Keith Davidson (9 June 2012)
"Christians Awake!"

John & All Doves,
I believe we should all revisit Bruce Barber's post...
Could we just reconsider what our Lord may be sending a message to His believers and to His House Of Israel.
Perhaps this little known festival is a mark to which Israel gets their wakeup call on a date that our Messiah removes His Bride and that the same day Israel remembers the significance of this day!I

Tisha B'Av (*begins at sundown)
July 28, 2012
This Jewish holiday mourns the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE. Many commemorate the day by fasting and by reciting a mournful liturgy.

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Bruce Baber (8 June 2012) Has posted"Tu B'Av is when the Jewish sages say the Messiah will reveal himself to His bride!"

Dear Doves,

I thought I had written up everything of any consequence that I could find regarding Tu B'Av over the past several years and why it should be strongly considered as the possible date of the rapture...and then I came across this from a Jewish website:

"The Hebrew month of Av (or Menachem-Av, the consoler of Av) is the fifth of the twelve months of the Jewish calendar.

The name Av literally means "father." It derives from the root which means "to will" or "to desire."

It is the month of the "low point" of the Jewish calendar (the 9th of Av, the day of the sin of the spies and the destruction of both the first and second Temples in Jerusalem) as well as the month of the "high point" of the Jewish calendar (the 15th of Av--"there are no happier days for Israel than the 15th of Av and Yom HaKippurim" (Mishnah Ta'anit 26:)--the day of finding one's predestined soul-mate)."

...." Relative to all other souls of Israel, the soul of Mashiach, who comes to redeem Israel from her state of (spiritual as well as physical) exile, is like a groom to his bride. After his birth on the 9th of Av he reveals himself to his bride and betroths her on the 15th of Av." (I didn't add anything to the above text except colour, underline and italics for added emphasis). BB

YBIC
Keith D