Rapture in June of 2025

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"A SCRIPTURAL CASE FOR A PENTECOST RAPTURE"

Enoch was raptured on Sivan 6 and summer officially begins on May 27-29 on Memorial weekend--but the summer solstice is June 20. The Torah was given to Moses on Sivan 6 and King David died at age 70 on Sivan 6. The church age began on Pentecost on Sivan 6 and may end on that day—this day is 50 days from Nisan 17 when Jesus was resurrected from death in a 50th Jubilee year.

The feast day of Shavuot, which we call Pentecost, was partially fulfilled in Jesus’ first coming, 50 days after Passover, when the church was born. I suggest that it will be completely fulfilled when Jesus comes for His Bride, the Church, in what we call The Rapture. IN 2025 PENTECOST ON THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR IS THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE OF 2025. I recall a post years ago when a Five Doves partner said that in 1986 he asked the Lord when the Rapture would occur and the Tribulation would begin and he said he heard so very clearly : On June 6th.

The Rapture at the Time of Shavuot

Unlike the Feasts of Passover and Sukkot, which are both seven day festivals, Shavuot was declared by the Lord to be a one-day feast/festival (Lev 23:15ff). It is also an undated feast, meaning the day is not set by the calendar. It is set by counting 50 days from Passover’s Feast of First Fruits. Let’s consider reasons why Shavuot will likely be the time of the Rapture.

* Shavuot celebrated the wheat harvest.

Typologically, the wheat growing in the fields between the spring feast and fall feast represents the Church growing in the world between Jesus’ first coming and second coming. The wheat will be gathered unto Jesus (John 4:35) at the harvest (the Rapture).

Enoch was taken by God (Gen 5:24). The Hebrew word for taken implies the same meaning as the Latin word for rapture and the Greek word for “caught up” or “plucked.”

Typologically, Enoch is considered a “picture” of the primarily Gentile Church. (Enoch was a Gentile, predating Abraham). Enoch walked with God and was taken (raptured). The Church walks with God and will be raptured (taken, caught up).

This is where it gets interesting. Jewish tradition claims that Enoch was born at the time of Shavuot and his being taken by God was at the same time of year as his birth. Since we know that the Church was “born” at the time of Shavuot (we call it Pentecost), could it be that the Church will be raptured at the same time of year that it was “born?”

The Feasts of the Lord are Prophetic

The Levitical festivals of the Lord are a prophetic picture of God's redemptive plan. Paul says as much in Colossians 2:16-17. This truth has been demonstrated in Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits with the crucifixion death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Pentecost was partially fulfilled by the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Pentecost Rapture

Paul never teaches or associates the rapture with the festival of Trumpets. However, Paul teaches that the rapture of the "Christ's own" is associated with His resurrection and first fruits. Christ was risen from the dead on the festival of First Fruits during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. (1 Corinthians 15:20)

The Three Orders of Resurrection

Paul teaches that there are three orders of the resurrection. God has an ordered redemptive plan. By inference, we are lead to consider that Israel's three pilgrimage feasts, (1) unleavened bread, (2) Pentecost, and (3) Tabernacles are "shadows" of the resurrection of the dead. (Exodus 23:14)

Christ was raised at First Fruits, during the feast of Unleavened Bread. He is the first order of the resurrection. Then, afterward, they that are Christ's at His coming. If Christ is coming for His own, we know that this is the promise of John 14:3, 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 1 Thessalonians 4:17. It is the rapture.

Christ's own is the second order of the resurrection. When is the second order of the resurrection ? On Pentecost, the next feast or on Trumpets ? Trumpets is not a pilgrimage feast.

Christ's own have the first fruits of the Spirit. (Romans 8:23) So, Christ's own are associated with His first fruits resurrection. When he comes for His own, our bodies will be redeemed. (Romans 8:23) Our bodies will be transformed. (Philippians 3:20) The complete redemption of Christ's own involve two stages. First, the guarantee, the deposit of the Spirit, then second, "at His coming", the redemption of the body. The Holy Spirit was given as a deposit the moment we believed. It is a guarantee, an earnest deposit of His Spirit in our hearts until He comes for us. For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy. (Romans 11:16) Christ's own are the lump. The simple inference is that Christ's own will follow Him as a first fruits type of resurrection. If stage one occurred on Pentecost, as a deposit of guarantee, why should we not expect the Lord to complete His redemptive plan for "His own" on the same feast, the feast of conclusion. Curiously, the rabbinic name for Shauvot (Pentecost) is Hag ha-Azereth, or Azereth, meaning the "Feast of Conclusion". They also refer to Pentecost as Hag ha-Bikurim, meaning the Feast of First Fruits".

