I am the party pooper who thinks we are nowhere near the rapture yet. You can all tell me "I told you so" on the way up. Erika is used to me posting positive things about the rapture being soon because I love the eagerness that many have and it is something we need to have at the forefront of our thinking, meeting our Beloved first and getting out of this wicked earth.
The 6 day 6000 year teaching is way before the church, we just inherited that. A Jew reading the Hebrew Bible sees each day as 1,000 years because that is the value of the Hebrew letters and the pictogram tells the story of the 7000 years in the first 7 words in Hebrew.
So when I say nowhere near, I mean that the rapture is a signed event - how did we not catch that on when the early church pre AD 200 wrote that they guessed the great trib would begin in AD 2025?
How can you have immanency when Peter had to reach old age? The apostles were confused for they thought John wouldn't die so Jesus had to return before John died.
Jesus told the disciples it is not for YOU to know the times set by the Father, but Jesus gives US a list of events so we know the time is fast approaching and Paul taught we are not in darkness that that day overtake us like a thief. There are 45 signs and events in Matt.24 so we know when the day of redemption is near.
We get lost in Jewish idioms and get them completely back to front. When western ears hear, No one knows the day or hour we think this is pointless to discuss because no one can know, but to Jewish ears it meant be on watch for the time is near. It had to do with the new moon appearing and no one knew which of two nights it would appear and then with cloud cover it made the hour impossible to predict.
To a Jew, when Jesus said, No one knows the day or hour, they would immediately think of the feast that has many names, for the feast or trumpets was also called the feast of the day and hour no one knows for this reason and there we find the 99 blasts followed by the last trump.
There are two things I look for to determine the nearness of the rapture...
1) After Jesus gave us the list of signs that must be in the BEGINNING phase and all coming together He added, BUT BEFORE ALL THESE THINGS we must make our final witness, God's final plea to the world that they will hate us for and put us in prisons and some will die.
While persecution is increasing, the trap is being prepared to catch very person who does not advocate for their planned wickedness. You know the surveillance system is almost ready.
2) Daniel said that 'In the days of the (10) kings the God of heaven will set up His kingdom". God is a God of small details and He didn't say in the days of the little horn of the beast or whatever, so I note that the man of lawlessness is not mentioned and he is the most important chess piece. Instead God tells us it is when the 10 kings arise that Jesus kingdom is set up and that imo happens at the rapture with the rapture being the start point for...
7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12Therefore rejoice,
ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev.12
Maranatha!
