Three weeks ago my husband Tom and I were lounging on a beach in South Carolina. It was early in the morning when we realized there had been a wedding taking place only a few yards from us. Immediately Jesus’ words came to me:
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in
the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they
were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the
flood came, and destroyed them all. - Luke 17:26-27 KJV
And I asked, “Any word, Lord?”
“Our Wedding is near. I want all who
are bidden to come, yet not all will.”
I sensed His emotions--the thrill of our soon Marriage was
mixed with grief.
Then I watched as the newlyweds left the beachfront. My eyes
were on the bride as she toiled in the deep sand making her way towards the path.
She held her lacey tea length ivory gown in one hand and her wildflower bouquet
with the other. The groom toiled in the dunes at her side.
“It’s odd that there are no ships and hardly any gulls.”
Tom’s comment broke into my rumination causing me to look
around and see the emptiness of which he spoke and realized it was odd since it
was still feeding time for the sea birds. My thoughts went back to the bride
who was now gone. Once the Bride of Christ leaves barrenness will come to the
world and there will be a thirsting for the Word of God.
I shuddered at the thought of what was to befall the earth
after the Rapture.
No wonder He wishes to give the world another chance to
believe--perhaps with a PreTribulation judgment leading to a Great Awakening--but
also during Jacob’s Trouble when it will be available to have one’s name
written in the Book of Life by those who refuse the mark of the beast and are beheaded for the
witness of Jesus (Revelation 20:4).
But when I looked deeper into the meaning of what the Lord
said to me--"I want all who are bidden to come, yet not all will”--it
reminded me of what He spoke in Matthew 22--
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables,
and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a
marriage for his son,
And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden
to the wedding: and they would not come. - Matthew 22:1-3 KJV
Those that were first bidden were Israel. His heart was then
and still is burdened for ISRAEL. David
Brown’s Commentary confirms this:
3. and sent forth his servants--representing
all preachers of the Gospel.
to call them that were bidden--here meaning the
Jews, who were "bidden," from the first choice of them onwards
through every summons addressed to them by the prophets to hold themselves in
readiness for the appearing of their King.
to the wedding--or the marriage festivities,
when the preparations were all concluded.
and they would not come--as the issue of the
whole ministry of the Baptist, our Lord Himself, and His apostles thereafter,
too sadly showed.
Any who would have believed on Jesus at His first coming would
have been part of the BRIDE; however, during Jacob’s Trouble, those who believe
will be the Wedding GUESTS! Father God in His foreknowledge knew that most of
Israel would end up being Guests and not part of the Bride. I believe that is
why the Bride is not even mentioned at all in the Matthew 22 parable!
Oh, praise God for allowing both Jews and Gentiles to be a
part of the Bride now during this Age of Grace. The Spirit and the Bride say
COME!
Jesus, our Summer Rose
Dear Ones, something special happened as I was rewriting the
notes I had taken on the beach and copying them into my journal. A fragrance of
roses wafted over me and lingered for some time. Like a Love Letter scented
with a signature fragrance, He is expressing His longing for the Bride.
I had wanted to pull together lots of signs, research, and
informative videos pointing to the Rapture, but when I asked HIM what I should
share, it was His longing for His Bride.
I [am] the rose of
Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys. - Song of Songs 2:1 KJV
Because of the
savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore
do the virgins love thee. - Song of Songs 1:3 KJV
I was led to look further into the rose’s prophetic meaning.
I did not know this, but the rose is June's birth
flower--its sweet fragrance and timeless beauty heralds the advent of summer
like no other bloom. And Something
happens in “The Summer”:
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is
yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh: So likewise ye, when ye
shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors. Verily I
say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- Matthew 24:32-35 KJV
Will it Happen This Summer”?
Summer
symbolizes the end of the Church Age and therefore we long for it to be this
Summer that our Wedding occurs! And, Beloved Ones, I believe it will!
The calm before the storm.
It is coming--a great dark storm and
the Bride will see it coming.
It’s off in the distance now but soon it will
be almost upon Her.
Fear not, I am with you
and again I say, fear not.
For as this storm approaches so does my great glory.
As you emanate My glory,
you will disregard the darkness--
Fear will flee!
Boldness in the face of darkness!
