Doves,
Has one of our “poured in concrete” / bedrock teachings of the church been a big lie all these years? Have we been badly led astray and desperately confused by past individuals deemed to be bible scholars? Was this intentional by Satanic false teachers or just a complete lack of discernment on the part of these bible scholars?
What am I talking about?
I am talking about the much recited verse in Matthew 24 that says.... “no one knows the day or the hour, not the angels in heaven, not Jesus, the Father only”.......
This verse in Matthew 24 has been declared “the rapture verse” and has been thrown in our faces all these years. They say.... don't even try to set a date for the rapture, it's an impossible assignment......only the Father knows when the rapture is to happen.
In reality......nothing could be farther from the truth because this verse in Matthew 24 is not referring to the rapture of the church so consequently a rapture date can be established.
What this verse is referring to is Jesus and the angels of heaven involved in a completely different event and yes that event is secret, very secret and the timing details of this day are only known to the Father.
This event and it's timing is when Jesus and the angels gather “the elect”from heaven and earth and take them to a new security zone. This security zone is explained in detail in scripture. I will endeavor to explain below all the details.
First.....Who are these elect to be gathered to this security zone as stated in Matthew 24:31?
As per scripture they are the Jews whose names appear in the book . Daniel 12
And, they are also the dead and the alive in Christ. Those who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
This is or will be the majority of the combined end time harvest of God the Father and the Lamb.
What time frame are we looking at when this secret gathering of Jews and Gentiles takes place?
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days” Matthew 24 verse 29
What tribulation?
The tribulation of the attack on the country of Israel by “all nations” and the tribulation / mass turmoil when nearly half of the land mass of Israel is destroyed and then renewed by God the Father as is detailed in Zechariah 14.
When is this attack by “all nations” and the land renovation by God to happen?
Right after an idol, a statue is erected in Jerusalem referred to as “the abomination of desolation”. As per Daniel 12 this statue is set up 1290 days prior to the end of the 7 year period.....or 30 days prior to the mid point of the 7 year period.
This is the approximate period when Israel will be attacked and God the Father will destroy and then renew nearly half of Israel resulting in the ”tribulation of those days” Matthew 24:29
As per Zechariah at least two thirds of the Israeli people will be killed before God the Father intervenes in the war / attack on Israel.
Why are these elect of Jews and Christians being gathered as per Matthew 24........ and where are they gathered to?
They are being gathered for their protection and they are gathered to a new very large valley that is to be created by God the Father when He comes to intervene for Israel. This valley will be a protection zone, a refuge spanning hundreds of miles running east and west from Jerusalem including half of that city. Zechariah 14 details all of this.
At this period of time the antichrist in concert with the Satanic UFO community will impose a great threat to the Christian church and the “named” Jews on earth. Also at this period, war has broken out in heaven which also endangers the dead in Christ who reside there.
This “secret gathering” as is expressed in Matthew 24 by Jesus and the angels of heaven will put all of the elect, the Christians and Jews, into one safe basket so to speak....and that safe basket is this new holy sinless land mass / valley that God the Father will have just created.
Zechariah 14 and 1 Thessalonians 4:14 both detail how God the Father safely brings the dead in Christ with Him to earth when He comes to intervene for Israel.
Now....why does scripture say that this day, the day when the Christian church and the Jews are gathered is to be secret ???.....”of that day and hour no one knows, not the angels in heaven, not Jesus, but the Father only”...
The answer to that is to defeat Satan. Defeat his ability to harm any Christian or Jew dead or alive that are being transported to this new valley.
Remember three things.....Satan is the prince who controls earth as was demonstrated in Matthew 4:8. He is also, as per scripture, the prince of the power of the air above earth and he is also a major player in the heavenly realm where he controls one third of the angelic community which could number in the hundreds of millions.
Remember also Revelation 12 where we see Satan, the dragon, poised and ready to devour the offspring (plural) of the woman......Jew or Gentile when this gathering / birthing / resurrection process happens.
We learn in Zechariah 14: 6-7 and that contentious verse from Matthew 24:36 that God the Father creates a “special day” known only to Him.........a special day to gather His elect. A day that for whatever reason cannot / will not be compromised by Satan. This special day will bypass Satan and Satan's forces ability to interfere with the transit of the elect to the new valley / land mass that God the Father has created for a refuge / protection zone.
