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I'LL BE LISTENING FOR THE TRUMPET ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS
By Marilyn Agee, posted 8-12-08, updated 8-12-08
Jesus was born into this world on Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets. Since he is the Head of the Body of Christ, will the entire Body be born into a new world on Tishri 1?
The Pre-Trib Rapture is at the time of the first "trump of God". I Thess. 4:16,17 says, "the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with THE TRUMP OF GOD: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
The Pre-Wrath Rapture is at the time of the "last trump" of God. I Cor. 15:51-53 says, "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at THE LAST TRUMP: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
Maybe the Pre-Trib Rapture (one leg of the Body of Christ) will be on Tishri 1, 5759 (Sept. 30, 2008), and the Pre-Wrath Rapture (the other leg of the Body of Christ) will be born into a new world on Tishri 1, 5776 (Monday, Sept. 14, 2015).
Perry Stone has likened the Rapture to Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets, when the dove Noah sent out did not return. He may be right.
Mt. 24:3 says, "as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Mt 3:16 says, "Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him".
The Holy Spirit will be taken out of the way at the Rapture. 2Thess 2:7,8 says, "he (the Holy Spirit, who is symbolized by a dove) who now letteth will let (Old English for hindereth will hinder), until he be taken out of the way (at the Rapture). And then shall that Wicked be revealed".
Perry thinks that when the waters were dried up from off the earth, it represented the Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets.
Gen 8:12,13 says, "yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove (symbol of the Holy Spirit); which returned not again unto him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the FIRST MONTH, the FIRST DAY of the month (Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets), the waters (another symbol of the Holy Spirit) were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry."
Since the 2nd Rapture is on the Feast of Trumpets that ends the shortened Tribulation, the 1st Rapture could be on the Feast of Trumpets too. Certain events cast their shadows before them.
Psa 55:6 says, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest."
Song of Solomon 2:13-15 says, "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." The grape harvest starts on Av 15, Tu B' Av, a happy day. The vintage is in Tishri.
Micah 7:1 says, "Woe is me! for I am as (symbolic language) WHEN THEY HAVE GATHERED THE SUMMER FRUITS, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: MY SOUL DESIRED THE FIRSTRIPE FRUIT."
The firstripe fruit is the key. When is the firstripe fruit? The spies entered the promised land on Sivan 30 (July 3, in 2008). It was the time of the firstripe grapes. By Tishri 1 (Sept. 30 in 2008), the vintage is in full swing.
This upcoming Tishri 1 will be on Tuesday, the 3rd day of the week. That may be important too. Ex 19:11 says, "And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai." That could be a type of the Rapture, because that was the first time the trumpet was mentioned in the Bible. The trumpet sounded at Sinai and it will sound at the Rapture (I Thess. 4:16,17).
Ex 19:16 says, "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled."
2Ki 20:5 says, "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: ON THE THIRD DAY THOU SHALT GO UP UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD." That sure sounds like the Rapture could be on the 3rd day.
2Ki 20:9-11 says, "Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz."
Esther 5:1,2 says, "Now it came to pass on the THIRD DAY, that Esther (meaning star) put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre."
In Hosea 6:2, Israel says, "After two days will he revive us: IN THE THIRD DAY HE WILL RAISE US UP, AND WE SHALL LIVE IN HIS SIGHT."
John 2:1 says, "the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee". That's when Jesus made water wine.
In Mt 26:29, Jesus said, "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." That could suggest the Rapture during grape harvest.
"WHEN HE BLOWETH A TRUMPET, HEAR YE"
By Marilyn Agee, posted 8-6-08
Isa 18:1-7 (KJV) says, 1 "WOE to the land shadowing with wings (of whirring locusts), which is beyond the rivers (nahar, streams, including the sea and the Nile River) of Ethiopia:
2 "That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation (goy, foreign nation, i.e., Iraq) scattered and peeled, to a people terrible (yare, feared) from their beginning (i.e., 1st from the Tower of Babel, 2nd from Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon) hitherto; a nation meted out (measured) and trodden down, whose land the rivers (Tigras and Euphrates) have spoiled (baza, split)!
3 "ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD, AND DWELLERS ON THE EARTH, SEE YE, when he lifteth up an ENSIGN (nes, flag, signal, sign) on the mountains (kingdoms, i.e., the United Nations, founded in 1945); and WHEN HE BLOWETH A TRUMPET (i.e., at the Pre-Trib Rapture, I Thess. 4:16,17), hear ye. We have seen this sign, and are waiting for the "trump of God".
4 "For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest (after catching up the Pre-Trib-Rapture saints), and I will consider (nabat, look intently at) in my dwelling place (Heaven, Saturn, Shabtai, which comes from Shabbat, rest) like a clear heat (sunshine) upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest (qatsiyr, harvest as reaped).
5 "For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs (zalzal, shoots with fruit) with pruning hooks, and TAKE AWAY (sur sur, REMOVE, CAUSE TO DEPART, i.e., in the Pre-Trib Rapture) and cut down the branches (with no fruit).
6 "THEY SHALL BE LEFT together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth (i.e., the Beast and False Prophet): and the fowls shall SUMMER upon them (suggesting a summer Rapture), and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 "In that time (i.e., when the False Prophet is ruling) shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts (i.e., in the Pre-Wrath Rapture) of a people scattered and peeled (the 144,000 Israelites), and from a people (i.e., the Babylonians) terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation (Iraq) meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers (the Tigris and Euphrates) have spoiled (split), to THE PLACE (Heaven, the sapphire throne, Saturn; Eze. 1:26) of the name (Jesus) of the LORD of hosts (the Redeemer; Isa. 44:6), the mount Zion (the heavenly one)."
