BREAKING NEWS: The Rapture
Happened on May 28, 2023?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- May 28, 2023: The Rapture?
Monday morning, Memorial Day, May
29, 2023, the world wakes up to chaos. The economy,
transportation, government and the military are all
crippled. In America, initial reports suggest upward
of 80 million people may be missing over the Memorial Day
weekend. Where did they go? Vanished!
Reports from around the globe indicate that people heard
thunder followed by a light show in the sky. They
say the sky was lit up with lights ascending into an
illuminated cloud which subsequently vanished. They
asked “Who are these which arise and shine? Who are
these that fly as a cloud and as doves?” (Isaiah 60:1,8; 1
Thess.4:17; Hebrews 12:1)
This Event, which we know to be the
resurrection of the dead in Christ and the catching out of
the living in Christ is a Pentecostal event. (1 Cor.
15:52; 1 Thess. 4:17) Contrary to popular belief,
Pentecost was not fulfilled on the first Pentecostal day
in A.D. 30 as described in Acts 2. Pentecost is an
age which will continue until the Resurrection/Rapture
event (the “Event”). So, Pentecost is being
fulfilled each day, this day. The Pentecostal
Age will end with the resurrection Event. Pentecost
will be fulfilled at the Event when the true Church,
“bread of Christ”, ascends to be with the Lord forever!
Don’t get all agitated. The
proof is clear. Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear?
(Matthew 13:16; Mark 4:11) The Event is not a Yom
Hadin/Teruah/Trumpets event. The Festival of Trumpets is
NOT a pilgrimage feast. The Fall festivals of the Lord are
about the Time of Jacob’s Trouble alone. The proof
is found in the Festivals of the Lord in Leviticus
23. There are seven (7) festivals of the Lord which
are metaphors for God’s redemptive plans dealing with
sin. The Lord uses metaphorical images to tell His
redemptive story. Three of the seven festivals are
pilgrimage feasts (chagim) and the four are festivals
(moedim). This distinction is crucial to God’s redemptive
plans. The pilgrimage feasts (Exodus 23:14-17) are
types of the first resurrection, the resurrection of
righteousness. (1 Cor. 15:20-24, 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:17;
Revelation 20:4-5) There are three orders to the First
Resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:23) These orders are (1)
Christ the first fruits (1 Cor. 15:23a), (2) Christ’s own
at His coming (1 Cor. 15:23b), and (3) at the end: the
tribulation saints who will have lost their heads for
their testimony and faith of Yeshua (Rev. 20:4-5)
Pilgrimage feasts required assembly before the Lord.
The Event is a call to assemble (with the shout, with the
voice of the archangel). The Leviticus festival are
“shadows of things to come”. (Colossians 2:16-17)
Jesus/Yeshua is the Lord of the Harvest. (Matthew 9:38)
- Jesus/Yeshua was a type of
unblemished Lamb of God. (Nisan 10)
- Jesus/Yeshua was sacrificed on
Passover as the Passover Lamb for the atonement of sin.
- Jesus/Yeshua was buried during
the first three days of the Feast (Chag) of Unleavened
Bread being without sin.
WARNING: Moses prohibited the
celebration the harvest festivals during Israel’s
wilderness wanderings, so Sinai was NOT a type of
Pentecost/Shavuot. (Leviticus 23:10)
- Jesus/Yeshua was resurrected on
the Festival (Moed) of First Fruits.
- He was the grain seed which had
to die to produce much fruit. (John 12:24; 1 Cor.
15:36). “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except
a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much
fruit.”
- Jesus/Yeshua was the type of
seed of wheat which died, was buried, and rose on the
third day.
- On the Festival of First Fruits,
the Temple priests were required to perform a
metaphorical ceremony associated with the agricultural
cycles for grain production. (Leviticus 23:10-11)
They were required to take the first fruits of the
harvest and wave it up to the Lord for acceptance.
Jesus/Yeshua was being raised out of the grave while the
Temple priests were performing this wave offering to the
Lord. The Lord God accepted Christ’s finished
work. Jesus is the first fruits of the
harvest. (1 Cor. 15:20) Jesus’ resurrection
fulfilled the metaphor of the seed dying and coming to
life in the wave sheaf offering typology.
- On the Feast of
Pentecost/Shavuot, the Temple priests were again
required to perform a metaphorical ceremony associated
with the agricultural cycles for grain production. They
were required to take the grain from the wheat harvest
and make two (2) loaves of bread and wave them before
the Lord as His first fruits of Christ’s atoning work.
The Pentecost/Shavuot “two-loaf
wave offering” is the metaphor of the resurrection of one
loaf representing the resurrection of the dead in Christ
and (2) the other loaf representing the translation and
catching out (rapture/harpazo) of the living in
Christ. Why? Because Christ’s Own are
the HARVEST following His First Fruits resurrection at the
end of the age. Christ, the seed, produces the
harvest fruit. Pentecost is a pilgrimage feast for
the “called out assembly” of Christ’s creatures.
Conclusion
Do you see the chronologic flow of
metaphors: (1) Jesus as the Passover Lamb on
Passover; (2) Jesus buried during the Feast of
Unleavened Bread; (3) Jesus resurrected on the
Festival of First Fruits; and (4) Jesus’ resurrection call
to His Church at Pentecost.
Greg Wilson