Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ

When I was first starting to study the Bible as a new Christian I was taught that the book of Revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It isn't the revelation of the Antichrist, or the Beast or frogs or killer asteroids. They really drilled that into me. But I didn't understand, so I said "Lord, I don't get it, if this is the revelation of You then why do you talk so much about all this other stuff?" When you don't understand something this is the best approach, pray about it.

So I was reminded of football. When I was in high school I was a very big football fan. Every week I would bet on the games which made me pay even more attention. I never lost money on any given week but I stopped when I realized I could lose money if people didn't pay up. Anyway, the reason I bring that up is I was always fascinated by upsets, what had I missed? This in turn got me fascinated with Joe Montana so I knew his whole story. I was no longer watching football on TV but I read about him.

In his story you can see him as an underdog who people didn't appreciate. So I focused to see how they could have missed how good he was when in hindsight it should have been apparent to all.

This brings me to my prayer about Revelation. The Lord pointed to all that and then asked me what the most compelling thing to me was about Joe Montana? My response was that He won four Superbowls against Hall of Fame quarterbacks. The reason Revelation tells us all that stuff is because we need to see that all those things are coming, we could never go into the ring against them, but Jesus can, Jesus destroys them. You can't get a real revelation of Jesus without seeing the ones that Jesus conquers.

 

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How long is the "7 year tribulation" period? -- 2,300 days

There has been a lot of debate over the "tribulation" being 7 years long. This is a terribly confusing use of the word tribulation. Yes there will be tribulation during the end of the age but it is not ever called a seven year period. Instead what most people are calling "the tribulation" is either the seventieth week which is seven years or the period of time required to cleanse the sanctuary and Daniel tells us that takes 2,300 days. This is crucial because an entire edifice of eschatological theory hangs on this. I could go on and on to describe all the erroneous teachings that hang on this non Biblical point. But instead would simply point out the cleansing of the sanctuary means we are getting things ready for the coming of the king. So this 2300 days concludes on the Feast of Trumpets in 2031, ten days before the Day of Atonement. If you subtract 2300 days from that date you get June 1, 2025 which is Shavuot.

The feasts are a shadow of things to come, no doubt the Lord's feasts in the Old Testament give us a shadow of this cleaning up period. In order for the Jews to "clean up and get ready for the coming of the king" it all starts with the word of God that was given on Shavuot. Once this period of time is ready then they are ready to blow the trumpets to announce the coming of the king.

Now, this period of time fits nicely with the wedding in Cana. There are six water bottles standing there for the purification of a woman after having given birth. Jesus tells them to fill them to the brim. That represents six years of "tribulation" or "death water". That is then turned to wine when Jesus steps down to rescue the Jews on Shavuot, 2031. That is precisely 2,000 years after He ascended on Shavuot. Hosea 6:2 says He returns to enliven the Jews after two days. When He does step down to save them the time of cleaning up is still not over, we still need the battle of Armageddon. Yes, the Christians and the Jews have been saved but the rebellious ones need to be dealt with.

According to Revelation the rapture is before the hour of trial. After the trial the Christians are convicted, hunted down, persecuted and beheaded. So there will be a few months for Antichrist to be revealed, received and then the honeymoon will be over on Shavuot. The wedding of Cana depicts a shotgun wedding where the bride has already had a child. That is the rapture. The woman who is persecuted refers to those being forced to take the Antichrist. The Lord tells us the end from this beginning of signs. So from the rapture to Shavuot you could describe those in the world as "having no wine to drink". No rejoicing, no singing, no dancing, no feasting. But the beheading will likely not start until Shavuot. That is the beginning of six water pots filled to the brim with the death waters.

 

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Dream: 'Tell My People Sudden Destruction Is Coming' and a Vision of the Rapture

 

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12 Bible verses that narrow down the possible day for the rapture

For those of you who would prefer to watch a video I have made this and posted it to Rumble.

https://rumble.com/v69ndup-12-bible-references-that-narrow-down-the-day-of-the-rapture.html

The Pdf is included in the description of that Rumble video.