Micah 7:1 says, "Woe is me! for I am as (symbolic language) WHEN THEY HAVE GATHERED THE SUMMER FRUITS, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: MY SOUL DESIRED THE FIRSTRIPE FRUIT."
This verse seems to tie the summer Rapture up in a neat package. Micah played the part of the foolish virgins who are still around after the vintage that starts at Tu B' Av (Av 15) and last into Tishri. The summer fruits probably represent the wise virgins who have already been gathered (raptured) as the firstripe fruit before Av 15 in the summer. The time of the firstripe fruit was when the spies went into the promised land on Sivan 30. They returned after 40 days bearing the huge bunch of grapes on Av 10. I hope the Pre-Trib Rapture will take place on Av 10 (Aug. 11, 2008). It starts at 6 PM on Av 9.
The Rapture is as the days of Noah (Mt. 24:37). The Ark floated upward free of the ground at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Av 10 is the 40th day, when the spies returned to Moses with a huge bunch of grapes.
Will we, the temple of the Holy Spirit, go up in clouds on the same day the Temples were burned? Jer. 52:12,13 says, "in the FIFTH MONTH, IN THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH (AV 10), which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, And BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD."
Of the temple burning in 70 AD, Josephus said, "So Titus retired into the tower of Antonia, and resolved to storm the temple the next day, to encamp round about the holy house; but, as for that house, God had for certain long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal day was come, according to the revolution of ages: IT WAS THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH LOUS, [AB,] (i.e., Av 10) UPON WHICH IT WAS FORMERLY BURNT BY THE KING OF BABYLON...THE SAME MONTH AND DAY WERE NOW OBSERVED, AS I SAID BEFORE, WHEREIN THE HOLY HOUSE WAS BURNT FORMERLY BY THE BABYLONIANS" (Wars. VI. IV. 5, 8).
Av 10 in 2005 was the very day the Jews had to DEPART from Gaza (fortified, strong). That seems like a sign too.
Isa. 57:1-3 (LXX) says, "See how the just man has perished (abad, escaped), and no one lays it to heart: and RIGHTEOUS MEN ARE TAKEN AWAY (ACAPH, EVACUATED, i.e., in the Pre-Trib Rapture), and no one considers: for THE RIGHTEOUS HAS BEEN REMOVED OUT OF THE WAY OF INJUSTICE."
The first Rapture precedes the Tribulation. The second Rapture precedes the Wrath of God.
Rev 3:10 says, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from (ek, out of) the hour of temptation (trial), which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."
Luke 21:36 says, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to ESCAPE all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." The Pre-Trib Rapture will soon be upon us.
Song of Sol. 2:10-15 (LXX) says, "My kinsman (redeemer, i.e., Christ) answers, and says to me, RISE UP, COME ('COME UP HITHER' in Rev. 4:1), my companion (the Bride of Christ), my fair one, my dove. For, behold, the winter is past, the rain (the latter rain of Nisan) is gone, it has departed. The flowers are seen in the land; THE TIME OF PRUNING (the grape vines) HAS ARRIVED; the voice of the turtle-dove (Christ) has been heard in our land. The fig-tree (Israel) has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the TENDER GRAPE, they yield a smell: ARISE, COME, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, COME. Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock (in Christ), near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful. Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for OUR VINES PUT FORTH TENDER GRAPES."
Jer 8:13,20 says, "I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: THERE SHALL BE NO GRAPES ON THE VINE (the good fruit has been raptured, the bad cut off and left for the beasts of Rev. 13 to summer and winter on, Isa. 18:6), NOR FIGS ON THE FIG TREE (Israel has no fruit at this time), AND THE LEAF (Gaza Strip, grown in the Six-Day War) SHALL FADE...THE HARVEST (i.e., the Pre-Trib Rapture) IS PAST, THE SUMMER IS ENDED, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED."
Micah 7:1 says, "Woe is me! for I am as (symbolic language) when THEY HAVE GATHERED (oceph, REMOVED, TAKEN AWAY) THE SUMMER FRUITS (both Raptures will probably happen in the summer), AS THE GRAPE GLEANINGS OF THE VINTAGE: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the FIRSTRIPE FRUIT (i.e., the 1st Rapture). The GOOD MAN IS PERISHED (abad, ESCAPED) OUT OF THE EARTH: AND THERE IS NONE UPRIGHT AMONG MEN."
ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
By Marilyn Agee, posted 7-23-08
THE LAST YEAR OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL IS A SABBATIC YEAR, AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR IS A LEAP YEAR
The light dawned after I finally realized that 27 AD, the Sabbatic Hebrew 3787, was the end of the 483 years of Dan. 9. Jesus stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth and read Isa. 61:1,2.
In Luke 4:18-21, Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
EACH OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL END IN A SABBATIC YEAR
Since the 69 weeks ENDED in a Sabbatic Year, each of the 70 weeks of Daniel END in a Sabbatic Year. Then the 490th year, i.e., the end of the shortened Tribulation, will be a Sabbatic Year. I think the end of the 490th year will be the next Sabbatic Year following the present one (5768). 5768 + 7 = 5775 (2014, 2015). By the last day of 5775 all the things mentioned in Dan. 9:25,26 should be fulfilled.
Dan 9:25,26 says, "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks (69 weeks, 483 years total): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And AFTER threescore and two weeks (i.e., after 27 AD) shall Messiah be cut off" (karath, killed). The 483 years ended in the Hebrew Sabbatic Year 3787 (27 AD). AFTER that, in 30 AD, Jesus was killed.
It seems to me that the 490th year, the Hebrew 5775, a Sabbatical Year, will end as Tishri 1, 5776 (Sept. 14, 2015) begins. If so, the following things will be finished. Dan. 9:24 says, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy" (Jesus, the YHWH of hosts, the Redeemer; Isa. 44:6).
