Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in the Year 2012 that will Reach its Apex in 2016?

Okay I must admit this is the first Thomas Horn book I've read. It's not because of a lack of interest in the subject but many of his titles came across as over-hyped and speculative. Having read many of the source books he cited I was both surprised and disappointed with his conclusions.Surprised:1. He had the backbone to tackle the issue of American Christian Politics. Is America a Christian Nation? Is there a difference between acknowledging a historical Jesus and true Biblical Christianity?2. Zenith 2016 is a virtual encyclopedia of occult knowledge and speculation from the original sources. Mr. Horn goes to great lengths to show you, in their own words, the meaning and symbolism of the world's oldest mystery religion.3. He briefly explains the symbolism of the "Stone" which the "builders" rejected.Disappointed:1. It was difficult to follow the transitions from facts to speculation.2. Mr. Horn (in my opinion) missed a great opportunity to connect the occult symbolism of the open eye to its origins in the Biblical record. (granted he may have covered the topic in other books)The serpent in Gen. 3 promises Adam and Eve that when they eat of the fruit their "eyes will be opened" and they would be "as gods". This premise is the very seed bed of secular humanistic enlightenment. Since that day the open eye has represented this Luciferian doctrine. The Greeks kept this idea alive with their term for serpent = ophis. Ophis comes from the same root as the Greek word for eye = ophthalmos. Both terms are linked with the idea of sight or seeing. In the book of Revelation, Satan is called a dragon and here again we see the connection to the book of Genesis. Dragon is the English word for the Greek drakon which means a great serpent. An alternate of the word is derkomai and it means to look or see. Dragon is used 13 times in the Bible.3. Regarding the Great Seal, Mr. Horn fails to mention that its designer Charles Thomson was likely the most knowledgeable Biblical scholar of early America. After his retirement Mr. Thomson gave the world the first English translation of the Septuagint as well as the first American English translation of the New Testament. This fact offers another dynamic to the design of the Great Seal.A good case can be made that Mr. Thomson, as a Biblical scholar, was identifying a symbolic struggle of Biblical proportions. In the first chapter of the New Testament a lineage of Jesus is expressed as 3 sets of 14 generations. If you list those generations on a piece of paper you will find there are only 41 names in the list. (14+14+13) The final column has only 13 names. It appears that the apostle Matthew represented Jesus as the 13th generation. After his death and resurrection he would have symbolically become the 14th generation. Now look at the great Seal again. If this symbol was meant to symbolize a Biblical metaphor then it shows that Jesus (the capstone - 14th generation) is being withheld or rejected by the "open eye" of Luciferian enlightenment. I wonder if this is a warning by Charles Thomson or an acknowledgement of intent.4. Mr. Horn's connection between 2012 and Zenith 2016 and the Second Coming is not based upon a strong Biblical foundation. Inherent in his speculation is the idea of a seven year tribulation (2012-2019). The problem with this theory is a seven year tribulation is not once mentioned in the Bible. The source for this well-known Biblical idea is the prophecy of Seventy Weeks found in Daniel 9. Unfortunately, Mr. Horn like most prophecy teachers today based his entire foundation of Daniel 9 on an Artaxerxes assumption. Without any reasonable Biblical evidence scholars claim Ezra and Nehemiah were contemporaries of Artaxerxes Longimanus. Even a cursory examination of the 2nd temple era chronology will show that this could not have been the case.5. On the symbolism of the number 13 Mr. Horn flavors it negatively with the thoughts of E.W. Bullinger and his well know book Number in Scripture. Mr. Horn fails to mention that later in the book Bullinger shows that the names of God are all factors of the number 13. The real symbolic significance of the number 13 may be that it represents man (6) and the divine (7). Jesus was YHWH come in the flesh. All others are Antichrists.Overall I found the book to be a great resource for knowledge on the symbolism and beliefs of ancient and modern day occultists. The history surrounding the occult design of our nation's capital was also worth learning about. On balance I am glad I purchased the book.

