Greg Wilson Re: Randy's Post

Your Reference to my 70-70-70: Times of Jerusalem article

Randy:  

Thank you for your kind words concerning my December 14, 2014 post.

I would like to clarify my current beliefs on the season of the Rapture.  In my article, dated December 17, 2014, I concluded with the article with the question: "Could it be that the

"catching away" rapture event would occur on the Feast of Trumpets 10 days before the beginning of the Time of Jacob's Trouble in a Jubilee Year on the Feast of Atonement in 2017?"

If I were writing the same article today, I would refer to the Feast of Pentecost.   My intervening studies have fully convinced me that the Rapture is a Pentecostal event.  I have written three subsequent articles on the subject matter which can be viewed at www. rapture2017.info.

I was once seduced to believe that the "trump of God" (1 Thessalonians 4:16) connected the rapture with the festival of Trumpets.   Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15 does not teach or imply that Trumpets would be associated with the Rapture of "Christ's own" (1 Cor.15:23).  Paul teaches that there are three orders of the resurrection of righteousness in 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.  These three orders are associated with the pilgrimage feasts of Israel.  Trumpets is not a pilgrimage feast.  You must distinguish betweem "moed" and "hag" appointed times.  The hag is a feast.   The moed is a festival.

Think about this:  Paul says that Christ's own will experience a (1) spiritual transformation by the indwelling of the Holy Spirt and (2) a physical redemptive transformation when sin is removed from our bodies.  Our spiritual transformation is related to Pentecost.  Our physical transformation will occur at the Rapture.   Our full transformation has two stages.

Paul says that the "deposit of the Spirit" is an earnest deposit.  It is a purchase transaction.   The purchase transaction will be completed at stage two, the Rapture.  Both events are Pentecostal events.     Look at the imagery which symbolically speaks to our resurrection at the rapture.

On the Feast of Pentecost, the Temple priests had baked two loaves of bread and made a wave offering to God celebrating the harvest.  The two loaves represent the resurrected dead in Christ and the raptured living in Christ.

I hope you read my three Bible studies and that the Lord would lead you into His understanding.  For me, I am fully convinced by the words of Truth which I hope accurately reflect the truths contained in HIs words.  God's revelation to us is highly personal and  progressive and we all endeavor to understand the seasons of His return.  I continue to study and search the Scriptures, as you.

In Christ, Greg Wilson

 

 

Greg Wilson Re: Randy's Post

Your Reference to my 70-70-70: Times of Jerusalem article

 

 

Randy:  

 

Thank you for your kind words concerning my December 14, 2014 post.

 

I would like to clarify my current beliefs on the season of the Rapture.  In my article, dated December 17, 2014, I concluded with the article with the question: "Could it be that the

"catching away" rapture event would occur on the Feast of Trumpets 10 days before the beginning of the Time of Jacob's Trouble in a Jubilee Year on the Feast of Atonement in 2017?"

 

If I were writing the same article today, I would refer to the Feast of Pentecost.   My intervening studies have fully convinced me that the Rapture is a Pentecostal event.  I have written three subsequent articles on the subject matter which can be viewed at www. rapture2017.info.

 

I was once seduced to believe that the "trump of God" (1 Thessalonians 4:16) connected the rapture with the festival of Trumpets.   Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15 does not teach or imply that Trumpets would be associated with the Rapture of "Christ's own" (1 Cor.15:23).  Paul teaches that there are three orders of the resurrection of righteousness in 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.  These three orders are associated with the pilgrimage feasts of Israel.  Trumpets is not a pilgrimage feast.  You must distinguish betweem "moed" and "hag" appointed times.  The hag is a feast.   The moed is a festival.

 

Think about this:  Paul says that Christ's own will experience a (1) spiritual transformation by the indwelling of the Holy Spirt and (2) a physical redemptive transformation when sin is removed from our bodies.  Our spiritual transformation is related to Pentecost.  Our physical transformation will occur at the Rapture.   Our full transformation has two stages.

 

Paul says that the "deposit of the Spirit" is an earnest deposit.  It is a purchase transaction.   The purchase transaction will be completed at stage two, the Rapture.  Both events are Pentecostal events.     Look at the imagery which symbolically speaks to our resurrection at the rapture.

 

On the Feast of Pentecost, the Temple priests had baked two loaves of bread and made a wave offering to God celebrating the harvest.  The two loaves represent the resurrected dead in Christ and the raptured living in Christ.

 

I hope you read my three Bible studies and that the Lord would lead you into His understanding.  For me, I am fully convinced by the words of Truth which I hope accurately reflect the truths contained in HIs words.  God's revelation to us is highly personal and  progressive and we all endeavor to understand the seasons of His return.  I continue to study and search the Scriptures, as you.

 

In Christ, Greg Wilson