Zechariah 14 describes this very special day.....of which no one but the Father is aware....as such.
Verse 6-7
It shall come to pass in that day
That there will be no light;
The lights will diminish.
It shall be one day
Which is known to the Lord--
Neither day nor night.
But at evening time it shall happen
That it will be light.
So.... for security purposes the timing of this day will only be known to the Father and then acted upon by Jesus and the angels of heaven when the Father creates “a very special day”to transport “the elect”from heaven and earth to the refuge of this new very large protected valley.
Once the Christian church (dead or alive) enters this new valley they will immediately need to wash themselves in the “living waters” of the new river there which emanates from Jerusalem. A river that contains the blood and Spirit of Jesus which were deposited there nearly 2000 years ago at His crucifixion. Doing this will cause the Christian church to be “born again” as per John 3.
I say immediately because they will need to re-establish and fortify their “new covenant” Spirit relationship with Jesus that they made when they first accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
This “renewing process” is just a reenactment of what happened in the past. …...”what was will be again.....there is nothing new under the sun”.....Ecclesiastes 1
We see this same process in the book of Joshua.....when Joshua entered “the new land” as he and all the remnant exodus Jews crossed the Jordan River they had to first circumcise all the Jewish males. By doing this, this circumcision, they renewed the covenant that they had with God the Father.
Now....Fast forward to the future, when the alive and dead Christians enter “the new land” just created by God the Father encompassing all of what is known as Judea and much more land to the east.........this new land will actually be on top of the exact “new land” which Joshua then occupied there in the Middle East.
These Christians will be renewing their contract, their covenant, that they made with Jesus just as Joshua's exodus Jews did with the Father, only this will be “the new covenant” with Jesus.
The Christian church will renew this covenant by washing in the new river which contains the blood and the Spirit of Jesus. This will allow them to be “born again” as Jesus mandated in John 3. When that is finished they will be “rapture ready” to rise and meet Jesus in the clouds above Jerusalem when the moment is right.
Remember God the Father will then be present in this new valley residing temporarily on the Mount of Olives until the ark of the Covenant is returned from Ethiopia which he will then occupy to re-establish His old covenant relationship with the Jewish remnant. I believe that these remnant Jews there in this valley will also have to renew their “old covenant” relationship with the Father as well. They will again be under the “law” for the remainder of the tribulation period (3.5 more years) because they rejected Jesus 2000 years ago and will still be under the “law” until Jesus returns 3.5 years later at the end of the 7 year period.
It appears Jesus will be shunning the Jews who are there in this new valley who rejected Him 2000 years ago. So, He remains in the heavens / sky above and will beckon to His Christian church to rise and meet Him above Jerusalem when the time is right. The Jews in this valley will be in remorse when they witness the Christian church being changed from mortal to immortal and then whisked away to safety........knowing that it could have been them receiving this honor if they had not collectively rejected Him 2000 years ago......and were responsible for Him being put to death.
The two end time witnesses will be in this new valley along with God the Father as they watch the Christian church renew their covenant with Jesus by washing their robes white in the blood of the Lamb and then receiving “the final installment of the Spirit of God / Jesus”.
What do I mean?
Paul tells us in Romans 8 that when we first accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior we received a “first fruits” quantity / measure of the Spirit. The “Spirit of Adoption”.... (verse 15) And that this initial measure / quantity of the Spirit that was received was only a foretaste of what was to come.
And what is to come (in the new valley) will be the full measure of the Spirit of God (Jesus) which we will receive when we bath in the waters of the new river (Zechariah 14:8) that contains the actual Spirit of Jesus which He shed there at His crucifixion.
I believe that after God the Father has witnessed the proceedings of this “born again” process that He will personally give us, the church, His permission to become “the bride of Christ”.......like loving fathers do.
So any time after we are “born again “ in this river we will be ready to be changed from mortal to immortal and rise to meet Jesus in the clouds. This would be.... the day of the rapture.
Is there any way that one can calculate when this rapture day will arrive in this new valley after we have been renewed / altered / born again? Yes!!! yes there is.
And yet again...”what was will be again, there is nothing new under the sun”.....
