http://www.fivedoves.com/rapture/2007/234rapture.htm
 
   This is all very interesting and no doubt true. My question is, are you sure April 5 is THE RAPTURE DAY? Maybe it is simply, FIRSTFRUITS DAY, the day the dead in Christ rise as the firstfruits. The Bible does not say the dead rise and we who remain meet them in the air at the exact same moment. I believe there is a space of time between the two events, which would follow the New Testament example of the dead being resurrected, being seen for 40 days, THEN ascending with Christ on Ascension Day, which will correspond to May 17 this year.
    I am sharing these thoughts with you all as a possible scenario, just in case there is a great earthquake on April 5 and we are privileged to see and speak with the resurrected dead in Christ for some time before we are raptured. So if April 5 is NOT the rapture day, but there is a worldwide earthquake and the dead in Christ are resurrected, then we will know that very soon after we WILL meet them in  the air. Do not be discouraged, but rather be ENCOURAGED.
   These are my thoughts, based upon Bible examples of both Jesus's resurrection and the days of Noah, which began on Nov. 8. 2006. The 40 days the rains fell ended on Dec 17, 2006, then the 150 days the Bible says the ark was lifted up before coming to rest will end exactly on May17, 2007, which is Ascension Day on the Christian calendar. Someone posted recently that May 14 is Ascension Day on the Jewish calendar, so there is some uncertainty, but no matter what, I believe April 5 is a BIG day, certainly a marker of something significant to occur.
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Thanks, Ellen. You could be right. I hope something major happens this Easter.
John