A Rapture, of Sorts?

08/31/2016 | Mordechai ben Avram

[Jeremiah Jr]

A Rapture, of Sorts?

Disclaimer: First things first. I do not believe in what some people call a pre tribulation rapture and I’ve discovered that there is no *seven year tribulation, ergo, no mid tribulation anything.

But there is a return and that I can write about.

Second the word rapture does not appear in the Bible so let me find a word that is there...

Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Took:

לָקַח

לָקַח lâqach, law-kakh'; a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications):—accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

בָּאֱמוּנָה לֻקַּח חֲנוֹךְ

Same word laqach English: translated

Shift: Now Yeshua was keen to throw people off the trail from time to time, for instance.

John 6:53 Then Yeshua said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.

Well, anyone can tell you that scenario is not kosher at anyones table, clearly a metaphor.

Now this one is one of the best ‘fork in the road’ statements He ever delivered.

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

And here’s an interesting fact about this statement, Yeshua actually narrowed it down when He said this!

The keys to unlocking scripture lies in the rituals, for instance.

Honey is an ingredient for Rosh Hashanah dishes, honey cake, apples dipped in honey etc.

So when you read: Revelation 10:10 Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.

This tells me the new year will start off sweet but will turn bitter soon afterwards.

Same thing with the ‘no man knows the day or the hour’ statement.

Now I’ve heard many ‘rapture teachers’ state that ‘the rapture can take place at any time’

This could not be further from the truth.

The day no man knows, is an idiom for Rosh Hashanah and it’s a festival that this phrase fits perfectly. Anywhere in the world it’s one of two days, ergo...

Here’s some examples of the importance of the Feasts of the LORD

25 Kislev 3756 - Chanukah / Conception of Yeshua

15 Tishri 3757 - Sukkot / Birth of Yeshua

15 Nisan 3790 - (30 C.E.) Pesach / Crucifixion of Yeshua

For reference go to your main library and see Encyclopedia Judaica, Jesus died 30 C.E.

Big Notice! Rosh Hashanah takes place on the new moon and it lasts two days. But there are other two day new moon festivals that take place during the year.

Bamidbar (Numbers)10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing--your appointed feasts and New Moon festivals--you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am HaShem your God."

Now there are a few words you should pay attention to, trumpets, new moons, wedding celebrations, etc...

From:
Torah Readings

Each week in synagogue, we read (or, more accurately, chant, because it is sung) a passage from the Torah...

In the synagogue service, the weekly parshah is followed by a passage from the prophets, which is referred to as a haftarah.

http://www.jewfaq.org/readings.htm

Yeshua read the haftarah See: Luke 4:16-30

This section is read for Shabbat Machar Chodesh and it’s the one we’re interested in.

1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19 And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel. 20 Then I will shoot three arrows to the side, as though I shot at a target; 21 and there I will send a lad, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I expressly say to the lad, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them and come’—then, as the Lord lives, there is safety for you and no harm. 22 But if I say thus to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you’—go your way, for the Lord has sent you away. 23 And as for the matter which you and I have spoken of, indeed the Lord be between you and me forever.”

24 Then David hid in the field. And when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat the feast. 25 Now the king sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall. And Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him; he is unclean, surely he is unclean.” 27 And it happened the next day, the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat, either yesterday or today?”

28 So Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. 29 And he said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

30 Then Saul’s anger was aroused against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.”

32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be killed? What has he done?” 33 Then Saul cast a spear at him to kill him, by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David.

34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

35 And so it was, in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad was with him. 36 Then he said to his lad, “Now run, find the arrows which I shoot.” As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37 When the lad had come to the place where the arrow was which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried out after the lad and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?” 38 And Jonathan cried out after the lad, “Make haste, hurry, do not delay!” So Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows and came back to his master. 39 But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew of the matter. 40 Then Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”

41 As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from a place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another; and they wept together, but David more so. 42 Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘May the Lord be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forever.’” So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

This is the critical section:

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19 And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel.

Hebrew names have definitions and Ezel means...

‏Ezel אֶזֶל

Ezel = "departure"
a memorial stone between Ramah and Nob; scene of final farewell between David and Jonathan

New Moon, Three Days, Departure

Are you paying attention?

