“These are the ones I
look on with favor:
those
who are humble and contrite in spirit,
and who
tremble at my word.
But whoever sacrifices a bull
is like
one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
is like
one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
is like
one who presents pig’s blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense
is like
one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,
and
they delight in their abominations;
so I also will choose
harsh treatment for them
and
will bring on them what they dread.
For when I called, no one
answered,
when I
spoke, no one listened.
They did evil in my sight
and
chose what displeases me.”
Hear the word of the Lord,
you who
tremble at his word:
“Your own people who hate
you,
and
exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the Lord be
glorified,
that we
may see your joy!’
Yet
they will be put to shame.
Hear that uproar from the city,
hear
that noise from the temple!
It is the sound of the Lord
repaying
his enemies all they deserve.
“Before she goes into
labor,
she
gives birth;
before the pains come
upon her,
she
delivers a son.
Who has ever heard of such things?
Who has
ever seen things like this?
Can a country be born in a day
or a
nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in
labor
than
she gives birth to her children.
Do I bring to the moment of birth
and not
give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
when I
bring to delivery?” says your God.
“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you
who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you
who mourn over her.
For you will nurse and be
satisfied
at her
comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
and
delight in her overflowing abundance.”
For this is what the Lord says:
“I will extend peace to
her like a river,
and the
wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be
carried on her arm
and
dandled on her knees.
As a mother comforts her child,
so will
I comfort you;
and you
will be comforted over Jerusalem.”
When you see this, your
heart will rejoice
and you
will flourish like grass;
the hand of the Lord will be
made known to his servants,
but his
fury will be shown to his foes.
See, the Lord is coming
with fire,
and his
chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his
anger with fury,
and his
rebuke with flames of fire.
For with fire and with his sword
the Lord will
execute judgment on all people,
and
many will be those slain by the Lord.
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
“And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.
“I will set a sign among
them, and I will send some of those who survive
to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans
and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and
to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or
seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the
nations. And they will bring all your people, from
all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an
offering to the Lord—on
horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and
camels,” says the Lord.
“They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their
grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in
ceremonially clean vessels. And I will
select some of them also to be priests and Levites,”
says the Lord.
The Lord then led me to
look at Leviticus 23:
Offering the Firstfruits
The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.I was then led to Luke 22:
When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
Here is what the Lord showed me from these verses:1. The pure in heart will go "into the gardens" at the same time as the "Sudden Destruction" - they will meet their end together. The chariots, or whirlwind, will take us to be with the Lord, just as in the recent movie, "Oz, the Great and Powerful". He goes into the "whirlwind" and ends up in a land that resembles "heaven".
2 Kings 2: As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.
Elijah represents the Firstfruits taken at the time of the Rapture and Elisha represents the Christians who are left behind, who will tear their clothes and wear sackcloth - symbols of repentance - for 1260 days.
2. There is only one Feast day of the year in which ONE lamb is killed and grain offering is presented to the Lord. That is on the Feast of Firstfruits, which is the day after the Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (March 31 this year). Isaiah 66 mentions a lamb being killed and grain offerings being presented. The Lord is saying that these offerings are an abomination to Him and likens them to a pig being offered, a reference to the abomination that was set up in 168 BC, when a pig was slaughtered on the altar on what would later become the first day of Hanukkah. Isaiah 66 links the Feast of Firstfruits (lamb killed/grain offerings) to the Rapture event (chariots/whirlwind/purified taken into the "gardens"/abominable destroyed on the same day).
3. Jesus also linked the "Wedding Supper of the Lamb" to the Feast of Firstfruits. He said that He would not eat of the bread again until it found fulfillment in the Kingdom of God. Grain offerings and wine were given on the Feast of Firstfruits, a reminder of the Last Supper, when Jesus said this: "For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22). The Lord commanded the Israelites that when they entered the Promised Land, that they could not eat bread until the Feast of Firstfruits: You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God (Leviticus 23). Jesus was pointing to this verse when He said that He would not eat the bread again until it found fulfillment in the Kingdom of God. He was telling His disciples that He was the fulfillment of Firstfruits and that He would fulfill it again by waiting for us to enter the Promised Land and then we would celebrate together by eating the bread and drinking the wine, on the Feast of Firstfruits. He was telling us that He would offer us as firstfruits to the Lord on the Feast of Firstfruits and then on that day, He would again eat the bread and drink the wine, to fulfill the Feast, in which God had commanded the Israelites to NOT EAT BREAD UNTIL THE DAY OF FIRSTFRUITS after they entered the Promised Land.
