Chance (26 Oct 2025)
"Potential Month of the Rapture - Cheshvan"


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
Here are some interesting tidbits that are suggestive of a Rapture in the month of Cheshvan:
 
Cheshvan is also called Mar Cheshvan or bitter Cheshvan - "because it has no holiday to make it joyous until the Messiah comes."  It is known as an "empty month".
 
Methuselah died in this month at age 969 on 11 Cheshvan.  "The start of the Great Flood was delayed seven days so that a full week of mourning could be observed for Methuselah."
Cheshvan – The Israel Bible
 
So counting inclusively, as is the Jewish way, the Ark was sealed on 11 Cheshvan (and not 10 Cheshvan); seven days later the Great Flood started on 17 Cheshvan.
 
"And as the days of Noe, so shall be the day of the arrival of the Son of man"  Matt 24:37  Literal translation at biblehut.com  See my last week's letter:  
Looking At Matthew 24:37 With Actual Dates
 
Sarah and Rachel died in the month of Cheshvan.
 
On 17 Cheshvan, Solomon's Temple, the First Temple was completed.  The Great Flood began on 17 Cheshvan.
 
The month of Cheshvan brings in the end of the harvests.  And it's the beginning of the rainy season.
 
"Typically we think of harvest in the Fall, yet in Israel the harvest began in Spring.  Cheshvan, the end of the Autumn months, is actually when the harvest is over.."  Jesus taught about the harvest to come and His return."
Four Months Yet Until the Harvest - Healing in the Hebrew Months
 
The Prophet Micah prophesied about people 'vanishing' from the earth after the grape/fig harvest. 
 
In this Youtube video from years ago with JR Church and Gary Stearman, they talk about Micah 7:2 - "The goodman is perished out of the earth."  Perished is "abad" in Hebrew which means "disappear", "cause to disappear."  It's likened to Elijah when he was taken up to Heaven.  Micah is describing the time after the Rapture and before the Tribulation period.  Micah 7 is about "the saints that have been vanished away from the face of the earth.".
(1139) PRE-TRIB RAPTURE IN MICAH 7 - JR CHURCH AND GARY STEARMAN - YouTube
run time 7:11
 
 
It is the month 'reserved for the Messiah'.
 
"Cheshvan is the only month with no holiday, no feasts, no fasts.  Traditionally it is believed Cheshvan is reserved as the month the Messiah will come.  This month also plays a prominent role in the story of Noah; the flood began and ended in the month of Cheshvan."
Four Months Yet Until the Harvest - Healing in the Hebrew Months
 
The Hebrew tribe associated with the month of Cheshvan is Manasseh:  Manasseh means "to forget, to leap up and away."  
 
The Hebrew letter associated with the month of Cheshvan is Nun:  Nun represents "faithfulness and soul."
 
Manasseh comes from the verb 'nasa' which "describes an upward motion, generally of something that is being pulled up and out so as to remove it.  The verb occurs very often and can usually be translated with 1) to lift or lift up, 2) to bear or carry, 3) to take or take away."
 
The noun 'massa'a' "describes clouds" and "the uplifted".
 
Manasseh - lift up or carry away to the clouds.
 
Nun is the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  It has the numerical number of 50.  Nun means 'kingship'.  There are "14 generations from Abraham to David, from David to the exile to Babylon, from the Exile to the Messiah."
Hebrew Letter Nun — Resting on His Word
 
In this Doves letter from 9 March 2014, Will Schumacher wrote about the Hebrew letter Nun - Nun represents the Messiah.  And salvation.  "It's meaning is perpetuity or eternity."  The Jewish sages believe the Messiah's name shall be Nun.
Hebrew letter Nun
 
Cheshvan later became the 8th month on the calendar.  The first month being the month of Passover.  In Exodus 12:2 "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months:  it shall be the first month of the year to you."  This new first month is Nisan - a Spring month.
 
The 8th month is for "the finishing and full completion of purposes."  And it is for "making a new beginning with God.  It is a time to return to God.  It is a month of revival." 
 
A prayer for the 8th month is:  "O Lord, keep me far from the disasters and destructions that come in the 8th month or season.  Let this 8th month be redeemed from bitterness.  Let it be a month of joy."
CHESHVAN: The Mystery of the Biblical 8th Month - Nkem Okemiri
 
Maybe this month will bring our removal/protection - Rapture - from the coming judgement/Tribulation period.
 
The Rapture IS a 'return to God" and 'redemption from bitterness'.  
 
Maybe Cheshvan will no longer be an 'empty month'.
 
 
The sighting of the new moon has been delayed in Israel to October 23.  So the Chabad calendar is one day off, 11 Cheshvan is November 2/3.  17 Cheshvan will be November 8/9.
 
Certainly dates I am watching.
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance