While this is short notice, there was a recent post regarding the Rapture being before October 2, 2007.  In the same regard, I was thinking along those lines after  receiving an email last Sunday regarding a license plate and referring to a post I'd made back in April that discussed the number 717.

 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2007/tedp43.htm

 

Well, the "Third Day" of Tabernacles is September 29, 2007 which is also the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the Hebrew religious calendar, (7-17).  (On the the civil calendar it would be 1-17).  

 

Note that the phrase "third day" appears 55 times in the Bible, (using Bible Plus http://members.aol.com/bibleplus/ ).  And 55 is the gematria as has been pointed out many times for "Bride".  And many of these 55 verses make allusions to the Rapture.

 

How so?  Jesus rose on the third day.  We are to follow His example, our Christ, in resurrection at the Rapture.  The dead in Christ will rise, be resurrected, first.

 

How also so? 

 

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:  John 2:1

 

The third day is linked to a marriage and Jesus' first miracle, the changing of water into wine.  The marriage of the Bride of Christ to Jesus Christ.  And what did Jesus tell us regarding the next time He would be drinking of the fruit of the vine after the Last Supper? 

 

But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.  Matthew 26:29

 

How greatly so?

 

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.  Hosea 6:2

 

 

Shalom,

Ted Porter