Rom. 12:19 says, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
The day following the end of the 490th year is the DAY OF THE PRE-WRATH RAPTURE, THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE DAY OF THE CORONATION OF CHRIST, THE DAY OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB, THE DAY OF THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, AND THE DAY OF GOD'S WRATH.
At 6:55 PM on our Sept. 13, 2015, a partial Solar Eclipse will take place. Because it is after 6 PM, the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (Tishri 1, 5776) will have already begun. God's timing is perfect. It is the time of Christ's breaking the sixth seal.
Rev 6:12-17 says, "I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH OF HAIR, and the moon became as blood; And the stars (i.e., meteorites) of heaven fell unto the earth (probably causing smoke), even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven (i.e., the atmospheric heavens) departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that SITTETH ON THE THRONE (i.e., they see the Sign of the Son of Man), and from the wrath of the Lamb: For THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH IS COME; and who shall be able to stand?"
Joel had a lot to say about that day. Joel 1:15 says, "Alas for the day! for THE DAY OF THE LORD, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."
Joel 2:1,2 says, "Blow ye the TRUMPET in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for THE DAY OF THE LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of DARKNESS and of gloominess, a day of CLOUDS and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong (Gog's army, Eze. 38); THERE HATH NOT BEEN EVER THE LIKE, NEITHER SHALL BE ANY MORE AFTER IT".
Joel 2:15-18 says, "Blow the TRUMPET in Zion (it is the Feast of Trumpets), sanctify a fast (the upcoming Day of Atonement), CALL A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY (as in Heb. 12:23) Gather the people (i.e., it is the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation saints), sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders (caught up previously in the Pre-Trib Rapture), gather the children (in the Pre-Wrath Rapture), and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom (Christ) go forth of his chamber, and the bride (the Bride of Christ) out of her closet (chuppah, bridal chamber, i.e., this is the day of the Marriage of the Lamb). Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people."
Joel 2:31 says, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, BEFORE THE GREAT AND THE TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD COME."
That day, the Feast of Trumpets, Tishri 1, 5776 (Sept 14, 2015) will be a day like no other -- ever. It will be Christ's Coronation Day in Heaven and the Day of God's Wrath on Earth. It will be the day of the General Assembly of all saints in Heaven (Heb. 12:23), the Pre-Wrath Rapture (Rev. 7:9,14), the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Cor 5:10), and the Marriage of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7). On that day, Mark 13:27 tells us that "then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the EARTH (the Pre-Wrath Rapture) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN" (gathering the Pre-Trib saints that are already in Heaven to the General Assembly).
In Mt 24:28-31, Jesus said, "For wheresoever the carcase (lit., body, i.e., the Body of Christ) is (most of it is in Heaven, having been caught up there in the Pre-Trib Rapture), there will the eagles (the high-flying Tribulation saints) be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars (i.e., meteorites) shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in THE CLOUDS of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a TRUMPET, and they shall gather together his elect (i.e., the Pre-Trib-Rapture saints) from the four winds, from one end of HEAVEN to the other." The 144,000 Israelites will be added to the Bride of Christ (Rev. 14:3-5).
Mark 13:24-27 says, "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the EARTH (i.e., the Pre-Wrath Rapture saints) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN" (those caught up previously in the Pre-Trib Rapture).
The shortened Tribulation (Mt. 24:22,23) should begin 2300 days (Dan. 8:13,14) before that Feast of Trumpets, on Pentecost, Sivan 6, 5769 (May 29, 2009). Since 2300 days is a block of time, not running time, the 2300 days are counted by Jewish inclusive reckoning.
That would also mean that the Pre-Trib Rapture would take place between now and the beginning of the Tribulation on May 29, 2009. I'm hoping for Av 10, 5768 (August 11, 2008). Both Temples went up in clouds of smoke on Av 10. The second Rapture will catch up the rest of the Temple of the Holy Spirit when the air is full of smoke. Therefore, at the first Rapture, we may be caught up when there are clouds and smoke.
The Jews keep Tisha B' Av, Av 9. According to Josephus, in 70 AD, the fire was set on the temple grounds on Av 9. It burned into the sanctuary on Av 10.
Jer 52:12,13 says of Solomon's Temple, "Now in the fifth month, in the TENTH DAY of the month (Av 10), which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire."
AFTER FORTY DAYS
The time of firstripe grapes, when the spies entered the Promised Land, was Sivan 30 (which was July 3 this year). FORTY DAYS later, on Av 10 (Aug. 11, in 2008), they brought back one huge bunch of grapes slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of two men. That sounds like the Pre-Trib Rapture of the Bride of Christ in Song of Solomon. It looks like the other bunch of grapes indicated in Song of Solomon represents the Pre-Wrath Rapture on the Day of God's Wrath.
Re: the two Raptures, Song 6:13 says, "Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of TWO ARMIES."
Song 2:13 represents the Pre-Trib Rapture. The fig tree putteth forth her green FIGS, and the vines with the tender GRAPE give a good smell. ARISE, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY."
Song 7:8-12 says, "I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters (2) of the vine".And the roof of thy mouth like the BEST WINE (as Jesus made at the Marriage at Cana) for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, CAUSING THE LIPS OF THOSE THAT ARE ASLEEP TO SPEAK. I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the TENDER GRAPE appear, and the POMEGRANATES BUD FORTH: there will I give thee my loves."
Nu. 13:23 says, "And they (the spies) came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with ONE CLUSTER OF GRAPES, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the POMEGRANATES, and of the FIGS.
