Some have pondered - how can we answer those, about knowing the time of the Rapture? First let me show you some cool Scriptures:
(1 Th 5:1-5 KJV) But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. {2} For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. {3} For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. {4} But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. {5} Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
(Rev 3:3 KJV) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
--------------------or we could put that verse, this way, for clarity -------------------------
(Rev 3:3 KJV) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent.
If therefore thou shalt not watch,
· I will come on thee as a thief, and
· thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
but, if you do watch, the opposites must be true,
· I will not come on thee as a thief!!!
· Thou shall know the hour!!!
Look at the past: God told Noah before the day! God told Elijah before the day! God told Lot and his wife, the night before! When Christ was born - the wise men knew about His birth. When Christ was born – Anna, (in Luke 2:38), knew it was God's Messiah Jesus Christ that was the child. Let me quote, from Daniel 9:2 "Daniel understood by books the number of the years" HOW DID HE KNOW???? He studied the Scriptures, and God revealed it to him. The Apostles had no need to know the time of the Rapture, it was sooo far in the future! Same with the first Christians, in the days of Paul. BUT, we are living in a SPECIAL TIME!! The day is very near, even at the door!!! Israel is back in it's land! The Temple vessels are all found or recreated, ready to restart the sacrifices. The Sanhedrin is in session, NOW, in the land of Israel!!! Even Daniel wanted to know when!!! But check out what God told him: (Dan 12:8-10 KJV) And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? {9} And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. {10} Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Also, check out the passage where Abraham sent his servant to get a wife for his son, Isaac, (Genesis 24 ), all preachers I know of speak of this passage as a "type" of how God sent the Holy Spirit to get the bride for Jesus His Son! But, within this passage is a hidden treasure, most have missed! It's toward the end of the passage, when Rebekah has accepted the offer of the servant, to go and be the wife of Isaac. Rebekah's family wants her to stay a while longer, before she leaves! Let me quote it exactly for you:
(Gen 24:54-55 KJV) And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. {55} And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go." Do you see the treasure??? Her family wants her to stay at least 10 days extra!!!! Now, why in the world would God put that small detail in His word???? Me thinks it is this – Rebekah's family represents the Jews, Rebekah represents the Bride of Christ, and the ten days represents 10 years. The 10 years are the years the Jewish nation will be left behind to endure the tribulation, to bring them to a knowledge of Jesus Christ, their true Messiah! A day for a year, as in
(Num 14:34 KJV) "After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise." and in (Ezek 4:5-6 KJV) "For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. {6} And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year." So now you say – you are sort of convinced, that 10 years is probably the length of the trib! But, how can we know when it starts??? Our generation has seen a GREAT sign, Israel is back in the land!! When did Israel get Jerusalem restored to her??? June 7, 1967!!! What is so significant about that date you ask??? Well, it starts the final countdown till Jesus comes again, per (Dan 9:25-26 KJV) "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. {26} And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
Some people just add 62 weeks, and the 7 weeks together, to say 69 weeks.... BUT, even Isaac Newton, one of the best mathmatecians that ever lived, an expert in logic, and was a great Bible prophecy student, did not belive they should be added! God is speaking of two seperate events – 62 weeks till the first coming, then 7 weeks till the second coming! Because, God Himself, in the passage says "after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off" NOTICE GOD did not say after 69 weeks, but after 62 weeks! So that leaves us with the 7 week period. We know from history, these weeks represent, weeks of years, or 62x7 = 434 years. And now, the "7 weeks" of years, or 7x7 = 49 years. And then, using the order given in the passage, the "7 weeks" refers to the "restore" and the "62 weeks" refers to the "build". So there we have the exact time God has give us as to when the Second Coming of Christ is – 49yrs after the commandment went out to restore Jerusalem. And when was the command – June 7, 1967. Using prophetic years, which are 360 days each, that gives us 49x360 = 17,640 days. So, lets add 17640 days to June 7, 1967, that ends up being September 23, 2015. So, if the trib is 10 yrs, at least, per the Isaac/Rebekah story and also per (Rev 2:10 KJV) "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." that puts the time frame for the rapture of the Bride of Christ – between now and 11/14/2005!!!! Most likely 10/4/2005 which is Rosh Hoshanah, according to Jewish tradition that day is the anniversary of the creation of man, Adam, 6000 years ago.
Am I a prophet?? NO! I am just a brother in Christ, that has studied the Scriptures and sought the truth! Could this whole study be in error?? I suppose so, BUT, look at the signs of the times! The rapture must be very near!!!!