Gerry Almond (14 Mar 2014)
"Is now the time?"
It is March 11, 2014.
It has been very quiet on the rapture front. No one seems to have a
message as to the timing of this event. Current ideas
run anywhere from April to June, 2014. However, I think that it
is could come earlier than that, as I will show in the following.
We never know when heaven will open our minds again, as it has in the
past, and we see more clearly than through a glass darkly. So,
keep praying, keep looking, and be alert.
I propose that we pay more attention to the calendars, of which there are three of importance in my thinking right now.
Can 2013 possibly extend itself into 2014? Maybe. Here is a brief recap covering the year 2013:
The Gregorian calendar ended December 31, 2013
The Julian calendar ended January 13, 2014 on the Gregorian, exactly 13 days later.
The Lunar calendar will not end until March 1, 2014 on the Gregorian
when Nisan 1 will begin a new sacred Jewish year corresponding to our
2014.
Rody Dominguez “official” announcement that the rapture would be before
the end of 2013 truly may have until March 1, 2014 to run completely out
of time. That is when Adar 29 (Jewish December) ends the Jewish
year. However, there is also Adar II this year. It is
Sunday, March 9, in America as I re-write this.
We are almost past winter right now. March 21, 2014 is the
first full day of Spring, with March 20 being the Solstice. Jesus
counseled the folks to “pray that your flight be not in winter, neither
on the Sabbath day “ (Matt 24:20). Could it be that this prayer
will be answered by heaven's mercy setting the rapture at the beginning
of Spring? “Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away, for
lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers
appear on the earth; the time of the singing of the birds has come, and
the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land” (Song of Songs
2:10-12).
There are possible elements of delay. These may be:
The 21 days delay of Daniel 10 may be a type that has a future fulfillment now.
The Jewish calendar could be off as much as 30 days in arrears.
God may be using the Jewish calendar exclusively.
God may be using the Gregorian calendar to show us in the West His plan.
God may be using all three, the Jewish, Gregorian, and Julian calendars
and leaving us to figure out how they match His plans.
The Song of Solomon is very old. It tells of a Springtime event,
as above. It also tells of a time when the Gentile girl went to
the valley of nuts to inspect the fruits. That seems to be like
April, May or even June (Chapter 6).
I am hanging in there with Rody Dominguez until there is no possibility
of his announcement not happening. That, to me is March 1.
Since that is over, consider this with respect to that. March 1
plus a 21 days delay brings us to the first day of Spring, March
21. On March 22, then, could be the destruction and rapture
combination of I Thessalonians 5. This means that the rapture
should have occurred on March 1, but instead has been delayed 21 days
due to an angel prince of the devil opposing the returning
parties. That links Rody's “end of 2013” to March 21/22.
This is iffy, I know, but it could be.
The sign of Noah and the sign of Lot are both mentioned in Matthew
24/25. This means both water and fire. Tsunamis (water) and
meteorites (fire) could be the answer to both. We could easily
have both on the earth at one time.
In the sign of Noah, there are three parts. The first is 120 years
to build an ark. This brought the second part of the sign, seven
days alert to get into the ark. The third part of the sign
is the count of days within the ark found in Genesis 7 and 8.
For years I have searched for a good fit for the days separation while
in the ark to events on the calendar. I didn't know which
calendar, thus everything had to be interpolated to the Gregorian.
I have always thought that trying to put the rapture on a feast day of
Israel would be in vain. It comes “at a day ye think not, the Son
of Man cometh” Jesus said. This is clear to me...it is not a
special day which we can make into the proper day. But, one good
reason I feel that this solstice time may be true is because of my long
and diligent search for a “perfect” fit to the second and third signs of
Noah.
First of all, I found the 120 years overlay as it applies to the the
Jewish nation today and have detailed it. Briefly it starts
on 8/29/1897 with the first Zionist Congress under Theodor Herzl, a
major hero of the Israeli nation today. It ends December 7, 2015
with the crowning of King of Kings. I will gladly share it with
anyone who wants to refresh his memory, or know more about
that. While many discount it, but I believe the count is
just too perfect to be merely coincidental.
Second, I believe that we, like Noah, will have some sort of heads up7
days before just as Noah was given in his day. This will be
March 15/16, the Ides of March and the Feast of Purim.
Third, I believe that the days Noah and his family were in the ark is a
fit over a solar year of events matching the Holy Spirit's revelation of
the day counts within the ark of Noah and as applied to the year of
coming destruction and rebirth of a new world order out of the ashes of
the Phoenix, so to speak. I may have found the fit at last.
If so, it could verify to us the timing of the rapture event, since that
time is BEFORE the destruction, or rather simultaneous with it..
