THE NEW WINE
THEORY
A PENTECOST
RAPTURE?
Based on the July 23
Date Calculation
by Luis B. Vega
The purpose of this study is to explain one’s Pentecost
Rapture timing argument based on the Feast of the First Fruits
of the New Wine. In both cases, there is much debate as to when
Pentecost truly occurs as well as when is the Feast of the New
Wine. It does not mean one is ‘right’. And surely one does not
expect everyone else to bow down to this teaching in the cloak
of having you all divinely coerced to believe it so or else you
are not hearing, understanding or obeying the very words of
Jehovah. One will set the stage by outlining one’s
interpretation as to why this argument is being made.
1. The Christian Pentecost that is hinged to the Jewish
Shavuot is not the Pentecost of Acts 2. Thus, the true event
of what occurred in Acts 2 is being deliberately obfuscated.
2. The Jewish Shavuot only commemorates the Feast of the First
Fruit of the New Wheat.
3. The Jews only commemorate the ‘Giving of the Law’ on
Shavuot, but this is 10 days before the actual Hebrews reached
the foot of Mount Sinai.
4. The Essenes, for example kept the ancient understanding
that there were 3 commemorations, if not celebrations of the
First Fruits of the New Wheat, New Wine and New Oil.
5. The 2nd First Fruit Feast, that of the New Wine, one argues
is what corresponded to the Acts 2 Pentecost event.
One has written about how the Acts 2 descent of GOD, the Holy
Spirit came down to empower the Disciples for the Great
Commission that is to last until the Rapture event. It will be
when Jesus extracts the Bride of Christ from the entire Church
Age. What also occurred on Mount Moriah or the Temple Mount that
day in Jerusalem is a reverse of the curse of Mount Sinai. So,
based on this model, one has compared the day counts from the
Exodus of Nisan 15. This is one’s starting point for the entire
model.
And in both cases, this is where the July 23 date emerges
from and why one strongly suggests that the Acts 2 Pentecost
occurred on this precise day and perhaps will again. Now as the
Church Age started on this day, will it be the same day the
Bride of Christ is to be extracted from the nations? Thus, one
will present this Exodus day count for comparison that is based
on the Spring Equinox. In so doing, one does not subscribe to
the Lunar based reckoning of determining when Pentecost was, is
or will be. Why not?
Which Calendar?
As noted, the issue of what is and when is Pentecost is
convoluted by the confusion that only 1 count of 50 or a
‘Shavuot’ is celebrated by the Jews. Realize that the word
Pentecost only means ‘50’. Thus, it can be applied to any series
of a time-span. One’s point is that not only is the Christian
Pentecost misappropriated, but Christians also rely on the
current Rabbinical Hillel 2 Calendar that is solely Lunar based.
The Jews eventually had to capitulate only to this timepiece in
the early 300s AD. This was due to their Roman Diaspora. As the
Temple was destroyed the Jews lost the Lunisolar reckoning of
time using to track the correct Seasons and Feasts of Jehovah.
Moreover, with the rise of Christianity, the Jews did not want,
in one’s estimation to lend any credibility to what had occurred
in Acts 2 during the New Wine Feast. Why not? It meant that
their divine judgment warned about by their rejected Messiah,
Jesus had come true. Their Kingdom would be given over to
another that would bear fruit. So, consider the following
misappropriations of how many Christians erroneously, in one’s
estimation have determined or do determine that the Christian
Pentecost is the same as the Jewish Shavuot of only the Feast of
the First Fruits of the New Wheat.
Realize that there was no Hillel 2 Rabbinical Calendar
during the times of Jesus as there is now. Nor was there a
Gregorian Calendar then either. The Blood Moons that occur, for
example, inevitably coincide with the Jewish feast days because
it is Lunar. But the Calendar that the Jews operated with in
Jesus’ day was called the Lunisolar Calendar. At that time,
there was the Julian Calendar that in the 1st Century did
overlap precisely with the Jewish Lunisolar one. But the Julian
Calendar also drifted to the point that Pope Gregory
recalibrated it in 1582, as we have now to go by in the West.
One’s point is that the true measure of how ‘time’ is
kept is based on the Sun. This is why Jehovah anchored the sky
with the 2 Solstices and 2 Equinoxes. This is how all the
ancient civilizations determined the New Year and some still do.
