EXODUS RAPTURE PENTECOST - New Wine First Fruits Theory

The purpose of this study is to explain the Exodus Pentecost Day Count that could provide the clue to the timing of the Rapture as it pertains to the Acts 2 birth of the Church Age Dispensation. It is about how one has calculated that July 23 was and is the Feast of New Wine per this model. It is based on the Spring Equinox and thus, the Solar Calendar. Relying on this model, the First Fruit New Wine does not exclusively occur every year on the 9th of Av. And Tisha B’Av is not a festive day that the Jews celebrate. On the contrary it is the commemoration of their national dread for having their 2 prior Temples destroyed due to not being faithful to Jehovah.

Now, as the Rabbinical Calendar is exclusively Lunar since the early 300s AD, some years will have the July 23 date coincide with Tisha B’Av. It is because the Lunar Calendar flows within the Solar Calendar. But what one has argued is that what had transpired back in Sinai with Moses in smashing the 10 Commandment Tablets did not occur on the Tisha B’Av. Based on this Exodus Pentecost day count, it occurred on the Feast of the First Fruits of the New Wine. One will use 2 prior timelines to support this claim. The 1st timeline will be when the Hebrews left Egypt.

The 2nd timeline will exactly correspond to when Jesus was crucified. In both timelines, the day count is the same. And that end date was and is a July 23 which one then argues was what occurred in Acts 2. That was when GOD came down and poured the Holy Spirit like New Wine into the Disciples. It commemorates the feast that Aaron prepared the camp for to celebrate. It was the very same day Moses came down Mount Sinai on the 50th day. Thus, it was the 99th day from Nisan 15 which is the 1st day of the Omer Count in one’s interpretation.

One postulates that the Acts 2 Pentecost Feast of the First Fruits of the New Wine was when the Church Age started. Thus, it is one’s working theory that the Rapture will end its Commission on this anniversary in some year, yet to be determined. It is the only Feast of the 7 of Jehovah that directly ties the Church Body. How so? One is basing this prophetic typology on the Menorah pattern. If so, then the Church Age has been corresponding to the 4th Stem. Now, the Exodus Count to this Pentecost, of which there are 3 of them, the Golden Calf coincided with the New Wine. See Exodus 32:18 in the Brenton Septuagint Translation.

And Moses says, It is not the Voice of them that begin the battle, nor the voice of them that begin the cry of defeat, but the voice of them that begin the Banquet of Wine do I hear. -https://biblehub.com/sep/exodus/32.htm

In fact, one is of the opinion that the Feast that Jehovah had in mind to celebrate with the Israelites, was the Feast of the New Wine. Jehovah demanded of Pharaoh to let Israel celebrate. Considering that based on the timeline, the only Feast that would later become 1 of the 7 ordained ones was Pentecost, i.e., that which was commemorated in Acts 2, not Shavuot that the Rabbinical Jews only acknowledge. See Exodus 5:1-2.

After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, This is what the LORD, the GOD of Israel, says: Let My People go, so that they may hold a Feast to Me in the wilderness. But Pharaoh replied, Who is the LORD that I should obey His Voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.

So, Moses was gone from the camp for 40 days as the passage states, but it is all-inclusive in one’s estimation. This count included the 3 days of preparation wherein Israel met and heard the voice of Jehovah. Then it was after the 7 days that the Elders went atop the midway plateau to dine with Jehovah in person. That was a total of 10 days. Then Moses went up to the summit by himself for only 30 days. The start day one is using is from Sivan 15 when the Israelites arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai.

This is how one calculates and interprets the 40-day count. But then Moses came down on the 50th day. This is based on the start day of the First Fruit of the New Wheat. So, the people got restless and forsook Moses' headship. They asked Aaron to fashion a different God to lead them. So, Aaron prepared the people for the Feast, but according to their lust not obedience or patience. Thus, the notion that it was the Feast of the New Wine.

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, These, O Israel, are your Gods, who brought you up out of the Land of Egypt! When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the Calf and proclaimed: tomorrow is a Feast to the LORD. So, the next day they arose, offered Burnt Offerings, and presented Peace Offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry. -Exodus 32:4-6

Note in the timeline that if one then counts the 1st 50 Day Count from Nisan 15, that lands on the Hebrew month of Sivan and on the eve of day 6. The Israelites had not even reached Sinai. Interestingly, this date falls on June 2nd, which is always the 153rd day of the Gregorian Year. It does have prophetic echoes of the 153 Fish that are emblematic of the Church Age. It has to do with the Commission of ‘Catching the Souls of Men’, as ‘Fish’ being caught in the Fisherman's Net.