It is important to understand these day counts. This footnote found in
the Schofield Reference Bible, KJV provides a look for us at the very
careful count of days preserved by the Holy Spirit using the pen of His
servant, Moses:
Genesis 7 and 8 footnote written and explained by Dr. C. I. Schofield:
(8:14) The flood began in the 600th year, 2nd month, 17th day of
Noah's life (7:11). It rained 40 days and nights (7:12); the
waters continued to increase (7:18), reaching their highest point on the
150th day (7:24), which figure includes the 40 days of 7:12. The
ark rested somewhere in the mountain range known as Ararat (i.e.
Armenia, 8:4) on the 7th month, 17th day (i.e. 74 more days).
There followed 40 more days before Noah sent out the raven (8:6,7), and
three periods of 7 days related to the three releasings of the
dove (8:8-12), compare vs 10 “yet other seven days”). Thus
far there were 285 days. The period between the removal of
the covering of the ark (601st year, first month, first day vs. 13) and
the third sending forth of the dove is 29 days (deduced by 8:13 with the
date of entering the ark, 7:11). Finally, a comparison of 8:13
with vv 14-16 indicates another 57 days wait before Noah and his
family went forth to the dry earth, or 371 days in all, which figure
agrees when 7:11 is deducted from 8:14 ---12 months of 30 days plus 11
days. (The Jews count both the beginning and ending day of a
sequence). But the actual elapsed time was exactly a solar year.
This is established by multiplying the 12 months of 7:11 and 8:14
by the
29½ days which comprise a lunar month. The total is 354
days. Add 11 days (17th to 27th of 2nd month, 7:11 and 8:14) --- a
total of 365 days, one solar year.
In my thinking, I needed the criterion for each count to match a
significant date in American (Biblical Babylon) and/or Jewish
experience. It is important that each date have something to do
with the rapture event and also the wrath of God. This is what I
have found, supposing the first full day of Spring after the
Solstice (Song of Songs 2:10-12) is the start point of destruction, then
placing the same sequence of days over the coming year, one sees the
following:
March 14/15 -March 21/22,
2014
7 days call into the ark
March 21/22 – April 30/May 1,
2014
40 days of destruction
April 30/May 1 – August 18/19,
2014
110 days more destruction
August 18/19 – October 31/November 1,
2014
74 days after landfall
October 31/November 1 – December 10/11
2014
40 days of waiting
December 10/11 – December 31/January 1,
2015
21 days of releasing birds
December
10
Raven released (does not return)
December
17
Dove released (returns, no trees/land)
December
24
Dove released (returns, no trees/land)
December
31
Dove released (returns with olive branch)
December 31/January 1 – January 22/23,
2015
22 days of preparation
January 22/23 – March 20/21,
2015
57 days for land to dry
March 20/21 – March 21/22,
2015
1 day to exit the ark
The total days in the ark were 365, one solar year, the measurement of
seasons to be hereafter in the new world that Noah entered after the
flood....our present day world.
Now look at what normally occurs on or near these days each and every year:
March
15
Ides of March/Feast of Purim
March
21
Spring, day 1
May
1
May day, maypole
August
19
Black Fast
October
31
Halloween (satanic evil day)
November
1
All Saints Day (resurrection)
December
10
Intifada Day (Arab war on Israel)
December
10
Beginning of 21 days count
December
17
Hanukkah eve
December
24
Christmas eve
December
31
New Year's eve
December
31
Year's end/New Year's Eve (partying)
January
1
New year's day
January
24
“Blue” Monday every year
March
20
Spring Solstice
March
21
Spring Solscice first full day
March
22
New world order rises out of chaos?
Italics indicates those days pertinent to Israel
From this last day of this solar count matching the days of Noah in the
ark, that is, March 22, 2015, there remains only 183 days until the Lord
Jesus comes at Armageddon, September 21 to September 23,
2015. In these 3 days, I believe that He will put down all
armies and destroy antichrist and the false prophet, and then,
immediately following, the Jewish nation will mourn for 30 days
the fact that they killed their own Messiah. That end October 23,
2015. This is required of them in accordance with their Mosaic
Law. The scales will be removed from the eyes of national Israel
and they will know Him whom they pierced.
He will then, over the next 45 days be crowned King of Kings and Lord of
Lords. Daniel 9:24 details what the 45 days will involve:
> finish the transgression
>make an end of sins
>make reconciliation for iniquity
>bring in everlasting righteousness
>seal up the vision
>seal up the prophecy
>anoint the most Holy
Next after the anointing of the most Holy comes the Jubilee Year, most
of which is in 2016, having in it the forgiveness of all debts, release
of all slaves, and the return of all lands to the rightful owner.
Either including or after this year, the great Kingdom Age will
begin. (I personally think it begins with the anointing of the
most Holy).
As for us, we will have been in heaven during this awful time after March 21, 2014. I hope so.
Maranatha
Gerry Almond