Proverbs 7

19 For my husband is not at home;
He has gone on a long journey;
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him;
He will come home at the full moon.
צְרוֹר־הַכֶּסֶף לָקַח בְּיָדוֹ לְיוֹם הַכֵּסֶא יָבֹא בֵיתוֹ

כֶּסֶא כֶּסֶא keçeʼ, keh'-seh; or כֶּסֶה keçeh; apparently from H3680; properly, fulness or the full moon, i.e. its festival:—(time) appointed.

Strong's Number H3677 matches the Hebrew כֶּסֶא (kece'), which occurs 2 times in 2 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV

Psalm 81:3 Blow the shofar in the new moon, in the time appointed, H3677 on our solemn feast day.

Proverbs 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. H3677

כֶּסֶא Kaf Samech Alef New Moon, Full Moon
Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew English Dictionary

John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”

4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”

My hour has not yet come, what does that mean?

Wedding hour?

A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, when the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth and its shadows fall ... blah blah blah
space.com

Diamond ring effect. noun, Astronomy. 1. a phenomenon, sometimes observed immediately before and after a total eclipse of the sun, in which one of Baily's beads is much brighter than the others, resembling a diamond ring around the moon.

And diamond rings are used in Weddings! Is the picture becoming clearer?

Notes:

*See: The book of Revelation There is no seven year time period recorded in the book of Revelation

NEW MOON
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14794.html

Yom Teruw’ah: “The Day That No Man Knows!”
http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/05/yom-teruah-day-that-no-man-knows_3315.html

[imardmd1]

I just hope pre-trib believers are right . . .

"Because thou hast kept^guarded the word of my patience, I also will keep^guard thee from the hour of temptation^{testing of fidelity}, which shall come upon all the world^{of people}, to try them that dwell upon the earth^{terrestrial globe}" (Rev, 3:10 AV).

I believe your hope is secure, RW, because of the promise that the Coming Lord Jesus made to the faithful local assembly at Philadelphia. In this verse the twice-used berb "tereoh" means to guard, having the sense to keep watchfully secure without change or corruption, to preserve whole unhurt and and undamaged.

The "hour of temptation" that is coming upon thr whole earth can only be that period of time when the full brunt of The God's righteous, furious wrath (which was once for all time poured out on the Son of Man on the Cross, standing in for us to intercept and avert it from His Beloved Bride, the Church of regenerated trusting believer-disciples) is poured out upon the "oikumenos,"--the world of faithless humans--as their justly earned reward for rejection of His Redeemer, Who Is His only offer of salvation from Hell.

What kind of Savior would leave His Beloved to suffer such a wrath of blood and death and destruction when He has all the authority and might to save Her from it?

I believe that we can take this promise made to the Phladelphians as one made to all His Church of souls currently residing in His Heaven (Heb. 12:23).

Have confidence in Him, as the faithful Philadelphian forerunners did! A Pre-Wrath Rapture (click for video) is entirely in order!

We, who constitute the Body of the Holy Anointed One have the Mighty Jehovash Elohim's promise of eternal security from His Wrath:

"For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption" (Ps.16:10 AV; cf. Acts 2:29,2:31,13:35, Ps. 49, esp v. 9)

[MHGinTN]

To the faithful in Thessaloniki, Paul wrote:

1Thess 1:9 For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God. 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead,) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

Paul put that in the past tense (for English language readers, it translates into past tense) because faithing in Jesus has delivered believers from what is growing closer by the day!

See you in the clouds, RWR!

[imardmd1]

What more could one ask for? POTD on this thread.

[editor-surveyor]

Everyone that follows and obeys the commandments of the Notzer from the root of Jessie is.

[editor-surveyor]

That’s your comic book, not mine.

[editor-surveyor]

To those that refuse to read the scriptures.

[Elsie]

the(y) hid the true pronunciation of Yehova’s name in scattered places in their scrolls from the prying eyes of their Rabbis.

Cheeky devils!

[imardmd1]

ρυομενον^{G4506 V-PNP-ASM}

-- Present tense, middle or passive deponent voice, Participle, adjective of accusative case, single number, masculine gender

-- a substantive adjectivial phrase describing Him, the "Who"

-- keeps on continually rescueing

-- translation: ". . . Jesus, Who keeps on rescuing us away from the indignation which is constantly coming."