The Feast of Pentecost is a harvest feast, a pilgrimage feast which follows First Fruits. This is supported by Leviticus 23:10-11; 16-17. So, if Jesus was resurrected on First Fruits, He will come for His own at the Feast of Pentecost. Here is the reasoning. The picture at the Temple at First Fruits is the priests offering God the "Sheaf of Grain". They waved the sheaf of grain before the Lord. This was a pre-harvest waving of a sample of the harvest. The priests were doing this the morning that Jesus was resurrected. Imagine that ! While they were waiving the grain sheaf up to the Lord, the Lord was being lifted up out of the grave. God accepted Jesus' sacrifice. He is the first fruits of the resurrection.

Now, 50 days later, the grain crops were mature and were harvested. On Pentecost the priest were charged to make two loaves of bread from the harvested grain. These loaves contained leaven. Then they waived the two loaves in the air as an offering to the Lord.

The "wave sheaf offering" symbolizing Christ's resurrection as the basis for understanding the "wave loaf offering" at Pentecost. The sample of grain sheaf which is waved before the Lord anticipated the grain harvest 50 days later where the harvested grain would be baked into loaves of bread. The two acts of waving the sheaf and the loaves are necessarily related. The latter is dependent on the former. They are so related that there is a countdown in anticipation of the seed grain being transformed into loaves of bread. Jesus is the Lord of the Harvest. (Matthew 9:38) Trumpets is not a harvest festival.

I believe that the two loaves made with grain represent Christ's own, not Jew and Gentile because there is neither Jew, nor Greek, for all are one in Christ. (Galatians 3:28). For God made "one new man" in Himself. (Ephesians 2:15)

The two loaves represent (1) the resurrected dead, and (2) the transformed living in Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:52) These two loaves are contextually related to the second order of the first fruits resurrection.

In addition to all of this, Paul says that he ministered the Gospel to the Gentiles, that the "offering up of the Gentiles" might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:16) Paul's offering up description is consistent with the two loaf offering of Pentecost. He speaks the words of a priest making an offering up to the Lord.

The third order of the resurrection is at the end of the Tribulation when the Tribulation and Old Testament saints will be resurrected for the Millennial reign of Christ. (Job 19:25-26; Daniel 12:13). The third order of the resurrection occurs on the Feast of Tabernacles, the third pilgrimage feast. It occurs at the end of the 2300 day Tribulation, likely in September of 2031.

Mysteries Associated with Pentecost

Pentecost is also associated with the Mysteries of God, as taught by Paul. For me, this is an additional reason that I favor Pentecost, rather than Trumpets for a future rapture event. Paul does not each any mysteries associated with Trumpets. But of Pentecost, there are many:

· At the fullness of the Gentiles (rapture), the mystery of Israel's blindness will be removed. Romans 11:25 The number fifty is associated with fullness or completeness. The 50 day countdown speaks to completion of the harvest.

· The second order of the resurrection which includes the rapture is a mystery. 1 Corinthians 15:51 It is related to Christ's first fruits resurrection and completes the two stage redemption of spirit and body.

· Christ and the Church is a mystery. Ephesians 5:32 Christ's own were indwelt by His Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

· Christ indwelling the believers, the hope of glory is a mystery. Colossians 1:27

All of these mysteries have an intimate relationship with the Lord and His Own. I believe it is reasonable to associate the Feast of Pentecost with these mysteries.

Conclusion

I believe that it is prudent to teach all aspects of reasoned seasons for the rapture of the true Church, Christ's own. While I believe Trumpets is interesting, I am compelled to view that Pentecost is a more reasonable feast to associate with a possible rapture event.

I believe that our Lord wants us to know the season of His return. We are children of light, not darkness. (1 Thessalonians 5:5) He does not want us to be sleeping, but watchful. (1 Thessalonians 5:6). He has made His planned order known. (1 Thessalonians 1:1) (Amos 3:7) (Proverbs 25:2)

Chapter 15 of First Corinthians is about the resurrection of the dead and the rapture. There is no hint of teaching that the Festival of Trumpets is associated with the rapture.