Grapes, pomegranates, and figs will all be available on Av 10. The time of the firstripe grapes is Sivan 30 (July 3, 2008). The main grape harvest starts on Av 15 (Tu B' Av), the day the girls put on white dresses and dance in the vineyards and the boys pick their mates. That time is also Dry Wood Day, the last time for that year that they can bring wood for the altar to the Temple.
The number 40 means trial and probation. Nu. 13:25 says, "they returned from searching of the land after forty days. We can see that other 40-day or 40-year periods tie in. Jesus indicated that the Rapture was as the days of Noah. Noah and his family were lifted up when the Ark floated after 40 days of rain. The Israelites went into the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert. Gen 25:20 says, "Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife." Jesus was tempted 40 days. After his resurrection, he ascended to Heaven after 40 days. Act 7:30 says, "when forty years were expired, there appeared to him (Moses) in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Eze. 38:18-20 says, "And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that MY FURY shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of MY WRATH have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel (i.e., the mountain-sized asteroid of Rev. 8:8 will impact the Mediterranean Sea); So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence (paniym, face; i.e., they see the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky), and the mountains (2 asteroids of Rev. 8:8-11) shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground."
When the Israelites came out of Egypt, the older generation was at least 20 years old. Forty years later, Joshua and Caleb entered the Promised Land. It is interesting that 1948 + 20 + 40 = 2008.
The year starting on Tishri 1, 5776 has to be a leap year, because there are 7 months between the Day of God's Wrath and the Second Advent (Eze. 39:12,13).
LISTEN FOR THE TRUMPET
40 DAYS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRSTRIPE GRAPES
By Marilyn Agee, posted 6-29-08
That seems to be the day Jesus will drink new wine with the apostles in his father's kingdom. We should be there too.
After reading more about the two new festivals mentioned in the Temple Scroll, it seems that the Festival of New Wine (grape juice, because Isa. 65:8 says, "the new wine is found in the cluster") was celebrated 50 days after Pentecost, and the Festival of New Oil was celebrated 50 days after the Festival of New Wine "JUST BEFORE THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS." However, some sources give the time as 7 weeks and fourteen weeks after Pentecost without adding in the next day each time. They could just be roughing it out.
This shows that Pentecost could NOT have been 100 days after Firstfruits, as some say. There are 50 days from Firstfruits to Pentecost, 50 days from Pentecost to the Festival of New Wine, and 50 days from the Festival of New Wine to the Festival of New Oil "just before the Feast of Trumpets".
In "Salvation in The Feasts of Israel..."
(http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre17hstfeasts.html), it says, "The New Wine Harvest came fifty days or seven weeks after Pentecost...
The Olive Oil Harvest. The first fruits of the new olive oil festival comes fourteen weeks after Pentecost just before the feast of trumpets"...
In "Harvest Seasons of Ancient Israel"
(http://www.wcg.org/lit/law/festivals/harvest.htm), it says, "The importance of grapes and olives is illustrated by the fact that the Essenes had wine and oil firstfruits festivals similar to the biblical firstfruits offering for grain. These festivals also indicate the relative timing of these crops. THE NEW WINE FESTIVAL CAME 50 DAYS OR SEVEN WEEKS AFTER PENTECOST. Until new wine was offered, no one could drink any of the new juice (Temple Scroll, columns 19-21). FOURTEEN WEEKS AFTER PENTECOST, SHORTLY BEFORE THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, WAS THE NEW OLIVE OIL FESTIVAL. No one could use new olives until some oil had been offered (columns 21-22)."
Fifty days after Firstfruits, Nisan 16 (April 21, 2008) is Sivan 7, Pentecost (June 10, 2008). Fifty days after Sivan 7 is Tamuz 27, the Festival of New Wine (July 30, 2008). Fifty days after Tamuz 27 is Elul 16, the Festival of New Oil (Sept. 16, 2008). That leaves two weeks until the Feast of Trumpets.
At the Last Supper in Mt. 26:29, Jesus said, "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine (i.e., new wine, grape juice), until that day (i.e., day of the Pre-Trib Rapture) when I drink it NEW with you in my Father's kingdom" (i.e., in Heaven).
In any year, the Israelites could not drink new wine, grape juice (Isa. 65:8), until after the time of firstripe grapes, and maybe not until after the Festival of New Wine, when the firstfruits of the grape harvest were offered to God.
The time of firstripe grapes was when the 12 spies went into the Promised Land on Sivan 30 (July 3, 2008). They brought Moses a huge bunch of grapes 40 days later, on Av 10 (Aug 11, 2008).
It now seems possible that the Pre-Trib Rapture could be on Aug. 11 this year. If so, we would go up in clouds at the same time both Temples went up in smoke, on Av 10, according to both Jeremiah and Josephus. The Jews keep Av 9. In 70 AD, the fire was started on the premises on Av 9 and spread into the sanctuary like a roaring inferno on Av 10.
Noah knew 7 days before it started to rain. We will have a total Solar Eclipse on Tamuz 29, 5768 (Aug. 1, 2008). That could be a 10-day warning for us, and the Festival of New Wine will have already taken place on Tamuz 27 (July 30, 2008). This is the time of the year that new grape juice is plentiful. That is a clue we have often missed.
In Luke 21:10-36, Jesus said, "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven (northern California now has 1000 fires, set by 5000 to 6000 unprecedented lightning strikes; because they legalized gay marriage, God is showing us his displeasure; there are floods in the middle of the USA too)....
25 "And there shall be SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON (the Moon will hide the light of the Sun on August 1, 2008), and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring...28 And WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, THEN LOOK UP, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH. 29
"And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree (Israel, Joel 1,7,8), and all the trees (other nations); 30 When they now shoot forth (i.e., in the Six-Day War, June 5-10, 1967), ye see and know of your own selves that summer (June 21) is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation (born in 1967, year of the Six-Day War) shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And TAKE HEED to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 WATCH ye therefore, and pray always, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."