 

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BREAKING A DEAL HAS BEEN REACHED IN ISRAEL, WITHOUT NETANYAHU APPROVING IT

Many people do not believe that the Pact for the Future approved by the UN on October 2, 2024 was a fulfillment of Daniel 9:27.

I suppose that they won't believe that this peace deal is a fulfillment of 1Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Does that mean they will not escape?

 

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12 Bible verses that narrow down the possible day for the rapture

For those of you who would prefer to watch a video I have made this and posted it to Rumble.

https://rumble.com/v69ndup-12-bible-references-that-narrow-down-the-day-of-the-rapture.html

The Pdf is included in the description of that Rumble video.

12 Bible verses that draw a remarkable connection between the rapture and February 14th, the most notable of which is Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Because 1,260 days after February 14th is the 9th of Av, the perfect day for the Jews to reject the two witnesses.

Also, Genesis 18 indicates that nine months after May 14th will be the rapture and nine months after May 14th is February 14th. (May 14th is the day that Israel was born again as a nation).

 

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A Private Word 1-15-25

 

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The case for October 2, 2024 being the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t0-RTR_rv_5iCCn-kvQu-X1k9MoMV6PU/view?usp=sharing

This Pdf gives the case for October 2, 2024 being the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27. If you prefer to watch the video instead

https://rumble.com/v69zn44-making-a-case-for-october-2-2024-fulfilling-daniel-927.html

 

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This is how Satan operates

24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

James was the leader of the concision, a group that Paul utterly condemned in the book of Galatians. Later James repented and got the vision on how to discern and deal with cults. His book is a precious stone in the New Testament. But this is how subtle the evil one is. Jews must live like Jews and Gentiles can continue to live like Gentiles. That would cause a division in the Body of Christ. Paul later points this out in Colossians.

 

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The Lord Woke HER UP To Share This Intense Experience! They Are Ready To Be Unleashed #rapture

 

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The case for October 2, 2024 being the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t0-RTR_rv_5iCCn-kvQu-X1k9MoMV6PU/view?usp=sharing

This Pdf gives the case for October 2, 2024 being the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27. If you prefer to watch the video instead

https://rumble.com/v69zn44-making-a-case-for-october-2-2024-fulfilling-daniel-927.html

If 70 AD was the first year of a shemitah for the gospel to the Gentiles, then 2031 and 2024 are also first years of a Shemitah. The 70th week begins on the first year of a Shemitah.

Also Jesus proclaimed the Jubilee when His ministry began on the Feast of Trumpets. That would be the first year of a Shemitah. If that was 27 AD then He would have been crucified 3 1/2 years later in 31 AD.

The temple was destroyed on 9th of Av in 70 AD. That is the last year of a shemitah and Rosh Hashanah of 70 AD would be the first year of a shemitah.

It is also exactly 42 years from Jesus' ministry leaving seven years left to complete this set of seven weeks. The 70th week completes the jubilee for Israel. That means that 2031 AD on Rosh Hashanah begins the jubilee year for Israel. The same as it is for the Gentile church.

 

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Ancient Hebrew Texts CONFIRM When the TRIBULATION Ends

 

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We need new terminology.

When we use non biblical terminology it results in confusion because everyone has a different definition. If we can use Biblical terminology tied to specific Bible verses then it has a specific definition and eliminates confusion. God is not the author of confusion.

1. I have found no Biblical evidence that the period of intense tribulation that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24 is seven years long. On the contrary He said the period was shortened for the elect's sake. So instead of talking about the "7 year tribulation" I will refer to that as the "Seventieth Week" (a Biblical term from Daniel 9:27). Since this is a Shemitah this must begin on Rosh Hashanah. My best calculation of what year is the start of a Shemitah cycle is 2024. I arrive at that conclusion solely based on the Bible, but Brenda Weltner also arrives at that with four pieces of evidence, none of which I have used. Nelson Walters also provides evidence that I feel supports my conclusion though he concludes that Jesus was crucified in 30 AD whereas both I and Brenda conclude it was 31 AD.