Nonetheless, Sivan 15 is when the Israelites reached the foot of Mount Sinai. That was to occur 10 days later from Sivan 6. However, the Rabbinical Jews celebrate Sivan 6 as ‘Shavuot’, the ‘Giving of the Law’, but it was not when Israel was given it as codified in the 2 Tablets. The Jewish traditional ‘Shavuot’, or the first fruits of the New Wheat is what is called Pentecost by the Church, however, is not what matches the day counts.

Sivan 6 is on the 52nd day on the Exodus Timeline from Nisan 15. It does not even commemorate the 15th of Sivan when Scripture clearly states that it was when the Israelites reached the foot of Mount Sinai. Then it was to be 3 days to when Jehovah addressed them directly. Even as the Jewish incorrectly attribute Shavuot, it is only the 1st of the 3 Penta-Feasts of First Fruits, which are now corroborated by the discovery of the Temple Scrolls. Here are the 3 First Fruits Feasts.

3. Feast of the First Fruits of the New Oil – a 50 Day Count.

As an aside observation, consider the Exodus trek out of Egypt. In plotting the Exodus day-count on the map based on the timeline, one realized what the average speed per day of the Israelites was as they trekked to Sinai. Based on an approximate throng of 3 million, the people were only able to cover about 6 miles a day. And from Tell el-Daba where Joseph’s tomb was situated according to Bible Scholar David Rohl’s findings, to Sinai was exactly 360 nautical miles, using Google Ground Length. That is amazing.

It seemed the Israelites reached the Red Sea crossing on the 40th day marker on the Exodus Timeline. And as the Egyptian Army came to entrap them and take them back to Slavery, once they crossed the Red Sea at Nuweiba, they marched at a double-speed to get to the foot of Mount Sinai. Here is where the day count is in question and based on one’s interpretation of how the First Fruits of the New Wine was on the 99th day.

It is in the 4th month of Tammuz as the wheat harvest ends on the Leo New Year. As noted, this day corresponds to the 2nd Shavuot count, which one asserts was and is corresponding to the Acts 2 Pentecost event. It is on Tammuz 23 and the Feast of New Wine, etc. And in the Gregorian day count, it correlates to a July 23 (723). Here are the scriptural references.

The Scriptures precisely specify when the Israelites reached the foot of Mount Sinai. It was the ‘Same Day’, on the 15th Day of the Month, exactly 60 Days later. That was Sivan 15. It took 2 months to reach Sinai from when the Israelites left Egypt. That was Nisan 15. This is why one is using the Exodus Pentecost Calendar as a prophetic template. This timeline then corresponds to the Acts 2 event, which one argues is the Feast of New Wine, that in turn could infer the Rapture’s timing.

Notice that it was 10 days from Sivan 4, day 50 when the Israelites arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai on day 60 or Sivan 15. Jehovah then instructed Moses to tell the Israelites to prepare themselves for the face-to-face presentation and introduction of Jehovah, who saved them from slavery. These are the 3 days of preparation. The day counts thus, is now Sivan 18.

Jehovah then audibly outlined the ‘Terms and Conditions’ of the Marriage Covenant with Israel. Israel said, ‘I Do’. Then Jehovah invited the 70 Elders to a Marriage Supper for 7 days. It was much like the 12 Disciples at the LORD’s Supper with Jesus and His Ketuvah, or Marriage Contract. This will be mirrored for the Bride of Christ after the Rapture for 7 years.

Then after the 7 days, it is when Jehovah instructed Moses to go up the mountain. It was 30 days. Here is the day count of the initial 3 days presented before Jehovah + the 7 days of the Elder’s Wedding Supper to equal 10 days. One’s timeline thus calculates that Moses was only 30 days exclusively with Jehovah on the Mountain. This constitutes a total of a 50-day count.

The LORD’s Supper Typology
Thus, the 40-day count includes the 30 days Moses went up to the summit of Sinai to be given the Written Covenant on those 2 Tablets of Stone. It includes the 7-day Wedding Supper and the 3 days of preparation, for a total of 40 days per one’s interpretation for a grand total of 50 days. It was thus, on the 50th day when one argues, that Aaron alluded to the Feast of New Wine, 40-days from Seivan 15. So, one’s point is that this Exodus Pentecost timeline appears to corroborate with one’s interpretation of Leviticus 23:15-16.

