Posted on 04/26/2021 6:40:36 PM PDT by ransomnote
Well, if he knew his Bible he'd know that's an exercise in futility.
I guess it makes for a good hobby but Jesus made it clear that trying to determine when the end will come is a waste of time.
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
~Mathew 24:36~
Where in scripture are we told to search out the rapture date?
I appreciate your heartfelt message, including your statement of faith based on the continuing irrepressible love of God. I do not appreciate the rather harsh comments from people who seem to represent themselves as believers, or at least Biblically knowledgeable. Love above all. It isn’t difficult to perceive and receive a lot of love in your writing, and I thank you for that. You are right. We stay in the battle because The Father guides us...but as you understand, it is HIS battle, not ours against each other. So loving them, too, I hope they come to see and experience love as The Father offers without blemish. I notice that you do!
Lev 23 gives us God's rehearsal days or Moed's. This is His "appointed times to do things important in His story, or history. On Pentecost after His Resurrection, the church was born with the giving of the Holy Spirit. 3500 year before the Law was given on Pentecost on Mt Sinai.
What we are waiting for next is the rapture. The next Feast Day or appointed time is Trumpets. A clue here is the Jews call Trumpets many names and one of them is the "Day no one knows the Day or the Hour". All the Feast days except Trumpets fall in the middle of the month with nearly a full moon. Trumpets is the only day that always falls on a New Moon. They know approximately the day it will become visible so they post 2 priests on the Temple wall to watch for the New Moon. When they first see the New Moon, they start blowing the shofar. It could even be seen in the middle of the day. They blow the shofar 99 times and then the "Last Trump" is blown as a blast as long as they have breath.
Scripture tells us that after the Last Trump we will all be changed and rise. The only time we can hear the Last Trump is on Trumpets. The "First Trump" happens on Pentecost and the "Great Trump" is on Atonement. So we know that the Rapture will be on some future Feast of Trumpets after the Last Trump. Normally, there are 10 days from Trumpets to Atonement (Judgement Day). The Tribulation will be so bad, God will shorten the days to 7 years so some flesh will survive. Judgement Day will pass and Tabernacles will come with Jesus coming to live with His people for 1000 years.
Knowing God keeps His promises and He will keep His date with Trumpets, we just need to know which one. It could be a Jubilee year because many things spoken of in the Last days will have Jubilee themes.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This points to the importance of the 7th day Sabbath. after 6000 years, we will have a seventh day rest for 1000 years. The Hebrew calendar says we are at 5782 I believe. That means it should happen in the next 200 or so years. The last Jubilee year was 2017 I believe. It doesn't have to be a Jubilee year for RAPTURE OR 2ND Coming, but it will be a year for restoration which is a Jubilee theme.
Other things we know is there needs to be a Temple for the Antichrist to desolate so I believe it will be before the 3rd Temple is built. If the 3rd Temple gets built, we should be gone by then or my Bible reading is wrong. In Rev 4:1, John said I heard a voice behind me "like a trumpet" that said "come up here". IMO, that is the Rapture of the Bride of Christ. The elders sing the song of the Redeemed in chapter 5, so that would be Christians. Another name for Trumpets is Ha Kiddushin or Messiah’s Wedding. We have to be there to get married. There may be some sign in the Heavens to announce the Rapture, but we always have to recognize the difference between Rapture and the 2nd Coming. There doesn't have to be any sign at all before the Trumpet Blast. There are many signs for the 2nd Coming, but by then it's too late for believers to catch the train out of here. IMO, the first seal cut by Jesus is the advent of the Antichrist, then the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse. The 5th seal is the death of saints that are left behind from the Rapture. They are the foolish virgins of Mat 25. They are servants not the Bride of Christ. The church At Philadelphia is the Bride that misses the Tribulation.(Rev 3:10) All other churches will experience the Antichrist because Jesus had something against them and they fell short. The ones that don't take the mark but die for Christ will be in Rev 6:9-11. You can die for Christ "spiritually" at Baptism, or die for Him physically in the Tribulation, but eventually you must die for Christ to live forever.
Mat 16:25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
If you take the mark you will die of plague and go to hell.
Some of the alternate names for Trumpets are:
Rosh HaShanah or New Year’s Day (Jews believe the earth was created on this day)
Yom HaTeruah or Day of Awakening (this day is an alarm for earth)
Yom HaDin or Day of Judgment
HaMelech or Coronation of Messiah
Ha Kiddushin or Messiah’s Wedding
Yom HaZikkaron or Day of Remembrance
Chevlai Shel Mashiaach or Birth pangs of Messiah
Yom Hakeseh or The Hidden Day (this is what Christians can’t seem to learn)
Yom Teruah or Day of Blowing (a trumpet can call you to assembly or blow alarm for others)
It is known as the time of Jacobs Trouble because the Tribulation will start here.
The Day of the Awakening Blast will cause the Rapture of the saints. Whether the Tribulation starts on the same day or year as the Rapture, we don’t know.
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Scripture mentions Trump? I should have known.
As an example of what you are asking, Daniel was told in chapter 9 to measure the time between the time Nehemiah was told to repair Jerusalem and the time the Messiah rode a donkey's colt into the Temple announcing His Kingship over the Jews. That time would be 69 weeks of years x 360 day Hebrew calendar year= 173,880 days. If the Jews were counting their days, they would have know it was their Messiah riding that colt on that day. The Pharisees even scolded Jesus to stop the people from singing Psalm 118 to the coronation of the King and Jesus said if they don't the rocks would cry out. Zech 9:9 was an important prophesy the Jews were supposed to be looking for. The next verses tell the tale of not looking for prophesy.
Luk 19:41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luk 19:43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
Luk 19:44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
38 years later in 70AD, Jerusalem and the Temple were completely destroyed. Jesus held them accountable to know Biblical Prophecy. This one verse is the most definite prophesy that proves that Jesus is Messiah. They missed it.
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Sorry, I don’t know “B4L”.
Hey, just sayin. God's man and all that.
Where in the Bible do you find the rapture?
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1%20Thessalonians%204:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
-ESV
Blessings.
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"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.Could be now. Watch and pray. Jesus only says that one cannot know the day or the time of day. What He does not say is that the year or season of the year cannot be predicted according to the Biblical signs that are regularly taking place.
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Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Mar_13:33,44 AV; cf Mt. 24:35).
One such sign is as follows:
"Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Mt. 24:32-34 AV; bolding for emphasis).So, what generation (length 100 years max?) would this be?
Perhaps Matthew 24:7-14 (AV) would give a clue:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.Could that not be now?
Scripture is clear a rapture will accompany the return of Jesus. (The parousia). The idea that some rapture will occur prior to the return of Christ finds no support in scripture.
If he thinks he has found a date of the rapture, he will be 100% wrong, guaranteed.
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