to come.
V. THE REVELATION CONNECTION
The Trumpets, the Bowls, and the Plain Meaning
The following analysis is from End Times Made Easy (Gary Wentz, 2019), written with Apophis in mind throughout — though the name was deliberately withheld from the text. The framework precedes the composition data. The composition data arrived in April 2026 and confirmed what was already written. The relevant trumpet and bowl pairings are presented as written:
FIRST TRUMPET — REVELATION 8:7
Fire, Hail, Blood
“There followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up.”
FIRST BOWL — REVELATION 16:2
Sores on Marked Men
“Harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.”
From End Times Made Easy: “If the 1st bowl is a completion of the 1st trumpet, then we could surmise that the 1st trumpet describes a truly massive meteor shower upon the earth, unlike any ever seen before. These meteorites would have the following properties: fire… a reddish composition, which may be flammable and caustic. I say caustic because of the 1st bowl — ‘sores came upon people.'”
SECOND TRUMPET — REVELATION 8:8–9
Mountain Into the Sea
“Something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.”
SECOND BOWL — REVELATION 16:3
The Sea as Blood
“The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.”
From End Times Made Easy: “As modern folks, we can see this as a large meteor impacting the ocean somewhere. Again, its composition would include a substance that is red in color and caustic to life forms… massive tsunamis would impact shorelines on at least two continents.”
THIRD TRUMPET — REVELATION 8:10–11
Wormwood — Bitter Waters
“A great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water… many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.”
THIRD BOWL — REVELATION 16:4
Rivers to Blood
“The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.”
From End Times Made Easy: “The large meteor in this vision seems to be just like the other one that hit the sea. Only this time it impacts the land and possibly poisons the fresh water… If that debris is caustic (like acid rain), it very well could affect a huge area — a third of the world.”
The framework above was written in 2019. The iron oxide composition of Apophis was learned by the author’s analysis in April 2026. The author did not know the composition when writing End Times Made Easy.
VI. THE SHOTGUN MODEL
Not Two Pieces — A Shotgun Blast
Apophis is classified as a rubble pile breccia — not a solid rock but a loosely aggregated collection of material held together by gravity and weak cohesion, with approximately 40% empty space by volume. Many LL chondrites are already breccias — pre-fractured aggregates. The Chelyabinsk meteorite, which injured 1,500 people when it exploded over Russia in 2013, was also an LL chondrite.
A rubble pile under tidal stress does not split cleanly like a cut diamond. It behaves like a shotgun shell. When structural cohesion fails — whether from tidal force during the 2029 pass, satellite collision, or deliberate intervention — the result is two major consolidated masses separating on divergent trajectories, plus an enormous debris field of material ranging from building-sized fragments down to gravel and fine particulate. All of it is iron oxide-rich. All of it is reddish and caustic. All of it enters Earth’s gravity well on return trajectories determined by the fragmentation geometry of 2029.
Apophis has an estimated mass of approximately 27 billion kilograms. In a rubble pile fragmentation, a significant portion of that mass disperses as distributed debris — not two pieces, but two large pieces and a massive cloud of smaller ones spanning a wide range of sizes. This single fact accounts for the entire trumpet sequence from one parent body:
The Trumpets — One Event, Described in Sequence by a First-Century Witness
John received the visions one at a time. That is how visions work — one image, one angel, one frame at a time. The order of reception does not establish the order of events. The impacts themselves — ocean fragment, continental fragment, debris scatter — originate from the same fragmentation event in 2029 and arrive in 2036 within whatever window their divergent orbital paths produce. They may arrive within hours or days of each other. They may be effectively simultaneous. The shotgun fires once. Everything leaves the barrel together.
First Trumpet — Simultaneous with the impacts.
The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were thrown down on the earth. One-third of the earth was set on fire, one-third of the trees were burned, and all the green grass was burned. (Revelation 8:7)
The debris scatter — every size class from building-sized fragments to fine particulate — hits across a third of the earth. Iron oxide everywhere. Hail and fire mixed with blood. Trees burning. Grass gone. Caustic material on skin produces sores on the exposed. Not a precursor event. The same event, described separately because John saw it separately.
Second Trumpet — Simultaneous.
Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed. (Revelation 8:8-9)
The ocean fragment strikes. Red, iron oxide-rich water. Marine life dies. Ships destroyed by tsunamis. The sea becomes like the blood of a corpse. Happening at the same time the land is being hit and the debris is falling.
Third Trumpet — Simultaneous.
Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch. It fell on one-third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star was Bitterness [Wormwood]. It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the bitter water. (Revelation 8:10-11)
The continental fragment strikes. Wormwood. Fresh water contaminated across a vast area. Bitter, lethal. Iron silicate chemistry. Happening at the same moment as the ocean impact and the scatter.
Fourth Trumpet — This one is downstream.
Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and one-third of the sun was struck, and one-third of the moon, and one-third of the stars, and they became dark. And one-third of the day was dark, and also one-third of the night. (Revelation 8:12)
Atmospheric obscuration blocks out the sun, moon and stars. It is not instantaneous. Particulate, sulfur compounds, and ejecta require time to distribute through the atmosphere. The sky does not go dark the moment something hits — it goes dark in the days and weeks following, as the debris spreads globally. The Fourth Trumpet is the physical consequence of the first three—the literal fallout of the other trumps. It follows them in time, not just in John’s vision order. A third of the sun, moon, and stars give no light. Impact winter. The physics are real.
Fifth Trumpet — Entirely separate. Different mechanism. Its own clock. See below.
Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke. (Revelation 9:1-2)
The locust attack is the only event with a time or duration attached—5 months, 150 days. So that is what I use for the length of God’s wrath. Could it be 6 months? Could it be fewer? God is the One Who is in charge, not me. But Jesus has told us what to expect. So I take him at His Word.
VII. THE GROUND TRACK — WHO WATCHES
What It Passes Over — And Why That Matters
At closest approach on April 13, 2029 at 21:46 UT, Apophis’ subpoint — the point on Earth’s surface directly beneath the asteroid — is in the region of the Caspian Sea, passing over southern Russia and Kazakhstan. The visible zone for naked-eye observation covers southwest Europe and northwest Africa immediately before closest approach, then the broader Eastern Hemisphere.
It will pass over the kingdom of the enemy (Magog), which is between the Caspian and Black Seas. Is this one of the “hooks in the jaws” of antichrist that Ezekiel mentions? (Ezekiel 38:4)
The Nations — All Watching on the Same Night
Subpoint at closest approach: Caspian Sea region — the territory identified in most scholarship as Magog, the land of Gog. The asteroid passes closest to Earth essentially overhead of the antichrist’s territory.
Persia (Iran): Visible. Western Asia, primary viewing zone. Named in Ezekiel 38:5.
Egypt: Visible. North Africa, primary viewing zone. The civilization that worshiped Apep.
Israel: Visible. Naked-eye visible from Jerusalem. God’s people watch it pass.
Turkey, Russia, the Arabian Peninsula: All visible. All named or implied in Ezekiel 38.
Every nation Scripture names as a participant in the final conflict will watch this object pass overhead on the same night — one week after the feast that commemorates their common origin story. The antichrist watches it pass over his own territory. Israel watches it pass over their skies. The God of the Exodus arranges the seating.
Whatever effect this event produces — psychological, political, spiritual — it occurs in full view of the world’s key End Times players simultaneously. Whether it serves as a deception catalyst, a sign of power, or a perceived alien threat requiring global unity, the stage is set. God does not hide His instruments. He displays them and waits to see what men do with what they see.
VIII. 2036 — THE FRAGMENTS RETURN INSIDE THE FEAST
2036: During Passover Itself
In 2029, Apophis passes one week after Passover ends — 28 Nisan, the week immediately following the feast.
In 2036 — the year this AM chronology places at 6000 AM, the threshold of the Millennial Sabbath — the calendar shifts decisively:
Passover 2036 — The Feast and the Return
Passover 2036 begins: Sundown Friday, April 11 — 15 Nisan 5796
Passover 2036 ends: April 19 (Diaspora) / April 18 (Israel)
April 13, 2036: 16 Nisan 5796 — the second day of Passover itself
The Great Sabbath (Shabbat HaGadol) 2036: April 5 — one week before Passover begins
In 2029 the object passes after the feast. In 2036 the fragments — if they return — arrive inside the feast. Not before. Not after. During the days Israel is commanded to remember the Exodus, to eat unleavened bread, to recall the blood on the doorposts and the night the destroyer passed over.
In the original Passover, God’s judgment passed over His people and fell on Egypt. In 2036, God’s wrath instruments arrive during that same feast — not passing over the whole earth, but targeting it with precision, while His people have already been gathered to Him at day 1,335.
