John – Looking forward to watching your next video regarding the Rapture and May 18, 2026
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Thanks, brother!
John
And thanks everyone for your responses to my “any other” request for “Signs Preceding Rapture” as James so succinctly put it. I need to update my list. I saw Donna Danna’s Two Witnesses and 3rd Temple built in Jerusalem. Chance wasn’t necessarily responding to the list but I saw “Times of the Gentiles”. But for now, let me respond to James’ excellent post.
James Brownlow (27 Apr 2026)
Ted Porter - Signs Preceding Rapture -- And May 17 , 2026 !
Regarding:
Ted Porter (19 Apr 2026)
What Rapture Signs Are YOU Expectantly Watching?
Wanna take a guess?
I liked your “Wanna take a guess?” regarding your Number 1, Antichrist: identified by “666” – Rev 13:18, Verse 30,927 = 793 x 13 x 13. I believe we are looking at the same guy. Which the number 793 is the give-away and is also divisible by 13 giving us triple 13's times 61 verse count to the 18th verse (6+6+6) in the 13th chapter of the 66th book. Who’d have guessed? .
Now let me take a guess. In fact, my guess would be the one who on October 29, 2008 for 30 minutes presented himself before a world-wide audience of millions. Many had tuned in to see the start of what they thought could be the last game of the World Series. But instead, a political infomercial preempted the start for 30 minutes. All designed to convince people to elect this person as US President in 6 days.
I was in shock. He wasn’t even on my radar screen. That was the day the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition was revealed to me. I know I wasn’t the only one. Number 666 indeed!
That day was already a tremendously high watch date for something prophetic to occur. That date was exactly 6 weeks of 360 day (prophetic) years after Mosh Dayan commanded Israel to restore Jerusalem to Israel on June 7, 1967. In fact I’d even posted to Five Doves pointing exactly to this date titled, “When is the Rapture, the Answer is 42!” (Remember 6 weeks = 6 times 7 = 42 and the number 42 just so happens to mean according to the “Arithmetic of God”, nothing less than the “Second Coming of Jesus”. Just like the “Man of Sin” to preempt a day Christians are watching for the return of Jesus Christ!
I believe Ron Reese was the first one on Five Doves to post regarding drawing a comparison between the 30 minute infomercial and the 30 minutes of silence in Heaven. I’ve pondered this amount of time in heaven and taking a day in Heaven as a 1,000 years on Earth, 30 minutes rounds off to 21 years which brings us to 2029. Seriously? I’ve tried to work out how there can be a Rapture without a Trumpet Blast in Heaven that would shatter these 30 minutes of silence. Okay, if the Trumpet Blast was limited to just the Earth? Okay, I’m seriously reaching. But it has not stopped me these past 18 years to continue to watch in obedience for His return. And I have been truly amazed at what God has shown me these past 18 years. Is 1260 days before exactly 21 solar years, give or take a day, worth watching for the Rapture? Sure! Who knows what else we may notice that will give glory to God because we were watching!
This Generation Shall Not Pass As in the Days of Noah
I was thinking of making a long-drawn out post but I’ll just lay it on the line. It is generally accepted that Noah was given a 120 year warning before the flood based on the following verse. This was around one generation in those days as now it appears to be the limit of a human lifetime. The latter is another interpretation of the following verse. Both can be true.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Genesis 6:3
Noah did not have Shem, Ham, and Japeth till around 20 years later. They all worked on the ark for the next 100 years in which all three got married but NONE of them had children of their own. There were a total of only 8 humans on the ark, Noah and his 3 sons and their wives. After the flood subsided, within a short time they all started having children. A generation is from the birth of someone till they have children. For Noah’s children it was just over 100 years.
Now, it is generally accepted somewhere a little over 20 years. Times change, lifespans change. Noah lived to be 950. Having to wait 21 years would certainly qualify as a new generation coming forth, but that generation not passing.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Matthew 24:34
Jacob’s Trouble
I would also point out that despite what a myriad of modern day Bible prophecy teachers will tell you to the contrary, the time of Jacob’s Trouble as clearly shown in the Bible in his servitude to Laben for his two wives and his own flock of sheep, was 21 years.