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel:
“‘The
end! The end has come
upon
the four corners of the land!
The end is now upon you,
and I
will unleash my anger against you.
I will judge you
according to your conduct
and
repay you for all your detestable practices.
I will not look on you
with pity;
I will
not spare you.
I will surely repay you
for your conduct
and for
the detestable practices among you.
“‘Then you will know that I am the Lord.’
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘Disaster!
Unheard-of disaster!
See,
it comes!
The end has come!
The
end has come!
It has roused itself against you.
See,
it comes!
Doom has come upon you,
upon
you who dwell in the land.
The time has come! The day is near!
There
is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
I am about to pour out my
wrath on you
and
spend my anger against you.
I will judge you
according to your conduct
and
repay you for all your detestable practices.
I will not look on you
with pity;
I will
not spare you.
I will repay you for your
conduct
and for
the detestable practices among you.
“‘Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes you.
“‘See, the day!
See, it
comes!
Doom has burst forth,
the rod
has budded,
arrogance
has blossomed!
Violence has arisen,
a rod
to punish the wicked.
None of the people will be left,
none of
that crowd—
none of their wealth,
nothing
of value.
The
time has come!
The
day has arrived!
Let not the buyer rejoice
nor the
seller grieve,
for my
wrath is on the whole crowd.
The seller will not
recover
the
property that was sold—
as long
as both buyer and seller live.
For the vision concerning the whole crowd
will
not be reversed.
Because of their sins, not one of them
will
preserve their life.
“‘They have blown the
trumpet,
they
have made all things ready,
but no one will go into
battle,
for my
wrath is on the whole crowd.
Outside is the sword;
inside
are plague and famine.
Those in the country
will
die by the sword;
those in the city
will be
devoured by famine and plague.
The fugitives who escape
will
flee to the mountains.
Like doves of the valleys,
they
will all moan,
each
for their own sins.
Every hand will go limp;
every
leg will be wet with urine.
They
will put on sackcloth
and
be clothed with terror.
Every face will be covered with shame,
and
every head will be shaved.
(Amos
8: In that day,”
declares the Sovereign Lord,
“I will make the sun go
down at noon
and darken the earth in broad
daylight.
I will turn your
religious festivals into mourning
and all
your singing into weeping.
I
will make all of you wear sackcloth
and
shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an
only son
and
the end of it like a bitter day.)
“‘They will throw their
silver into the streets,
and
their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
will
not be able to deliver them
in the
day of the Lord’s
wrath.
It will not satisfy their
hunger
or fill
their stomachs,
for it
has caused them to stumble into sin.
They took pride in their
beautiful jewelry
and
used it to make their detestable idols.
They made it into vile
images;
therefore
I will make it a thing unclean for them.
I will give their wealth
as plunder to foreigners
and as
loot to the wicked of the earth,
who
will defile it.
I will turn my face away from the people,
and
robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
and
will defile it.
“‘Prepare chains!
For the
land is full of bloodshed,
and the
city is full of violence.
I will bring the most wicked of nations
to take
possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the mighty,
and
their sanctuaries will be desecrated.
When terror comes,
they
will seek peace in vain.
Calamity upon calamity will come,
and
rumor upon rumor.
They will go searching for a vision from the
prophet,
priestly
instruction in the law will cease,
the
counsel of the elders will come to an end.
The king will mourn,
the
prince will be clothed with despair,
and the
hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their conduct,
and by
their own standards I will judge them.
“‘Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
http://jesusiscoming2015.webs.com/whenistherapture.htm
The 7-year timeline (2009 to 2016) that
represents the 7000-year plan of God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KQxdP59gPAMarch 31 / April 1, 2013 Rapture? A look at the 7th day of Unleavened Bread (parts 1-3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rJcN7jlzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ci6DG0NdTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXPYH_A9sM