Hello John and Doives,
Each year, before
Shavuot/Pentecost, Gary Stearman of Prophecy Watchers has
an interesting article on Pentecost in his The Prophecy
Watcher magazine. This year it is titled, "The
Pentecost Prophecy". www.prophecywatchers..com
Gary writes that "For
2021, Pentecost falls on May 17th and 18th (the 6th and
7th of Sivan in the Jewish calendar. He does not use
the same calendar Israel uses. The new moon was sighted on
May 13, 2021 starting the month of Sivan at sunset, May
13. So, the 6th of Sivan would be sunset May 18 to
sunset May 19.
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Israel will celebrate
Shavuot starting sunset May 16 to sunset May 17 this year.
Again, we don't know
which calendar, of many!, is correct. Which makes
this feast day even more of a mystery...since we are to
count a set number of days to get to it! And we
don't know exactly which day is Day 1! The Pharisees
set the date as 6 Sivan on the Hebrew calendar.
In Gary's 2021 Pentecost
article, he wrote, about an interesting custom of
this Jewish festival: "The Jews stay up all night
in their synagogue's house of study, pouring over
"tikkun." This consists of little sections from each
book of the Torah and the Talmud, representing all of the
most important texts of Judaism. But even this act
of staying up all night sets forth the theme of
resurrection."
"This practice of staying
up all night is in stark contrast to that of the
Israelites at Sinai, who according to tradition slept late
that morning and had to be awakened by Moses. In
atonement for this, Jews nowadays stay awake all
night. The sense of preparation for Sinai is
heightened by a mystical tradition holding that
the skies open up during this night for a brief
instant. At that very moment, we are told, God
will favorably answer any prayer. The
kabbalists also regard Pentecost as the wedding of God and
Israel, Therefore, we stay up all night to
"decorate the bride."
"What an incredible
picture of the rapture! The opening of the heavens
"for a brief instant" corresponds with the message in *
Corinthians 15:51: "Behold, I show you a
mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye..."
"Here is the perfect
picture of Christ coming to catch away His bride!
And where does He take her? - to the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb! This corresponds with Pentecost, when the
Jews "stay up all night to decorate the bride."
"...Pentecost has
many features that are suggestive of the Rapture.
It is associated with harvest, marriage, and the taking
of a Gentile bride (refer to the story of Ruth
and Boaz in the Book of Ruth). Its date is
variable, picturing the unpredict-ability of
Christ's coming for His own."
"Quite significantly, it
marks the birth of the Church Age, and before that, the
giving of the Law. Each of these events marks the
turning to a different dispensation: first to Law,
and then to Grace."
And once the 'church' is
removed, it looks like another 'dispensation'
starts: "This will be the biggest historical event
since the Lord's own ascension into the heavens. And
it will certainly be the trigger that sets in motion an
increasingly cataclysmic series judgments. In Paul's
second letter to the Thessalonians, the restraining force
associated with the presence of the body of Christ is
given as the key factor in the timing of latter-day
events. Its removal will provide the environmental
changes necessary for evil to advance toward the
fulfillment of prophecy. In other words, as long as
we are present and active, the revelation of the wicked
one, and wickedness in general, cannot manifest itself in
full power. Pentecost, the festival that has
traditionally marked the dispositional change from law to
grace, seems ideally suited as the model for this
event. Then, a rapid succession of biblical marvels
will bring Messianic rule to the Earth."
Paul tells us about the
Rapture, that for a split second, the sky will open up and
we shall vanish - in the twinkling of an eye.
IF the Rapture occurs on a
future Pentecost, this "staying up" all night reminds me
of Matthew 24:43: "...if the master of the house had known
in what part of the night the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake and would not have
let his house be broken into." And I Thessalonian
5:4-6 "But you are not in darkness, brothers, for
that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are
all children of light, children of the day. We are
not of the night or of the darkness. So
then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us
keep awake and be sober."
And the 'the sky opening
up for a split second on this night' reminds me of what
Paul told us - that for a split second, the twinkling of
an eye, the sky will open up and we shall vanish. I
Corinthians 15:52 Talk about a 'favorable answer to
prayer'! Wow!
Connecting the dots of
Shavuot/Pentecost to the disappearance of millions around
the world would be a revelation to the Jewish people!
And on May 14, 2021,
Prophecy Watchers Gary Stearman interviewed Jack
Langford: The Mystery of Pentecost. Jack
Langford is the author of the book: "The Pentecostal
Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ".
This video is 28:30
minutes long.
Gary asks, "Will the
Church be raptured on a future Pentecost?"
On May 15, Israeli strikes
are going strong in Gaza and Hamas is still shooting
rockets into Israel. No let up seen for Shavuot
celebrations. This will not, however, prevent the
Jews from celebrating this High Holy Day.
Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance