The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return

318 Pages·2007·5.83 MB·English

by  Zecharia Sitchin

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ARMAGEDDON AND PROPHECIES
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Dedicated
to my brother
Dr. Amnon Sitchin,
whose aerospace expertise
was invaluable at all times
CONTENTS
Preface:
The Past, The Future v
1. The Messianic Clock 1
2. “And It Came to Pass” 19
3. Egyptian Prophecies, Human Destinies 33
4. Of Gods and Demigods 47
5. Countdown to Doomsday 63
6. Gone with the Wind 79
7. Destiny Had Fifty Names 97
8. In the Name of God 117
9. The Promised Land 136
10. The Cross on the Horizon 157
11. The Day of the Lord 177
12. Darkness at Noon 198
13. When the Gods Left Earth 224
14. The End of Days 250
15. Jerusalem: A Chalice, Vanished 268
16. Armageddon and Prophecies
of the Return 289
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Zecharia Sitchin
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
PREFACE:
THE PAST, THE FUTURE
“When will they return?”
I have been asked this question countless times by people
who have read my books, the “they” being the Anunnaki—
the extraterrestrials who had come to Earth from their planet
Nibiru and were revered in antiquity as gods. Will it be
when Nibiru in its elongated orbit returns to our vicinity,
and what will happen then? Will there be darkness at
noon and the Earth shall shatter? Will it be Peace on Earth,
or Armageddon? A Millennium of trouble and tribulations,
or a messianic Second Coming? Will it happen in 2012, or
later, or not at all?
These are profound questions that combine people’s deep-
est hopes and anxieties with religious beliefs and expecta-
tions, questions compounded by current events: wars in
lands where the entwined affairs of gods and men began;
the threats of nuclear holocausts; the alarming ferocity of
natural disasters. They are questions that I dared not answer
all these years—but now are questions the answers to which
cannot—must not—be delayed.
Questions about the Return, it ought to be realized, are not
new; they have inexorably been linked in the past—as they
are today—to the expectation and the apprehension of the
Day of the Lord, the End of Days, Armageddon. Four millen-
nia ago, the Near East witnessed a god and his son promising
Heaven on Earth. More than three millennia ago, king and
people in Egypt yearned for a messianic time. Two millennia
ago, the people of Judea wondered whether the Messiah had
appeared, and we are still seized with the mysteries of those
events. Are prophecies coming true?
vi PREFACE
We shall deal with the puzzling answers that were given,
solve ancient enigmas, decipher the origin and meaning
of symbols—the Cross, the Fishes, the Chalice. We shall
describe the role of space-related sites in historic events, and
show why Past, Present and Future converge in Jerusalem,
the place of the “Bond Heaven-Earth.” And we shall ponder
why it is that our current twenty-first century a.d. is so
similar to the twenty-first century b.c.e. Is history repeating
itself—is it destined to repeat itself? Is it all guided by a
Messianic Clock? Is the time at hand?
More than two millennia ago, Daniel of Old Testament
fame repeatedly asked the angels: When? When will be the
End of Days, the End of Time? More than three centuries
ago the famed Sir Isaac Newton, who elucidated the secrets
of celestial motions, composed treatises on the Old Testa-
ment’s Book of Daniel and the New Testament’s Book of
Revelation; his recently found handwritten calculations con-
cerning the End of Days will be analyzed, along with more
recent predictions of The End.
Both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament asserted
that the secrets of the Future are embedded in the Past, that
the destiny of Earth is connected to the Heavens, that the af-
fairs and fate of Mankind are linked to those of God and
gods. In dealing with what is yet to happen, we cross over
from history to prophecy; one cannot be understood without
the other, and we shall report them both. With that as our
guide, let us look at what is to come through the lens of what
had been. The answers will be certain to surprise.
Zecharia Sitchin
New York, November 2006
1
THE MESSIANIC CLOCK
Wherever one turns, humankind appears seized with Apoca-
lyptic trepidation, Messianic fervor, and End of Time anxiety.
Religious fanaticism manifests itself in wars, rebellions,
and the slaughter of “infidels.” Armies amassed by Kings of
the West are warring with armies of the Kings of the East. A
Clash of Civilizations shakes the foundations of traditional
ways of life. Carnage engulfs cities and towns; the high and
the mighty seek safety behind protective walls. Natural ca-
lamities and ever-intensifying catastrophies leave people