(Which deliverance includes saving us from out of the never-before-experienced unequalled intensity of anger yet to come, which will be directed toward all, repeat all, of the global unraptured residents. God would not subject His Children to this; only the Liar's sin-blinded bastards will gather it in to themselves. But some will repent and survive, only to a very, very strict dominion against which they will eventually rebel, a thousand years later. Sounds like a sci-fi novel, eh what?)

[editor-surveyor]

More than just “cheeky.”

Rome under Constantine had a death penalty for saying the name, or even making the Shin.

[imardmd1]

I forgot to add the /sarc tag. I thought that would be understood while giggling at your imaginative description of Yakov bin Asher and his kids.

[boatbums]

Re: Are you a “Notzerim”, ES?

Everyone that follows and obeys the commandments of the Notzer from the root of Jessie is.

From http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Notzrim:

The Notzrim, also Nasaraioi/Nasoraean (Gk:Νασαραίοι), from Hebrew נֹצְרִים or נוצרים "sentry" or "watchmen"[1] (those who "keep safe" the original teachings), are a sect that began around the time of Jeremiah but flourished as a Gnostic movement during the reign of the Hasmonean queen Alexandra Helene Salome among Hellenized supporters of Rome in Judea.[2] Pliny the Elder indicates[3] that Nasaraioi lived not far from Apamea, in Syria in a city called Bambyx, Hierapolis or Mabog. Dubourg dates Pliny's source between 30 and 20 BCE and, accounting for the lapse of time required for the installation in Syria of a sect born in Palestine, suggests the presence of a Nasoraean current around 50 BCE.[4]

They are sometimes identified as the group called "Nazorei" by Filaster,[5] and were certainly one of the earliest key Gnostic sects. Many of the original Nasoraeans became Christians and thus in Modern Israeli Hebrew, the term Notzrim has come to simply mean Christians. Since the Greek word Christos is the translation of Messiah or "anointed," the Hebrew word for Christians could have been Meshikhiyim (Messianics), but ever since Talmudic days, the term Notzrim was used to deny that Jesus could have been the Messiah.

[MHGinTN]

Indeed! ... (Star Wars anyone?)

[Jim W N]

More gobbledygook.

Bye.

[Ezekiel]

The doctrine of the triune nature of the ONE, TRUE God is found throughout both testaments and was confirmed BY Jesus Christ who repeatedly said He was the incarnate God. So, either you believe Him or you believe He lied. Which one?

I simply believe what he said, and that wasn't it. The religious experts of that day were also certain he was claiming to be God; therefore, they tried to stone him. His attempts to correct them fell on deaf ears repeatedly. There is nothing new under the sun.

At least the Pharisees knew that a man claiming to be God was committing blasphemy. This generation has made such a claim into a nonnegotiable statement of faith. He wasn't claiming that, but when folks get in their minds certain things, good luck getting through. Just like with the climate change fanatics. Dogma is "settled science."

Sudden destruction. It's only supposed to happen... to that other guy.

The End Times prophecy generation is an object lesson in extreme irony, as *it* is the one looking all around to discern the signs, and to define the meaning and length of "this generation". So when nothing happens like it is "supposed to" and everything goes horribly wrong - the pattern for that scenario has already been laid out. Besides, there are the political forecasts, visions.

With Trump elected the forecast is for fair weather, for he will make America great again. With Clinton elected, the forecast is for foul weather, for she will destroy the Republic. This generation can discern the face of the politician, but not the signs of the times.

[af_vet_1981]

The kindest thing one can do is to call that religion what it is, not only dead to God, but the works of the children of Satan (Jn. 8:43-45).

I am no more anti-Semitic than Lon Solomon, founder and senior pastor of McLean Bible Church (click here), ...

I wrote "Yes, the religious antiSemitism in your comments is unmistakable" and they are. Invite any of those you mentioned to this thread so they may publicly testify whether they agree with your comments that the Jews are the children of Satan.

[boatbums]

I simply believe what he said, and that wasn't it. The religious experts of that day were also certain he was claiming to be God; therefore, they tried to stone him. His attempts to correct them fell on deaf ears repeatedly. There is nothing new under the sun.

