WHY ARE SO MANY JUMPING TO TRUMPETS FOR THE RAPTURE?

On 2-25-17, I went to https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170225.html

Saturn is in Ophiuchus. Jupiter is in Virgo, and there are 12 stars in Leo without any added planets.

To me, things seem right for Pentecost Sunday.

THE SECRET OF THE STAIRS

Son 2:10-15 says, “My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 11  For, lo, the winter is past (i.e., it is spring), the rain is over and gone (i.e., Nisan is over); 12  The flowers appear on the earth (i.e., April showers bring May flowers); the time of the singing of birds (i.e., spring) is come, and the voice of the turtle (tor, a ring dove, turtledove) is heard in our land (i.e., the turtledove is in Israel from April to October); 13  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell (i.e., in early June). Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 14  O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places ("places" is not in the original) of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15  Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.”

EARLY FIGS

"These tiny figs develop along with the leaves up to a certain point--to about the size of a small cherry--and then the great majority of them fall to the ground, carried down with every gust of wind. These are the "unripe figs" (olunthos)--translated, more appropriately in the King James Version, as "untimely figs"--of Re 6:13. Compare also Isa 34:4 the King James Version--in the Revised Version (British and American) "leaf" has been supplied instead of "fig." These immature figs are known to the fellahin as taksh, by whom they are eaten as they fall; they may even sometimes be seen exposed for sale in the markets in Jerusalem. In the case of many trees the whole of this first crop may thus abort, so that by May no figs at all are to be found on the tree, but with the best varieties of fig-trees a certain proportion of the early crop of figs remains on the tree, and this fruit reaches ripe perfection about June. Such fruit is known in Arabic as dafur, or "early figs," and in Hebrew as bikkurah, "the first-ripe" (Isa 28:4; Jer 24:2; Ho 9:10). They are now, as of old, esteemed for their delicate flavor (Mic 7:1, etc.).”
http://www.internationalstandardbible.com/F/fig-fig-tree.html

"ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD...SEE YE"

Isa 18:3-7 says, “All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign (nace, flag, i.e., the UN flag) on the mountains (i.e., kingdoms); and when he bloweth a trumpet (i.e., on a feast day), hear ye. 4  For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5  For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower (i.e., in early June), he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6  They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time (i.e., in the spring) shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.”

Agape,
Marilyn Agee
mjagee@verizon.net