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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: (Elul 29, 5776) EVE OF 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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