Bride of Christ
Rapture/Theft Watch - Tu B'Av 5773
Do you take Jesus Christ "Tu B"
your lawfully wedded Husband, from this day forward, for
the rest of eternity?
I DO!
Two women shall be grinding
at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other
left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour
your Lord doth come. Matthew
24:41-42
Reasons to watch Tu
B'Av 5773 - July 21/22, 2013
What are the reasons to
watch?
1. One Year Announcement
- Hebrew tradition announced the "bride theft" up to one
year in advance with the groom preparing a place.
Then the Father of the groom would tell the
groom when to go for the bride. Renee
Moses, (a derivative pen name just as I could write under
the name of "Theo Watcher") gave us 21 reasons,
that's right, a year ago to watch Tu B'Av at
that time. One of the reasons given was a play on
words of not the actual abomonation, but the "o" bomo
- nation, which was set up on January 20, 2009 and
counting 1290 days per scripture brought one to Tu
B'Av a year ago for a one year notice.
2 - 19. Tu B'Av Summary - 21
specific signs pointing to August 3, 2012, as the
Firstfruits Rapture of the Church. Eighteen
of these are applicable to every Tu B'Av, therefore
these are reasons 2-19.
20. 21 Reasons in Post
/ July 21st - Did you catch this? 21 reasons
given a year ago pointing to July 21 which is the start of
Tu B'Av at sundown!
21. Sky Blue 21 / Valarie
/ July 21st - Long time watchers know what this is
about. Enough said. Plus this gets us back to
the original 21 of Renee's.
22. Vincent Tan's
Angelic Experience pointing to the Rapture with the
counting up to 234 as pointed out by John Tng with
Ruth, Chapter 2 being the celebration of Tu B'Av and being
the 234th chapter in the Bible.
23. This was brought
up last Monday - Vincent Tan's
Angelic Experience on December
23/24, 1996 where the gas pump kept stopping
before $2.35 could be pumped into his tank. If
pointing to the timing of the Rapture being
before 235 months were up from the Angelic
encounter December 23/24, 1996 brings us to right
before July 23/24, 2013.
24. This was also brought
up in a way last Monday - Vincent Tan's Experience
with just shy of 235 weeks. When 235 weeks
are added to the same January 20, 2009 which was
brought up by Renee Moses a year ago, one also arrives at
July 23, 2013, the day after July 22, 2013.
25. Saving the best for
last - and the one that also takes the most
explanation. July 21, 2013 is exactly two
prophetic years from July 10, 2015, counting
inclusively. Now during the Church Age,
Gentiles in a sense are given 2,000 years to repent and
believe on our Lord Jesus Christ. During this time,
blindness has come to the Jews, that the Gentiles may be
grafted in. If July 21, 2013 begins the time of the
Rapture then there will be 2 prophetic years as an analogy
to July 10, 2015. But then one might ask, what is
the significance of July 10, 2015? It is the
day the expected shortening of days will start.
And except that the Lord
had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but
for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath
shortened the days. Mark 13:20
And the fourth angel
sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and
the third part of the moon, and the third part of the
stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and
the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night
likewise. Revelation 8:12
Bible students have been
perplexed by how far into the 1260 day Great Tribulation
this event occurs. We know the fifth angel locust
torment lasts 5 months. We also know the sixth angel
looses four other angels who slay a third of man in an
hour, a day, a month, and a year. Since there are
four angels and four time periods, the times are normally
thought to run concurrently. As such there appears
to be 17 months left when the fourth angel sounds.
However, it was Renee Moses who
first provided the inspiration on July 4, 2013 to take
exactly one third of the 1260 days as being the amount of
time during this period when the days would be shortened
by one third. Makes perfect sense. Just as
Revelation reveals how long the days will be shortened as
spoken by Jesus in Matthew and Mark, it makes sense that
at this time it will be revealed that one third of the
days of the last 1260 days will have their time shortened
by one third.
So one third of 1260 days is
420 days which is exactly 14 30-day months.