Can you please show me where Jesus' "attempts to correct them" is found in Scripture? What I see is Jesus accepting the beliefs of those who recognized He is the "Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16), "Messiah, the Son of God" (Matt. 26:62-64), "My Lord and my God" (John 20:28), "Son of God" (Matt. 14:33), "Messiah" (John 4:26), "Holy One of God" (John 6:68). None of those times - and there were many others - do I see Him "attempting" to correct anyone.

At least the Pharisees knew that a man claiming to be God was committing blasphemy. This generation has made such a claim into a nonnegotiable statement of faith. He wasn't claiming that, but when folks get in their minds certain things, good luck getting through. Just like with the climate change fanatics. Dogma is "settled science."

They were right that any man falsely claiming to be God OR EVEN THE SON OF GOD was committing blasphemy yet Jesus repeatedly did so. See John 5:16-18; John 7:28-35; John 8:13-20; John 8:46; John 10:30-33; Mark 14:61-62; Luke 5:20.

I can keep on showing you plenty of Scriptural proof that Jesus DID indeed claim to be God and that Scripture foretold that the Savior of the world would be "God with us", the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father. But, before I expend any more of my time, why don't you tell me who you believe Jesus was/is? If you reject His claims, the claims of those whom he discipled and the testimony of Scripture, then nothing I present to you will change your mind. However, if you are teachable and open to learning the truth, I'd would be happy to continue.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

The Talmud (Tractate Shabbos 69) cites the source of anti-Semitism using a play on words: The Torah - the source of the Jewish system of laws, values and moral standards - was received at Mount Sinai.
The Hebrew pronunciation of "Sinai" is almost identical to the Hebrew word for "hatred" - sinah. "Why was the Torah given on a mountain called Sinai?" asks the Talmud. "Because the great sinah - the tremendous hatred aimed at the Jew - emanates from Sinai."

[imardmd1]

It's your tinfoil hat that equates S(h)emitism with religion. Ham, Shem, Japheth. No Shemite Jews until Judah. No codified Hebrew religion until Moses. No "Jewish" religion until Rheoboam. No Tanakh/mikra until Malachi; no Talmud/midrash until the Maccabean/Hasmonean times.

But all along there was continual erosion and sloughing off of abominable perversions of the true worship of Abraham's Jehovah. Until finally He had to come as Jehovah in human flesh as Yehoshua (Jesus) to teach once more how to worship The God, Who is Spirit, in spirit and in truth.

John Baptist came to pave the way to the Cross, that the false religion might be discerned, rejected, and finally extinguished, and the True Worship of God might be revived. Jesus proclaimed to all that the religion being propagated by the vile non-Aaronic priests pretending to be Zadokites (Sadducees)(but really only Roman-appointed politicians), and post-exilic Talmud "scholars" (Pharusim), and their yes-men (the scribes) were Children of Satan, the Devil, The Liar, the god of this world:

"Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it^(falsehood).
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not" (Jn, 8:43-45 AV; my emphasis and parenthetical supplement).

Jesus gives the Pharisees and their retinue a news flash:

"Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.' " (Mt. 22:29 AV; cf. Mk. 12:24).

It was Jesus who defined the true religion pertaining to the Jews. The priests and elders and writer/copyist not only did not promulgate true worship, but had invented a false but profitable one. When He told the truth, they killed him.

Their religion was--and its current extension of it is--a false and dead religion, one that would destroy true Jewish religion, which is Scripturally defined Christianity of the New Covenant, if permitted, just as surely as would Mohammedanism, another religion of the Shemites.

Whereas the Law-based religion was made for Israelites alone under God's covenant to Moses, The New Covenant of Grace, to the Jews first, is also offered to all people of all tribes, and from which none are barred.

If you want to be a Jew by probation as a proselyte, you're going to have to be cut in a most private and intimate way, permenantly. R U willing?

So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it for a while, before you pop off again.

[imardmd1]

Corrections: If you want to be a modern Jew . . .

and: permenantly permanently

[metmom]

ALL religion is of Satan.

It’s what he offers us as a substitute for a relationship with God and people fall for it because it appeals to the flesh by feeling good or making them feel good.

Religion is probably the best thing going to inoculate people against a real life relationship with God.