In Hosea 9:10 the Lord said, "I found Israel LIKE GRAPES IN THE WILDERNESS; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame".
Numbers 13:20,21 says, "Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes. So they (the 12 spies) went up, and searched the land"
The time of the firstripe grapes is Sivan 30 (July 3, 2008). The spies went up then and came back 40 days later, on Av 10 (Aug 11, 2008). That 40 days ties in with the 40 days that passed before Noah's Ark floated free of the ground.
Two eartly Temples, Solomon's and Herod's, went up in smoke on Av 10. The spies returned to Moses on Av 10 with one huge bunch of grapes. Therefore, the Pre-Trib Rapture could be on Av 10 (Aug 11, 2008). We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The correlation is good.
Jer 52:12,13 says, "in the FIFTH MONTH (chodesh, new moon), IN THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH (AV 10), which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, And BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD."
Of the temple burning in 70 AD, Josephus said, "So Titus retired into the tower of Antonia, and resolved to storm the temple the next day, to encamp round about the holy house; but, as for that house, God had for certain long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal day was come, according to the revolution of ages: IT WAS THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH LOUS, [AB,] (i.e., Av 10) UPON WHICH IT WAS FORMERLY BURNT BY THE KING OF BABYLON...THE SAME MONTH AND DAY WERE NOW OBSERVED, AS I SAID BEFORE, WHEREIN THE HOLY HOUSE WAS BURNT FORMERLY BY THE BABYLONIANS" (Wars. VI. IV. 5, 8).
Isa 18:3-7 says, "ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD, AND DWELLERS ON THE EARTH, SEE YE, WHEN HE LIFTETH UP AN ENSIGN (flag) ON THE MOUNTAINS (kingdoms); and WHEN HE BLOWETH A TRUMPET, HEAR YE. For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider (see) in my dwelling place (Heaven) like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew IN THE HEAT OF HARVEST (qatsiyr, the harvest, as reaped). For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs (i.e., with grapes) with pruning hooks, and TAKE AWAY (the wise virgins) and cut down the branches (i.e., that have no grapes). They (i.e., the foolish virgins) shall be LEFT together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall SUMMER upon them (i.e., the Pre-Trib Rapture will be in the spring or summer), and all the beasts of the earth shall WINTER upon them. In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion".
Isa. 57:1-3 (LXX) says, "See how the just man has perished (abad, escaped), and no one lays it to heart: and RIGHTEOUS MEN ARE TAKEN AWAY (acaph, EVACUATED, i.e., raptured), and no one considers: for THE RIGHTEOUS HAS BEEN REMOVED OUT OF THE WAY OF INJUSTICE" (i.e., during the Tribulation).
Song of Sol. 2:10-15 (LXX) says, "My kinsman (redeemer, i.e., Christ) answers, and says to me, RISE UP, COME (i.e., 'COME UP HITHER,' Rev. 4:1), my companion (the Bride of Christ), my fair one, my dove. For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is gone, it has departed (i.e., Nisan, time of the latter rain is gone). The flowers are seen in the land; THE TIME OF PRUNING HAS ARRIVED (i.e., THE CUTTING OFF OF THE FOOLISH LAODICEAN VIRGINS); the voice of the turtle-dove (Christ) has been heard in our land. The fig-tree (Israel) has put forth its young figs (fruit, i.e., the Messianic Jews), the vines put forth the tender grape (one bunch, the Bride group, i.e., the 1st of 2 Raptures), they yield a smell: ARISE, COME, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, COME. Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock (in Christ), near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful. Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes."
Micah 7:1 says, "Woe is me! for I am as (symbolic language) when THEY HAVE GATHERED (oceph, REMOVED, TAKEN AWAY) THE SUMMER FRUITS (i.e., both Raptures happen in the summer), AS THE GRAPEGLEANINGS OF THE VINTAGE: there is no cluster (there are only 2 Raptures) to eat: my soul desired the FIRSTRIPE FRUIT (i.e., the 1st Rapture). The GOOD MAN IS PERISHED (abad, ESCAPED, i.e., RAPTURED) OUT OF THE EARTH: AND THERE IS NONE UPRIGHT AMONG MEN."
Incoming e-mail, Re: Wow! read this in a hurry
http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=NB007EIS&GroupID=2A004N9G
"Phenomenal" prophecy information!
Jim Bramlett, Apr 26 2008
...a video of a profound TV program by J.R. Church and Gary Stearman of Prophecy in the News, whose scholarship I have always greatly respected. A guest on the program is Pastor Mark Biltz, whose teaching emphasis is Jewish roots and who has also extensively studied the dates of solar and lunar eclipses from NASA and other astronomical resources, and how they line up precisely with Jewish feast days in the year 2015.
Concerning what has been discovered, the normally calm and studious J.R. Church exclaimed, "This is phenomenal!" I agree. I have just watched the program two times and do not think I have ever been more encouraged or excited about the soon return of the Lord! I urge you to watch this 30-minute program as soon as possible at http://66.155.114.80/video/Dsl/5904-D.wmv
I will give you a sample...
A "tetrad" is a rare series of four blood red moons. This will not only happen in 2014-2015, but it is a historical rarity that they will all be on significant Jewish feast days.
Get this: Pastor Biltz has discovered that the last time it happened was in 1967, the year of the miraculous Six-Day War when the Temple Mount was captured, and the one before that was just after Israel became a nation in 1948, all truly historical and prophetic years. This is extremely significant. Those two years, 1967 and 1948, are two of the most significant years in all of history.
