Dear friends:

In checking some old files today I ran into the story below from mid-to-late the 1990s sent to me by a mother.  She tells about her 4 1/2-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, one of her daughter’s three small children.  I wonder if the information was valid but with a delayed fulfillment?

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The lady says:
 
In the past year, my daughter has prepared them for the rapture, saying simply, “Jesus is having a party for us in heaven… He’s coming to get us soon…”  and words like, “It’s going to be a surprise… and ‘we’re going to have fun.”  Nothing heavy, and not dwelling on it, just keeping them in remembrance occasionally, when it fits in.
 
Well, Sunday (November 21st) after dinner the middle child, Rebecca, said to her mother, “Mommy, when do you think Jesus is coming to get us for the party?”
 
Her mother said, “Oh, it could be very soon, ‘Becca.”
 
Rebecca said, “Well, I think it will be in 40 days.”
 
Her mother said, “You do?”
 
Rebecca said, “Yes, 40 days!”
 
Rebecca, at her age, has no idea how to figure days or months and has never heard of a “rapture” and certainly not dating.  But she’s close to God.
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NOTE:  Neither the lady and certainly not Rebecca knew that using Jewish inclusive counting, 40 days from November 21st^t landed precisely on Hanakkuh, December 30 in that year,  on the corrected Jewish Calendar.

2006 NOTE: Fast forward a few years, and we find that the day Noah entered the ark (November 8, 2006) + 40 days = Hanakkuh 2006.