So then "7 year tribulation" --> "70th Week"

2. I have found evidence that the period of tribulation is precisely six years for the Jews and 2300 days in total when we include Armageddon. The Jews death water is turned to wine when Jesus returns in glory in the clouds but that is still before Armageddon. Daniel 8 calls this period of 2300 days the cleansing of the sanctuary. I believe this begins on Shavuot in 2025 and ends for the Jews on Shavuot in 2031 while ending for the armies of Antichrist on the Feast of Trumpets in 2031. At that time the temple is cleansed and we are ready for the day of judgment. So instead of referring to "the tribulation" which is a confusing term since all Christians must go through tribulation I will call it the "cleansing of the sanctuary", a Biblical term.

The Tribulation --> The cleansing of the Sanctuary

3. Pre-tribulation rapture now makes no sense. Jesus said that Philadelphia would be kept from the hour of trial. If we look at his crucifixion we see Jesus arrested in the night and put on trial, found guilty, scourged and crucified. To be taken before the hour of trial means we are taken several hours before the scourging and crucifixion. Jesus said He longed to drink of the fruit of the vine again with us in the kingdom. The rapture is to that second table of the Lord. In order to go to that table you must have been crucified with Christ. Those who are left behind are those who chose not to take up their cross and follow the Lord. The rapture is not pre tribulation for those that took up the cross to follow the Lord because like Paul we were filling up that which lacked of the afflictions of Christ and we came to know the fellowship of His sufferings, and for those that didn't take up their cross they don't get raptured. No one gets to avoid tribulation. You can choose to go through tribulation during the church age or you will be forced to go through it during the "cleansing of the Sanctuary". John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. This is the rapture for those that love the Lord and kept His commandment to take up their cross and follow Him.

So then "Pre-tribulation rapture" --> Lovers of Jesus Rapture

 

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Cleansing the Sanctuary

Daniel 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

2300 days, a little more than six years for the cleansing of the sanctuary. If you look at these verses the cleansing of the sanctuary is generally quite violent, bloody, and involves the most heinous sins.

Leviticus 10:10 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.

These are priests of the Lord rebelling against Moses which could represent Jesus or the word of God and instead they offer strange fire before the Lord. Rebellions is as the sin of witchcraft. I suspect this strange fire includes witchcraft and the occult.

Leviticus 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

The Lord's blood washes us from sins. But it is very clear here that abortion defiles the sanctuary and that must be cleansed. This is one of the sins cleansed from the temple during the 2300 days that Daniel mentions in chapter 8.

2 Chronicles 26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God.

This is another example of someone who has defiled the sanctuary, they entered without being approved by God.

Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

Abominations and detestable things refer to idols. It is amazing how many churches are filled with pagan idols.

Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Abortion is a sacrifice to Baal (your career) and Molech (god of fornication).

 

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The Writing on the Wall and the Fires in LA

Genesis 1:14 And God 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

The lights in the heaven, the stars, the moon, the sun and the comets, these are for signs, seasons, days and years. They are for telling the time and also as sign posts along life's highway to indicate where we are in God's timeline. This is not "astrology", that is an occult practice that makes everything in the universe about you. It isn't, it is about Jesus Christ and His plan of salvation.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

