Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.”
“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”
He replied,
“Out of the eater, something
to eat;
out of the strong, something
sweet.”
For three days they could not give the answer.
On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”
Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.”
“I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?” She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a
lion?”
Samson said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my
heifer,
you would not have solved my
riddle.”
Then the Spirit
of the Lord came powerfully upon
him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of
their men, stripped them of everything and gave their
clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning
with anger, he returned to his father’s home. And Samson’s
wife was given to one of his companions who had
attended him at the feast. Later on, at the time of wheat
harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to
visit his wife.
OK, so what does Samson's
marriage to his first wife have to do with the Rapture?
Well, first of all we can see that the wedding feast was
7 days long and took place before the wheat harvest
(during barley season). Just as Queen Vashti refused
King Xerxes on the 7th day of a Feast, so Samson's wife
betrayed him on the 7th day of their wedding feast.
Then, she is rejected by Samson and given to someone
else, just like Queen Vashti was.
We can also see that linen
garments were given to the people by Samson on the
7th day of the Feast. Revelation 19:8 - Fine
linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine
linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) How
many linen garments were given? THIRTY. The same
amount of SILVER that Judas received to BETRAY
JESUS. This story is foreshadowing the BETRAYAL
by Judas and the Jewish nation of their
Messiah. It is also foreshadowing the REJECTION of
Israel and lukewarm Christians on the 7th day of a wedding
Feast, just as Samson rejected his wife who had betrayed
him on the 7th day of the Feast.
I believe that Israel (as the Jewish nation that represented God to the world) rejected their Messiah. They betrayed Him. They asked for a murderer over their own Messiah. Samson's wife also betrayed her husband. America (the Gentile nation that represented God to the world) has also betrayed the Lord and rejected Him. Both of these nations are about to come under His judgment. They will be rejected on the 7th day of Unleavened Bread, the 7th day of the Feast. Notice, it all started on the 4th day of the Feast when Samson's wife comes to him to ask for the answer to the riddle. The fourth day of the Feast is March 29, 2013, Good Friday, which I believe will be the start of the 3 days of darkness.