From: Marilyn Agee
Re: "The Rapture Riddle?"
Tom Gaston, 14 May 04http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2004/tomg514-2.htm
Hi:
> > "In day the third"
> > I think that this phrase "Holds a riddle" within its spelling.I think you are right about the riddle. I'm glad you see it. Heb. 11:16 says of Abraham and some other named saints, "now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." This city is the heavenly New Jerusalem.
That is interesting when I read Gen. 22:4's "on the third day Abraham lifted up (nasa, to lift up, carry away) his eyes, and saw the place afar off" (i.e., Heaven).
I think Heaven is Saturn, Heb., Shabbatai, i.e., the Sabbath, the 7th, the time of rest. According to Josephus (Ant. III.VI. 7), Saturn is the 7th lamp on the candlestick, the Sun being the first. In II Cor. 12, 1-7, Paul was caught up (harpazo, i.e., raptured) to the third heaven (1. Mars, 2. Jupiter, and 3. Saturn). It would be neat if we are to be caught up to the third heaven on the third day, when the Comet NEAT is overhead looking down on Saturn, Mars and the Moon in Gemini. I think we would be caught up to Saturn in Gemini, fulfilling Eph. 2:6. It says, "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." The Bride and Bridegroom sit together on the ecliptic in Gemini. I think we will actually sit together on Saturn in Gemini.
If Abraham, Sarah, Abel, Enoch and NOAH all are resurrected and then see the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, on the third day, then we will see it on the third day. Heb. 11:40 says, that God has "provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." I Thess. 4:16,17 says, "the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (harpazo, snatched away, i.e., raptured) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
That's not all. Gen. 31:22 says, "it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled." Jacob (type of Christ) fled with his wives.
There are several passages that may prefigure the Rapture being on the third day. Ex. 19:11 says, "be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai." Verse 15 repeats for emphasis, "Be ready against the third day."
Ex. 19:16 says, "it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud". Christ's voice is "as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither" (Rev. 4:1).
Lev. 7:18 says, "if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity." When the Rapture is "at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still" (Rev. 22:10,11). There will come a time when the foolish virgins have waited too long to replenish the oil of the Holy Spirit.
I Sam. 20:5 could be a type of the Rapture on Sivan 3. In it, "David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon (i.e., Sivan 1), and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field (i.e., the world) unto the third day at even." Verses 18-22 say, "Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon (i.e., Sivan 1): and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. And when thou hast stayed three days (i.e., Sivan 1, 2 and 3), then thou shalt go down (i.e., the Old Testament saints come down with Christ at the Rapture) quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark. And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth. But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away."
II Kings 20:5,8-11 says, "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah (meaning the might of Yahweh) the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD ....Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day? And Isaiah said, This SIGN shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz (meaning possessor)."
Ahaz, "his idolatrous propensities induced him to take the pattern of a heathen altar and have one like it built in Jerusalem. Upon his return he offered upon the altar, closed the temple, removed its sacred utensils, and raised shrines to heathen deities everywhere" (Unger's Bible Dictionary. p. 32). Ahaz sounds like a type of the Satan-possessed False Prophet.
Esther 5:1 says, "Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther (meaning star, secret) put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate (i.e., door) of the house."
Hos. 6:2 says, "After two days (i.e., Sivan 1 and 2) will he revive us: in the third day (i.e., Sivan 3) he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
> > What if God is showing that the "Rapture" of the church takes place on the "Third day of the week" , which is a "Tuesday"... > > I see this as a "riddle." This is exciting in light of "Ascension Day" being on May 18th, which is a "Tuesday" this year.This very well could be the riddle that God is showing in this phrase "In day the third." Even If the lord doesn't come on ascension day, it changes NOTHING in respect to the possiblity? of Him returning on a future Tuesday, which is the"third day of the week."
Please don't draw yourself a limit at Tuesday, the 3rd day of the week. What if it is the 3rd day of the month? Sivan 3 (Sunday, May 22,23 in 2004) is when the Lord came down at Sinai. Sunday is when the Lord himself was resurrected, and we are the Body of Christ of which he is the head.
The night of May 22/23 is the night that the Moon, Saturn and Mars are in a huddle in Gemini, the twins. Jupiter is in Leo. Jesus said that it would be as in the days of Noah. When Noah went into the Ark and the Lord shut him in, Saturn was in Gemini, and Jupiter was in Leo. Saturn was also in Gemini when Jesus was resurrected and ascended to Heaven.
The 1st Rapture is the FIRST TRUMP OF GOD (I Thess. 4:16). Sivan 3 is when the FIRST TRUMPET of the Bible sounded. Ex. 19:16 says, "it came to pass on THE THIRD DAY (Sivan 3) IN THE MORNING, THAT THERE WERE THUNDERS AND LIGHTNINGS, AND A THICK CLOUD UPON THE MOUNT, AND THE VOICE OF THE TRUMPET EXCEEDING LOUD." In Rev. 4:1, "the first voice which I heard (Christ, Rev. 1:10) was as it were of a TRUMPET TALKING WITH ME, WHICH SAID, COME UP HITHER."
> > "Ascension Day May 18th, 2004, a Tuesday, the "third day of the week!" > > Lets hope and pray that this is the day of our departure!
If not, please consider Sivan 3, May 22,23.
Agape,
Marilyn Agee
mjagee@pe.net
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