I was perusing some old files and found this from 1999, I believe. Could
it have been prophetic?
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I received a most fascinating letter from an Internet friend who found my address.
She tells about her 4 1/2-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, one of her daughter’s three small children. The lady, whose name I will not divulge, says:
In the past year, my daughter has prepared them for the rapture, saying simply, “Jesus is having a party for us in heaven… He’s coming to get us soon…” and words like, “It’s going to be a surprise… and ‘we’re going to have fun.” Nothing heavy, and not dwelling on it, just keeping them in remembrance occasionally, when it fits in.
Well, Sunday (November 21st) after dinner the middle child, Rebecca, said to her mother, “Mommy, when do you think Jesus is coming to get us for the party?”
Her mother said, “Oh, it could be very soon, ‘Becca.”
Rebecca said, “Well, I think it will be in 40 days.”
Her mother said, “You do?”
Rebecca said, “Yes, 40 days!”
Rebecca, at her age, has no idea how to figure days or months and has never
heard of a “rapture” and certainly not dating. But she’s close to God.
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Neither the letter writer and certainly not Rebecca knew that using Jewish inclusive counting, 40 days from November 21stt lands precisely on Hanakkuh, December 30, on the Jewish Calendar. I find this amazing, especially in view of the arguments for a Hanakkuh rapture
My reply
I sure hope we are on the last 40-day countdown now. The Rapture is as the days of Noah (Mt. 24:37f), and it began to rain on Cheshvan 17. Forty days later this year will be Kislev 27 (our Dec. 28), the 3rd day of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights, the Dedication of the Temple. The wise virgins have to have enough oil to last through some period of time. Could it be three days?
In John 2:19-21, "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP. Then said the Jews, FORTY AND SIX YEARS was this temple in building, and wilt thou REAR IT UP (egeiro, TAKE IT UP AGAIN) in three days? But he spake of THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY."
We are the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Will we be raised up on the third day of the Feast of Lights, the Dedication of the Temple? A multitude will be resurrected on the day of the Pre-Trib Rapture. Did those that came out of their graves on Resurrection Day (the third day "since" the Crucifixion) foreshadow the day that these will come out of their graves on the third day of Hanukkah?
The Sign of the End of the Age was the Six-Day War of 1967. Forty-six years later, by inclusive reckoning, will be 2012. Seven years from 2005 will be 2011, by inclusive reckoning. The last half of the Tribulation is to be shortened, so 5771, a Leap Year (2010/2011), might fit the end of the Age and the Tribulation just right. If the Pre-Trib Rapture takes place on Kislev 27, 5766 (Dec. 28, 2005), the Pre-Wrath Rapture could take place on Tishri 1, 5771 (Sept. 9, 2010). Christ could return seven months later (Eze. 39:12,13), on Nisan 1, 5771 (April 5, 2011).
Haggai 2:18,19 says, "Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Kislev 24), even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid (i.e., Jesus' conception), consider it. Is the seed (Jesus, seed of the woman, Gen. 3:15) yet in the barn (a feminine word)? yea (YES, conception has taken place), as yet the vine (Jesus), and the fig tree (Israel), and the pomegranate (Bride of Christ, Song of Solomon), and the olive tree (Israel, but the Gentiles can be grafted in), hath not brought forth (NASA, LIFTED UP): from this day will I bless you." The next day (Kislev 25) is the first day of Hanukkah. Agape
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