Ever since 1998 when Marilyn Agee convinced us of a Pentecost rapture, we have held fast to that persuasion. To our surprise, the Bride is still here, but once again we are looking to this birthday of the church as the "blessed hope."
 
As it approaches, we have been reviewing some of our reasonings:-
1)   Shavout (Pentecost) celebrates the giving of the Torah; the
      experiencing of the Divine (God broke through the natural realm);
      and the hearing of the voice of God.
 
2)   Exodus and Leviticus regard Shavout as a feast of harvest or the
      day of first fruits.
 
3)   The major themes of Shavout are harvest, revelation, and
      marriage between God the groom, and His bride Israel.  In our
      circumstances Jesus is the groom and the bride are the "wise
      virgins" taken out of the church.
 
4)   All of these themes come together in a powerful manner in the
      Book of Ruth at the beginning of the harvest season.
 
5)   The Book of Ruth is traditionally read on Shavout with special
      emphasis given to Ruth when she says "for whither thou goest, I
      will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be
      my people, and thy God, my God."
 
6)   The count to Shavout begins when the sickle is first put to the
      standing grain which we believe is Jesus at Passover.
 
7)   Shavout marks the beginning of the harvest season by bringing in
      the first fruits of the land to the temple... Jesus was the first of
      the first fruits, and we who are watching are candidates for the
      remainder of the first fruits harvest yet to be taken to the temple.
 
Susie and David Parker