Dan,

The comments below are from Marilyn Agee on Chanukah...she may wrongly teach there are two Raptures, but the analysis is excellent on Chanunkah 2006. 2006 is the only year relating to the story of Noah in all history, and Tng's magnificent article on the Five Doves site on the Psalm 106 / Revelations 19 marriage supper ends this year, and Iran will not wait to attack Israel for two more years to fulfill Ezekiel 38-39.

There cannot be a Rapture in 2007 as 2008 is a double Adar year with five months until the New Year vs four months in Haggai which clearly teaches four months prior for the Rapture( see Below for understanding) . That would make the next possible Hanukkah Rapture in late 2008.

But George Bush 2 is actually the 42nd president ( Buchanan served two non consecutive terms), and many have prophesied the Rapture will happen during his second term, and 42 means COMING OF THE LORD in Hebrew, and his term ends in 2008. Lester Sumrall prophesied that the Lord would come for His Children not more than 100 years from when the Holy Spirit was poured out in 1906 in America.

Clearly Rosh Hashanah is when the church returns to earth in 2017, and those three feasts are for the remnant Jews....Hanukkah is 8 days long meaning Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew/Greek gematria. He is the light of the world and the Oil lasted 8 days in a miracle..and Matthew 25 discusses the door is closed to the tares at the Rapture..as the tares do not know HIM...the wheat is harvested and the tares are discarded...many "virgins" attend church, are not born of His Spirit , do not walk in obedience, lack understanding of the Word, and are not seeking His coming with their entire being as the # 1 priority.

Shalom,

Bruce Kessler

I hope the Rapture will be Cheshvan 17 (Nov. 8 in 2006), when Noah entered the Ark and it began to rain, and it could be then. In Mt. 24:37, Jesus just indicated that it would be as the days of Noah. Noah lived until 2006 AH. The Flood was in 1656, and he lived another 350 years. That makes 2006 AD sound like it could be the year of the Rapture.

However, I now think the end of the 40 days of rain is most likely. The number 40 means testing and probation. At the end of the 40 days would be at the end of a time of testing and probation for us. By the 40th day of rain in Noah's day, the Ark had floated free of the ground, as we will do at the Rapture at the end of our time of testing and probation.

All of Jesus' comings may have to do with the rain. In Hosea 6:3, we find out that Jesus will come as the former and latter rain in the first month, but that is at the First Advent on Tishri 1 and the Second Advent on Nisan 1, not necessarily at the Rapture. Yet, the Rapture is a coming, it's just in the air, not on the ground. We are to rise up and meet him in the air. When does rain have anything to do with rising up? Near the end of the 40 days of rain in Noah's day, those eight people were raised up. The Ark was finally floating on the face of the waters, free of the ground.

I keep thinking about how Haggai kept emphasizing Kislev 24, Hannukah Eve. From that date and upwards, the Lord will bless someone. If the Rapture would take place 6 hours later, at midnight, as in the parable of the wise virgins, it would happen on Hanukkah.

Haggai 2:10 says, "In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve), in the second year of Darius, came the WORD of the LORD..." Rev. 19:13 says that Jesus' "name is called The Word of God'. Could Haggai 2:10 hint that the Lord would come on Kislev 24 at the time of the Rapture? Maybe not by itself, but look at Haggai 2:18-23.

It says, "Consider now from this day and UPWARD, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Kislev 24), even from the day that the foundation (Jesus) of the LORD'S temple (temple of the Holy Spirit, the church) was laid (Jesus was conceived on Kislev 24), consider it. Is THE SEED (Jesus, Gen. 3:15) yet in the barn? yea (yes, Jesus was conceived), as yet the vine (Jesus), and the fig tree (Israel), and the pomegranate (Bride, Song of Solomon), and the olive tree (with Gentiles grafted in), hath NOT BROUGHT FORTH (NASA, LIFTED UP, i.e., not on Cheshvan 17?): from this day (i.e., on Kislev 25, Hanukkah, and following?) will I bless you" (the temple of the Holy Spirit).

There are two Raptures.....Haggai 2:20-23 could be talking about the second one, the Rapture of the Tribulation saints. It says, "And AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will (future tense, i.e., at the end of the shortened Great Tribulation) shake the heavens and the earth; And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. In that day (i.e., the Feast of Trumpets), saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee (i.e., at the Rapture of the Tribulation saints), O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts." The LORD of hosts is Christ, the Redeemer. He is both the LORD King of Israel and the LORD of hosts (Isa. 44:6).

The 40th day of rain was Kislev 27. Will the Rapture take place on Kislev 25, 26 and 27? According to how the weight was distributed, the Ark may have taken three days to entirely be free of the ground. Those three days will be Dec. 16, 17 and 18 in 2006. We don't have long to wait to see if the Rapture takes place this Hanukkah.