It is a double count of the 49 Days + 1 Day + 50 additional days to equal 99 days. This is what one argues, corresponded to when Moses came down with the Commandment, as it occurred on the First Fruits of the New Wine. And this is when the Acts 2 event occurred that reversed the Sinai Curse and with the initiation of the Church Age. This 99th day corresponds, per the timeline, to the 4th month of the Jewish Calendar, Tammuz, which in the modern Gregorian Calendar is July. So, will the Rapture event that will conclude the Bride of Christ occur on its anniversary in some year yet to come?

As to the Elder’s Wedding Supper? The following will be one’s interpretation of how the ‘Rapture Picture’ can possibly be extrapolated from this event. It is how Jehovah’s Marriage to Israel, emblematic of her 70 Elders and his Wedding Supper can be likened to the Rapture of Jesus’ Bride. It is like the LORD’s Supper that is to be concluded in Heaven. The 70 Elder Wedding Supper took place about half-way up Mount Sinai, in the area just above the cave of Elijah and just before reaching the 1st blackened peak of Mount Sinai. It is a relatively flat area that could accommodate the 70 Elders. They were the metaphor for the collective 12 Tribes of Israel. It is where Jehovah came down upon that sapphire floor, transparent and how tables and a meal were set-up.

Imagine the spectacle. They saw and dined with Jehovah, the Creator face-to-face and they all did not die. He was really a Christophany of Jesus, their Messiah. This is why the Orthodox Jews revere the Sanhedrin, the body of the ruling Elders of Zion. But how, unfortunately they have superscripted their Oral Torah to supersede the Written Torah of Moses. This is what Jesus called them out for, for nullifying the Word of Jehovah with their Traditions of Man. This is what is flawed in Rabbinical Judaism. And it was for this reason that the Elders of Zion, the Sanhedrin sought to kill Jesus.

Consequently, this is why Moses is a type of Jesus in that Moses had to wear a veil due to being in the presence of Jehovah’s Glory. In a sense, Moses could not be ‘seen’ by the Jews, entirely. And it was Moses that warned Israel of a Prophet to come that would condemn them. And it was Moses who appeared as 1 of the 2 Witnesses, along with Elijah, who also condemned Israel for their wickedness that appeared with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Note that Elijah was on Mount Sinai also. And what if, when the transfiguration of Jesus’ body occurred on the Mount of Transfiguration in some interdimensional way, overlapped on Mount Sinai, devoid of space, matter and time? In other words, Jesus spoke to both Moses and Elijah there as well, while overlapping dimensions in that very moment. When Moses came down, his face shone. Israel knew it was Moses, but they could not see his face, and he had to veil himself.

This is the same case with Jesus. The religious Jews cannot see Jesus face-to-face because of the Law they believe will merit Eternal Life. It represents Moses that cannot fully disclose who Jehovah is to Israel. Only in Jesus is that veil removed. That will happen once Jesus returns at the end of Jacob’s Trouble. It will be like Joseph and his 11 brothers who realized that it was Joseph all along who was their Deliverer. And the deliverance of Israel and the world for that matter is directly associated with the wheat harvest. So, the 7 days of the 70 Elders supped with Jehovah mirrors the 7 years Jesus will likewise have with His Wife in Glory after the Rapture.

And the Last Supper in the Upper Room was, as Moses and the Elders went up to Sinai with the Representative of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Jesus then left, going further up to the House of His Father to prepare that Marriage Chamber, etc. That is amazing. Nonetheless, one contends that after the 7-day Wedding Banquet with the 70 Elders, Moses then subsequently went up to the Summit of Sinai for 30 days. It is stated as being 40 days, but one’s interpretation is that the days since Sivan 15 are all-inclusive to be 40 total then.

It was at that time and place where Moses received the terms of the Marriage Covenant with Israel in stone, i.e., the 2 Tablets written by the very finger of Jehovah. It is the same in how Jesus was called to the Father’s House and had to leave the Disciples. However, He promised to return. And that is the challenge for the Bride to be patient and faithful. Will she endure and keep herself only to Jesus? In His Absence He sent down the Holy Spirit to help empower such a commitment and commission. Thus, this is why one is more convinced that all this occurred on the Feast of New Wine, both at Mount Sinai in Exodus and Mount Moriah in Acts 2.

