My husband and I have been together almost forty years--not quite,
though, as we met in early November of 1967 and married a year later on
Nov. 7, l968.

I keep equating our marriage to the wilderness experience of the Jews.
We have been wandering, for various reasons,  I was ill from the
beginning, and he is disabled now.  And our struggles to find God have
been ongoing right from the beginning.  No need to give all the
details.  You all know what "struggle in the wilderness" means.  And of
course, he is half Jewish, on his father's side, not from a "lost
tribe" but from Levi and Judah/Benjamin, which may have nothing to do
with this, but it is something which interests me always.

And so I am interested in Lisa's talk about Tabernacles as the End.  It
will be, for us, the last month before our 40th anniversary of meeting.

As I said before, I did ask the Lord "when" for the rapture, and I was
directed to a Bible passage which indicated Tabernacles.  I heard the
words "Before October 2," but this does not mean a lot to me, as Oct. 2
is right in the middle of Succoth, neither at a neat beginning or a
neat end of it.  I feel really abashed at even mentioning this, as I am
not as good a Bible scholar as Lisa or most others of you....yet I did
have this experience.  It could be Tabernacles another year, but I
associated it with this year because we are so ready.  Not ready as
pure or righteous ones, except through Jesus' righteousness, but ready
as a world in decline.  I looked out this morning at my back yard,
where the sky was leaden, and I felt the readiness of the world.

Mariel