This is my first post, though I've been a faithful reader for a few months
now.
Marilyn Agee said that yeast is baked out of bread and you disagree.
I think it's a matter of wording...
I bake bread every few days, and am quite familiar with yeast and the way
it reacts. Of course, yeast doesn't just disappear after baking - but it does
die. The heat from the fire kills it. When I read what she said I immediately
thought of Christ refining us through fire. If the yeast didn't die it would
continue to rise and the bread would get bigger and bigger. So, what she said is
true. Yeast only leavens the whole lump when it's alive.
I know that you took that stance because you don't believe that Passover
has any remaining fulfillment left, and it's Rosh Hashanah we should all be
looking forward to. You obviously believe this strongly, and as such yours are
the only letters I don't look forward to reading. ;) I want out of here!!! I
don't want to wait until September! But, before I learned of the partial
fulfillment of Pentecost I was in your camp. And, of course, if the rapture
doesn't happen before June I'll be in your camp again.
I admit, Rosh Hashanah does seem logical - but I really don't think that
one's for us. I think that's the wheat harvest (wheat and tares) referred to
right before the grapes of wrath harvest in Revelation 14. That's
when the wedding happens in heaven - the 7th year - and then the wedding feast
takes place in the Millennial Kingdom. So, it is the wedding of the
King celebration that is tied to Rosh Hashanah, and the wedding happens in the
7th year of the trib. I get that the Spirit coming down was like the Torah
coming down, and we received it. However, I don't see a fulfillment of the two
wave loaves. When have we as believers been lifted up as a first fruits offering
for the Lord? I see that happening when we meet Him in the air. Perhaps you can
enlighten me on this.
So, I have to side with Marilyn on this one - yeast does die while baking
just like sin dies in us while being refined through the fire of the Holy
Spirit.
Also, I agree with you in that I don't believe in a shortened tribulation.
I have done plenty of research on this and I've got to say - no way. Two
thousand five hundred and twenty days are the exact days prescribed for
judgment. The 2300 days has to do with the time frame from the ending of the
daily sacrifices with the abomination of desolation, to the time the sanctuary
is cleansed. That means the mid point of the trib - the 1260th day - to the
2300th day. Why it takes just shy of 7 years to cleanse I have no idea (and
that's a little over 3 years from the ending of the trib). I still wrestle with
the significance of this. Perhaps one well versed in Jewish tradition and law
could shed light on it. But I know that in the first part of the trib the 2
witnesses prophesy for 1260 days, are killed, the abomination is set up, and
then the great trib starts lasting another 1260 days.
Daniel 8:11 He even exalted [himself] as high as the Prince of the host;
and by him the daily [sacrifices] were taken away, and the place of His
sanctuary was cast down. 12 Because of transgression, an army was given
over [to the horn] to oppose the daily [sacrifices;] and he cast truth down to
the ground. He did [all this] and prospered. 13 Then I heard a holy one
speaking; and [another] holy one said to that certain [one] who was speaking,
"How long [will] the vision [be, concerning] the daily [sacrifices] and the
transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be
trampled under foot?" 14 And he said to me, "For two thousand three
hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed."
I love this site! It has been such a blessing to me to read the letters of
so many people hungry for the rapture! I feel so alone sometimes. My friends
don't want my prophecy updates anymore. Heh. God bless you all!
-April
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Welcome to the Doves, April!
John