Hanukkah is four months before barley harvest (Teveth, Shevat, Adar and Nisan). That ties in with John 4:35. Jesus said, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." It is the first harvest, that of barley, because barley turns white at harvest time. Barley was harvested after the first omer was offered on Firstfruits, Nisan 16. The 4 months would NOT fit a Rapture on Cheshvan 17, when Noah entered the Ark.

My after-thoughts

The Hebrew word nasa means lift up. In our days, NASA lifts people up in the space shuttle. Gen 7:17 says, "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up (nasa, lifted up) the ark, and it was lift up above the earth."

Not only does nasa mean lifted up, it also means marry. That seems significant, for all the people lifted up in the Ark were married. All the animals even went into the Ark in pairs. In our days, the Bride of Christ will be the group lifted up in the Pre-Trib Rapture.

It was at the Feast of Dedication that Jesus said, "MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE." Will the Bride of Christ keep Hanukkah, the Feast of the Dedication, in Heaven?

John 10:22-28 says, "IT WAS AT JERUSALEM THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND IT WAS WINTER. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME: AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH".

My reply

Thanks. This alignment does seem significant. In Gen 1:14, "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".

Nov. 16 is Cheshvan 25. One month later is Dec. 16, Kislev 25, Hannakah. The 40th day of the rain in Noah's day ends on Kislev 27, Dec. 18.

My reply

Thanks for the interesting article. I missed the show on TV. I was trying all day yesterday and until 2 AM today to get online. I got up at 4:15 AM and my computer was finally online, and I uploaded Pro and Con 1302. Whew! That wasn't easy. The IP address was not assigned to my computer.

> > A red ribbon was tied in the horns of the scapegoat. When the goat was led out before the people, if God accepted the sacrifice, the ribbon would miraculously turn white as a reminder of the promise that “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isa. 1:18). It is most interesting that for the forty years between the sacrifice of Yeshua and the destruction of the Temple, the scarlet ribbon did not turn white!

> > Forty years before the Temple was destroyed the chosen lot was not picked with the right hand, nor did the crimson stripe turn white, nor did the westernmost light burn; and the doors of the Temple’s Holy Place swung open by themselves, until Rabbi Yochanon ben Zakkai spoke saying: “O most Holy Place, why have you become disturbed? I know full well that your destiny will be destruction, for the prophet Zechariah ben Iddo has already spoken regarding you saying: 'Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour the cedars'” (Zech. 11:1). (Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 39b)

The 40 years from 30 to 70 AD may parallel the 40 years from 1967 to 2007. In 30 AD, the Temple was there. In 70 AD, the Temple was gone.

The parallel in our days could be that in 1967, Israel regained the Temple Mount. We, as the Temple of the Holy Spirit are here. In 2007, the Temple of the Holy Spirit will be gone. The upcoming Hanukkah (starting Kislev 25 and lasting 8 days, Dec. 16-23, 2006) will be the last Jewish feast in 2006.

In John 4:35, Jesus said, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest (barley harvest in Nisan)? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." Barley turns white at harvest time. The 4 months would be Kislev, Teveth, Shevat and Adar. There could be no Adar II, and 5767 is not a Jewish Leap Year. Those 4 months fit perfectly this year, 5767. They do not fit in 5768, because it is a Leap Year with the 13th month (Adar II).

Between 30 and 70 AD, the temple door opened every night in spite of it taking 20 men to close it, in spite of it's bolt going down into solid rock. It had to be a miracle of God that it opened. The door ties in with Rev. 3:8. Jesus has set before us an open door. Is it open the last 40 years we are here?

The Rapture is to be as the days of Noah (Mt. 24:37). Noah was shut into the Ark on Cheshvan 17. Forty days later, on Kislev 27, the 40 days of rain ended. By that time, the water had floated the Ark free of the ground. Will we be lifted up just prior to Kislev 27 (Dec. 18, 2006)?

Haggai 2:18,19 says, "Consider now from this day and UPWARD, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Kislev 24, Hannukah Eve), even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed (the good seed) yet in the barn (the Lord's)? yea, as yet the vine (Jesus), and the fig tree (Israel), and the pomegranate, and the olive tree (into which Gentiles can be grafted in), hath NOT brought forth (nasa, LIFTED UP, i.e., at the Rapture): from this day (Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve) will I bless you."

The foundation of New Jerusalem has on it the names of the apostles (Rev. 21:14), and they will be part of the Pre-Trib Rapture. The 24 elders seated on thrones in Rev. 4:4 are the 12 patriarchs and the 12 apostles.

In Matthew 13:23, Jesus said, "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and BRINGETH FORTH, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

This year, the days following Hanukkah Eve are Kislev 25, 26 and 27. The 27th is the 40th day following Cheshvan 17, when Noah was shut into the Ark and it began to rain. The Rapture just might take place during those three days, our Dec. 16, 17 and 18. There is a good chance that the Ark lifted up during Kislev 25, 26 and 27. Agape Pro and Con 1304

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