Humility before the Lord!
Many will come to the Light
So fear not the days ahead My children.
Your Father has you by the hand never letting go!
I pressed in further and dared to ask, “Lord, is 2021 the
year we are caught away to be with You?
“YES.”
My jaw dropped! Did He actually answer, “YES”?!?
I didn’t ask for a confirmation, but as I was drafting this
blog article, confirmation came by way of the Revelation 12 Daily Blog sharing an
Amazing
Confirmation Story.
Ruth and Boaz
The Lord did not tell me which month He was coming, and as T. W.
Tramm noted, “Biblically, summer begins at the vernal equinox in March and ends
at the autumnal equinox in September”; HOWEVER, it is my hope that the Bride
of Christ’s marriage will parallel that of Boaz and Ruth. The Scriptures tell
us they married after the grain harvest was completed; and, therefore, might
have been wed at the time of Tu B’Av. According to
the Mishna, Tu B'Av was a joyous holiday in the days of the Temple in
Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the grape harvest. Yom
Kippur marked the end of the grape harvest. On both dates the unmarried
girls of Jerusalem dressed in white garments, and went out to dance in the
vineyards. Wikipedia
Some speculate that Ruth’s wedding to Boaz—a
typological picture of the wedding of the Church to Messiah—occurred on Tu
B’Av. Scripture records that Ruth lived with her mother-in-law, Naomi, until
all of the wheat harvest was complete (Ruth 2:21-23). Tu B’Av traditionally
marks the beginning of the grape harvest and, therefore, an unofficial
conclusion to the wheat harvest. This time, or soon after, is when Ruth would
have stopped living with her mother-in-law to take up residence with her new
husband/redeemer, Boaz. TWTramm
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Hebcal.com tells us that Tu B'Av for the Hebrew Year 5781 begins at sundown on Friday, July 23, 2021 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, July 24, 2021 and has been said to be a "great day for weddings".
JULY and NEW WINE
On the third day a
wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus' mother was
there,
and Jesus and his
disciples
had also been
invited to the wedding.
John 2:1-2 NIV
There is an interesting connection of the Church Bride’s
wedding in the Book of John as explained in the Charisma article, What
the Wedding at Cana Says About Jesus Our Bridegroom:
The Holy Spirit moved on John to
record this prophetic foreshadowing of the marriage supper of the Lamb with His
church. It's impossible to overemphasize the significance of God choosing a
wedding for this public presentation of Jesus. . . The actual miracle consisted
of Jesus turning water into wine.
. . . A wedding is the perfect
setting for the first miracle of Jesus. John tells us that no miracle had ever
occurred in the life of Christ prior to this, in clear contradiction to the
Quran and false gospels that claim otherwise. "This, the first of His
signs" (John 2:11a). This first presentation of power in the context of a
wedding prophetically revealed that Jesus' eternal ministry purpose is related
to His ultimate wedding with the church.
Jesus came to public view eating
and drinking joyfully at a wedding. He knew the ultimate plan of heaven was His
wedding with the church.
Groom to drink ‘new’ wine with Bride?
Others before me have written of the possible connection of
the Bride of Christ’s marriage to the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Story of Ruth
and Tu B’Av; however, I could not find where anyone connected it with Matthew
26:29--
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this
fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new [kainos] with you in my Father's kingdom. -
Matthew 26:29 KJV
When Jesus told the disciples He would not drink of the vine
until He was with them in His Father’s kingdom, He said He would drink it NEW
which is translated from kainos
meaning “recently made, fresh”.
So in this
verse was Jesus directly referring to the New Wine Festival as the timing of
our gathering together unto Him?
The new wine festival came 50 days
or seven weeks after Pentecost. Until new wine was offered, no one could drink
any of the new juice (Temple Scroll, columns 19-21). Harvest
Seasons of Ancient Israel
Luis B. Vega has been a proponent for a “when-Pentecost-had-fully-come”
double count Rapture timeframe:
The End of a Harvest
Those that have argued for a double-count of Pentecost being 99 days from the
‘morrow after the Sheaf Wave Offering’ to be somewhere in late July have more
to consider. As one has argued that if any Feast of YHVH exemplifies the
Rapture event, it is Pentecost. Those that are espousing that Pentecost, ‘when
it had fully come’ is on the Jewish ‘Valentine’s Day will have about a 2-week
time discrepancy to see if it will be true. However, it might be the case that
the double-count of 99 days is correct to have been in late July but that the
gathering-in of the Wheat Harvest occurred until Tu B’Av. One is still of the
interpretation that the true count of Pentecost is corroborated by Exodus 32.
