From June 7, 1967 to Pentecost (May 27) 2007 is 14,600 days, ending precisely on Pentecost. The probability of this is astronomical ! This is exactly 40 years of 365 days. 365 is the number of years Enoch was in age when he was raptured. 40 is God's number of testing ( Israel in the desert).

Jesus said this generation shall not pass until all of these things come to pass referring to ours. Here's the biblical definition of a generation:

Jesus was tempted 40 days, "And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan," (Mark 1:12 & 13)

Israel

was 40 years in the wilderness. "Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation, in wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, saw my works forty years." (Hebrews 3:8 & 9) Israel was 40 days when Moses was in the mountain, "and Moses in the mount forty days and forty nights." (Exodus 8)

The following material is courtesy of Marilyn Agee:

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year...the feast of unleavened bread...the feast of harvest (Pentecost), the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles), which is in the end of the year...Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD....The first (i.e., Rapture I) of the firstfruits (all those "redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God," Revelation 14:4) of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God (Exodus 23:14-19)

We are the first of the firstfruits! and Pentecost is when "The FIRST of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God." This seems to be Rapture I. The Bride of Christ is the "FIRST" of the entire Body of Christ, which is the whole "firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb."

In other words, the entire firstfruits is the Body of Christ, but the first of the firstfruits is the Bride of Christ. It looks like the Bride is taken to Heaven in the Pre-Trib Rapture on Pentecost. The remainder of the Body of Christ is caught up to Heaven in the Pre-Wrath Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets, the 2,300th day of the Tribulation.

Hidden in scripture are secrets that are likenesses or duplicates of things that have happened before. History repeats itself by the Lord's design. In the oldest book in the Bible, Job told us that "THE SECRETS OF WISDOM...THEY ARE DOUBLE TO THAT WHICH IS!" (Job 11:5,6)

For example: the church was born on Earth on Pentecost, and it looks like it will be born into Heaven on Pentecost

Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer type of Christ, chose Ruth as his Gentile bride on Pentecost, "the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest" (Ruth 2:23). This is significant since we are called wheat (Matthew 13:38), and "a kind of firstfruits of his creatures" (James 1:18). The barley may represent the Jewish segment and the wheat the Gentile segment of the Church. Boaz "measured six measures of barley" and gave it to Ruth.. It suggests 6000 years, but just as Boaz and Ruth were not married that day, we have a bit of extra time after the 6000 years are up. (Ruth 3:15). In 28:11, Isaiah said, "with stammering lips and another tongue will he (the Lord) speak to this people," and in these latter days, the Jews have heard the gospel of Jesus Christ from the Gentiles.

Pentecost is "the firstfruits of wheat harvest" (Exodus 34:22).Nehemiah said it was a time "to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees (i.e., all nations), year by year, unto the house of the LORD: Also the firstborn of our sons" (Neh. 10:35,36).

The first trumpet of the Bible sounded on Pentecost the day the Ten Commandment were given at Sinai. Jewish tradition says the first trump sounds on Pentecost, the last trump on the Feast of Trumpets and the great trump on the Day of Atonement. These tie in well with the Rapture of the Bride of Christ when the first trump sounds and the Rapture of the remainder of the Body of Christ on the Feast of Trumpets. The great trump probably applies to the Lord's acceptance of the remnant of Israel . We can also see another similitude: God espoused

Israel

at Sinai on Pentecost (Jeremiah 2:2,3).

There is another good tie in for Pentecost. On that day in 30 AD, the church was FILLED with the Holy Spirit. At the Rapture, the church that is FILLED with the Holy Spirit will, I believe, be sure to be chosen as the Bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:18 says to "be filled with the Spirit." It is important. Our lamps should not be going out. They should be brightly lit with the oil of the Holy Spirit, as they were in the church on Pentecost in 30 A.D.

According to "The Romance of Redemption: Gleanings from the book of Ruth" by Chuck Missler, Enoch was born on the 6th of Sivan and was raptured on the 6th of Sivan. This could foretell the dates of the birth of the church into this world and the birth into another new world (Heaven). It paints a perfect picture.