This is what we can see in the heavens. The glory of God. It is a glory to God when the Revelation sign can appear telling us a sign that was prophesied of more than a thousand years earlier, or when He signs Aleph Tav over the US. The nice thing about the sun, moon, stars and comets are that they are God's handywork. Satan can corrupt the interpretation of these signs, but the signs are God's. They utter speech and they display knowledge. The beauty about these may not be in looking at them to interpret the future, we always run the risk of misinterpreting. However, hindsight is 20/20. We know that these are signs from God and we know what events followed after these signs, so let's put two and two together and we can interpret the signs with much greater certainty. For example a lunar eclipse is considered a sign specific to Israel while a solar eclipse is seen as a sign specific to the Gentiles. They are associated with judgment however, there are lunar and solar eclipses every year, so any individual eclipse should not be seen as anything more than a correction or warning. The issue I have is people going deep into these signs. If you have a sign like the Revelation 12 sign or the Writing on the Wall sign that has not happened previously in human history and can be directly tied to a description in the Bible then of course, that is a very significant sign.

With that as an introduction everyone needs to be very clear about the Writing on the Wall sign and what it says.

1. It was God who wrote this.
2. It was written from 2017 to 2024 and it has been carefully interpreted.
3. The Bible also gives us the interpretation in a nutshell.

So first let's consider how unique this is. A solar eclipse that traverses a continent from one end to the other is rare. That does not happen every year, in fact it is more like once every 100 years. That should be seen as a very clear warning to that continent. The odds of having two eclipses do this to the US would be 100x100 or once in 10,000 years. That is the length of recorded human history. But, the writing on the Wall sign was three eclipses in seven years that did this. The odds are 1 in a million. This also corresponds with the Lord's word to let every word be established by two or three witnesses. These are three witnesses. This is not simply a warning, it is an established judgment on the US.

The summary of what this sign says is that "you have been weighed in the balance, and have been found wanting" and as a result the US will be overthrown by God the same night that this sign was interpreted.

When we get into the nuts and bolts of this sign we'll see there is a weighing. On the one hand you do see there are Christians, there are those who will be raptured, but on the other hand the evil and wickedness outweighs the believers. The US has been found wanting. Certainly not wanting of churches, they are everywhere. The context in Daniel was that the rulers and those in power were involved in a great orgy, defiling the vessels of God. Man was made as an earthen vessel to contain God as a treasure. Based on Matthew 18 we should also understand that causing children to stumble will bring a terrible judgment on a nation. We see a picture in Daniel 5 of rulers and leaders and those in power as well as their talking heads and experts on one side of the scale and Daniel on the other side of the scale. When God says they have been found wanting there are not enough Daniel's and too many of these corrupt people partaking of the fleshly desires.

Now the details tell us so much more. They point to the days of Noah, they remind us of the plagues of Egypt, we are reminded of Jonah, and Nineveh and yes, we are given the hope of the rapture. We are told clearly the US will be split in two like the time of our civil war. You can see a prophesy about Trump being cut off and left out in the cold like a tree stump, but also that he would be restored to power as president after being humbled and receiving the heart of a man. We are told that the US will have seven years of peace from 2017 to 2024.

Now this sign wrote the Hebrew letters Aleph Tav, which in Greek would be Alpha and Omega. We learn that 60 times in the Old Testament Aleph Tav are written but are not translated into english. To me this is like a legal document where you must initial in many places. Jesus said He was the Aleph Tav, He was saying those were His initials on that contract. So not only were three solar eclipses over the US in seven years, a one in a million year occurrence, but Jesus put His initials on it, indicating this judgment has the authority of the King of kings and Lord of lords.

One of these eclipses, the last one, traced the New Madrid Fault line. It is very possible that this fault will split the US in half.

Two of the eclipses intersect at a spot called "little Egypt" and in that part of Illinois there is a year festival where the vultures gather. When they asked Jesus where the judgment would be He told us it is where the vultures gather together. Very hard to ignore something that is so much in your face.

