With fellow watchman Jeffrey McGaha’s
theme song, About to Get Crazy,
going through my head all week, I was ready to sit down and write about why I
thought September 23 was when events would “go down” leading to the Rapture
that day or soon afterwards.
In an attempt to be an obedient daughter, however, I decided
I better check in to see what was on the Lord’s heart. Saturdays are when I try
to put aside some quiet time to love on the Lord. This is a challenge since moving
into a smaller house where I no longer have uninterrupted privacy, so I am
usually surprised if I receive a vision or a word from my faithful Jesus. But
He understands all that, so this morning I believe He graciously gave me a
prophetic word just before a family member walked through the door.
It began with Him expressing His joy at our soon being
together as Bride and Groom. At first I thought this was a personal word, but I
began to sense He wanted me to write it down and share it. It reminded me of an
endgame pep talk from our Captain of Salvation, yet it is so much more:
Will you obey Me in these days
ahead?
Do not be afraid in the coming
days. I am with you in all things—ALL things. FEAR NO ONE AND NO THING! Be
brave. Be courageous. Be who I have called you to be!
For truly I have created you for
this Time. I have created you to be fearless! Unstoppable! Unwavering in your
convictions knowing that the Day of the Lord is at hand.
Fear nothing my daughters and
sons!
I have called you to go forth in
the darkest hour before the dawn to be My light in the world doubting nothing.
Yes, truly I am coming for you
my dearest One. So have no fear as the clouds of war surround you. Remember I
am coming IN THE CLOUDS—
Clouds of Glory as the
clouds of war erupt!
Clouds of Righteousness as the
clouds of destruction arise!
Clouds of Holiness as the
clouds of anger and wrath emit
from the Dragon!
Oh, HALLELU-JAH!
I will lift you with My holy
hand—the one you saw in the visions I gave you.
I have a place prepared
especially for you; for each one of My Beloveds. A place of peace and beauty filled
with love—My love, pure and holy for My Beloved.
Go forth knowing all these
things. Be assured of My love and My presence with you no matter how dark
it gets. You are My light holding back the darkness.
Oh, HALLELU-JAH!
As I meditated on what I just heard, the Holy Spirit emphasized
how important it was for us to be OBEDIENT TO THE LORD’S VOICE especially now. This
reminded me how it is when the LORD SHOUTS we are taken OUT:
For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
- 1 Thessalonians
4:16 KJV
The Lord’s emphasis on how we will minister in the darkest hour
before dawn reminds me of how we will be leaving IN THE
TWINKLING OF AN EYE—that precise moment when night ends and the Day of the
Lord begins!
With so much converging this month of September 2022, those
who are diligently watching for the Lord Jesus Christ, our Heavenly Bridegroom,
are wondering if indeed the Scriptures are pointing to Rosh Hashanah, The Feast
of Trumpets, as the time He will catch us away.
In 2017 I joined many others with GREAT EXPECTATION of the Rapture
occurring on September 23 when the Revelation 12 Sign of the Woman was taking
place. (See Unsealed’s article, The
Revelation 12 Sign Compendium for more information.) It was matched with an equal amount of
disappointment when HOPE was deferred, so I have tempered my expectations as
speculative watch dates have come and gone. Since then I have searched the
Scriptures, researched and read other Brethren’s research, and seen how God
mercifully gives 7-year warnings. I believe He began His warning signs of the
coming 7-year Tribulation of Jacob’s Trouble with the 2014-2015 Blood Moon
Tetrad and we have watched the world go exponentially crazier with each passing
day since then.
In a previous article I asked, Did
God Signal a SEPTEMBER 23 Rapture? due to the fact that this September will
be the 5th Anniversary of the Revelation 12 Sign of the Woman and
because it is the last day of Summer. According to the Hebrew Calendar, this Great Sign occurred over Jerusalem the day after The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashana for Hebrew Year 5778 began on and ended on ).
September 23 is still, of course, a very possible Rapture date. However, I have
been looking more deeply into the idioms within the Scriptures pertaining to
the Rapture and asking, “Do these idioms point to the Rapture occurring around
Rosh Hashanah?”