In 2014-2015 there will be 4 lunar eclipses and 2 solar eclipses, all on Jewish holidays, including ROSH HASHANAH IN 2015! This will not happen again in this century.
They discussed that 2008 is also a sabbatical year, and that 2015 minus 7 years is 2008, and the possibility that the 7-year Tribulation will begin in the fall of 2008! In connection with this, they noted the ominous signs of imminent war in the Middle East, possibly nuclear. If that is true, this means the rapture could literally be at the door! Be ready. Do not be caught asleep, or your lamps without oil. Be filled with the Spirit, and as Jesus exhorted, "Watch!"
My comments, updated 5-10
"Rosh Hashanah in 2015" sure got my attention. That will be Tishri 1, 5776 (Monday, September 14, 2015) the Feast of Trumpets. That's when I expect the Pre-Wrath Rapture, the Day of God's Wrath, and the great and terrible Day of the LORD. In the Prophecy in the News Video, J.R. Church said that 2015 was a Sabbatical Year, like 2008. That's true, both 5768 (2007/2008) and 5775 (2014/2015) are Sabbatical Years, because 5768 and 5775 divide equally by 7. Maybe the Rapture will be in 2008.
Nisan 14 is actually Passover, and Nisan 15 is the Feast of Unleavened Bread according to Lev. 23:4,5, but Nisan 15 is listed as Passover on today's Hebrew Calendar, probably to blur the connection with Jesus, who died as our Passover. Sometimes Passover is used to mean the season of the spring feasts: Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits. That seems to be how J.R. Church is using it. Below, I put the exact Biblical feast. Nisan 1 is the first day of the Sacred and Regnal calendars. Tishri 1 is the first day of the Civil Calendar.
SIGNIFICANT
The four LUNAR Eclipses in 2014/2015 run Nisan, Tishri, Nisan, Tishri.
The four SOLAR Eclipses in 2014/2015 ALMOST run Nisan, Tishri, Nisan, Tishri. Two of them fall on the last day of the previous month. All four are on the 29th. They run Nisan 29, Tishri 29, Adar 29 and Elul 29.
It seems that the Lord is trying to tell us something important, and just think, he planned this before the world began. That suggests that the Sun and Moon were already in place in the sky in Gen. 1:1.
When he said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for SIGNS, and for seasons, and for days, and years" in verse 14, I think he thinned the obscuring clouds.
The tale these eclipses tell fit Scripture better one day sooner. I'm totally amazed.
THE FOUR TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSES, ALL BLOOD MOONS
2014 Apr 15 Total (Nisan 16, 5774) FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS
2014 Oct 8 Total (Tishri 15, 5775) FEAST OF TABERNACLES
2015 Apr 4 Total (Nisan 15, 5775) FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
2015 Sep 28 Total (Tishri 15, 5776) FEAST OF TABERNACLES
THE FOUR SOLAR ECLIPSES, ALL ON THE 29TH
Apr 29, 2014 Total: (Nisan 29, 5774)
Oct 23, 2014 Partial: (Tishri 29, 5775)
Mar 20, 2015 Total: (Adar 29, 5775), EVE OF NISAN 1, FIRST DAY OF SACRED YR
Sept 13, 2015, Partial: (AFTER 6 PM, SO IT IS ON FEAST OF TRUMPETS, WHICH WILL BE TISHRI 1, 5776, WHEN I EXPECT THE DAY OF GOD'S WRATH.
HOW THESE ECLIPSES FIT SCRIPTURE
Joel 2:31 says, "The SUN shall be turned into darkness (Sept 13, 2015), and the MOON into blood (Apr 4, 2015), BEFORE the great and terrible day of the LORD come." I think it will come on the next day, Tishri 1, 5776, Sept 14, 2015.
Acts 2:20 says, "The SUN shall be turned into darkness (Sept 13, 2015), and the MOON into blood (Apr 4, 2015), BEFORE that great and notable DAY OF THE LORD come" (i.e., on Tishri 1, 5776, Sept 14, 2015).
Eze 32:7 says, "when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
On the great and terrible Day of the Lord, the asteroids of Rev. 8:8-11 will impact Earth. The mountain burning with fire will strike the Mediterranean Sea. The "aster" will obliterate Babylon. The smoke from the impacts will blank out the Sun and the new Crescent Moon of Tishri 1.
Mark 13:24 says, "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light". Mt 24:29 says, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken".
The beginning of the Tribulation looks like it will be on Pentecost, Sivan 6, 5769 (Friday, May 29, 2009). That is 2300 days (Dan. 8:13,14) before Tishri 1, 5776. It looks like the shortened Tribulation will end on the Feast of Trumpets, Tishri 1, 5776 (Sept 14, 2015), the Day of God's Wrath that will hit Earth on the Day of the Lord, the first day of the Millennium.
Rev 6:12 tells us about that Day of God's Wrath. It says, "I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood" (i.e., from the smoke of the asteroid impacts). The last verse of that chapter says, "For the great DAY OF HIS WRATH is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
Probably no one, for that will be the day of the worldwide earthquake when every wall will fall. Eze. 38:18-20 says, "And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that MY FURY shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of MY WRATH have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence (lit., face, they will see the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky), and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground."
POSSIBLE DATES OF END-TIME EVENTS
PRE-TRIB RAPTURE, FIRST "TRUMP OF GOD"
Before the Tribulation starts, maybe Av 10, 5768 (Monday, August 11, 2008. Let's be ready from now until it takes place.
TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
Sacrifice of the red heifer when she is four years old (she is past 3.5 now)
Priests, purified with the ashes of the red heifer, should start building the Temple soon after the Rapture.
THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION, 1ST SEAL
PENTECOST, Sivan 6, 5769 (Friday, May 29, 2009)
Beginning of the 2300 days of Dan. 8:12-14 (Jewish inclusive reckoning).