wondering: Has Mankind sinned, is it witnessing Divine
Wrath, is it due for another annihilating Deluge? Is this the
Apocalypse? Can there be—will there be—Salvation? Are
Messianic times afoot?
The time—the twenty-first century a.d.—or was it the
twenty-first century b.c.e.?
The correct answer is Yes and Yes, both in our own time
as well as in those ancient times. It is the condition of the
present time, as well as at a time more than four millennia
ago; and the amazing similarity is due to events in the middle
time in between—the period associated with the messianic
fervor at the time of Jesus.
Those three cataclysmic periods for Mankind and its
planet—two in the recorded past (circa 2100 b.c.e. and when
b.c.e. changed to a. d.), one in the nearing future—are inter-
connected; one has led to the other, one can be understood
only by understanding the other. The Present stems from the
Past, the Past is the Future. Essential to all three is Messi-
anic Expectation; and linking all three is Prophecy.
2 THE END OF DAYS
How the present time of troubles and tribulations will
end—what the Future portends—requires entering the realm
of Prophecy. Ours will not be a mélange of newfound pre-
dictions whose main magnet is fear of doom and End, but a
reliance upon unique ancient records that documented the
Past, predicted the Future, and recorded previous Messianic
expectations—prophesying the future in antiquity and, one
believes, the Future that is to come.
In all three apocalyptic instances—the two that had oc-
curred, the one that is about to happen—the physical and
spiritual relationship between Heaven and Earth was and re-
mains pivotal for the events. The physical aspects were ex-
pressed by the existence on Earth of actual sites that linked
Earth with the heavens—sites that were deemed crucial, that
were focuses of the events; the spiritual aspects have been
expressed in what we call Religion. In all three instances, a
changed relationship between Man and God was central, ex-
cept that when, circa 2100 b.c.e., Mankind faced the first of
these three epochal upheavals, the relationship was between
men and gods, in the plural. Whether that relationship has re-
ally changed, the reader will soon discover.
The story of the gods, the Anunnaki (“Those who from
heaven to Earth came”), as the Sumerians called them, be-
gins with their coming to Earth from Nibiru in need of gold.
The story of their planet was told in antiquity in the Epic of
Creation, a long text on seven tablets; it is usually considered
to be an allegorical myth, the product of primitive minds that
spoke of planets as living gods combating each other. But as
I have shown in my book The Twelfth Planet, the ancient text
is in fact a sophisticated cosmogony that tells how a stray
planet, passing by our solar system, collided with a planet
called Tiamat; the collision resulted in the creation of Earth
and its Moon, of the Asteroid Belt and comets, and in the
capture of the invader itself in a great elliptical orbit that
takes about 3,600 Earth-years to complete (Fig. 1).
It was, Sumerian texts tell, 120 such orbits—432,000
Earth-years—prior to the Deluge (the “Great flood”) that the
Anunnaki came to Earth. How and why they came, their first
The Messianic Clock 3
Figure 1
cities in the E.DIN (the biblical Eden), their fashioning of the
Adam and the reasons for it, and the events of the cata-
strophic Deluge—have all been told in The Earth Chronicles
series of my books, and will not be repeated here. But before
we time-travel to the momentous twenty-first century b.c.e.,
some pre-Diluvial and post-Diluvial landmark events need
to be recalled.
The biblical tale of the Deluge, starting in chapter 6 of
Genesis, ascribes its conflicting aspects to a sole deity, Yah-
weh, who at first is determined to wipe Mankind off the face
of the Earth, and then goes out of his way to save it through
Noah and the Ark. The earlier Sumerian sources of the tale
ascribe the disaffection with Mankind to the god Enlil, and
the countereffort to save Mankind to the god Enki. What the
Bible glossed over for the sake of Monotheism was not just
the disagreement between Enlil and Enki, but a rivalry and a
conflict between two clans of Anunnaki that dominated the
course of subsequent events on Earth.
That conflict between the two and their offspring, and the
Earth regions allocated to them after the Deluge, need to be
kept in mind to understand all that happened thereafter.
The two were half-brothers, sons of Nibiru’s ruler Anu;
their conflict on Earth had its roots on their home planet, Ni-
biru. Enki—then called E.A (“He whose home is water”)—
was Anu’s firstborn son, but not by the official spouse, Antu.
When Enlil was born to Anu by Antu—a half-sister of
Anu—Enlil became the Legal Heir to Nibiru’s throne though