From and including: Saturday, September 4, 2010 (date of Christchurch 7.1 & first earthquake)
To and including: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

It is 40 days from the start date to the end date, end date included

There can be parallels between Noah entering the Ark, and the rapture.  7 days post October 13th could be an anniversary date for when Noah & his family entered the Ark.

1917, 1948, 1979 & 2010 covers a span of 93 years.  Each "gap" is 31 years.  1917 was the Balfour Declaration, 1948 the establishment of Israel, 1979 the peace accords & 2010???

October is the main month in the heartland of the United States for harvesting corn.  Every year I cry out in my heart to God as I see the John Deere (and International Harvesters) doing thier jobs, taking the corn into the vehicle.

 

2 Kings 2:11 

 ¹¹ As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

Ezekiel 1:4 

 ⁴ I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal...

Genesis 7:6-9 

 ⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.  ¹⁰ And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

 ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.