The first beast of Rev. 13 will reign. The Peace Treaty will be in effect.
MID TRIB, 4TH SEAL
The 1260th day, Heshvan 23, 5773 (Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, by Inclusive reckoning). The False Prophet will begin his reign.
PRE-WRATH RAPTURE, "LAST TRUMP" OF GOD
END OF SHORTENED TRIBULATION, 7TH SEAL
2300th day of the Tribulation
It should be the FEAST OF TRUMPETS, Tishri 1, 5776 (Sunday night or Monday, September 14, 2015), the DAY OF THE PRE-WRATH RAPTURE, the DAY OF THE LORD, and the DAY OF GOD'S WRATH
The 7 Trumpet judgments will be sounded by angels, not God
THE SEVEN-MONTH GAP (Eze. 38:18-20; 39:12,13)
THE SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS, LORD OF THE SABBATH, PROBABLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE REGNAL AND SACRED YEAR
7 months after the Day of God's Wrath in a Hebrew Leap Year,
Nisan 1, 5776 (the Saturday Sabbath, April 9, 2016)
WOW! WHAT A SIGN, A GAMMA RAY BURST 2.5 MILLION TIMES BRIGHTER THAN THE BRIGHTEST SUPERNOVA, TOOK PLACE 3-19-08 IN BOOTES, WHICH MEANS "HE COMES"
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
A SIGN
"COMET CONUNDRUM"
The Monster of the Night Skies
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,519187,00.html
The comet 17P/Holmes has astronomers around the world scratching their heads in confusion. The heavenly body just keeps getting bigger (in spite of traveling away from us) -- and is now twice the diameter of our sun.
A sign in the Moon, "Dark Lunar Eclipse" 8-28-07
(Watch for another lunar eclipse 2-21-08)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
"this telescopic image taken near mid totality from Yass, NSW Australia"
A sign in the Sun, "EL", meaning God in Hebrew,
and the open door 7-4-07
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-eit_304.html
GOD'S ELEGANT SIGN FOR CHRISTCHURCH (NZ)
BRIGHTEST COMET IN 40 YEARS (Six-Day War of 1967 to 2007), flanked by the double-anchor Sign of Hope in the constellation Vela, the sails of the ship Argo, and the similar sign in the Sun. Are you ready to sail? If not, use I John 1:9 to secure your reservation. It says,"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness"
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars (lit., constellations); and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring (huge sign: Indian Ocean tsunami, 12/26/2004)... And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:25,28).
LEFT: ASTONISHING SIGN: First comet piece of 21 in the "String of Pearls" hit Jupiter July 16, 1994, getting the attention of the whole world, but specially of the Jews, because Av 9, 5754 (date both Solomon's and Herod's Temples were set on fire), started at 6 PM
RIGHT: MAN ON A CROSS AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
RAINBOW ON A CHURCH CEILING (Pro and Con 1213)
THE UN WILL RESTORE BABYLON (Pro and Con 1288)
NOAH'S ARK FOUND ON MT. ARARAT IN IRAN (Pro and Con 1292)
BEAUTIFUL SIGN ON PENTECOST
Sky over north Idaho at noon, SIVAN 7, Saturday, June 3, 2006
ANOTHER CROSS IN THE SKY, THE RED SQUARE NEBULA
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070412_symmetrical_nebula.html
“The most symmetrical object of comparable complexity ever imaged.”
TWO TSUNAMIS, SIGNS OF THE TIMES
We have had two huge earthquakes and resulting tsunamis. The indian Ocean tsunami was Dec. 26, 2004. The one in the Solomon Islands hit April 2, 2007, raising an island up 10 feet and exposing the coral.
ISRAEL HAS A RED HEIFER (Pro and Con 1331)
ANOTHER SIGN, A MASSIVE SUPERNOVA announced by NASA 5-7-07
Five times brighter than any seen before, it stayed bright for an astonishing 70 days. (Pro and Con 1335)
PROOF THAT THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN THE FIRST RAPTURE AND THE TRIBULATION
By Marilyn Agee, posted 7-1-07
The setting of Rev. 17 is between the Rapture and the Tribulation
Rev. 17:14 reveals the setting of the entire chapter. It is when the Pre-Trib Rapture has just taken place. At that time, the two beasts of Rev. 13 have not yet come to their full power. The 10 kings that will take office as the 1st beast takes on his final global office have not yet been been crowned. Let's read it in context.
Rev. 17:9-14 says, "And HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HATH WISDOM. The seven heads are seven mountains (i.e., kingdoms), on which the woman (Mystery Religion of Babylon) sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen (Babel, Babylon II, Media-Persia, Greece and Imperial Rome), and ONE IS (Ecclesiastical Rome), and the other (Babylon III) is not yet come; and when he (the False Prophet, ruler of Babylon III) cometh, he must continue a short space (the shortened Great Tribulation). And the beast (Satan) that was (in Judas Iscariot, the 1st son of perdition), and is not (in man at the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture), even he (Satan) is the eighth, and is of the seven (controls them), and goeth into perdition (i.e., indwells the False Prophet, the 2nd son of perdition).
"And the ten horns which thou sawest are TEN KINGS, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET (at the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture); but receive power as kings one hour with the beast (the 1st beast of Rev. 13 that comes to power at the beginning of the Tribulation). These (10 kings) have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast (the 1st beast of Rev. 13). These (10 kings) shall (in the future) make war with the Lamb (at Armageddon), and the Lamb shall overcome them: for HE IS LORD OF LORDS, AND KING OF KINGS: AND THEY THAT ARE (at the present time, the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture) WITH HIM (i.e., the raptured saints already caught up to Christ in Heaven) ARE CALLED, AND CHOSEN, AND FAITHFUL."
