Well, Tu B'Av wasn't the Rapture. There seems to have been an incredible amount of evidence that was pointing to that time. Saturday night, right before I went to bed, the Lord spoke to me that the call has gone out that the Bridegroom is coming and that I am a voice of one crying out to make straight paths and clear the way for His return. So once again, He confirmed that I am to be like John the Baptist, or actually He was saying that I am that right now, not something in the future. I think it's interesting that Jesus started His ministry right after a long fast and perhaps now whatever ministry the Lord has planned for me will be more effective at reaching people since I just ended a 21-day fast right on Tu B'Av.

Matthew 25:6: But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'
John 1:23: He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

I am thinking that Tu B'Av was a cry, perhaps a final cry before the Lord comes. The cry in Matthew 25:6 is saying that the Bridegroom is coming very soon, but not that He is here at that moment, because ALL the virgins had to WAKE UP and ready their lamps and that's when the foolish virgins decided to go into the city to buy more oil, thinking there was still enough time to get there and back before He came. So, the cry has gone out. It's very possible that the Rapture will take place between September 17-26 during the Fall Feasts in Israel and that this was the final cry before the event takes place.

The men would go out looking for their Brides on Tu B'Av, but it wasn't actually the day they married the ones that they chose. It was a day for courting. It was a day for thinking about their future marriages and preparing for it.

The Rapture could be at any moment. But I am definitely leaning towards the fall feasts and will explain more about why later. But, my guess is that we are about to see the opening of the 6 seals. The cry has gone out that the Bridegroom is coming, many virgins (Christians) are WAKING UP to realize the lateness of the hour and prepare their hearts. The first 2 seals have to do with peace being taken from the earth and I believe World War III starting (which honestly could be at any minute). The third seal has to do with economic collapse, which will of course come when the war starts as the price of oil shoots through the roof and all of the implications of that, then the 4th seal begins to open with famine, plagues, and lots of bad stuff going on all over the world, 5th seal I believe is the resurrection of the dead, 6th seal is the beginning of God's wrath. We may not escape the opening of the first 5 seals, but I believe we will escape His wrath, very likely starting in mid-Sept this year.

I was hoping that if the Rapture was on Tu B'Av it meant that we would be able to escape the opening of all the seals, but that doesn't quite fit with my belief that the 5th seal represents the dead in Christ resurrecting and that has to happen before the Rapture. There were millions of people all over the world killed in WWI and WWII, including Christians and they did not escape. I do not see why the Lord would necessarily Rapture us out of man-made calamity like war and economic collapse, but it's definitely Scriptural that we are not appointed to wrath and that we can escape His wrath, which is first seen in the 6th seal.
Revelation 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

With the revelation that I received on Jan 6/7, 2001, I did not tell one of the main details of that revelation when I wrote the letter to fivedoves about Tu B'Av a couple of weeks ago, because it did not fit with Tu B'Av, but it does fit with the fall feasts this Sept. I thought that I had figured out a different interpretation to that particular part of what the Lord spoke to me back then, so did not feel it was important to include in what I wrote, and that it would only confuse people, because it would seem to point more towards the Feast of Trumpets and not Tu B'Av.

The Lord spoke to me that January 1, 2001, represented the "Gentile Feast of Trumpets" and that just as His voice was as a trumpet (Revelation 4:1) and the last day of Creation that He spoke was the 6th day when He created man, that at the end of the 6th day and beginning of the 7th, would be the sound of the last trumpet. That was why I was waiting on January 6/7, 2001, for Him to come. And sure enough, just a few minutes after midnight at the start of the 7th day, the 2 shakings occurred.

When everything started to point to Tu B'Av, I figured that what the Lord meant regarding the "Gentile Feast of Trumpets" was simply that it was on the Gentile calendar, at the very start of our New Millennium, and that He was trying to teach me about the 7000 year plan of God, how at the end of 6000 years, everything would change and the real "New Millennium" would start at the end of the "6th day".

I am now wondering if the 1290-day count pointing to Tu B'Av was the Lord telling us that this festival was His final cry for the Bride to make herself ready and at any minute now the seals are about to open. The 1335-day count ends on the Feast of Trumpets. Blessed is he who reaches the end of the 1335 days, blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. The Feast of Trumpets could be the Rapture or it also could be the 7th day after the start of the Feast of Trumpets. Revelation 10:7 says: "But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets."

The mystery of God is the Rapture of the Church (1 Corinthians 15:51 "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed" and Eph 5 "This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church", when Paul is talking about "marriage").

If the Rapture takes place on the beginning of the 7th day after the start of the Feast of Trumpets, that would represent the first shaking I had. Then 3 days later is when we meet face to face on the Wedding Day, the Day of Atonement. The Jews, when they reached the mountain had to purify themselves and ready their hearts for 3 days for when the Lord was about to come down and meet with them. This 3-day gap could be a time of really preparing to meet the Lord for the first time, as most Christians who are taken in the Rapture will not have been expecting it and may need some time to really ready themselves to meet Him. This would represent the second shaking when the Lord told me it represented when Isaiah SAW the Lord and his sin was ATONED for. Interestingly, on January 10, 2001, there was a blood moon (total lunar eclipse). Of course if January 1 represented the Feast of Trumpets, then Jan 10 represented the Day of Atonement.

These are just a few of my thoughts. I will continue to share if I believe the Lord is revealing or speaking anything to me over the course of the next several weeks if He should continue to tarry.

Renee