Reply to Chance re Mo. of Elul: Why a 40-Day Delay After the Rapture

Response to: Chance (13 Aug 2023)
The Month of Elul

https://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2023/chance813-3.htm

Dream One

During the week of a momentous shift in United States policy in the Middle East, when President Donald Trump officially recognized what all other presidents failed to do -- that Jerusalem was the Capitol of Israel, 12-06-17 -- God gave me a most unusual Rapture dream.

In the humorous and dramatic dream I was in my office when I saw a white cloud in the room drifting in my direction. It is so unusual to see a cloud inside a building that I immediately figured it was the Rapture. Then the cloud disappeared, but I was shocked to find that I was still here. Thinking I had been left behind I got angry, grabbed my broom and started hitting my file cabinets to vent my wrath. I was stunned upon noticing that my arms and hands went through the cabinets without pain like I was a ghost. Stunned, I tried it again with the same result. Then I woke up.

That's when my logic and reasoning skills kicked in. I realized that I had been transformed in the Resurrection - even though I hadn't died - and most importantly, in the dream I was about to go up at any moment in the Rapture.

I believe God was showing me by that dream the possibility that we may be here on Earth for 40 days in our transformed bodies, like Jesus was after His resurrection. This is just speculation; more on that below.

The Bible hints at a delay by saying "those who are alive and remain...." I wondered why we didn't go up with the dead in the Resurrection. Even if the whole event will happen "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," why a delay between the two? It wouldn't be too hard for God to take us all at one time since nothing is too hard for Him.

So, why the delay? At least two people I've read about (1-Germany/1-US) have had dreams in which the Bride of Christ remains on Earth for 40 days to warn people not to take the Mark of the Beast. I didn't know of any scripture to prove it, other than the example set by Jesus who remained on Earth for 40 days after His resurrection. He was able to elude His enemies by disappearing or going through walls. So I shelved the idea for decades.

We would be here during the time of the final push to take the "Mark," as we see the push in its infancy even now with the "soft sell" effort being made to get people to take the jab, with the "hard sell" also beginning by requiring proof of vaccination to get into colleges, or schools, board airplanes, and some threatening quarantines for lack of compliance and inability to buy food, etc., all before the appearance of the antichrist and the beast on the world scene! They are almost getting away with it.

The Bible indicates angels will also sound a warning. Apparently, if we hang around for 40 days after the Resurrection, we don't reach everybody, but perhaps we're allowed to warn all our left-behind loved ones as a personal last act of God's love and compassion for them.

Can you imagine the shock it will be to many when their relatives who have long since passed away show up for 40 days to warn them? This isn't without precedence. After Jesus' death/resurrection many came out of the graves and went around chastising people for having crucified Jesus, per the Bible and ancient historical records in the Library of Congress. "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." - Matthew 27:52-53

Then I later discovered to my surprise the following post on a Rapture website:

"The word rendered "then" in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 is Koine Greek: ˜epeita, Aramaic: ˜hydyn, Latin: ˜diende is much more correctly rendered "afterwards" (in the case of the rapture the "afterwards" = 40 days)." Oh, my goodness!

"Next is the excerpt from 1 Thessalonians 4:16 "For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then <1899> [The Greek and Aramaic word "Then" is far better rendered "After a while"] we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." The 40 represents the 40th day after the Feast of Firstfruits." Jesus was the "Firstfruits" unto God at His resurrection and was here for 40 days afterwards, like we may be. Another oh, my goodness!

This means that if missiles are coming down if we're here during those 40 days, or we get shot at with guns, they won't hurt us because we were already transformed and were just waiting to go up. If China and Russia invades during that time, same thing -- we won't be hurt because we've been transformed and can disappear or get around by going through physical objects -- like prison walls -- to comfort those who have been locked up for refusing to comply with the "hard sell" to take the "mark." They would now have to face firing squads, gas chambers or beheading, but we would tell them they will receive a martyrs crown and gain eternal life if they refuse to take the Mark. Maybe we appear only to our left behind friends and loved ones to warn them, while the angels reach everyone else.

Dream Two

I had a Rapture ("Rapturo" in Greek) dream June 2, 2021, that caused me to consider it's potential as being prophetic. It came just before I woke up which is when I get my prophetic dreams. It was also tied to a significant event concerning the nation of Israel.

In the dream people had seen signs that the Rapture was "imminent." Those who believed they would go up in that event, myself included, were hastily getting ready.

Ever since 09-11-01, people have reported seeing the number 11 on their clocks a lot and wondered what it meant. I had been seeing the number 11 on the clock frequently -- including 8:11 a.m. and 2:11 p.m. this day as I laid down for a nap which made me wonder what the possible significance was, if any. Imagine my surprise when I looked at a NY Times news article on Isaac Herzog and saw he is Israel's 11th president. Strangely, the article was timed: "11 hours ago" (see article at end below). Interestingly enough, the new Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett of the Yemini Party, was sworn in 11 days later.

