RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
September 13, 2014 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2014 at 11:52 pm by Jenny A.)
(September 13, 2014 at 10:17 pm)professor Wrote: Hi Tonus,
If the Rapture comes on the 25th, you will have about a year to wait for the Restoration which follows the Day of Atonement, Sept 22-23 (the Jewish day begins at sundown the evening before and ends at sundown the next day).
This would be the 2nd Coming @ year 6000, the Grand Jubilee #120.
Jesus will be fulfilling the remaining 3 feasts of Israel (the word is Moed and means- "Appointment / Rehearsal") - Rosh Hashanna, Atonement and Tabernacles.
In the same way as He fulfilled the first 4 feasts in His 1st Coming, between what we call "Holy week" and Pentecost.
One of you posted the fable of Darby inventing the Rapture in the 1800s- Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Paul said, "the dead in Christ will rise first, then we which remain shall be changed- in a moment - in the twinkling of an eye and we will be caught up (the word is Harpazo, which means to be snatched quickly away - the word we have come to call Rapture).
Jesus said to the Philadelphia church (the second last)- "Because you have kept the word of my patience-
I will keep you from (eck- OUT of) the hour of testing that is coming upon the whole world -to test them".
The Philadelphia group correlates with Noah who went UP over the flood.
The last church- Laiodecia is told they will be spit out.
They are spiritually blind naked and in poverty while saying about themselves that they are rich and in need of nothing.
This is the church that correlates with Lot, who was living in a place of notable evil, and who was rescued at the last moment.
Spiritually blind naked and poor.
The sequence of the Jewish wedding portrays exactly the sequence the Heavenly Bridegroom is following-
1) The girl accepts the cup of wine (agreeing to marry)
2) The groom pays the Bride Price
3) He goes to prepare a place for her
4) He receives permission to get her from his dad when the place is ready
5) He comes in the middle of the night with a shout
6) She trims her lamp and goes to meet him
7) They are in the wedding chamber a week- alone
8) They emerge for the wedding banquet
Do you happen to notice the number of new beginnings in the above?
Eight people were preserved in the ark of Noah.
We are between stage 3 and stage 4 of the Wedding Sequence.
I'm about to have my 20th wedding anniversary. I think of this as part of the wedding sequence, just not in capital letters.
But you are quite right that end times is a very old idea. Jesus thought it would happen within the generation alive at the time of his demise. Obviously he was wrong. So was every predictor of end times since, and the predictors have been legion. Many of them made more sense than you do. So, I think I'll enjoy my 20th anniversary trip and not worry much up the end of the world on the week after. I'm sure we'll all be around and no more harmed than usual at Christmas this year and next.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.