It was based on the Spring Equinox and that is how one’s model
determines why July 23, as a fixed date, every year is set to
the Exodus model and thus the date of the New Wine. Also, the
other fallacy, in one’s estimations is how others are adamant
that the Feast of the New Wine always occurs on the 9th of Av.
Not so. Or how the Essenes celebrated it on a Sunday in the
month of August, for example. This is after the fact. But this
is why using the Lunar Calendar, the Hillel 2 one since ~320 AD,
the 9th of Av ‘floats’ back-and-forth from July to August in the
Gregorian Calendar we have now. And?
Here is the problem. In the current Rabbinical or Hebrew
Calendar, Adar II must be added 7 times in every 19-year cycle.
This is called the Metonic Cycle, designed to keep the Lunar
Hebrew Calendar aligned with the Solar Year. It is so that
Passover remains in the Spring, as required by Jehovah and how
Nisan was to be the 1st month of the year, etc. But this
demonstrates that the Lunar Calendar, exclusively, is not the
correct mechanism or model to reckon time with, especially to
determine when the Feasts of Jehovah are to be observed. It just
so happens that in 2026, Av 9 coincides with one’s July 23
Pentecost New Wine Theory that then one attributes it to
possibly being the day of the Rapture. As to the New Wine being
‘Pagan?’ Well, call me ‘Pagan’.
An Argument from Absence
Just because a topic, idea or understanding like Jehovah
commanding the Israelites to celebrate the Feast of New Wine is
not explicitly mentioned in Scripture does not mean it is
non-existent due to its absence. John wrote that if every
teaching that Jesus gave were to be written down, there would
not be enough books to contain them. It is rhetorical but to
show that we are given what we need to know. Consider the old
cliché argument of how the words ‘Bible’, Rapture, or Trinity
are not mentioned in the Bible.
Based on this erroneous logic of being absent from
Scripture, Christians need to reject the Trinity, the Rapture
and the Bible itself and are to be considered ‘Pagan’. Then,
consider the feast of commemorating the wine season inferred
celebrated by the Jews. It was like when those women of Shiloh
were instructed to dance in the vineyard to be ‘snatched’ or
raptured away by the men of the Tribe of Benjamin. One can
deductively reason that it was precisely during the celebration
of the New Wine harvest season.
Then consider that Hanukkah is not decreed by Jehovah in
Leviticus to be celebrated. Yet the Jews implement this feast
also in their celebrations. Jesus did not reprimand the Jews for
keeping such a holiday. And Jesus went up to the Temple to
celebrate it also. As to the Wine feast not being in the Bible?
There are at least 7 verses in the Book of Deuteronomy alone of
how the Jews commemorated it. They did so also for the Wheat and
the Oil as Tithes and Offerings. And Jehovah did not reprimand
them for that.
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1- DEUTERONOMY 7:13
He will love you and bless you and increase your
numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of
your land—your Grain, New Wine and Olive Oil—the calves of
your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land He swore
to your Ancestors to give you.
2- DEUTERONOMY 11:14
Then I will send rain on your land in its Season, both
Autumn and Spring Rains, so that you may gather in
your Grain, New Wine and Olive Oil.
3- DEUTERONOMY 12:17
You must not eat in your own towns the Tithe of
your Grain and New Wine and Olive Oil, or the Firstborn
of your Herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give,
or your Freewill Offerings or Special Gifts. [All First Fruit
Feasts were an Offering to be presented at the Temple.]
4- DEUTERONOMY 14:23
Eat the Tithe of your Grain, New Wine and Olive
Oil, and the Firstborn of your herds and flocks in the
presence of the LORD your GOD at the place He will choose as a
Dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the
LORD your GOD always.
5- DEUTERONOMY 18:4
You are to give them the First-Fruits of your
Grain, New Wine and Olive Oil, and the 1st Wool from the
shearing of your sheep,
6- DEUTERONOMY 28:51
They will devour the Young of your livestock and the
crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave
you no Grain, New Wine or Olive Oil, nor any calves of
your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
7- DEUTERONOMY 33:28
So, Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell
secure in a land of Grain and New Wine, where the heavens
drop dew.