Now in Daniel 5 you can say that after interpreting this sign two things happened. Daniel was raptured (he was elevated and honored and given a reward) and Babylon was overthrown. These two events take place the same night that Daniel interprets this sign and my understanding is that "the same night" would refer to the period from September 21 to March 21 when the sun sets at the North pole. Which is interesting because this fire in LA began on January 7th. Christmas goes from December 25th on the Gregorian calendar to January 7th on the Julian calendar. December 21st would be the midnight hour and that is followed by Satan disguised as Santa climbing down some other way like a thief in the night, to deliver this judgment on the US. Therefore I would conclude that the overthrow of the US has begun and will be complete before March 21, 2025.

 

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The Writing on the Wall and the Fires in LA

Genesis 1:14 And God 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

The lights in the heaven, the stars, the moon, the sun and the comets, these are for signs, seasons, days and years. They are for telling the time and also as sign posts along life's highway to indicate where we are in God's timeline. This is not "astrology", that is an occult practice that makes everything in the universe about you. It isn't, it is about Jesus Christ and His plan of salvation.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

This is what we can see in the heavens. The glory of God. It is a glory to God when the Revelation sign can appear telling us a sign that was prophesied of more than a thousand years earlier, or when He signs Aleph Tav over the US. The nice thing about the sun, moon, stars and comets are that they are God's handywork. Satan can corrupt the interpretation of these signs, but the signs are God's. They utter speech and they display knowledge. The beauty about these may not be in looking at them to interpret the future, we always run the risk of misinterpreting. However, hindsight is 20/20. We know that these are signs from God and we know what events followed after these signs, so let's put two and two together and we can interpret the signs with much greater certainty. For example a lunar eclipse is considered a sign specific to Israel while a solar eclipse is seen as a sign specific to the Gentiles. They are associated with judgment however, there are lunar and solar eclipses every year, so any individual eclipse should not be seen as anything more than a correction or warning. The issue I have is people going deep into these signs. If you have a sign like the Revelation 12 sign or the Writing on the Wall sign that has not happened previously in human history and can be directly tied to a description in the Bible then of course, that is a very significant sign.

With that as an introduction everyone needs to be very clear about the Writing on the Wall sign and what it says.

1. It was God who wrote this.
2. It was written from 2017 to 2024 and it has been carefully interpreted.
3. The Bible also gives us the interpretation in a nutshell.

So first let's consider how unique this is. A solar eclipse that traverses a continent from one end to the other is rare. That does not happen every year, in fact it is more like once every 100 years. That should be seen as a very clear warning to that continent. The odds of having two eclipses do this to the US would be 100x100 or once in 10,000 years. That is the length of recorded human history. But, the writing on the Wall sign was three eclipses in seven years that did this. The odds are 1 in a million. This also corresponds with the Lord's word to let every word be established by two or three witnesses. These are three witnesses. This is not simply a warning, it is an established judgment on the US.

The summary of what this sign says is that "you have been weighed in the balance, and have been found wanting" and as a result the US will be overthrown by God the same night that this sign was interpreted.

When we get into the nuts and bolts of this sign we'll see there is a weighing. On the one hand you do see there are Christians, there are those who will be raptured, but on the other hand the evil and wickedness outweighs the believers. The US has been found wanting. Certainly not wanting of churches, they are everywhere. The context in Daniel was that the rulers and those in power were involved in a great orgy, defiling the vessels of God. Man was made as an earthen vessel to contain God as a treasure. Based on Matthew 18 we should also understand that causing children to stumble will bring a terrible judgment on a nation. We see a picture in Daniel 5 of rulers and leaders and those in power as well as their talking heads and experts on one side of the scale and Daniel on the other side of the scale. When God says they have been found wanting there are not enough Daniel's and too many of these corrupt people partaking of the fleshly desires.

Now the details tell us so much more. They point to the days of Noah, they remind us of the plagues of Egypt, we are reminded of Jonah, and Nineveh and yes, we are given the hope of the rapture. We are told clearly the US will be split in two like the time of our civil war. You can see a prophesy about Trump being cut off and left out in the cold like a tree stump, but also that he would be restored to power as president after being humbled and receiving the heart of a man. We are told that the US will have seven years of peace from 2017 to 2024.