The Passover lamb was slain at 14 Nisan. The blood was on the doorposts. The destroyer passed over. In 2036, something arrives at 16 Nisan — during the feast — and this time it does not pass over. It lands. God’s wrath does not spare what the blood of the first Passover could not cover: a world that rejected His Son and followed the son of perdition.
IX. THE DAY COUNTS — DANIEL’S 150 DAYS
The 150-Day Structure of God’s Wrath
Daniel gives three day counts that bracket the end of the age. They produce a total post-Great Trib duration whose number matches two other Scriptural periods of divine judgment with exact precision.
1,260 days: The Great Tribulation ends. Satan’s 42-month rampage concludes. The Apophis fragmentation impacts arrive — ocean and land simultaneously, debris scatter across a third of the earth. The cosmic signs follow as physical consequence: the atmosphere loads with particulate, the sky begins to darken. Matthew 24:29: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days…” The sun goes dark, the moon gives no light, the stars fall — not at the instant of impact but in the days following, as impact winter sets in. The signs are immediate in the context of the tribulation. The physics take days.
1,290 days: 30 days later. A massive earthquake — triggered by the seismic wave from the continental Apophis fragment — travels through the Arabian plate and releases the Dead Sea Transform fault. The Mount of Olives splits east to west (Zechariah 14:4). The Abomination of Desolation — the statue in the Temple — falls into the newly opened valley. God removes it not by human hand but by the geology He designed at the Flood and loaded for six thousand years.
1,335 days: 45 days after the earthquake. Daniel 12:12: “Blessed is he who waits and reaches the 1,335th day.” The resurrection of the dead in Christ. The rapture of the living. The gathering of the elect is complete. The Seventh Trumpet sounds. Christ is visible in the sky (has been for 75 days, actually). This is when the rapture actually happens—halfway through the 150 days of God’s wrath. That is when the number of saints is sealed and no one else can join in the number.
Day 1,260 to day 1,335 = 75 days. Day 1,335 to the end of Armageddon and the start of the Millennium = another 75 days. Total post-GT period of God’s wrath: 150 days.
150 — God’s Wrath Signature
Genesis 7:24: “The floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.” God’s first global judgment lasted 150 days.
Revelation 9:5: The Fifth Trumpet locusts torment men for five months — 150 days. One judgment within the wrath period carries the same duration as the wrath period itself.
Daniel 12: The total post-GT period from day 1,260 to the start of the Millennium = 150 days.
The number is not coincidental. It is structural. It is God’s wrath signature — the same duration applied to the Flood, embedded within the Trumpet judgments, and governing the total length of the final wrath period. He used it before. He will use it again. At the same scale.
On “immediately” in Matthew 24:29 — the Greek eutheos means straightaway, without delay. The 30-day gap between the GT ending (day 1,260) and the earthquake (day 1,290) does not contradict this. “Immediately” describes the onset of the cosmic signs — the darkening, the stars falling — which begin at day 1,260 with the debris field’s arrival and the atmospheric loading that follows. Those signs are immediate. The earthquake is 30 days into those signs — still within the same unbroken sequence of judgment. Thirty days is immediate in the context of a seven-year tribulation.
150 days — the Flood.
150 days — the Fifth Trumpet locust judgment.
150 days — the total duration of God’s final wrath.
IX-B. THE FIFTH TRUMPET — A SEPARATE MECHANISM
The Locust Judgment — Not Necessarily Impact Related
Stepping back for a moment, the Fifth Trumpet stands apart from the first four in every meaningful way. It has its own explicit duration — five months, 150 days (Revelation 9:5). It has its own commander — Abaddon/Apollyon, the angel of the Abyss. Its mechanism is entirely biological, not celestial. And its origin is underground, not overhead.
These are not insects raining down from above. They come up from below.
“He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth…” (Revelation 9:2–3)
“Like smoke” — John reaches for the nearest visual analogy for something he has no category for. A billion creatures pouring out of a crack in the earth would look exactly like smoke rising — a dense, dark, swirling column of living organisms. He saw the shape and the movement and called it smoke. Plain meaning applied to the description of something unprecedented.
What Are They?
The description in Revelation 9 is precise and composite: faces like humans, hair like women, teeth like lions, breastplates like iron, tails like scorpions with stingers, wings whose sound is like chariots rushing into battle. John is listing features because the whole does not match anything he knows. He is doing field identification of an unknown species in real time.
