Hey Randy,

Always like your posts. On the one where you dropped in on another believer and shared some interesting things, the last line jumped off the page. You said, "Anyway, we shall know soon. Only 4 months to Rosh!" Immediately, John 4:35 came to mind: "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." 

I've always been a firm believer in THE or A rapture happening on the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh HaShanah. There are just so many reasons--2 day feast (no one knows the day or hour), jewish wedding tradition parallels such as Jesus paying the dowry price on the cross for the bride and Jesus going to prepare a place for us. Also, the Father was the only one who knew when He would send His son to go retrieve the bride (that's why Jesus said He and the angels didn't know the day or hour). Then there's the blowing of the shofar, the seven year bridal week coinciding with Daniel's 70th week, etc...

Pentecost is just a few days away so we will know soon enough if it means anything for this year at least, but the Song of Solomon is clearly in the Spring and the line, "Rise up my fair one and come away" seems like a reference to A rapture as well. The only way in my mind to reconcile the two was that there is more than one rapture. From that conclusion then, it begs the question, "Which one makes the most sense for the Church?" I believe the answer is found in the harvest types and sequence of feasts. Jesus is obviously the Head of the Church and THE Firstfruit. Makes sense to me that the next logical group to go after the Feast of Firstfruits would be those who are watching and completely ready. They are likened to the barley harvest where no "tribulum" is used to separate the barley from its outer shell. The end of the barley harvest is at Pentecost so that would make sense. Also the middle candle of the menorah is the middle of the 7 major feasts and it is raised. Interesting that the middle of the week is WEDnesday, the day that the brides were traditionally retrieved by the groom. The following harvests would be the wheat harvest where the wheat and tares are separated and then the grape harvest--in the fall, God's wrath. Another major type of the Church and Jesus is Ruth and Boaz and that story centers around Pentecost. The progression seems to fit like a puzzle. 

Also think that Jacob's working for Laban is significant for the 2-rapture theory as well.

Steve Mullin