‘For the Sons of Israel and the Sons of Levi shall
bring the contribution of the Grain, the New Wine and the Oil
to the Chambers; there are the Utensils of the Sanctuary, the
Priests who are ministering, the Gatekeepers and the Singers.
Thus, we will not neglect the House of our GOD’. -Nehemiah
10:39
‘Therefore I will return and take back my Grain in its Season,
and my New Wine at its Appointed Time, and I will snatch away
my Wool and my Linen for covering her nakedness’. -Hosea 3:11
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As to the date of July 23 (723) being the possible Rapture
timing then? One’s Rapture model, stipulated to be occurring on
the Feast of New Wine is also precisely predicated on there
being a gap of time from the Rapture event to when the 1st Daily
Offering is to be made. It is not the Rapture event that
triggers when the 70th Week of Daniel begins, that is the last
7-year Shemitah in this model. Thus, a secondary model is also
predicated on the argument on when the Tribulation Period
starts.
The Tribulation Period is all-inclusive of the 2 halves
of 1260 days. And for that 1st Daily Sacrifice to occur, there
must be a finished and dedicated 3rd Temple. One has offered a
possible scenario of how, it is at the Dedication by the
AntiChrist that will have to be a Jew, accepted by the Sanhedrin
will commemorate this event much like King Solomon did. One is
convinced that actual fire from the 2nd Heaven will ignite the
Burnt Offering.
It will be part of the ‘Lying Signs and Wonders’ performed by
the False Prophet and the false Jewish Messiah at that time and
place. One’s prime rationale for this scenario is based on the
prophetic ‘fractal’ of how the very decree given by the Arch
Angel Gabriel to Daniel was made, is and will be all about. So,
the countdown from the Decree, as a dual fulfillment is the key
and of when the countdown of years begins as it did back in
Daniels day. Daniel was made to understand that from the Decree
to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, not the Temple, the Messiah
would come. This template will repeat itself.
This precisely occurred, if one uses the Spring Equinox
as the New Year from the Decree made in -445 BC. If so, then
Nisan 10 became the day of the Triumphal Entry in 32 AD. That
day was a Sabbath, in one’s day count and then 4 days later, on
Wednesday, the crucifixion of Jesus occurred. This was right in
the ‘midst’ of the week and when the Sun was eclipsed by Planet
X for 3 hours, also in one’s estimation. And the Blood Moon
occurred near midnight as well, but on the other side of the
globe.
The Royal Decree
This depiction and celestial event literally fulfilled the
prophecy of Joel 2 that was interestingly also cited by the
Apostle Peter during the Acts 2 Pentecost event on the Temple
Mount, not in the Upper Room. So, we just have to determine when
that ‘Decree’ was made in modern Israel after its independence
on May 14, 1948. That decree could only have come after the
6-Day War when the Old City of Jerusalem was heavily damaged
while recapturing it by the Jews, not since 70 AD. Based on the
work of the late Dan Matson, he proposed several dates
thereafter when the Jerusalem City Council actually made such a
‘Decree’ to rebuild Jerusalem. But consider the following year
correspondence since the U.N. Partition Plan 1947.
U.N. Partition Plan 1947
+ 80th years (Psalm 90) = 2026 (Decree to build and dedicate
Temple?)
Thus, based on this Pentecost New Wine Rapture timing model,
will sometime in 2026 be when the AntiChrist decrees the
sanctioning of the 3rd Temple? Will 2026 be when that last
Sabbath of years begins with the offering and dedication of the
1st Daily Sacrifice Offering? This dual prophetic Royal Decree
scenario is what initiates the countdown to the return of Jesus.
Why? One has argued that what is the key clue is how this day
count has a precise midpoint.
It is that at the halfway point of the ‘Week’, the Daily
Sacrifices are likewise stopped by the same false Jewish Messiah
that decreed them to begin. Thus, it is at this point and time
that the 1260-day Great Tribulation begins, and the Mark of the
Beast is mandated and rolled-out. So, in one’s July 23 New Wine
model, it does require a gap of time, but a brief one, if 2026
is to be the Rapture year at all. Regardless, one still argues
that the true Pentecost, that of Acts 2 occurred on the date of
the New Wine, the 2nd of the 3 First Fruit minor feasts.
