Pseudo-Ephraem has about as much credibility as the “German Rabbi of great devotion, Rabbi Judah ben Samuel” you mentioned earlier. You do realize ben Samuel was a Kabbalist don’t you? Do you really consider Kabbalism to be “great devotion?”
In his day ,by the Jews of his day, he was revered. I used his Elijah vision to emphasize the imminence, which is of course what the Bible teaches regarding Jesus coming for His own. The Bible verses are the key, not Rabbi ben Samuel’s prophecy. Being in Christ is the issue, not Jerusalem. I will use the prophecy as an attention getter, to get folks to trun to Christ and make ready, if it will accomplish that. It does not mean I endorse Kabbalism. You don’t find it interesting that the time periods given in 1216AD/1217AD appear to have lined up with what actually happened?
I cite Ephraem the Syrian because we have negative neybobs on these threads that insist the notion of Rapture is a nineteenth century creation. It is not. It can be found in many Historiacal documents/discussions dating even to 100 AD.