The date on his chart for the
Rapture is Pentecost, on the Torah calendar - May
17-18th. Lots of amazing calculations,
consideration of the blood moons, the Revelation 12
sign, solar and lunar eclipse information, etc.
Probably the most in depth study
I have seen lately.
He talks about the "Rapture
Sign" on May 10-11 being a 7 days (Noah) warning to the
Rapture Pentecost May 17 - 18.
It all looks really good.
However, I have a problem with
the way Pentecost is counted out. Many letters
have been written about this over the years to
Doves. I lean towards, 49 days plus 50 days....
I wonder about the phrase "and
when Pentecost was fully come"...is
that referring to adding on the second 50 day
count?? Also, there is no NEW wine in May or early
June for the people in the Upper Room to be drunk
on. "The wine is but new", means 'no time to
ferment, but the grapes have been picked and put in wine
containers'. The grape harvest in Israel isn't
until late June, July, August. So the reference to
'new wine' makes no sense if Pentecost is in May or
early June. I doubt Peter was confused!
Was Peter's comment on
Pentecost about 'new wine' a hint to the timing of true
Pentecost?
The ancient Christian sect, the
Essenes, who have been attributed with writing the Dead
Sea Scrolls, celebrated The Festival of the
First Fruits of New Wine on the third day of
the fifth month - 3 Av. They used a solar calendar
and considered the Pharisee calendar of using the moons
wrong.
In the Temple Scroll of the Dead
Sea Scroll: "You shall count seven weeks from the day
when you bring the new grain-offering to YHW, the bread
of firstfruits. Seven full Sabbaths shall elapse
until you have counted fifty days to the morrow
of the seventh Sabbath. You shall bring
new wine for a drink-offering..." The
Festival of the First Fruits of New Wine and Pentecost
"The importance of grapes and
olives is illustrated by the fact that the Essenes had
wine and oil firstfuirts festivals similar to the
biblical firstfruits offering for grain. These
festivals also indicate the relative timeline of these
crops. The new wine festival
came 50 days or 7 weeks AFTER Pentecost (the
traditional count). Until new wine was
offered, no one could drink any of the new juice (Temple
Scroll, columns 19-21) Harvest
Seasons of Ancient Israel | GCI Archive
Sure reads like we count 7 full
Sabbaths and then count 50 days after the seventh
Sabbath.
This reads very much like the
verses in Leviticus and Deuteronomy that are about The
Feast of Weeks/Pentecost/Shavuot. The
Festival of the First Fruits of New Wine is most
likely Pentecost!
So if we count 50 days after
Pentecost...the third day of the 5th month on the Toral
calendar is July 13/14.
On the chabad calendar it is
July 11/12. And then this might change with
sighting of the new moon.