And that perhaps as the Church started there and then, its
anniversary will culminate in the Rapture event just the same.
And based on one’s Exodus timepiece, the high-watch date
corresponds to a July 23 Count. This is just one's working model
and personal interpretation for your discernment, nothing more
as it is only a theory. So far, up to now the ‘723’ New
Wine Theory of the Acts 2 Pentecost occurring on July 23 has not
changed from a theory to a fact but perhaps one year it will.
Here is the logic behind the Exodus day count to July 23.
The New Year is based on the Spring Equinox. But because
the Calendar is no longer based solely on a 360-day count, the
adjustment is made in how the 1st New Moon occurs that in
the present 365-day calendar is factored in. Next, all the
months of the Hebrew Calendar at the time of Moses were exactly
30 days each. Then based on one’s interpretation, the ‘after the
morrow of the Sabbath’ is Nisan 15 as the Passover of Nisan 14
is a Sabbath technically where no work is done. Thus, one counts
the subsequent triplets of 50 days from Nisan 15. This is how
one reaches July 23. The 1st count of 50 days results in
Sivan 6, with end day included. This is the commemoration of the
First Fruits of the New Wheat.
Then the next or 2nd ‘Shavuot’ count of 50 days
results in a New Wine date of July 23 or Tammuz 23. The
3rd and last First Fruit of the New Oil lands on September
11. Thus, based on this Exodus day count that is fixed from the
Spring Equinox, the feast of New Wine did not originally occur
on the 9th of Av. That date occurred 15 days after Moses
came down with the original Tablets of the Law. Also, one
presents a corroboration of day counts that start from the day
the Israelites arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai. The day
counts are as follows.
There were 3 days of preparation. Then 7 days wherein,
being the 10th day, is when the banquet feast with Jehovah
and the 70 Elders dined halfway between the base camp and the
pinnacle of Mount Sinai. Then it was at that point in time that
Moses then was summoned and stayed the remaining 30 days to
receive the Tablets of the Law. This is why then on that
50th day, Moses came down with the Tablets having the 10
Commandments etched by the very finger of Jehovah. It was that
same day that Aaron had prepped for the camp to celebrate a
‘Feast’.
That feast is inferred as being the New Wine. In the Septuagint,
Moses is to have made this direct reference to it being the
feast of the New Wine. And thus, the rivalry and the Golden Calf
incident that coincide that same day. It was when the Rebellion
of Korah occurred and 3000 followers perished. This is why in
the Act 2 Pentecost that exactly mirrors this same Exodus
timeline and day count is when 3000 souls got saved. They were
as the tokens of the First Fruits of the New Wine that was, is
and going to conclude the Age of the New Wine.
Summary
The provided text outlined the New Wine Theory, a
theological model suggesting that the Rapture and the Biblical
events of Acts 2 are linked to a specific Summer Feast rather
than the traditional Jewish Spring Shavuot. One argued that the
true Pentecost occurs 50 days after the Wheat Harvest,
coinciding with the Feast of the New Wine on July 23. By
utilizing a Solar-Based Calendar instead of the modern Lunar
version, the author correlates the arrival of the Holy Spirit
with a ‘Reverse of the Curse’ from the Golden Calf incident at
Mount Sinai. This framework further explores prophetic timelines
involving the Great Tribulation and the building of a 3rd
Temple, potentially peaking in the year 2026. Ultimately, the
source posits that the Church Age may conclude on the same
anniversary it began, identifying the New Wine Harvest as a
significant high-watch period for the Bride of Christ.
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NEW WINE RAPTURE
The purpose of this Book, the 4th in a Tetralogy is about
expounding on the Notion and Theory that the Pentecost of Acts 2
was and is on the Feasts of the First-Fruits of the New
Wine.
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LEO NEW YEAR
People often say the following when asked about, ‘When is
the Rapture to occur?’ They say, ‘No One Knows the Day or the
Hour’? Does that Verse in the Bible really pertain to the
Rapture Timing?
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PENTECOST WINE
The purpose of this Book is to provide a Compilation of
Articles over several Years of ‘Discovery into the Journey of
Identifying that the Feast of New Wine, precisely at a 99th Day
Count is what Acts 2 was and is about.
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