And it was on the 99th day, the same day the Golden Calf incident occurred and 3000 souls perished. But in Acts 2, 3000 souls were saved. The Sinai Curse was reversed. And that the Acts 2 event matches the 99th day from Nisan 15, the Day after Passover wherein Jesus was crucified. Jesus is what enabled the curse to be reversed. And how now, this 2nd timeline is compared to that of Jesus’ crucifixion in 32 AD. So, if one converts the day count from the Jewish Calendar of 30 days each, the Tammuz 23 date corresponds to a July 23 from the day after Jesus was crucified.

This was the case, especially when the Julian Calendar was in place and mirrored the Jewish Calendar, until the change to the Gregorian Calendar occurred in the West. It is rational to assume the day count of the 40 days occurs after the Elder’s Supper. But even if one uses this day count and attributes and additional 10 days after the 23rd of Tammuz, one will cross over into the 5th Jewish Month of Av. But the 40th day count will correspond to the 3rd day, not the 9th, in that case. So, in both timelines, that of the Exodus one of Moses and the Crucifixion one of Jesus, the ‘9th of Av’ was not on the Feast of New Wine. But if one sees the entire Exodus timeline, one will see that the 99th Day from Nisan 15 is still within the 4th Month of Tammuz, not Av, etc. However, one could be wrong, but one is more convinced that the 9th of Av deals more so with the Bad Report of the 10 Spies later. It is about Israel’s unbelief and rejection.

The Time of the Wine
The Bad Report was about the day that Israel was condemned to roam in the wilderness for 40 years. This has nothing to do with the Church Age, nor when it began in 32 AD and conversely on a day of rejoicing and making merry as the New Wine is associated with and most assuredly, the downpouring of the Holy Spirit. This cannot be said on the 9th of Av. Notice that the evidence for why the 9th of Av was not the Feast of New Wine initially, was that the Spies brought back ripened and mature grape clusters. This could not have been possible during the time of the New Wine, as the ripening had just begun by then.

So, that is the purpose of a First Fruit Feast. It was to be a token of the whole. It is to commemorate and bless the entire harvest to come, once fully ripened, 120 days later. In the case of the wheat harvest, it was planted just after the Spring Equinox, for example. The Church will only complete her Commission as the last Gentile is ‘harvested’. Only then will this Mystery Age, that was kept hidden, revert back to Israel that so desperately seeks to put herself under the Law that condemns and kills again. It will be for 7 years under their reconstituted 70 Elders, but they are the ones that rejected Jesus, who their forefathers directly saw and spoke to.

And that is what was precisely the case occurring during the Feast of New Wine in Acts 2. The Disciples and those 3000 Jews that got saved were but those First Fruits of the New Wine, the New Church, the New Wine that filled the New Wine Skins. The harvest is yet to occur. The Church Age harvest is the wheat harvested in the Summer that coincides with the New Wine, in one’s interpretation. And if one superimposes the Church Age as the 4th Stem of the 7-Branch Menorah, it is the Pentecost Age that is still on-going. It is present and in-play until the call to retreat, as in to leave one’s place or position as ‘Apostasy’ can be interpreted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

And that will occur, as one is more convinced, at the Resurrection-Rapture call that will close-out the harvest. It is where the wheat meets the wine. This is what one believes was and is to be commemorated during the Feast of the Pentecost New Wine of Acts 2 and what occurred on Sinai with Moses. It is the only Feast of Jehovah that is directly tied to the Church Age Body of Christ presently. Consider that if 32 AD was the crucifixion year, then if 2 days is as 2000 years per Scripture, then truly this is the last generation of the Church Age. Thus, as it pertains to the Church Age of Grace, the wheat harvest has now matured and it is time for the Bride of Christ to ‘dine with wine’, New Wine that is.

This study proposes that the Feast of New Wine, occurring annually on July 23, based on my calculations serves as a critical prophetic marker for the timing of the Rapture. By calculating a 99-day count from the 1st day of the Omer, the study links the revelation at Mount Sinai with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. This model identifies the Church Age as the central stem of a menorah pattern, suggesting that the same Summer timeline governs both the birth and the eventual conclusion of the Church Age Dispensation of grace. One argues that while traditional calendars focus on the Giving of the Law, the true biblical pattern emphasizes New Wine as a symbol of the marriage covenant between Christ and His followers. Ultimately, the study suggests that the end of the harvest for the Bride of Christ may align with this end of the wheat harvest and beginning of the New Wine specific anniversary in a future year.
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