I feel prompted to write about 2005 as being prophetically very significant. There has been so many indications given that the rapture may occur in 2005.
Well, here's another one.
1948 was a pivotal year for end times events. It was the year Israel was reborn as a nation. This is the year that the fig tree began to grow green shoots as described in Mathew 24:32 it says.
Mat 24:31 "And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Mat 24:32 "Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; Mat 24:33 so, you too, when you see all these things, recognise that He is near, {right} at the door. Mat 24:34 "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.The generation that sees Israel regathered as a nation again, will not pass away till all these things be fulfilled. For someone to have seen the event of 1948 and understood its significance, they would need to be an adult. The youngest person that this prophesy could apply to would be a 13 year old. As I understand it, in Jewish culture, when a boy reached age 13, he has a bar mitzvah and is subsequently regarded as an adult. So if we go back 13 years from 1948, we get to 1935.
Psalm 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is {but} labour and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.If we go 70 years forward from 1935 we get to 2005
Also, in Revelation 1:12 John describes what he sees. (It's like he was Raptured) The first thing he HEARS is what he describes as a trumpet. It was in fact the voice of Jesus. The first thing John SEES was a golden lamp stand with 7 branched or menorah. We are coming up to Hanaka or the festival of lights. Many Jewish households have a replica golden lamp stand that they light at this time. This year hanaka is observed on 26th December - still within the 2005 year.
Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like {the sound} of a trumpet, Rev 1:11 saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send {it} to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." Rev 1:12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; Rev 1:13 and in the middle of the lampstands {I saw} one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.It would make sense for the rapture to happen based on what I've mentioned as well as the major disasters that have recently happened on the 26th December. When the rapture does happen, I believe it will be a major disaster for those left behind with all the mayhem resulting from driverless cars, planes, trains, ships etc.
God Bless
Philip Newland
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