The best candidate from known biology is an offshoot of the vinegaroon lineage — the order Thelyphonida, whip scorpions. Surface species already exhibit: an arachnid body plan that is part scorpion, part insect in visual appearance; a whip tail (modifiable to a stinger in an isolated lineage); cave-dwelling behavior as a natural tendency; a chemical defense mechanism (acid spray in surface species — modifiable to venom in an isolated strain); and global distribution across every inhabited continent already. They exist in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. The base species is already there, already underground-trending, already on every landmass that matters.
How They Got There — The Plain Answer
They came off the Ark. Noah preserved two. They were a known but perhaps unknown surface creature in the post-Flood world.
They found the dark. No dramatic event required. Cave-dwelling is already their tendency. At some point — a local geological event, a seismic shift, a sinkhole collapse, any of the post-Flood crustal adjustments the BPM predicts — populations on multiple continents were sealed into underground chamber systems. Not through gradual migration over generations. Sealed. The world above moved on and forgot them entirely.
Approximately 4,300 years of isolation. In total darkness. In whatever ecosystem exists in deep geological chambers. Under selective pressure unlike anything on the surface. The result is a creature that retains enough of its original body plan for John and Joel to reach for “locust” as the nearest category — but has diverged enough that neither writer can describe it as anything they recognize whole. They list its parts because the whole has no name.
The human-face quality. The mantis is the only common surface insect whose forward-facing eyes and triangular head reads as a face looking back at you. A cave-adapted lineage with enlarged sensory structures — developed for navigating total darkness — could produce exactly this quality in a vinegaroon-family creature whose sensory appendages have grown forward-facing over 4,300 years of adaptation.
The seismic event that triggers their release is the same event that splits the Mount of Olives on day 1,290. The continental Apophis impact sends seismic waves through every major plate system on earth. Deep geological chambers that have been sealed for 4,300 years crack open simultaneously (on multiple continents?). The creatures pour out. John sees the column and calls it smoke. Abaddon commands them. They target only the unsealed — a biological army under supernatural direction, selecting its targets with precision no natural swarm behavior can explain.
Their 150-day meter is their own. It does not overlap with the impact events. It does not overlap with the atmospheric darkening. It runs its own clock — five months of torment without death. God’s wrath has layers. Each layer has its own instrument. The celestial bombs are one instrument. The locust army is another. They are not the same event.
X. THE EARTHQUAKE — DAY 1,290
The Mount of Olives, the Dead Sea Transform, and Day 1,290
Zechariah 14:4 is specific: “On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.”
First, this is not saying that Jesus’ feet will break open the mount (as I’ve heard some teach). And he is not saying “day” as in a 24 hour period. He is talking of the time of the end events.
Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. And the Mount of Olives will split apart, making a wide valley running from east to west. Half the mountain will move toward the north and half toward the south. You will flee through this valley, for it will reach across to Azal. Yes, you will flee as you did from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. (Zechariah 14:3-5)
Mentioning an earthquake is not reaching for just some catastrophic event. He meant an earthquake is what they will get. I see this earthquake as being what divides the city and topples the statue of antichrist.
The direction matters. The Dead Sea Transform fault runs north to south through Israel — it is the boundary between the Arabian and African plates, the same fault system responsible for every major historical earthquake in the region including those recorded by Josephus and the catastrophic 749 AD event that destroyed cities across the Levant. A primary fault rupture produces displacement parallel to its orientation — north-south.
An east-west split requires a secondary fault activation or a stress-induced perpendicular rupture. This is precisely what occurs when a massive external seismic event delivers energy from an unexpected vector, loading the fault system in a direction outside its normal stress axis. A continental Apophis fragment impact in the broader Middle East region delivers exactly this: a seismic wave propagating through the Arabian plate, arriving at the Dead Sea Transform from the east or south, inducing stress perpendicular to the fault’s primary orientation. The result is an east-west rupture through the Mount of Olives — perpendicular to the transform, exactly as Zechariah describes.
The Abomination of Desolation stands in the Temple on the Temple grounds. The earthquake of day 1,290 is not a moderate tremor. It is the result of a seismic event triggered by a multi-gigaton impact. The mountain tears. The valley opens. The statue falls into it. God removes the Abomination not by a priest, not by an army, not by any human agency — by the geology He designed at the Flood, loaded over six thousand years, and releases on the precise day Daniel recorded centuries before the fault existed in its current form.