So there would be no excuse in these dark days when even the elect would be deceived if it were possible. The Bible records another period of 21 years of Jacob’s Trouble as Jacob mourns the death of his favorite son Joseph, first born of Rachel, the wife he loved, before he was united with Joseph.
Methuselah 7 Year Warning – When He Dies, It Shall Come
Enoch prophetically named one of his sons Methusaleh, which has been translated to mean, “when he dies, it shall come”. It is said that 7 years after Methuselah died, then came the flood. Methuselah died at the age of 969, the oldest person to ever live. Although it has been wisely noted that even so, he died before his father died. How so, if you haven’t figured it out? Because Enoch never died. It has also been wisely pointed out that the oldest man to live still died within “one day” as in the consequences given to Adam and Eve should they eat the forbidden fruit. A day to God in Heaven is like 1,000 years on Earth.
All that to say, our modern day lifespan maximums all seem to expire before the age of 120. Can we look at the oldest people now to get a 7 year warning? The list link attached states that there is only one verified person to have lived longer than 120 years.
Which is a remarkable fulfillment of this prophecy in Genesis 6:3. It could also call into question whether it is possible this one person was really over 120 at death. Sisters have been known to assume the other’s identity. Given either scenario, we need to focus on number 2 who is the oldest person to die under the age of 120. As shown below, that person died at the age of 119 and 107 days on April 19, 2022. Adding 7 years to that date brings us to 2029.
List of the verified oldest people - Wikipedia
Half an Hour of Silence in Heaven may be May 17 or 18, 2026?
Regarding whether it will be May 17, 2026 or May 18, 2026, focusing on my Number 2 from last weeks post:
2. Something Prophetic Happening around May 18, 2026 (1260 Days?)
I really did debate a long time whether to put May 17, 2026 or May 18, 2026 for number 2. That is because from a pure scientific perspective the apparent period of time of an hour in Heaven for the reign of the 10 horns on the 7-headed beast came up short of being exactly 42 years by exactly 2 days. One would expect the half hour of silence in Heaven to likewise come up short of 21 years by exactly 1 day. We shall see. The word “about” gives me pause.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Revelation 8:1
One hour in Heaven?
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. Revelation 17:12
The horns are kings over the “Universal” which is “Catholic” in Latin, Church. While kings, they as yet have no kingdom, no land with subjects they rule over. Instead they rule only over the hearts and minds of their many subjects, including the seven heads of the beast. Four of the heads had only one horn or king during their reign while three of the heads had two horns or kings, one replacing the other, during their reign. The “as yet” in the verse above portends of a future where these kings in succession will also have land. So let us add it as another possible sign before the Rapture:
1. The Universal (Catholic) Church becomes a kingdom having both land and subjects.
It should be noted that a true “Universal” church is not Christian, is not Moslem, is not Buddhist, is not Hindi, but must embrace all beliefs. It should also be noted these kings of the self-named “Universal” church take on the mantle and blasphemous name of “Father” which is “Pope” in Latin. But we all, regardless of belief, only have One Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be HIS name.
Now the beginning and end of the reign of the 10 horns exerting influence on the 7 heads for a period of one hour in Heaven are set in stone. The Camp David Accords were facilitated by President Jimmy Carter, the first head of the beast, and signed in Washington DC on September 17, 1978. The Abraham Accord was facilitated by President Donald Trump, the seventh head of the beast, and signed in Washington, DC on September 15, 2020. This is exactly 2 days short of being exactly 42 years. Which to me is perfectly explained because this Creation, this heaven and this Earth, are imperfect and have degraded ever so slightly with the passage of time.
These 2 days is a difference of 15,340 current Earth days per Heaven hour versus 15,342 Earth days per Heaven hour in the beginning. This calculates out to a difference of 0.0130%. Note the number. Likewise, the number 15,340 is divisible by 13 while 15,342 is not. Wow! That number 13 keeps popping up in relation to “Sin, Rebellion, and Depravity”. God must have hidden this number in both the day count and percentage difference for such a time as this.
The bottom line is God hides numbers in His Creation. I think He delights in us discovering these numbers so we will glorify our Lord. Just as the Sun is around 400 times larger than the Moon while at the same time 400 times farther away from the Earth, than the Earth is, to the moon. Without both these facts, we couldn’t have solar or lunar eclipses.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20
Shalom,
Ted Porter
5/2/2026