I think the Rapture of Enoch and the days of Noah apply to the first Rapture before the Tribulation, and that the Rapture of Elijah and the days of Lot apply to the second Rapture on the first day of the millennial Day of the Lord just before the wrath of God is poured out. The first day is peaceful. The second is not. Fire falls that same day.

Song of Solomon 2:10-14 seems to give time clues for the Rapture of the Bride of Christ. (I left out "of birds" and "places" since they are not in the original and seem to obscure the meaning.) It says,

"RISE UP, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing...is come, and the voice of the turtle (lit., turtledove) is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. ARISE, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY. O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock (in Christ), in the secret...of the stairs."

This is the secret of the stairs. This reminds us of Jacob's ladder that reached from Earth to Heaven, and angels went up and down it. In Rev. 2 and 3, angels of the churches are mentioned. They seem to be the star performers. Maybe the angels of the churches also go up and down Jacob's ladder. It seems to project the right picture.

They go up at the Rapture, visit their habitation (Job 5:24), and return with Christ at the Second Advent. Later, after Christ sets up the millennial government, they will return with him to Heaven. "And David my servant shall be king over them" (Ezek. 37:24). Jer. 30:9 says, "they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them." Ezek. 34:23,24 says, "And I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD (YHVH of hosts, Christ, Isa. 44:6) will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them."

The time clues of Song of Solomon 2:10-14 are bookended with "RISE UP, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY" and "ARISE, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY." Both statements strongly suggest the Rapture. What is in between must be important.

Winter is past, so it must be spring. The rain is over and gone. In Israel , the former rain begins Tishri 1 and the latter rain begins Nisan 1 (Unger's Bible Handbook, pp. 163,165). Winter is the rainy season. It does not rain in the summer. Therefore, I think that the rainy season starts Tishri 1 and ends the following Nisan 30. To me, this eliminates the three feasts in Tishri and the three feasts in Nisan. Of the seven feasts, ONLY Pentecost is left. It is certain that it is after "the rain is over and gone."

Flowers appear in Israel even before spring. Mt. Carmel is covered with flowers in April. Unger's Bible Dictionary says that in the month of Nisan, the uplands are brilliant with SHORTLIVED verdure and flowers. We say that April showers bring May flowers. It seems that the flowers say spring. By Tamuz (June/July) "Springs and vegetation generally dried up. Bedouins leave steppes for mountain pastures. Elsewhere, the country is parched, dry and hard, a dreary waste of withered stalks and burned up grass (Unger, p. 164). This clue narrows the Rapture time slot down to between the end of the latter rain and the arrival of Tamuz. Pentecost is the ONLY feast in this time slot.

The time of the singing ties in with the "new song" sung after the Rapture (Rev. 5:9). The voice of the turtledove is heard almost constantly in April. At that time, the doves are thick, on every tree and bush, cooing their soothing plaintive song and representing the presence of the Holy Spirit.

According to Peter Farb's "The LAND, WILDLIFE and PEOPLE of the BIBLE," p. 21, the turtledoves are migrants that stay in Israel from April until October and spend the remainder of the year in Africa .

In "All The Birds Of The Bible," p. 64, Alice Parmelee wrote of the turtledove, "It's arrival in Palestine every spring when 'the voice of the TD is heard in our land', is one of the most striking events of the bird year....Only from April to October can the TD be obtained (for sacrifices), for they spend the winter in Africa."

According to "The Bible Handbook," by Joseph Angus, the fig sprouts at the vernal equinox, and yields three crops of fruit. The first ripens about the end of June. Thus there can be green figs in Sivan (May/June) or early Tamuz (June/July).

Grapes begin to ripen in the very end of May and in June. The vintage is in Elul (Aug./Sept.) and Tishri (Sept./Oct.).

Dr. Tabor, who is translating for the Original Bible Project, wrote me and said, "I am sure you have looked at Jeremiah 5:24 before. There we have reference to our former and latter rains--and how they come in their proper TIME, but also we read: 'and he keeps for us Shavuot, appointed for the harvest.'" How about that? The Lord keeps Pentecost.