This perplexingly does not seem to reconcile with the 17
months apparently from scripture. However, when one
considers the 1260 days are extended to 1290 and then
blessed is he who comes to the end of 1335 days as
recorded in Daniel, one realizes there are 2 1/2 more
months to be accounted for. Which can be added to
the 14 months and rounded off to 17 months.
What magnificent complexity and simplicity is hidden in
God's Holy word!
Now I have written many times
on rightly dividing Daniels 70 weeks, not by adding
together the 62 and the 7 weeks, nor by adding together
the 62, 7 and half of the one remaining week, but by
keeping them divided into 62, 7, and 1 week and placing
dispensations by God's grace of 2,000 and 1,000 years
between the three time periods making up Daniel's 70
weeks.
There were 62 weeks of 360-day
years from the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem by
Nehemiah, Governor of Jerusalem, to the conception of
Christ in 5 BC. This was followed by 2,000 360-day
years for the times of the Gentiles which came to an
end on June 7, 1967 with the commandment by really
Moshe Dayan, a civilian the army looked to for leadership,
to restore Jerusalem to the Jews, which transpired later
that day.
This it is believed
will be followed by 7 weeks of 360-day years leading
up to the return of Jesus Christ in Spirit on September
23, 2015. However, just as Jesus Christ stayed
hidden in the womb from man at the beginning of His first
coming, it is believed Jesus Christ will stay hidden for
the same period of time at His second coming. This
allows the fulfillment of 7 weeks or 49 years on the
Jewish calendar which comes to an end on June 4, 2016 with
the expected revealing of His second coming to man.
Now an interesting side-note is
that there are 255 days between September 23, 2015 and
June 4, 2016. This works out to around 36 and a half
weeks. However, the average gestation from
conception to birth is 38 weeks which is 266 days.
The interesting point is that various people, often
attributed to Zola Levitt, have shown how Jesus Christ
being conceived on passover would parallel various
festivals as He developed in the womb till He is born at
the end of Chanukah.
The problem is a full gestation
of 38 weeks goes past the end of Chanukah at least 10 days
in a given year. Which means to make this fit, we
must adopt a gestation of around 255 days. Isn't God
amazing!
Now another very interesting
side-note is that counting back exactly 2,000 360-day
years from June 7, 1967 using various calendar converters
such as:
One comes to exactly the middle
of the month on the Jewish calculated calendar one month
to the day before Passover. Now the Jews did not
follow a calculated calendar till after the destruction of
Jerusalem in 70 AD but followed the lunar month and
observed barley abib to determine the new year. If
it had been an unusually warm winter leading up to the
Spring of 5 BC, then Abib could have
been observed a month early and this would have
allowed Jesus Christ to have been conceived on Passover
and born at the end of Chanukah.
The Chinese first
observed what is believed to have been a nova around
March of 5 BC that they sighted for a total of 70
days. To the Magi in Persia, it would have appeared
first on the eastern horizon and explained in the
below link, as the 70 days continued, would have moved in
relation to the horizon to the south to where it could be
described as the star leading the way to Jerusalem as they
traveled while observing the nova.
Now a Passover a month
early would also have allowed Chanukah to occur a
month early which works out to the very beginning of
November. At such a time it would still be
warmer to where it is more likely Shepherds could
be tending their flocks by night in the open, a
common objection to the normally colder in the season,
Chanukah date of birth.
Now with the side-notes
finished, we just need to start at June 4, 2016, the
end of the 1335 days and the end of seven weeks of Jewish
years from June 7, 1967. First we subtract 45
days to bring us to 1290 days, the 45 days taking up the
time before the shortening of the days that had been taken
up by 30 days. Then we subtract 30 days to bring us
to 1260 days, the 30 days taking up the time before the
shortening of the days that had been taken up by 20
days. Then we subtract off one third of the 1260
days that also has been shortened by one third bringing us
to July 10, 2015. Amazingly, the puzzle pieces fit
perfectly as shown below.
Shalom,
Ted Porter