Now this sign wrote the Hebrew letters Aleph Tav, which in Greek would be Alpha and Omega. We learn that 60 times in the Old Testament Aleph Tav are written but are not translated into english. To me this is like a legal document where you must initial in many places. Jesus said He was the Aleph Tav, He was saying those were His initials on that contract. So not only were three solar eclipses over the US in seven years, a one in a million year occurrence, but Jesus put His initials on it, indicating this judgment has the authority of the King of kings and Lord of lords.

One of these eclipses, the last one, traced the New Madrid Fault line. It is very possible that this fault will split the US in half.

Two of the eclipses intersect at a spot called "little Egypt" and in that part of Illinois there is a year festival where the vultures gather. When they asked Jesus where the judgment would be He told us it is where the vultures gather together. Very hard to ignore something that is so much in your face.

Now in Daniel 5 you can say that after interpreting this sign two things happened. Daniel was raptured (he was elevated and honored and given a reward) and Babylon was overthrown. These two events take place the same night that Daniel interprets this sign and my understanding is that "the same night" would refer to the period from September 21 to March 21 when the sun sets at the North pole. Which is interesting because this fire in LA began on January 7th. Christmas goes from December 25th on the Gregorian calendar to January 7th on the Julian calendar. December 21st would be the midnight hour and that is followed by Satan disguised as Santa climbing down some other way like a thief in the night, to deliver this judgment on the US. Therefore I would conclude that the overthrow of the US has begun and will be complete before March 21, 2025.

In the 2017 eclipse it went over seven cities named Salem which is Hebrew for peace. From that we understood it would be seven years of peace. But clearly it has been longer than seven years. This is an example of how precise God is. He did not say 84 months, He said seven years. That means anything from 6.5 years to 7.49 years would round off to "7 years". February 14th is seven years, five months and twenty four days. So this warning was the maximum possible.

 

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Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

This word for "forsake" is first used in Genesis where it says "for this cause shall a man forsake his father and mother and be joined unto his wife".

So that is the day that the Lord takes us up. That makes sense. But we know more about this day. It is also a pagan holiday since Samson pushed out the pillars on a pagan holiday. Also, it was created after the ministry of Jesus, so it is not a pagan holiday that predates the cross of Christ. It is also a full moon because Proverbs 7 tells us that the Lord returns on a full moon. But we also know it is six months from when the Jews will be raised up. So then, since Jesus is the same today as He was yesterday and yesterday He had appointed feasts as Holy convocations for us, do we have two Holy convocations six months apart, one for Gentiles and one for Jews that would indicate a man who forsakes his father and mother to be with his bride?

I am simply pointing out that Valentine's day was created more than 300 years after Jesus was crucified, it is a pagan holiday related to the worship of Dagon, and it is exactly six months away from the 15th of Av which is always on a full moon. Although the odds of February 14th being on a full moon is small it just so happens that in 2025 it is.

 

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Calculating the start of the Shemitah year

Daniel refers to the seventieth week for the Jews. This is a Shemitah, a week of years. If we know what year the Shemitah's begin then this narrows down the possible years by a factor of seven. But it is complicated.

I have heard from a number of different sources that a Shemitah cycle always begins on Rosh Hashanah. That includes Jonathan Cahn who has shared quite a bit on the Shemitah. Unless I get really persuasive exposition from the Bible on this topic I will stick with this. It is confusing because the Torah and Jewish tradition basically has four different days as the first day of the year. However, one rule is to give the land rest by not planting and since Rosh Hashanah is in the Fall it would be the perfect time to cease from planting.

Now according to the Bible there are several valid approaches to the start of the Shemitah.

1. Jesus proclaimed the start of His ministry on Feast of Trumpets to be the jubilee year. That would be the start of a Shemitah. If Jesus was crucified in 31 AD (my best estimate) that makes Rosh Hashanah in 27 AD a jubilee year, and the jubilee year is also the start of a Shemitah. That makes 1967 when Jerusalem returned to Israel also the first year of a Shemitah cycle, but not a jubilee year. That makes 1973 when they had the Yom Kippur war also the first year of a Shemitah.