The Great Earthquake
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. And a mighty shout came from the throne in the Temple, saying, “It is finished!” Then the thunder crashed and rolled, and lightning flashed. And a great earthquake struck—the worst since people were placed on the earth. The great city of Babylon split into three sections, and the cities of many nations fell into heaps of rubble. So God remembered all of Babylon’s sins, and he made her drink the cup that was filled with the wine of his fierce wrath. And every island disappeared, and all the mountains were leveled. There was a terrible hailstorm, and hailstones weighing as much as seventy-five pounds fell from the sky onto the people below. They cursed God because of the terrible plague of the hailstorm. (Revelation 16:17-21)
Jesus stood on the Mount of Olives when He gave the Olivet Discourse — describing the end while standing on the mountain that would mark it. He ascended from that mountain (Acts 1:9). The angels told the disciples He would return the same way He left. He will stand on it again. When He does, the fault beneath it will already be open, the valley already formed, the Abomination already gone — removed by the hand of the God who set the instrument of its removal in orbit before the foundation of the world and timed its arrival to the day.
XI. THE ANGLES OF POSSIBILITY
Who Could Make This Happen
The convergence of factors surrounding Apophis opens multiple angles of possibility — none of which are mutually exclusive, all of which are consistent with how Scripture presents God’s sovereign use of history:
God’s Design
Apophis is either a byproduct of the Flood, or it was made especially for this purpose. Either way, its trajectory brings it to this precise proximity at this precise moment in human history — one week after Passover, in the season of the Great Sabbath, at a point in the AM chronology that places us within decades of 6,000 years of human history. He does not need anyone’s help. He may simply use what He already made, right on schedule.
Man’s Capability
The close approach will be the most intensely observed astronomical event in history. Every space agency on Earth will have instruments pointed at Apophis. A satellite impact — whether accidental due to the crowded geostationary zone, or deliberate — is not beyond human capability or the odds as things are right now. NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft is already programmed to rendezvous with Apophis after the pass. The technology to interact with this object exists. The motives one could imagine for a deliberate interaction are exactly what Scripture describes: a crisis large enough to justify the centralization of global authority under a single powerful figure offering protection and order.
Did you catch that? Apophis could be used to bring about world domination. And with 7 years in the balance, it will happen. But that is what prophecy is all about.
The Enemy’s Agenda
Satan does not create asteroids. But he does work with what exists. If Apophis’ 2029 pass could be manipulated — through a satellite strike, through human actors under his influence — to produce fragmentation and a return trajectory producing impact, the resulting global chaos would be the ideal environment for the emergence of the figure Scripture calls the Antichrist. A world facing extinction-level impact has seven years of warning. That is precisely the window of the Tribulation. The panic, the political consolidation, the desperate search for a savior — all of it follows naturally.
The enemy named this asteroid after his own mythology. Or perhaps God allowed the name, knowing what it would mean to those with eyes to see.
XII. THE PROPHETIC TIMELINE
How This Fits the Larger Framework
From the chronological study The Age of the Earth (Gary Wentz), the following prophetic timeline is established from Scripture and AM dating:
2026 AD ~ 5,995 AM (not knowing how inaccurate the AD timeline is)
Present Day
Five years from the 6,000 AM threshold. The chronology from Adam is confirmed and corrected. Two independent calculation paths converge on 2036 as the 6,000 AM marker.
2029 AD
Apophis Pass Over / Ezekiel 38 Falsifiable Marker
April 13: Apophis passes at 31,600 km — inside the geostationary belt. Per Ezekiel 38:11, Israel must be dwelling in false security by this point for the Gog invasion timeline to be valid. This is the independently established falsifiable marker for the eschatological framework.
2029–2036
The Tribulation Period
Seven years from the Gog invasion / peace covenant through the Great Tribulation, God’s Wrath, the Return of Christ, the Resurrection, the Rapture, and Armageddon. The day counts of Daniel and Revelation fit within this window.
~2036 AD ~ 6,000 AM
The 6,000 AM Threshold — The Great Sabbath Begins
Six thousand years of fallen-world human history, mirroring the six days of creation. The seventh day — the Millennium — is the great Sabbath rest. Rest from sin, death, the curse, and Satan, who is bound for one thousand years (Revelation 20:2–3).
2036–3036
The Millennium
The thousand-year reign of Christ. The seventh “day” of human history. The great Sabbath rest — not merely metaphorical but literal relief from the presence and interference of the adversary.
