I would like to offer a humble word of encouragement to all who may feel a little disappointed by the recent hopes posted by Rene M and others too. I believe them ALL to be accurate, and, the feasts are and have proven themselves to be a type and shadow for that which has and is transpiring in and for the Body of Christ Jesus. But, we need to stop fretting over which day it will be in advance...some of us WILL see it as it approaches, more and more clearly. But, the whole point of a mystery is that it remains secret until it happens.
We are the MYSTERY, We are the SIGN!!!!
It only ruins the beauty of it to keep trying to decipher its exact moment based on God's Holy WORD. Being involved in the most precious aspect of God's creation(namely being part of the Bride troop) in FAITH, is grace enough. Some of us will get to see it coming and may even know of the exact moment before it arrives. However, this is not for the whole Body of believers. BE the Mystery in FAITH and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is here, even at the doors. We have arrived at the consummation. Not only of our relationship with the Groom, but also of ALL THINGS.
So, here's my two cents worth of encouraging signs to me and the "Body"....
"I went to sleep early and woke up a little after midnight and got up to do some searching on the internet. I was concerned about an issue(actually two) that had come up in the congregation yesterday(Sunday. sixth day of Tabernacles)....that of adherence to the weekly Sabbath as pertains to the "running weekdays " that we know of and are using today as opposed to the "Lunar Sabbaths" that are tied to the sighting of the new moon each month(the Congregation I attend observes the Sabbath on Saturdays).
Also, the issue of weather the Holy Spirit can be seen as a feminine quality in terms of it being "our mother" in the Spirit....this is decidedly a "new age" concept and I knew this from the beginning, but, I wanted to research the actual grammar used by Christ and Paul to back up with evidence my contention.
The lunar Sabbath issue is a little trickier and led to something most wonderful that I wanted to share with you....A SIGN, so to speak. But first, the Lunar Sabbath thing is about weather the "new Moon" day is a stet-apart day from the rest of the lunar month and its count of the weekly days, where the sabbath always falls on the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth days of the month...if that is the case then the weekly cycles are to be reset every month and NOT by a continuous count of weekdays in perpetuity....which is how it has been done for quite a long time.
So after researching it for awhile online, I couldn't arrive at a different or alternative view then the one I have been shown heretofore. That the new moon day is counted as separate from the rest of the month and the days of the week are tied to the sighting of the sliver of the moon after the "new moon"....so I went back to bed and prayed for God's Holy Spirit to reveal to me His truth and the answer I immediately got was that I already new and had been given light on this subject....that once you are truly "born again" into the Spirit of grace and life in Yeshuah, there you have entered into "God's own rest" and therefore into His "Millennial Sabbath", of which the weekly Sabbath is but a "shadow and type", that there is no more need to observe the weekly Sabbath(as a law) because EVERYDAY IS A SABBATH UNTO THE LORD...YOU ARE PERPETUALLY AT REST IN GOD AND TRUST IN HIM TO PROVIDE YOUR EVERY NEED EVERYDAY....no more tithe for the same reason...IT ALL BELONGS TO GOD(not ten percent, but, 100%) IN HIS KINGDOM AND YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO HIS KINGDOM ONCE YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO HIS SONS BODY!!!
So I was thinking about looking up a passage in Judges and when I opened up ,my E-Sword program this page was sitting open by itself....Judges 21:21(it will open to the last page you were looking at when you closed it before, but, I hadn't been to that page, so it was a sign from God the Father)
Jdg 21:21 and watch; and when the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance their dances, then come out from the vineyards, and every man catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh; and go to the land of Benjamin.
and this next passage is the passage I went looking for....
Jdg 20:38 Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise up from/to the city,
together make create a parable of the RAPTURE ...is that not the most beautiful ANSWER the Lord our God could have given me. What He said was...those questions are not important, they pale in their importance to what is about to happen to My Son's Bride...and IT IS COMING SOON!!!
And to paraphrase what I was shown....
"I will catch-away my Bride from among the daughters of peace and gentleness, taking her to the place prepared by(Me) the Son of the right hand of God. Raising them up in a great cloud of witnesses to the Holy City not built by human hands."
Take heart my brothers and sisters, ALL of our prophetic visions and utterance' will not go unfulfilled...it is ALL true! We are just being impatient for the groom to come, and rightfully so. The deception here on earth is gaining strength and speed everyday...just wait for it.
your brother in love, Chris K.