Dear Doves,
 
 
     Rachel died in Bethlehem, meaning the House of Bread. They were on their way to Hebron when she died in childbirth, giving birth to her second child Benjamin, the last of the 12 sons of the namesakes of the 12 tribes of Israel to be born. Her children were Joseph and Benjamin. She was buried by the side of the road, rather than at the cave at Machpelah with Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Rebecca. Many people have made pilgrimage to her tomb, a shrine, ever since and have prayed on behalf of her children. This means more than Joseph and Benjamin, additionally many generations of children thereafter. Generations of her descendants were later exiled to Babylon and passed by her tomb.
   Jeremiah 31:15 has been applied to the event of the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem. Wisely, Joseph heeded the warning in his dream to take himself, wife, and son immediately to Egypt. So the dear child, the little king, avoided the carnage. Our Redeemer Lived. Jeremiah 31 is much about rejoicing in The Return at the end of days. Yet in Jeremiah 15 is interjected the wailing and bitter weeping in a period of mourning. This goes beyond mourning for those exiled to Babylon. The following are translations from the original Hebrew. The following translations explain why Rachel weeps loudly, mourns, and refuses to be comforted. It is significant and instructive how many use THE PRESENT TENSE rather than the past tense. Here are examples, like Holman Christian Standard. It states "because they are no more." American Standard Version notes "because they are not." English Standard Version writes "because they are no more." New Living Translation states "for her children are gone." Wycliffe mentions "for they be not." Young's Literal Translation notes "they are not." King James uses the past tense "they were not." The Message states "her children are gone, gone--long gone into exile." Most do not refer to death, but A PRESENT TENSE REALITY that they are GONE WITHOUT ENDING OR CLOSURE! When are children absent and permanently gone? It is when they die, or go into exile, or are resurrected! Jeremiah is much about rejoicing about the return of the exiles, The Aliyah, The Return at the end of days. Yet in Jeremiah 31:15 is interjected the wailing and the bitter weeping in A PERIOD OF MOURNING for THE LOSS OF CHILDREN. "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." This event is an interlude, a period of mourning for the loss of children, in the "end of days" which can imply the 70th Week of Daniel.
   Might Jeremiah 31:15 be a subtle reference to The Blessed Hope aftermath for the remaining "earth dwellers" in the days to remember the deaths of Methuselah and  Rachel and mourn their loss? The days are Cheshvan 11 to 17. In Scriptural History, twice, began a week of mourning from Cheshvan 11 to 17. Here is a double emphasis on a week of mourning. Might the Jewish mothers and other mothers be mourning from Cheshvan 11 to 17 in 2012 after events on Cheshvan 10 or 11, or a day from Cheshvan 10 to 17? If hundreds of millions of living young children, Jewish children and others, disappear and "are no more" on The Day of The Blessed Hope, would that be the catalyst for a period of bitter weeping, wailing, mourning, and refusing to be comforted by millions of mothers? Symbolically, if this event occurs between  Cheshvan 10/11 to 17, it would be like millions of Rachels in intense mourning and suffering. Their children would "be no more" and "are not" and her "children are gone" and "they be not" after their transformations, resurrections, and departures in The Blessed Hope!
   Cheshvan 11, 10-26 to 27 in 2012, will be both Methuselah Day and The Day to Elevate Rachel Our Matriarch. The period of days from Chesvan 11 to 17 were 7 days to daily mourn after their departures, their loss, their deaths. They were no more, for those who loved them. Will a day from Cheshvan 10/11 to 17 be momentous in 2012 as The Day of The Blessed Hope? We shall see. Come quickly, Lord!
 
With Love and Shalom,
Jean