It is so very difficult to actually envision the moment of the Rapture.....or that any specific day could be "the" day.....even though it IS what all of us are watching, praying and hoping for.
 
To most of the world, most people (99.8%) NEVER think about the possibility that Jesus Christ might/could/may....one day..... return....let alone SOON.   You probably know this.....think about how many people you have talked to about the "soon return" of Jesus Christ.....  How many of those people either 1) quote: "no one knows the hour or the day.."  or 2) just thinks you're NUTS!!  ???
 
HEY....sometimes....I wonder if I'M NUTS!!!  lol..... don't tell me this never crossed your mind!!  lol.....
But.......
 
1) I have often wondered IF there might be a FINAL WARNING.   Pineman did a recent post....pointing to "Brother Sal".   I, too, found Sal's information over 10 years ago.  Sal thinks the Rapture happens in the Spring Feasts.....PRECEEDED by the DEAD IN CHRIST rising first....THEN we who are alive......all join Jesus in the clouds.  So, this is part of my "spring feasts watch" for the Rapture.....  I even did a  PowerPoint on this a while back.  (  http://www.fivedoves.com/ac/jim221.htm  )  Sal makes a good Bilbilcal case for the Dead in Christ rise FIRST, as a final warning to the whole world.....HEY, wouldn't THAT BE INCREDIBLE??!!!  But it's just one theory.
 
By the Way.....I normally watch for the possibility of the Rapture during the spring AND fall Jewish Feasts.  Let's face it....we are ALL doing alot of "educated guessing" when we look too hard at one specific date of another!!.  I first learned the Rapture could be during the fall feasts from Zola Levitt.....when I first learned of the parallel of Jewish Feasts to the first and second coming of Jesus Christ.  THAT (the parallel) was an incredible eye-opener during the early years of my End Times studies!!
 
2) Could there be a HUGE WORLD WIDE EVENT that triggers the Rapture??  Like the 7 Year Peace Treaty IS created and signed.....that would be THE KEY SIGN, wouldn't it???  And even now........seems like everyone is crying "peace and safety" over the middle east and Israel.  Certainly, Jerusalem IS the "
 
Or.........some huge world wide callamity......like a HUGE HUGE Earthquake....or Tsunami....or multiples at the same time......
 
Apparently......the World wide FINANCIAL CRISIS isn't it!!!  lol....  BUT.....the dominoes do seem to be all lined up....and the TOTAL world financial collapse is triggered just AFTER the Rapture.  I agree with the guys at www.RaptureReady.com on this...
 
LOTS of events/dominoes are ALL LINED UP, just waiting for the Rapture....
 
OR
3) Does the Rapture just HAPPEN one day.....fairly out of the blue, even to those of us who ARE watching???
 
As an important date gets nearer and nearer....... in the few days before.....  it's just hard to fully imagine it happening. That's when I shift from a mindset of "what if the Rapture really DOES happen on this date...."  to....  "oh....what if it  DOESN"T happen?"
 
All I....we....really know is this:  the day of the Rapture certainly is much closer than it was when I started to learn about the End Times in 1998.......closer than it was on 9/11/01......the day the WOLRD Changed....and many people in the arab world rejoiced at the tragedy that happened in the United States that day.  (I will never forget that those "wonderful Palestinian" people......were celbrating in the streets ON CAMERA----at least until they made the TV crews TURN OFF THE Cameras!!  Those wonderful people made cigarrette lighters of the twin towers with a jet crashing into them......  And we give those little buggers hundreds of millions of dollars each year????????????   Unbelievable.......
 
Is it as close as THIS weekend.......  lots of people are looking closely at Yom Kippur this weekend. (I am hopeful.......not sure I am EVER 'expectant.")  But if not, then there's always next spring....and again next fall, during the Jewish Feasts.  I do believe it just "has to happen" on a Jewish Feast.....that just makes too much sense to me....it's too perfect NOT to be.....considering the spring feasts WERE fullfilled during Christ's First Coming.
 
Anyway......interesting times to be an End Times Christian and to watch the news every day..... the dominoes are ALL LINED UP!!  Just waiting for that Rapture trigger to knock them all down, and usher in the 7 year peace Treaty, to bring the A/C out from the shadows to rule the world......and to allow the Jews to rebuild the Temple for the 3rd time......just like they are waiting to do!!!!!!
 
Tick tockkkkk.......  soon???  I hope so.....
I just want this waiting to be over......(as it says in the song SMILE by Chris Rice)
YFIC,
Randy
 
 
PS.....IF the Rapture does NOT happen for the next 3-5-10-20 years....I will be one DISAPPOINTED Watchman on the Wall.....WAH!!!   Let's hope NOT!!  I will forever, then, be wondering...."how could we have been sooooooooo very wrong?"
 
Again...let's hope not!!