Tony Ellsworth (5 Feb 2007)
"Rapture thoughts, pregnancy..."


I accidentally did a date search from 6 A.D. – February 2nd 2007.  What caught my attention about this is it is 2000 years and a little over 9 months.  Doing some further research I found that Wikipedia had a date for Jesus’ birth at 6 A.D.  This would be 2000 years plus the right time for a birth.  Hmmm…

I did a search on pregnancy in the Bible.  Only one scripture came up with the word birth.  Hosea 9:11 (9/11 of course being significant to the U.S.)  I know that it has been said that Ephraim may be the United States.  In verse 11 it says their glory will fly away like a bird – no birth, no pregnancy and no conception.  In verse 8 it says that they were to be a watchman.  It sounds like what we experience today with the Church.  They are to be a watchman and like Israel bear fruit, but have done neither.  Maybe this will lead to the rapture and flying away and the start of the Great Tribulation????

8Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
         Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
         And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
    9They have gone (T)deep in depravity
         As in the days of (U)Gibeah;
         He will (V)remember their iniquity,
         He will punish their sins.
    10I found Israel like (W)grapes in the wilderness;
         I saw your forefathers as the (X)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season
         But they came to (Y)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [a](Z)shame,
         And they became as (AA)detestable as that which they loved.
    11As for Ephraim, their (AB)glory will fly away like a bird--
         No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!