Nostrodamus, the famous French Doctor and God loving Prophet in France born 1503, died 1566. He has many amazing detailed prophesies that have been apparently correct. I am certain from much reading about him and his methods that he could of, as he said he could ( letter to son in Complete Book ), put times and dates on all his prohesies. But he wrote to his son that he didn't think it would be wise or safe. (However, he has used hidden codes to put more information in then is commonly recognized). There are many different key codes. One is the use of chapter/quatrain numbers. He didn't want to risk harm to himself or family. How interesting that we now know there are secret equidistant letter spacing codes of varying spacing for different words, that hide many amazing names, dates, etc., in the Original Hebrew Torah Bible. Some are the hour, day of he month, building name, State name, Bomber's name, many murdered , relating to the Oklahoma City Bombing. And many many more. We know from the Bible the Tribulation is 7 years. (Daniel 9:20-27). That we'll know the general time is near when ALL the prohecies appear within short time of each other. Nostrodamus saw July 1999 destruction of one or more cities. He says World War 3 will be well under way by November or December 1999. He sees Ted Kennedy becoming President and stopping a war already under way (2000 ? ). He sees in 2007, the dead rising up. Hmmmm. Could there be a reason for the similar lenghts of time = 7 years ? His words from chapter 10, verse 74 are the year seven of the great number being past, the shall be seen the sports of the ghostly sacrifice, not far fron the great age of the millennium, that the buried shall come out of their graves.  Later he says there will be 1000 years of peace after this war and natural castastrophe time is over. Hmmmm. Another coincidence ? 1000 years of peace...However, it seems to me the Bible indicates that when the Antichrist moves into Jerusalem's Temple, known from Biblical timespan notes to be at the 3 1/2 yr mark of a 7 year tribulation, then Jesus comes down and Raptures the dead believers then living believers. Then things relly start to cook when the 7 bowls of wrath are poured out . So this would seem to suggest the possibility that 2007 is the middle of the trib ( 2004 2011 ? ). Nostrodamus sees 1/4 of World population being vanquished (death or rapture ? ) at the turn of the century. The Bible says 1/4 of world population will be gone early in Tribulation. Isn't it interesting that the believers in Lord Jesus are estimated at aproximately 1/4 of World population. Nostrodamus says this lost 1/4 is the result of a hitherto unknown weapon .  It seems all areas and cities get it in the last years of trib. The early years seem but a few cities maybe, other then the area of middle east, Israel,etc. So, if the rapture is truly mid-rap (numerous Bible references mention the 7th trumpet as when the dead and living believers are risen, before the 7 bowls of wrath), you might want to consider possible ways of reducing the risk of suffering until the rapture, of as many as possible.  Yashua Homasheea Maranatha. Bless you and good luck. PS. Hal Lindsey, Grant Jefferys and many more Authors have great books out on proof of the Bible codes (God inspired), amazing other discoveries, the many prohecy smilarities happening together now, etc... I hope you consider them. [mod] To get a complete list of posts, go to: 'http://www.dejanews.com', [mod] and search for 'christnet.bible.revelation'. [mod] To reach the moderator, send email to: ' This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it '. [mod] Please checkout and post to the other 'christnet.*' groups as well.