Dear John,
I've read your article at least three times, and must admit most of it towers WAY above my head mathematically!  God has truly gifted you and others in this regard.  I know you, however, must find this absolutely fascinating and amazing that God reveals His plans to you in this way.

I am much more simple, it seems.  Last year I simply asked the Lord to show me if the Rapture would occur in my lifetime.  The only answer I received was "The fields are ripe for harvest."  After reading your post again yesterday, this verse was brought to mind.  Last night, since I couldn't sleep for thinking about the Rapture, I looked up this verse.  It is in John 4:35, and reads:

Do you not say, 'Four months more (emphasis mine) and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

This suddenly became clearer to me in light of the barley harvest (Friedrich Wenz' post of March 20th in which the barley has been sighted in Israel).  Based on the above verse and your calculations of April being a possible Rapture date, the time of the barley harvest would coincide with the Rapture dates of 4/5 or 4/6, as the fields are now RIPE for harvest.

Thank you, John and Vincent Tan, as well as others, for their painstaking research and prayer regarding the Rapture, and for watching for us.  May we meet soon, very soon, in the air!

Ysic, Rhonda
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Interesting, Rhonda! You couldn't have picked a more rapture-related chapter. John 4 is the 72nd chapter of the New Testament; it divides the 117 (Nisan 17; 1-17) chapters of the 5 History books of the New Testament into 72+45 chapters; the two numbers, 72 & 45, contain the non-zero digits of my rapture pick -- 4-5-2007!

April, the FOURTH month of the year, is intimated by the FOUR months recorded in chapter FOUR of the FOURTH Gospel!

John