Scriptural or Traditional Idioms?
About five years ago I wrote The
Rapture: Can the Time Be Known? and came to the conclusion that “the
catching away or Rapture may or may not occur on Rosh HaShanah” in spite of most
of the themes, names, idioms, and expressions associated with this high holy
day describing the events surrounding the Catching Away of the Bride of Christ.
This was because although I was very familiar with idioms I did not realize
that they may have become idioms through tradition and not by way of the
Scriptures. But does this matter?
If Paul used an idiom such as “twinkling of an eye” and “at
the last trump” when writing about the Rapture in 1 Corinthians 15:52, does it
matter whether it was a Scriptural or a Traditional Idiom? It would make
sense that God via the Holy Spirit would move on Paul to use both Scriptural
and Traditional Idioms since the Jewish people were familiar with both
types of expression.
If so, then it is possible the apostle Paul was referring to The
Feast of Trumpets for the Rapture of the Overcoming Church!
So as I dug to obtain more understanding, I came across a
few gold nuggets (or as you will see, “silver” nuggets) that I just had to
share with my Fellow Watchmen.
Twinkling of an Eye
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. - 1 Corinthians 15:52 KJV
When does the “twinkling” happen?
Phil Richardson explains in his article, The
Twinkling of the Eye and the Final Connection with Yom Teruah, how the
phrase “twinkling of an eye” is an idiom associated with the ending of the
sixth and entering the seventh. Here in 2022 we are nearing the end of the
Sixth Day or Sixth Millenia and entering the Sabbath Rest of the Seventh
Millenia. Phil compares this to the transition from the sixth day of the week
into the seventh from a Hebraic perspective:
The image above is from Torahcalendar.com/sunset and references a typical day from a Hebraic perspective.
First, This concept of a 24 hour day is different from our Western mindset
where the beginning of a new day begins precisely at midnight. In retrospect,
the ancient Hebraic concept of a day began right after the morning twilight at
sunrise and ended 12 hours later on sunset, which then began a special period
time known as evening twilight
where the day transitions into the night.
The precise moment of
this transition is known as the twinkling of an eye or the moment when the day
turns into the night. You will notice
this concept on the graph above. So, if I were to use the reference of the
weekly Sabbath, I would state the ending of the 6th day of Friday at sunset to
the twinkling of an eye moment and into the 7th day of rest on the Saturday
Sabbath. [From The Twinkling of an Eye and the Final Connection to Yom
Teruah]
Phil believed our Heavenly Bridegroom would come for us at
the beginning of the festival of Yom Teruah also known as the Feast of Trumpets
in the year 2021; however, here in 2022 as we are nearing the end of a Shemitah
Cycle how much MORE likely it is that the Catching Away of the Bride of Christ
will occur at the “twinkling of an eye”!
If the Rapture occurs at the beginning of Yom Teruah,
then when does the magic moment happen this year? The prophetic “twinkling of
an eye” could occur as the sunsets in Israel on the 29th of Elul
(September 25, 2022). Because Rosh Hashanah is a two-day festival due to the
uncertainty of the sighting of the new moon, only God knows which day will be
THE DAY. This is why September 26 is also a possibility for when we change “in the
twinkling of an eye”.
The Last Trump
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump[salpigx]:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed. - 1 Corinthians 15:52 KJV
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump[salpigx]
of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV
First, we must understand that the “last trump” is NOT the 7th
trumpet of Revelation. Both
1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians were written long before John wrote
Revelation, so Paul’s readers would have no knowledge of the seven trumpets of
Revelation. Paul’s writing was distinctly in reference to the Church and
the closing of the Dispensation of Grace at the Rapture.
Now that we understand that, I will share how I came to the conclusion
that if Yom Teruah is when the “last trump” is to be heard, it must be the
beginning of The Feast of Trumpets at the same time as “the twinkling of an eye”.
Is the “last trump” the traditional last shofar blast at Rosh
Hoshanah?
Or is it a signal for the congregation who are in Christ
to gather?
Or is it a blast warning those left behind that the Day
of the Lord has begun?
