Re: Charles Holler: Rapture
From: Marilyn Agee> > It's a common belief that Enoch was raptured on his birthday......could the church be raptured on its birthday.....Pentecost?I think so. Not only does rabbinic tradition say that Enoch was raptured on his birthday, but that his birthday was Sivan 6, like king David's.I was surprised to find out that Sivan 6, 5769, will be May 29, 2009, because our daughter's birthday is May 29. That may not mean anything, but it might. Our son, David, was born on April 6, the Crucifixion date.Someone sent the following to me in May, 1998. I posted it on Pro and Con 107."I have heard Chuck Missler on his Ruth teaching tape and heard him mention the tradition of Enoch being taken on the 6th of Sivan. I noted that you quoted Chuck on your webpage and thought that you would find the following interesting.
"As it turns out I have a book that I purchased quite a few years ago called 'The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden' published by World Bible Publishers, Inc. copyright 1926 ISBN number 0-529-03385-2
"Here is the preface to the Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Page 81)
"'This new fragment of early literature came to light through certain manuscripts which were recently found in Russia and Servia and so far as is yet known has been preserved only in Slavonic. Little is known of its origin except that in its present form it was written somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era. Its final editor was a Greek and the place of its composition Egypt. Its value lies in the unquestioned influence w! hich it has exerted on the writers of the New Testament. Some of the dark passages of the latter being all but inexplicable wihout its aid ...."
"In chapter LXVIII of the Secrets of Enoch it reads as follows:
"(1) Enoch was born on the sixth day of the month Tsivan, and lived three hundred and sixty-five years.
"(2) He was taken up to heaven on the first day of the month Tsivan and remained in heaven sixty days.
"(3) He wrote all these signs of all creation, which the Lord created, and wrote three hundred and sixty-six books, and handed them over to his sons and remained on earth thirty days, and was again taken up to heaven on the sixth day of the month Tsivan, on the very day and hour when he was born.
"So we see another confirmation of the 6th of Sivan date."
For me, I think Pentecost is right for the Rapture for several reasons. We are called wheat and firstfruits, and Pentecost is when the two loaves of leavened bread made from fine wheat flour were to be brought out of their houses, lifted up and waved before the Lord.Mt 13:24-30 says, "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way....Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the TIME OF HARVEST I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN." The time of wheat harvest is Pentecost.Lev 23:17 says, "Ye shall BRING OUT OF YOUR HABITATIONS two WAVE LOAVES of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; THEY ARE THE FIRSTFRUITS UNTO THE LORD." We will come out of our habitations at the time of the Rapture, and we are firstfruits.Leaven is a symbol of sin, but when bread is baked, the loaf becomes light and fluffy, then the leaven is killed by the heat. The amount of rising is controlled by the amount of salt in the dough, and we are also called the salt of the Earth. Therefore, the bread brought out of their habitations is a good symbol of the Rapture.There are two loaves of bread just as people, and animals, went into the Ark in pairs in Noah's day. All the people in the Ark were married, and the Pre-Trib Rapture is for the Bride of Christ.Lev 23:22 fits too. It says, "And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor". The foolish virgins will be left behind at the Pre-Trib Rapture.James 1:18 says, "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of FIRSTFRUITS of his creatures.Ruth 2:23 says that Ruth "kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto THE END OF BARLEY HARVEST and of WHEAT HARVEST". The night that Ruth was chosen to be the bride of Boaz, the kinsman redeemer, he had been winnowing barley. That time could be Pentecost, the end of barley harvest and the beginning of wheat harvest. Also, the Jews read the book of Ruth on Pentecost.
Sivan 6, 5769 (May 29, 2009) is the only feast coming up within the 48-year generation (Mt. 1:17) since 1967's Six Day War (Mt. 24:32-34) that is 2300 days before a Feast of Trumpets in a Jewish Leap Year. We have a good chance to be caught up in the Pre-Trib Rapture on that date. The Feast of Trumpets at the end of the 2300 days will be on Tishri 1, 5776 (Sept 14, 2015). The last year has to be a Leap Year, because there will be 7 months between the Day of God's Wrath on the Feast of Trumpets to the Second Coming on the following Nisan 1, the first day of the Regnal Year. It seems to me that we are running out of other options.Eze. 39:12,13 says, "And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them (Gog's army), that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified (day of the Second Advent, when Jesus returns in glory), saith the Lord GOD." For there to be 7 months between Tishri 1 and Nisan 1, that final year has to be a leap year with the 13th month.Concerning the 2300 days, Dan. 8:13,14 says, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice (first half of the Tribulation), and the transgression of desolation (Mid-Trib), to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot (during the shortened last half of the 7-year Tribulation)? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."The cleansing will be on the Day of God's Wrath (the Feast of Trumpets), when the asteroid of Rev. 8:8 impacts the Mediterranean Sea.I knew this some time ago, but I just hoped the Rapture would be before this. Now, it seems that this may be the only choice we are left with.
Agape,Marilyn Agee