TODAY'S BIG QUESTION, IS THERE A GAP BETWEEN THE FIRST RAPTURE AND THE TRIBULATION?
By Marilyn Agee, posted 6-25-07
To me, it not only seems possible, it seems probable. Why? to wake up the secular Israelis. God used the Jews to reach the world. Why wouldn't he use the world to reach the Jews?
Many Israelites today are not religious, because they can't see God working in the world today. They move to Israel, claim the land that God has given them, build their own houses, yet seem unconcerned about building the Temple of God. In Ex. 25:8, God said of the Tabernacle, "let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." The significance of the Temple is the same, but do these people care? Has the Temple Mount Faithful even been able to lay the cornerstone? Do they even know where it should be laid? Does the new Sanhedrin have any real power as a ruling body? Has the possession of the red heifer even caused a public outcry to build the Temple? Not that I have heard. Israel is in need of a motivater like Cyrus to say "to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid" (Isa. 44:28).
What kind of catalyst would it take to get the secular Israelis to want the temple rebuilt right away? How about concrete evidence that God is working in the world today--the disappearance of Christians in the Pre-Trib Rapture? I can't think of anything better to wake them up, and I can't imagine them being ready to build the Temple next year unless something spectacular happens to reveal God's hand.
I can't imagine there being many foolish virgins left after Temple construction begins. That should signal that the end of the age is approaching, and wake them up. Yet, when Christ, the Bridegroom, comes for his Bride, half of the virgins are left behind (Mt. 25:1f).
There are two temples of God, one spiritual, the other literal. II Cor. 6:16 says, "YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." Eph. 2:19-22 says, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; IN WHOM ALL THE BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD: IN WHOM YE ALSO ARE BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT."
WHO HINDERS, AND WHEN WILL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY?
As I see it now, only when the spiritual temple of the Holy Spirit is in the heavenly New Jerusalem, will construction start on the literal temple in Jerusalem. The presence of the spiritual temple on Earth may be hindering the building of the literal temple as well as hindering the revealing of the False Prophet.
II Thess. 2:1-8 in the Geneva Bible of 1587, just 70 years after Martin Luther started the Protestant Revolution, says, "Nowe we beseech you, brethren (i.e., believers), by the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, and BY OUR ASSEMBLING VNTO HIM (i.e., at the Pre-Trib Rapture), That ye be not suddenly mooued from your minde, nor troubled neither by spirit, nor by worde, nor by letter, as it were from vs, as though the day of Christ (older manuscripts found later on say 'day of the Lord', i.e., the Day of God's Wrath) were at hand. Let no man deceiue you by any meanes: for that day (Day of God's Wrath) shall not come, except there come A DEPARTING FIRST (i.e., the first Rapture, not the 2nd, which comes right after the Day of God's Wrath has begun, Rev. 5:17; 7:14), and that that man of sinne (the False Prophet) be disclosed, euen the sonne of perdition, Which is an aduersarie, and exalteth him selfe against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doeth sit as God IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, shewing him selfe that he is God (Mid-Trib). Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these things? And nowe ye knowe what WITHHOLDETH (the oil of the Holy Spirit in the wise virgins) that he (the False Prophet) might be reueiled in his time (during the Tribulation). For the mysterie of iniquitie doeth already worke: onely HE (the Holy Spirit in the wise virgins) WHICH NOWE WITHHOLDETH, SHALL LET (i.e., Old English for hinder) TILL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY (i.e., at the Pre-Trib Rapture). And then shall that wicked man be reueiled".
Like salt hinders the growth of leaven in bread making, we are hindering the appearance of the Beast and False Prophet, because of the Holy Spirit in us. When the Rapture takes place, the hindering influence of the Holy Spirit will be removed. Then the Temple can be built, and the False Prophet revealed.
The temple is in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Tribulation. Rev 11:1-3 (KJV) says, "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."
It will take at least a year to build the Temple in Jerusalem. Herod prepared the materials for the former Temple, then the priests built it. Josephus Ant. XVI. XI. 6 says that "the temple itself was built by the priests in a year and six months".
Rev 3:10-13 says, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I MAKE A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF MY GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is NEW JERUSALEM, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
At the Pre-Trib Rapture, the overcomers, the "temple of the living God", will be pillars in the "temple of my God" in the heavenly New Jerusalem. When that is accomplished, the literal Temple can be built on Earth.
If the Tribulation starts on Pentecost, Sivan 6, 5769 (May 29, 2009), the Pre-Trib Rapture could take place on Pentecost, Sivan 6, 5768 (June 9, 2008). The first trumpet of God sounded on Pentecost at Mt. Sinai, so the type is good. However, I think Nisan 21, the 7th day of Unleavened Bread (April 26, 2008) has the best chance of being the day of the Pre-Trib Rapture. It is the day the Israelites circled Jericho 7 times on the 7th day while 7 priests blew 7 trumpets. The Lord gave them a city, Jericho. He will give us a city, New Jerusalem.
Martin Luther tacked his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 5278 (1517).
GOD'S PARALLELS SEEM TO BUILD ON THAT
5278 (1517) + 400 years = 5678 (1917/1918) - Jerusalem freed
5278 (1517) + 430 years = 5708 (1947/1948) - Israel declared their Independence
5278 (1517) + 450 years = 5728 (1967/1968) - Six-Day-War, Sign of the End of the Age
5278 (1517) + 490 years = 5768 (2007/2008) - Pre-Trib Rapture 40 years after Sign of the End of the Age?
Just as the Israelites went into their Promised Land after being tried in the desert 40 years, it looks like we will go into our Promised Land (Heaven) after being tried 40 years.
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