I deemed it significant that this dream came just after the Abraham Accords and on the very same day Israel elected a new president whose name is strongly relevant from an 'end times' - and Jewish - historical perspective: Isaac Herzog. I didn't know it when I had my dream. I found out about it later that evening when I watched the evening news. Abraham was the father of the nation of Israel. His son Isaac was the son promised to him by God out of whom a nation - modern day Israel - would someday come. Isaac's son was named Jacob whose named God changed to Israel. Now, more than 2,000 years later, what were the chances of the nation of Israel having a President named "Isaac" ruling over them at exactly the time of the modern day Abraham Accords?

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Jesus is coming right now - though He could. But these are stirrings (rumblings) in my spirit from God that indicate we are very close to that event and that we should keep our eyes on events concerning Israel as a marker of the Rapture and Jesus' soon 2nd Coming.

Probably the most significant current sign is the 'soft sell' push (i.e., a beer for all who take the vax) to make everyone take the vaccine in order to have a passport to fly, or for employment, etc. -- a most relevant Biblically-prophesied sign that the Rapture is imminent. This is because the Bible indicates the Bride of Christ will not be here when the antichrist comes on the scene. Jesus indicated that when He told Dr. Baxter, "First comes the antichrist, then the beast."

For those who will be 'left behind' at the Rapture, the 'soft-sell' is a precursor to the coming 'hard-sell' push to take the "Mark of the Beast" without which you cannot buy or sell and the penalty will be your death; either through starvation, firing squad, or beheading.

The other major sign, in my humble opinion, was a ticker tape news item on Newsmax also on the day I had this dream that China is urging preparations for a nuke attack on the US. Many people - who have been given prophetic dreams and visions of the Rapture - have seen us going up as missiles are coming down. The late Dimitru Duduman, a God-ordained prophet from Romania, prophesied before his death this coming attack on the US by China and Russia many decades ago which means we are just that much closer!

Chinese Media Urges Preparing for Nuclear War With US

Chinese state media is calling on a nuclear buildup as a "strategic [Full Story]

How long will it take China to prepare is anyone's guess. Another significant sign occurring today is that Netanyahu has been ousted as Israel's Prime Minister after a twelve-year reign. One Jewish lady was told by a rabbi many years ago in a dream, "that when the government of Netanyahu crumbles, it is time to get ready for Moshiach (messiah)."

In 2006 the late Messianic Rabbi Kaduri said the Messiah will return after the Netanyahu Likud government is replaced. 11 means Judgment Day in Biblical mathematics --11/11 is a Rapture number given to the watchmen across the world.

On June 6, 2021, a man named Isaac on 5 Doves, also posted the following Rapture-related information which serves as a double witness to what God showed me:

"Have you noticed that there were two key events with respect to Israel on June 2nd, 2021? Hope most of us are aware.

"Isaac Herzog [was] elected as 11th president of Israel and on the same day the coalition was formed to remove Netanyahu as Prime Minister. But, the key here is both of these events happened on June 2 which is day 153 of the year."

[Ed., 153 = The number of fish found in Simon Peter's net is found in John 21:11. It was one of Jesus’ last and most mysterious miracles that some speculate would support the theme of fishing for men until the time the final harvest comes to an end. The Church Age, spanning the 2,000+ years since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, is also known as the Age of the Fish. "Fishing season is still open and the final net has not been drawn. [Ed., That drawing in of the wheat harvest will continue after the Rapture of the Church, up until the 2nd Coming of Christ, because it is the wheat harvest which requires a tool called a "tribulum" used to crush the wheat. "Tribulum" is where we get the word "tribulation," as in the prophesied coming "Great Tribulation." The barley harvest before the wheat harvest uses a gentler tool. That's another indication the Bride of Christ won't be here to bring in the final harvest, because it occurs during the time of God's wrath poured out on an unbelieving, Christ-rejecting world. His wrath is not intended for the Bride of Christ.]

"Number 11 represents Joseph as he is the 11th son of Jacob [Ed., whose name was changed to Israel] and the Bible contains 66 books which is the 11th triangular number (1+2+3+... + 11 = 66).

"All the signs happening around us show that we are in the decade of the fulfillment of Biblical Prophecies as mentioned in Acts 3:20-21. Our "blessed hope" may be sooner or later than we expect to happen. So, patience is very important irrespective of how terrible the situations may turn. Let's watch and pray so that we "may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man." Luke 21:36.

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:3

In Christ,

Issac S. | 5 Doves

To those who aren't ready - for any reason - to go up in the Rapture, the evidence is strong that now's the best time to get started.

"The Christ I love, is coming soon,

it may be morning, night or noon.

My lamps are lit, I'll watch and pray.

It may be today - it may be today.

Oh, Lord Jesus, how long, how long

till we shout the glad song,

'Christ returneth, halleluia,

halleluia, Amen?

Halleluia, Amen.'"