2. You can also argue that the first year the gospel left Israel and went to the four corners of the earth was the start of a Shemitah cycle. The reason to do this and ignore point 1 is the same reason we see the church age as this gap between the 69th week and the 70th week. Ezekiel has two different periods of punishment that both conclude in 1948 when the two sticks can be made one. So then if we consider the forty years from Jesus proclaiming that the Jewish leaders had committed the unforgivable sin until the temple was cast down as a trial period. Once that was over the dispensation to the Jews was put on pause while the Gentiles are given 40 jubilees that would take us to 2024 and 2031. This approach says that the seventieth week begins when the church age ends. This is also Biblical because Jesus referred to the times of the Gentiles being fulfilled (Luke 21:24). The Lord's word refers to a fixed measure of time, and jubilees and Shemitahs are both a fixed measure of time.

This is also supported by the fact that the Shemitah was part of the law and was designed to give the land in Israel rest. Since the Jews were kicked off the land it was given rest.

3. Therefore you could argue that 1948 was a Shemitah year because that was the year they returned and started a new cycle. However, the new cycle began on Rosh Hashanah in 1947. If 1947 was the first year of a Shemitah cycle for the Jews then that perfectly lines up with 2024 being the first year of a Shemitah cycle.

I am open to Biblical support for another year, but it seems to me that points 2 and 3 are more persuasive than point 1. I also find it more persuasive that the seventieth week beginning lines up with the church age ending.

 

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The Sound of the Trumpet

Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

John hears the voice of a Trumpet say "come up hither" and then sees Jesus as a lamb having just been slain come up and take the scroll. Some interpret this as "the last trump" in 1 Corinthians 15.

On the contrary, this is the fulfillment of Shavuot. Jesus' ascended on Shavuot. During that there is a voice like a trumpet saying to Moses to come up hither. John is telling us that Jesus fulfilled Shavuot on His ascension.

Now you can apply Ecclesiastes to this, saying that what has been is what will be. And you can also say that John is showing us what will be by what has been. So you can see something that looks like the rapture.

But saying that Shavuot would therefore be the rapture date has massive problems. According to Peter no verse is of its own interpretation.

When Jesus said no one knows the day and hour to the disciples they all knew the day and hour of Shavuot. Jeremiah said that "summer is over and the harvest is past and we are not saved" in a verse that many apply to the left behind after the rapture, that would not fit. Jesus told the Jews to pray that their flight be not in the winter. No doubt many have prayed that and when you pray according to the will of God it will be answered. Yet this would make the ministry of the two witnesses end 42 months later in the winter. Shavuot is not on a full moon and yet Proverbs 7 says the good man returns on the full moon. Samson pushed out the two pillars on a sacrifice to Dagon. That would indicate a pagan holiday associated with the Catholic church. There is no such holiday on Shavuot.

On the contrary Shavuot fits perfectly with several events for the Jews. Shavuot in 2025 is exactly 2300 days from Feast of Trumpets in 2031. According to Daniel this is the period of time required to cleanse the sanctuary to prepare for the coming of the King. You would expect that as soon as this is done they would blow the trumpets on Feast of Trumpets to announce the coming of the king. Also in Hosea Jesus leaves the temple, that would be the day of ascension and then at the end of two days he comes back to the mount of Olives, that would also be Shavuot in 2031, on the third day He raises them up, that would be Shavuot 2032. At that point the curse is over and the Jews can come up out of their graves. That is depicted by the 15th of Av. That should be 7 years and six months after the rapture (David reigned in Hebron for 7 years and six months). But if you have the rapture on Shavuot of 2025, then that would be the beginning of December of 2032, which is nothing on the Jewish calendar).