With this in mind lets explore what happened when Joshua and the remnant exodus Jews entered Canaan, the “new land”, the promised land, for the first time, after they crossed the Jordan River......this being a shadow to come of the “new land” God the Father will create.
First......When did Joshua and the remnant exodus Jews enter into this “new land”across the Jordan River, this new land that will be a shadow of things to come?
As per scripture Nisan 10 (Joshua 4:19)
Then, after they crossed the river, all the Jewish males were circumcised. They were altered to re-establish the covenant with the Father and then spent 4 days healing from that circumcision....that renewing process.
It appears to me based on what happened in the past as per Joshua, that we Christians collectively will spend 4 days being “altered” by being bathed in the new river of “living waters” which will renew and fulfill our “new covenant” relationship and also “take in” our total measure of the Spirit of Jesus. This will take us from our “adoption level of Spirit”as expressed in Romans 8, which was just a foretaste (small quantity).... to the final level of Jesus's Spirit which completes us.
Then Joshua and the remnant Jews from the exodus celebrated Passover four days later on Nisan 14 and then the Seder meal the following day after Passover. Joshua 5:10
Again, lets fast forward....Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb, the Passover Lamb who shed His blood and died for us at His crucifixion. He was buried and arose from the dead on the third day. We now call His resurrection “first fruits”and it happens on the third day after Passover.
Again, lets fast forward to what I believe is to come in the future. The Christian church will enter the new valley / protection zone created by God the Father on Nisan 10 as did Joshua and the exodus Jews.
The “renewing procedure” to process the entire Christian church (hundreds of millions of them) in the “living waters” will take 4 days as is paralleled in Joshua. It appears the Christian church will then celebrate Passover in this new valley on Nisan 14 as did Joshua. This meal with both Jews and Gentiles is described in Isaiah 25:6
The Christians and Jews will both celebrate as Joshua did by having a meal on the day after Passover. Joshua 5:10-12
I believe Elijah, as being one of the end time witnesses, will attend that meal as well which will fulfill “the tradition” of setting Elijah a plate for the Seder meal....as per Malachi.
Then, the next day which will be the third day of Passover or Nisan 16 is I believe the day synonymous with when Jesus resurrected from the dead.
So these are “generic” Nisan / first month of the Jewish year dates. Now we have to plug in those generic Nisan dates into a certain year in the future to establish ...yes....a rapture date.
From my recent research and the wording found in Psalms 119 it appears to me that the year we plug those dates into is....... 2022.
If I am correct Nisan 10 that year will be Monday April 11. This being the day we enter this new valley.
If I am correct Nisan 14 that year will be Friday April 15. This will be Passover.
If I am correct Nisan 16 that year will be Sunday April 17. This I believe will be the feast of first fruits, the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and I believe the day the Christian church will also be resurrected.......will rise to meet Jesus in the clouds in what we have coined as.......The Rapture of the Church. On Sunday 17 April 2022.
The rest of “the body of Christ “ will resurrect on the same day He originally did.
This will “shadow” many scriptural things that have happened in the past as per Ecclesiastes 1.
And for those who “camp out” on the concept that no one can know the day or hour of the rapture...... I say, you have badly taken a verse of scripture out of context.
If soon (in the near future)....... popes start dying and end time witnesses start showing up, then credence and focus will seemingly have to be given to what has been uncovered here........ and with the 7 year projection I made in the recent past after analyzing the wording of Psalms 119.
One more shadow or parallel to the book of Joshua before ending this post.
We see in chapter six, after crossing the Jordan River into the promised land, that Joshua had an encounter with..... The Commander of the Army of the Lord........who from scripture is I believe Michael the Ark Angel.
Now fast forward to what Daniel the prophet said in Daniel 12. He said that there will come a time of trouble for Israel like no other since it became a nation. And only those Jews whose names appear in the book will be delivered. And that many Jews who have died in prior centuries will then be resurrected. Daniel 12:2-3 and Ezekiel 37
And Daniel says that at that time (a time known as Jacob's trouble) that Michael shall stand up and watch over the sons of your people. It certainly appears that Michael will be in charge of the security of this new valley created by God which again is / was a foreshadow of what happened in Joshua's time with Michael.
Hope this post generates excitement and gives you lots to ponder on. The facts and figures / dates I used are all found in scripture.......please check it out for yourselves.
Blessings Doves.........John B