A SURPRISING NEW RAPTURE DATEBy Marilyn Agee, 12-23-2007IT LOOKS LIKE THE SEVEN TRUMPETS SOUNDED ATJERICHO TO SHOW US THE DAY OF THE FIRST-TRUMP RAPTUREI was blind, but now I see. I'm excited. The type is perfect. To set the month, God bookended Israel's 40 years of probation in the desert with two astonishing miracles that are hard to miss. Joshua 4:23 explains, "THE LORD YOUR GOD DRIED UP THE WATERS OF JORDAN FROM BEFORE YOU, UNTIL YE WERE PASSED OVER, AS THE LORD YOUR GOD DID TO THE RED SEA, WHICH HE DRIED UP FROM BEFORE US, UNTIL WE WERE GONE OVER". Both miracles took place in the Lord's month, Nisan. That is significant. I have a whole new perspective on this.In our days, the 40 years of probation that followed the Sign of the End of the Age, the Six-Day War of 5727 (1967) expired Tishri 1, 5767 (Sept. 13, 2007). We are standing between the 40 years of probation and the First-Trump Rapture. Is there any way to figure how long we will have to wait? Will it be next Pentecost? If you had asked me last week, I would have thought it would be Pentecost, but now, I think it will be before that. I doubt that we will see another Pentecost.We seem to be in Daniel's "TIME OF THE END." If so, this can be when "the wise shall understand." Dan. 12:10 says, "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." I hope I am one of the wise. I have been trying to understand for a long time, since at least 1960.God uses types. Job 11:6 says, "THE SECRETS OF WISDOM...THEY ARE DOUBLE TO THAT WHICH IS!." Eccl. 1:9 says, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."What happens at the Pre-Trib Rapture? 1 Thess. 4:16-18 says, "the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT, with the voice of the archangel, and WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."The Lord will shout, and the trump of God will sound. When has a trumpet sounded? It sounded first at Mt. Sinai on Pentecost, one reason I thought the Rapture would be on Pentecost. Trumpets sounded after the 40 years were over, at Jericho, which means "HIS MONTH." That month is probably Nisan, when his crucifixion and resurrection took place, and when the Second Advent will take place.Thinking of Jericho, it seems as if God circled Jericho on the map 13 times. He had the Israelites circle it once a day for 6 days, then 7 times on the 7th day. And when did the priests blow the trumpets? on the 7th day, and that was in Nisan. Things are coming together.Joshua 4:19 says, "the people came up out of Jordan on THE TENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH, and encamped in Gilgal (wheel, rolling), in the east border of Jericho" (his month). That's NISAN 10, the day the Passover Lamb was to be chosen.Joshua 5:8-15 says, "when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal (wheel, rolling) unto this day. And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY of the month at even (when the 14th began at 6 PM on Nisan 13) in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover (ON NISAN 15, THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD), unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And THE MANNA CEASED on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the ! land of Canaan that year. And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but AS CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD AM I NOW COME. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so."Joshua 6:2-5 says, "the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And YE SHALL COMPASS THE CITY, all ye men of war, and GO ROUND ABOUT THE CITY ONCE. THUS SHALT THOU DO SIX DAYS (NISAN 15-20). And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and THE SEVENTH DAY (NISAN 21) YE SHALL COMPASS THE CITY SEVEN TIMES, AND THE PRIESTS SHALL BLOW WITH THE TRUMPETS. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the t! rumpet, ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and THE PEOPLE SHALL ASCEND UP EVERY MAN STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM."Joshua 6:15,16 says, "And it came to pass on the SEVENTH DAY (NISAN 21), that they rose early ABOUT THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, SHOUT, FOR THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE CITY."What do you think? Is Nisan 21 the day of the First-Trump Rapture? NISAN 21, 5768, will be SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008. I have wondered why there were 7 days of unleavened bread and only one for Passover. Now it makes sense. The blue 21 that Valerie and John Tng saw make sense too.Why did the Lord give us two lengths for a generation? 40 years and 48.33 years (Mt. 1:17). It seems that the 40-year generation leads us to the time of the First-Trump Rapture, and the 48.33 year generation (Mt. 1:17) leads us to the exact date for the Last-Trump Rapture, the Pre-Wrath Rapture. That date is Monday, Tishri 1, 5776, September 14, 2015).Deuteronomy 16:8 says, "Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein." This year, Nisan 21 is on the Sabbath.Hebrews 12:23-25 tells us about the general assembly in Heaven. It says, "To the general (or festal) assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven". This is the day of the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation saints.Mark 13:27 says of this day, "And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the EARTH (i.e., those caught up in the Pre-Wrath Rapture) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN" (those that were caught up previously in the Pre-Trib Rapture).Ruth is a type of the Gentile church. She and Naomi "came to Bethlehem in the beginning of BARLEY HARVEST" (Ruth 1:22). The night that she was chosen by Boaz, "he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor" (Ruth 3:2). The barley harvest starts on Firstfruits, Nisan 16. If the first Rapture is Nisan 21, the 7th day of Unleavened Bread, the Bride of Christ is the "barley," not the wheat. To apply the type to all of the Bride of Christ, Boaz gave Ruth "six measures of barley" (Ruth 3:17). Six is the number of man.Mt. 13:30 says, "Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn." Binding the tares in bundles probably refers to dividing the world into ten regions, each with a king. Thus, the wheat would represent the Tribulation saints caught up in the "last trump" Rapture on the Day of the Lord, which is also the Day of God's Wrath.
This fits Luke 3:17. It says, "Whose fan is
in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable." Both the LAST-TRUMP RAPTURE and God's wrath happen on the same day, but the Pre-Wrath Rapture precedes the wrath of God being poured out on the unbelievers left on Earth.I should have caught on before this. In 1998, the field of wheat near me was not harvested on Pentecost. I had heard so many times that we were the wheat that I didn't understand what had happened. The shepherd with his flock of sheep went their way without event too. Today, a park has been built in that field. a new library and what looks like a gym are being constructed. A couple of Little League ball fields have been in use for quite awhile. More are under construction. The wheat was harvested in the late summer. I wish I could remember the date. It might tie in with the Tishri 1 Rapture. The Lord was trying to tell me something, and I failed to understand it for a long time. Now, I finally get the picture.
Love,Marilyn