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The omniscience of the Lord, His guiding hand, and His divinity are scattered throughout the pages. We know in our hearts that He is bigger than we understand but we tend to make Him pocket sized. We do not trust the supernatural, we doubt the still small voice, we dismiss miracles as coincidence. This is a grievous offense and has no place in a believer's heart or life. For His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts.
So God shows up in a BIG way and I begin to eat the strong meat of this Word. I highly encourage everyone to read the prophetic word in the Harbinger, it is from that worldview that I write. I will also assume that you have a fundamental understanding of End Times Prophecy because this will be a blog, not a scholarly article citing chapter and verse. It is truth from this Pre-Tribulation believers point of reference and any small error I may make will be entirely my own. My blog, my rules.
Every seven years Elul 29th is the end of the Shemittah or Sabbath year. All accounts are wiped away and all debits and credits are returned to zero. This command is only given to Israel but starting with 9/17/01, it came into play in America. We had the largest stock market crash in our history to date, 6 days past 9/11. This was our warning, repent and turn back to God. We failed. Seven years later, on Elul 29 (9/29/08), we had a global economic collapse. We were called to repent as a nation, we did not. Prophetic circles began to buzz, what would the next Shemittah year end Elul 29th bring? What date is it? (I need to remember to set a calendar reminder to divest before 9/13/15). The date happens to always herald Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of the Trumpets.
This made me go, hmmmm.... it has long been surmised that the Rapture of the Church would take place on Rosh Hashanah, what better time than during all that trumpet blowing? So I keep digging and I find there is a solar eclipse on the same date. Sun signs are signs to the world and Moon signs are signs to Israel, so this date holds significance for both Jews and Gentiles. The solar eclipse sent me to the Heavens....
Genesis clearly tells us that He created the stars, the sun, the moon to be signs for us. Not surprisingly, there is some pretty amazing stuff in the celestial calendars for the past few years and in the next couple of years; the researcher in me was on a roll. Now, after the Fall, the Natural World was tainted by the stain of sin. We live in a fallen world where EVERYTHING (except the Word of God) is tainted. If you are going to investigate anything in truth, you must first deal with the sin element in it. The sin element in astronomy is astrology and the Christian church has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. We ignore it, we don't teach it, and frankly, we just don't understand it. The Lord himself said numerous times that there will be signs in the heavens and that we are fools to not look for them.
This is where you need to be careful, well the whole subject requires care, but I have to point out here that when Jesus speaks directly about the Second Coming, he is talking to Israel not the Church. The Second Coming and the Rapture are two different events, don't confuse them. Now, I have to restate, when we are talking about the Moon, we are talking about Israel, keep that in mind.
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| Blood Moon |
We had a Blood Moon Tetrad that coincided with the rebirth of Israel in 1948. So Holacaust, then birth of the nation, then BMT 1949-1950. 19 years later, 1967-1968 we have the Yom Kippur war or the 6 day war and Israel regains their capital, Jerusalem. 48 years later, we have another BMT 2014 - 2015.
Coincidentally this is the second time the spacing between triple occurrences has been 19-48, the year Israel was born again. If you play with that number you see that by adding 1948 years to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD you get 2018. Folks in 2009 and 2010 were using this figure to predict a 2011 Rapture... we see where that got them... still here. I am not trying to set dates, what I am trying to do is to get you to THINK.
There are youtube videos and charts everywhere but I couldn't find one that had everything I wanted to publish. My handwritten notes and charts won't cut it, I may not be a professional, but I do have my standards... I encourage you to watch the video and check out some of the charts, do your own research. A number of charts have great info but some enterprising soul determined we were going to be Raptured in 2011 or 2012 and they may have false information on them. Others are pdf formatted only and blogger won't let me embed a pdf file, so for all you visual folks check out the below:
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| Lunar and Solar Chart 2014-2015 |
It is also noteworthy that in the 7 weeks model of Daniel, the number of days in a 7 week period is 17640. Using the Biblical calendar we see that 9/23/2015 is exactly 17640 days from the recapture of Jerusalem on 6/7/1967. Which happens to be on Yom Kippur.
Now, I'd like to be Raptured as much as any believer reading this blog, I'd like it to be today. While the above information is intriguing there are two celestial signs in Revelation 12 that I am not convinced we can pinpoint. It takes place at the exact middle of the Tribulation and corresponds chronologically with the Abomination of Desolation. "A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars". Computer models can place the Woman but not "a huge red dragon,with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems" where "the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth." Now can God make a dragon appear in the sky when he wants it too? Yes, of course, he made the one below captured by the Hubble. The point is we have no conclusive evidence of the Dragon that will appear at the same time as the Lady of the Apocalypse.
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| Red Space Captured by Hubble |
The Bible say there will be signs in the Heavens of His return. We often hear quoted in Christendom that "That no man knows the hour or the day of Christs return, only my Father." Did you know that is an idiom for a Jewish Wedding? If I say to you as modern American Christian, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today..." You know I am talking about a wedding. The same is true for "No man knows the hour or the day." In Jewish marital customs after the betrothal the groom returns to his Father's land to build his new bride a home. He was not released to go pick up his bride until his father said the house was ready. When people would ask when he was returning to his bride he would answer, "No man knows the hour or the day only my Father knows." Using that logic we can see that we are not be ignorant.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 Now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape. But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief. For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded.
Again, we are told it is the uninformed that will be surprised, not the elect. If you read carefully, you will see that each time Jesus talks about the End Times he notes the signs in the Heavens and says the wise will see the sights and not be ignorant of His coming, it is only the uninformed that will be surprised.
We as a church are called to be waiting for his return, I for one am keeping my lamp full of oil, how about you?