Aaron declared a Festival to be on Tammuz 29, the 4th month. It was the day
Moses came down with original 10 Commandments. This was the day the camp set up
the Golden Calf and 3000 died. On Pentecost of Acts, Holy Spirit came down and
3000 got saved. . .
The Minor Feast of Tu B’Av is a
very mysterious; one that is tied to a profound and prophetic implication as it
relates to the Bride of Christ. It should be noted that although this Tu B’Av
is a popular Feast with the Christian Watcher community, it is being perhaps
confused with the New Wine Festival. There is an offering of New Wine that is
made once Pentecost is done but it is not clear if it is referring to the New
Wine Feast itself. P.S. News #400 Feast of New
Wine
In Lu’s article THE
RAPTURE ZONE he shares his hope that the Rapture will occur around
Pentecost this year. Based on the double-count of Pentecost per Leviticus 23:16
if one calculates based on Passover having begun on March 17, 2021 and counting
“From Day after Sabbath (a Sunday) after Sheave Wave Offering” points to a
possible May 23 - July 12 Rapture Timeframe:
APR 4 + 49 DAYS = MAY
23 + 50 DAYS = JULY 12, 2021
MORE About JULY 2021
JULY 9,
2021, is the Cyber Polygon event
or a simulation to prepare for a cyber pandemic. The World Economic Forum website
describes this: “The 2021 technical exercise builds and tests the skills needed
to protect our industries, centring on a targeted supply-chain attack.”
In The Sociable’s article, Prepping
for a cyber pandemic: Cyber Polygon 2021 to stage supply chain attack
simulation, the question is asked “Will Cyber Polygon 2021 be as prophetic
as Event 201 in simulating a pandemic response?”
My question is: Are they preparing for a global cyber attack because the globalists
themselves will be implementing one to more quickly usher in their global
economic system OR are they actually preparing for Revelation 12:3-5--
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne. - Revelation 12:3-5 KJV
Could it be that the Rapture will occur this July and The
Powers That Be know there will be an EMP-like effect and cause a great
disruption in the supply chain?!! (Related articles: Event
Horizon--The Resurrection; The
Revelation 12 Dragon and The Rapture)
July 4 - Rosh
Hashanah (which begins in the evening of September 6, 2021) was the
timeframe pastor/evangelist Tim
Henderson was shown by the Lord when numerous significant events are to
occur. Before giving details, Tim mentions how the Lord has shown him that “an
Awakening can happen within an hour”. July 4th is significant
because “something will happen in the spiritual realm that will have an impact
on the natural realm that we live in that is huge”.
He emphasized that he is not foretelling a Rapture date but
went on to share how the Lord flashed forward to Rosh Hashanah and showed
Heaven greatly rejoicing over the Feast of Trumpets THIS YEAR!
Jesus’ first public miracle was at a wedding. When He
returns to earth, He does so in a very public glorious manner presenting His New Wife as
described in Revelation 19.
Here comes--er, I mean--Here goes the Bride!
6 comments:
Thank you my sister! I hope for a rapture soon! Maybe this summer has you wrote? May his grace and peace be with us all while we wait! God bless you! Maranatha!!!
beautiful post Lyn! sincerly, tony. [ozark]!
Blessings, Carole and Tony!
SO looking forward to meeting Him and you IN THE AIR✨
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL post! I'm so ready to go UP AND AWAY! God bless you for your faithfulness in seeking, listening and WRITING! I'm greatly encouraged. Love you!
Hi Lyn...read an article at Five Doves that ties in with the “NEW wine” and the New Wine Festival you had mentioned earlier.
More confirmation?🤗
Be Blessed.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2021/chance627-1.htm
"17 Tammuz, 9 Av, New Wine Festival/Pentecost, Nine Days, and Three Weeks - High Watch Time"
Thank you @peacewithin for that link♥ I will certainly check it out!
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