The creation week is the pattern. Six days of labor, one day of rest. Peter writes: “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8). Psalm 90:4 establishes the same ratio. Six thousand years of human history under the curse. One thousand years of Millennial rest. Then the New Creation — the eternal Sabbath without end.
The 2029 Apophis pass sits at exactly the year identified as the Ezekiel 38 falsifiable marker — and seven years from the 6,000 AM threshold. This is not adjusted to fit. It was calculated independently from two separate methodologies before these convergences were noticed.
XIII. A NOTE ON THE “DAY AND HOUR”
What This Report Does Not Claim
Jesus said: “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matthew 24:36).
This statement is taken literally and in context. Jesus, speaking during His earthly ministry, had voluntarily set aside the exercise of His divine omniscience — the Son, in His humbled state of incarnation, did not know the day or the hour. He was not being evasive. He was being precise. The Father held that specific knowledge. It had not been released.
This report does not predict ‘the day or hour’ of the Lord’s return. It does not dogmatically claim 2029 is the year the Tribulation begins. I could be wrong. It does not assert that Apophis WILL impact the Earth. I could be wrong. What it does is observe: a reddish, iron oxide-rich, rubble pile asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos will pass closer to Earth than our own satellites (meaning it goes through their many paths) exactly one week after Passover 2029, at a point in the AM chronology that places us within seven years of the 6,000-year threshold established by the Biblical genealogies — a threshold that corresponds, in the creation-week pattern, to the beginning of the Millennial Sabbath.
Imagine me seeing all of these converging details and NOT saying something. I had to mention it, no matter what. It’s worth looking at.
These things are observed. They are not manufactured. The Father sets the day and the hour. This report simply reads the record He left.
XIV. CLOSING OBSERVATIONS
What to Do With This
The convergence documented in this report was not assembled to be sensational. It emerged from two independent lines of inquiry — Biblical chronology (eschatological framework), and asteroid science — that were not constructed to intersect. They intersected anyway.
The iron oxide composition of Apophis was unknown to this author when the trumpet and bowl analysis was written in 2019. It was confirmed in April 2026 in a research session that corrected a five-year error in the Biblical chronology — an error whose correction moved the 6,000 AM threshold from 2036 to 2031, off but still very close to the original prediction. And the error is due to the condition of the AD/CE timeline, not the Bible’s as shown here.
On Science
For those who cannot engage with this material because of the claims of secular science regarding the age of the earth — billions of years, deep time, a universe without a Creator — my book The Broken Planet Model presents a falsifiable, scientifically coherent framework that accounts for the physical evidence without surrendering the Biblical timeline of 6,000 years actual history for Earth. True science and Scripture are not at war when both are handled honestly.
Watch April 13, 2029. Watch it with understanding.
FOR THE RECORD: I believe that we will see Apophis break up as it passes our planet. It will have two large fragments and hundreds to thousands of smaller ones. I have absolutely NO evidence for this gut feeling. If it happens (through some unseen cause) the pieces are caustic and will turn water red and poisonous. I predict that one of these large pieces will hit land and the other will hit sea in 2036. But this will only happen if Israel is at peace in 2029, as foretold in Ezekiel 38. Then, when the fractured Apophis returns 7 years later, it will have changed its trajectory enough to be a collision hazard in the form of a shotgun blast. When this is apparent to all in 2029, it will likely spur on the End Times events with an invasion into Israel from the area of Turkey in the North. When we see the construction of the third temple in Jerusalem, we will know that the tribulation has already begun.
I have no idea what would cause the breakup and the change in trajectory from “miss” to “hit” with Earth. Either way, when we see Apophis breakup in 2029, look out for 2036 when the fragmented thing returns. If this doesn’t happen then it will mean that we have more time. I do not claim that God gave me this gut feeling. Maybe it’s gas. What I do know is if Israel is attacked by a new leader from the North who is aligned with the right nations and 295 days later the temple is constructed, then we will be in the tribulation. 295 days in.
If you are in the Lord and His Spirit is in you, have no fear. Otherwise, you have a few years left to get right with God through Jesus. Then it will be too late (summer of ’36?). Really, who knows? I know how the Word says it will happen, but pinning that to actual days and peeps is another story.
For more on the End Times, read End Times Made Easy and Sheep To Nations, by yours truly. No charge while supplies last. Just follow the links.
For you and not against,
Gary
