I’ve spent the last week thinking and praying about the
rapture timing after Rosh Hashanah 2013 came and went. All of
a sudden the
story of Jericho was on my mind like never before.I believe
there may be a clue to the timing of the rapture
in the story about how the wall of Jericho fell on the “long
trumpet blast” on
the seventh lap of the seventh day.
If Jericho symbolizes the earth and the
clay bricks that
circle the city symbolize the church, then the army of
Israel would be the
moon. For the moon circles the Earth and has long been
associated with Israel
even to the Jewish people in interpreting celestial events.
In my last letter, I theorized that since
Rosh Hashanah has
come and gone, but things in the world appear to be speeding
along towards
worldwide chaos, that maybe the rapture could still happen
in 2013 because the
7th full moon hadn’t occurred yet in the Jewish
year beginning after
the Spring solstice. According to this timing, the seventh
full moon will occur
Sep 19th.
My focus shifted to the full moon because
I had assumed that
Rosh Hashanah had passed already. HOWEVER, WHAT IF IT
HASN’T? I just watched
Scottie Clark’s latest video on how one Jewish calendar
shows that we are STILL
IN THE SIXTH MONTH. I’m not going to get into the details,
but check out this
video which shows that perhaps the Feast of Trumpets is
still a couple of weeks
away. So 2013 may yet be the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fGvqfU-jEo
I then was thinking about the Jericho
story again. Israel
was told to march around Jericho seven times on the seventh
day and at the
sound of the long trumpet blast to give a shout. If Israel
and the moon are
tied together, then there is a connection between the number
seven, the moon,
and the long trumpet blast during the last days.
After watching Scottie’s video, I counted
the number of new
moons that have occurred since the spring equinox, and there
have only been six.
The seventh is occurring somewhere around October 6/7. The
Rosh Hoshanah that
everyone celebrated on September 4-7 was only the sixth new
moon of the year.
This further supports the idea that it was celebrated a
month early.
If that is true, an October rapture would
fit the seven on
seven pattern with the “long trumpet blast” occurring on the
seventh new moon
in the seventh month, Tishri.
I’m excited! I don’t have any trust in
the world political
powers to contain the chaos that appears to be headed our
way in the very near
future. I believe that war will start in
the Middle East within weeks, if not days, and this is going
to be the impetus
for a major peace deal between Israel and the Palestians. I
believe that major
terrorist attacks by sleeper cells within the United States
will bring America
to its knees, and when the US retreats from the world stage,
Russia, China,
India, Iran will all be unleashed.
But, if no rapture occurs by the seventh
full moon (Oct
6/7), I don’t believe that it will happen until next year.
I’m watching and
waiting and using these last days to “fill my lamp with
oil.” And even if the
rapture didn’t happen for another 100 years I believe that
we should look for
the rapture each fall at this time. It is the same principle
behind the Jews
setting up a place at the table for Elijah each Passover and
each year ending
their seder with “Next year in Jerusalem!” This signifies
their belief that the
restoration of their nation and the temple are near, and
they have never let
their faith and longing desire die. We, the church, also
have faith and a
longing desire, only for the New Jerusalem.