While an update and revision of the earlier work,  Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed , Tom adds enough material to make this read relevant again. Removing some of the speculations from the previous work (primarily those that didn't pan out), he adds a whole new realm of conspiratorial speculations, under-girded about with dateline and numerical correlations that are almost impossible to dismiss as mere coincidence. I love reading Tom Horn, although I do struggle with one aspect of his writing.One reviewer noted that it is sometimes difficult to determine when Horn has transitioned from the facts into speculation, and I would agree. Horn is a man of facts, and his machine-gun method of delivery can be overwhelming to atrophied minds like my own. I had hoped that he'd have learned from his work with Putnam to stop and take a breather from slinging facts by giving his reader a little more, in-depth, exposition. I know he's capable. Tom is a brilliant man in his own right. Tom, if you're reading this. Slow down. Give us fewer facts at a time, and invest a little more time in exposition. Give us time to chew our food before giving us another bite. If you've ever intellectually choked on a book, you will understand.If I may do some speculation myself, from listening to some of Tom's interviews, I glean that he is extremely extroverted. A man who's never met a stranger. I have noticed that when extroverts write, they tend to write fast. Combine that with the fact that Tom is an old-school AoG preacher, and this issue just compounds itself. Preachers learn to think and deliver their substance fast, for they know they have limited time holding their congregation's full mental facility before their butts start switching off their brains. Get to the point, and get there fast. Gotta be quick, if you want maximum intellectual absorption.By comparison, it is the introvert authors who give us one or two facts, and then gives us exposition and allows us time to adequately parse and process those facts before moving into tangents and rabbit-trails. Introverts live two lives, an external life, which they usually dislike, and a independent life in their mind, which is where they feel at home, and time is no object. This allows introverts to write with reserve, and take their time bringing their thoughts to fruition. Tom has no such reserve. Fast and furious is how I describe Tom's writing. Dense material. Full-force delivery with afterburners engaged.But, you can pour a 5-gallon bucket of water of a man who is severely dehydrated, and he is still likely to thirst to death. That is because more is less if it is delivered faster than the man can take it in.But, on the positive side, this is a book. You can lay it down and process the information as often as you like. You are not constrained by time. I found myself laying my Kindle aside every few page clicks, to think about what I'm reading.Speaking of Kindle, the Kindle version of this books seems a little hokey. A few spots even has a note to the editor about what to eliminate from the previous release. I would suggest going over and revising the Kindle edition and allowing it to update to Kindle owners who bought the Kindle version. Just my $0.02.All things considered, Tom is a brilliant writer and a great researcher. God willing, I will continue to read his work with zeal. Good job Tom.

I really like Tom Horn's style and his perspective. I would recommend him as an author to anyone wanting to learn more about these topics. I'm fairly new to Tom so I've only read Apollyon Rising, Petros Romanos and Exo-Vaticana, in addition to Zenith. Those who have read those might argue that Zenith is a repeat of many of the topics. While there he does indeed cover some of the same material, it didn't bother me at all. There is so much to connect that I cannot possibly retain it all from the previous reads. So a refresher/reminder is helpful. Plus it puts it in context of his thesis of Zenith.I will say this. I had been recommending people read Exo, then Petros, then Apollyon, but have now started recommending Zenith as a very good summation of Tom's research and conclusions. Then I'll recommend they go back and read his older ones for deeper dives into particular topics.Horn is thorough, yet balanced in his approach to these potentially divisive and alarming subjects.He's not an alarmist in the sense that he wants to stir fear. He does, however, seem to call his readers to a sober-minded examination of the research and his conclusions and take steps accordingly. Chief among them is to be sure that we each are pursuing our relationship with the Jesus of the Christian Bible. He's not "preachy" or in your face about it but given the fact that it is his faith that drives him, this is paramount.I would also recommend you watch some of Horn's videos. He's very articulate and informative. I cannot see a news article on the Pope or some new breakthrough in bio-technology without filtering it through what I've learned reading Tom Horn. If you are at all interested in the subjects of Tom's books, I think you'll benefit from this one.

This book is not quite what I expected including several references to the years 2012-2017 but by far the most content in the book is devoted to the occult connections of freemasonry and freemasonry in the history of America.It can therefore be a bit of a slog at times but is worth continuing to the end to get all the nuggets if, like me, you're primarily interested in end time predictions and time lines.

A well written and a very thought provoking book. Jam packed with information and references. Whether you believe or not is your choice but the evidence seems VERY clear to me. Loved it.Caroline

A very good service and a very good read. The author knows the subject well.

Vefy informative.

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