Steve and doves,This is only thing in my mind that would hold back the rapture this year, it's the fact that the Saros year preceded His birth and resurrection and it could again, ref. Psalm 19! This year begins the Saros year again. . .THE SAROS: 7 ECLIPSES IN A 12 MONTH + SPAN NUMBER TYPE DATE
1 Solar, partial, Saturday (Shabbat) February 17, 2007
2 Lunar, Saturday (Shabbat) March 3, 2007
3 Solar, partial, Monday March 19, 2007
4 Lunar, Tuesday, August 28, 2007
5 Solar, partial, Tuesday, September 11, 2007
6 Solar, FULL, Thursday, February 7, 2008
7 Lunar, Thursday, February 21, 2008I would love to hear your thoughts on this along with the other doves. . .Below are some links to studies on this from people much smarter than me. . .The main sign that holds me to 2007 spring rapture is the sign of the Fig Tree June 6-7, 1967 + 40 years, the pattern is unmistakable.If the rapture does not happen this year, then we will know exactly when it happens next year! Ascension day 2008.Also if it (the rapture) doesn't happen this year, I think a revival/blessings. . .(remember Eleazar gave gifts to Rebecca, Boaz favored Ruth before he married her, I'm sure there are other examples). . .may still break forth some time this spring but it will be nothing compared to the revival that will happen after we are raptured. I see things turning around already, just hold on I think things are about to turn around.. . .to me, I don't need anything but Him, for He is my exceedingly great reward, I love Him so much and my reward is in heaven. . . .I am already so blessed. . .but knowing Him and how much He loves us, I would not be surprised if some really nice blessings come our way before He comes back for us, for He knows who belongs to Him and who really loves Him. . . the passage from Ephesians 5 gives me a clue to this. . .25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might PRESENT it to himself a GLORIOUS church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.We shall see. . .In Bonnie Gaunt's jubilee study she speaks of a great victory for Israel happening sometime in 2007 using the golden proportion, this revival/blessings could be what she is talking about if the rapture does not happen or it could be the rapture that she is talking about. . .we shall soon see!Bonnie's study below. . .Cindy