Will the Rapture Happen this Spring?
As soon as the Israelites settled in the
Holy Land, they began to count and observe seven-year
cycles. (Leviticus 25: 1-3) Every cycle would culminate in a
Sabbatical year, or seventh year, which is known as a
Shemitah, which means “to release.” (Leviticus
25:4)
Sabbatical cycles are God’s method for
measuring time. Sabbatical cycles are the basis of
Daniel’s 70 weeks (7x70) prophecy. (Daniel 9:24-27)
The A.D. 70 destruction of the Second
Holy Temple in Jerusalem occurred in the first year of a new
seven-year Sabbatical cycle. (Chabad.org)
In our day, beginning on September 7, 2021, through
September 26, 2022, we are in the 7th year of a
Sabbatical cycle. This is the year when Israel was
required to leave their fields fallow and not plant crops.
(Leviticus 25:4) September 26, 2022 will commence a
new Sabbatical cycle and it will be the first year of the
next 7-year Sabbatical cycle.
Will the Daniel’s 70th week,
which is necessarily a 7-year Sabbatical period, commence
on, or after September 26, 2022 in alignment with the Temple
destruction in AD 70 in the first year of a new cycle?
September 26, 2022 is the Festival of Trumpets, the fifth
festival of the Lord’s seven festivals. It is
known as Yom Hadin, the memorial blowing of blowing
trumpets. (Leviticus 23: 24) (These trumpets are blown by
men, not God whereas the resurrection rapture trumpet is the
voice of God).
Will the beginning of this new Sabbatical
cycle herald in Daniel’s 70th week?
Prophecy is pattern and pattern is prologue.
Daniel’s 70th week must commence at the beginning
of a new Sabbatical cycle based on the sabbatical nature of
the 70 weeks prophecy. Additionally, God’s redemption
of “remnant Israel” during Daniel’s final sabbatical week
will be expressed in terms of Daniel’s sabbatical weeks.
Jesus said forgiveness is associated with 7 times 70.
Forgiving 490 times sounds like grace at the Second Advent.
(Matthew 18:22) Remnant Israel’s redemption must occur
during Daniel’s 70th sabbatical week.
If this 2021/2022 sabbatical cycle is
correct and in agreement with God’s calendar, then it is
highly likely that the Resurrection/Rapture (RR), a type of
“release” event will occur prior to September 26,
2022. This view is based on the Fig Tree prophecies of
Mark 13, Luke 21 and Matthew 24. It is my belief that
the RR event will occur on a Pentecostal weekend, on a day,
and at an hour known only to the Lord.
Pentecost was intentionally designed to
occur on the first day of the week or Sunday following the
Sabbath. It is the 8th day of new beginnings. The
Leviticus countdown to Pentecost is set forth in Leviticus
23:15-17. This year Pentecost will fall on
Saturday/Sunday, June 11/12, 2022. Pentecost will
fully come on Sunday morning. Israel will celebrate
Shavuot/Pentecost on Sivan 6 (June 5) ignoring the strict
Levitical counting rules. (Romans 11:8-10) Shavuot, or
Pentecost, is known by a variety of names including the
“Feast of Weeks”, (Exodus 34:22); (Deuteronomy 16:10); the
“Feast of Harvest”, (Exodus 23:16), and the “Day of the
First Fruits”, (Numbers 28:26).
On Shavuot, the priests will take harvest
grain (Note 1) and bake two loaves of bread.
The loaves will be raised up by Temple priests to God and
waved in the air as an offering to God. These two
loaves will represent (1) the resurrection of the dead in
Christ and (2) the catching out of the living in
Christ. This should not surprise anyone because Jesus,
as the first fruits of the first resurrection, was
resurrected on the festival of First Fruits when the Temple
priests were conducting the grain sheaf wave offering to
God. Jesus was the grain seed that had to die to
produce much fruit. (John 12:24) Jesus was the first
fruits of the harvest which was celebrated in the image of
waving the grain sheaf to God. (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23;
Romans 11:16) Christ’s own, the dead and living in Christ,
will represent the two harvest loaves at the end of the age.
(Romans 11:25) We shall be raised up into the air to
meet the Lord in the clouds on the Feast of Harvest.
God’s seven feasts/festivals are a shadow
of things to come. (Colossians 2:16-17) They represent
pattern types in God’s redemptive plans. Jesus was our
Passover lamb of God. He offered his life as a
Passover offering for the atonement of sin, once for all.
(Hebrews 10:10) He was in the grave during a portion
of the feast of Unleavened Bread. He was resurrected
on the festival of First Fruits. The Holy Spirit
came down on the first Pentecost and continues to this day
to come down every day for all who believe. This is
the continuing day of Pentecost when all who call on the
name of Lord Jesus shall be saved. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans
10:9-10) On each of our own Pentecostal salvation
days, the Holy Spirit comes down to inhabit believers. This
indwelling deposit is God’s earnest promise of eternal
spiritual life in Christ. This deposit has been
credited to our salvation accounts against God’s continuing
promise to redeem our bodies of sin at the
resurrection/rapture when we will rise as a picture of the
two loaves, as Jesus’ little breads of life. Jesus is
the bread of life, and we are part of that bread. (John
6:35) This is the meaning of the raising up of the two
loaves on Pentecost. Pentecost is a picture of the
resurrection and rapture event. (1 Cor. 15:52; 1
Thess. 4:17)
Come quickly Lord Jesus!
Blessings, Greg Wilson
Note 1. Leviticus 25:4
states: But in the seventh year shall be a
sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou
shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy
vineyard. Perhaps the “grain” will come from
God’s grain stores, all His people awaiting the end of the
age harvest.
P.S. Question:
Is it not curious that Elijah and 50 prophets knew the
day that God would rapture him to heaven? How did he and the
prophets know this? (2 Kings 2)
P.P.S. In this world, we are
constantly bombarded with the image of Jesus and his
shoulder length hair. It troubles me.
Question:
Do you think Jesus had long hair?
Answer:
NO! The Scriptures affirmativel stated: “Doth not even
nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it
is a shame unto him? “ (1 Corinthians 11:14)