“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.
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Will it be when Nibiru in its elongated orbit
returns to our vicinity, and what will happen then?
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Will there be
darkness at noon and the Earth shall shatter?
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Will it be Peace on
Earth, or Armageddon?
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A Millennium of trouble and tribulations, or a
messianic Second Coming?
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Will it happen in 2012, or later, or not at
all?
These are profound questions that combine people’s deepest hopes and
anxieties with religious beliefs and expectations, 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 millennia 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?
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.
More than two millennia ago, Daniel of Old Testament fame repeatedly
asked the angels:
More than three centuries ago the famed Sir
Isaac Newton, who
elucidated the secrets of celestial motions, composed treatises on
the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel and the New Testament’s Book of
Revelation; his recently found handwritten calculations concerning
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 affairs 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