The other silver nugget I found was in the Old Testament. According
to Numbers 10 it was a SILVER TRUMPET and NOT A RAM’S HORN OR SHOFAR blown
during The Feast of Trumpets even though Jewish
tradition dictates using a shofar at Yom Teruah. In fact, there were TWO
SILVER TRUMPETS sounded:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two
trumpets(×—ֲצֹצְרָ×”)
of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for
the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. - Numbers 10:1-2
KJV
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye
shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. - Numbers 10:7 KJV
HOW INTERESTING THAT THE DIRECTIONS FOR THE BLOWING OF THESE
SILVER TRUMPETS WAS GIVEN prior to the journey from Sinai to the Promised Land!
In Numbers 10 we see that the priests were commanded to make a loud noise
with silver trumpets on God's holy feast days and in the beginnings of your
months meaning at the time of the new moon.
Silver is a metal that
representsredemption. Two trumpets are significant when we consider
that as the future “ingathering of the saints” occurs, there will be both “the
voice of the archangel” and the “trump of God” (1 Thess. 4:16). When the dead
in Christ are raised and the living saints are changed from mortality to
immortality, we will be changed at the sound of the “last trump” (see 1 Cor.
15:52). Various opinions exist about the meaning of the phrase last trump.
However, if there is a last trump, there must be the sounding of a first
trumpet. Some suggest the first trump sound will raise the dead in Christ and
the second sound will impact the living, initiating the changes predicted by
the apostle Paul.
The two silver trumpets are a
perfect image of the gathering together of the dead in Christ and the living at
the return of Christ.The two silver trumpets were for the “calling of
the assembly” and the “journeying of the camps.” The first blast called the
people to gather together, and the second blast indicated movement as a group
to their new destination. Could this imagery be compared to the sounding of the
trumpet of God? The first raises the dead, and with the second blast we
meet with them in the air.
These silver trumpets helped to
bring the people together, just as the coming of Christ is called the
“gathering together” (see 2 Thess. 2:1; Eph. 1:10). [From perrystone.orgBold emphasis added.]
If both Phil Richardson’s research and this theory Perry
Stone has mentioned is accurate, it would flow with the timing of “the
twinkling of an eye” or twilight just prior to the sighting of the new moon to
mark the beginning of The Feast of Trumpets also referred to by the Jews as Yom
Ha-Din or The Day of Judgment:
. . . Each morning during the 30
days of the month of Elul, the trumpet (shofar) or ram's horn is blown to
warn the people to repent and return to G-d.
The message from Elul 1 to Rosh
HaShanah is clear: Repent before Rosh HaShanah. Don't wait
until after Rosh HaShanah, or you will find yourself in the Days of
Awe. The Seven
Festivals of the Messiah/Chapter 7
According to Hebraic thinking, Jacob’s Trouble, The
Tribulation, is to begin on some Rosh Hashanah. Thus, the unsaved need to
repent beforehand. Since Those in Christ are not subject to God’s judgment
of wrath, it is not the traditional 100th shofar blast of Yom
Teruah that calls Those in Christ homeward, it is “the trump of God” at the beginning
of The Feast of Trumpets (IF Paul is referring to this particular feast):
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be with the Lord. - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV
This is only my individual understanding, so feel free to
comment if you have seen otherwise in the Scriptures.
As was mentioned earlier,Strong’s
2689Hstates that watchmen used a ram’s
horn or shofar to give warning. Trumpets warning of impending judgment are
sounded during the month of Elul, which is called The Month of Teshuvah or
Repentance, with the FINAL WARNING sounded the 29th of Elul, which
in this Hebrew Year of 5782 falls on September 25.
This is why September 26, 2022, is a super watch date if
the Resurrection/ Rapture has not already taken place beforehand (see also Did
God Signal a SEPTEMBER 23 Rapture?). Additionally, the next Hebrew year of 5783 may be The
Year of the Bride and perhaps a Jubilee Year!
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be
a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. - Leviticus 25:10 KJV
The King Planet
A Brother in Christ brought to my attention that Jupiter now
stands brilliant and high in the night skies in the Northern Hemisphere and that
God will be signaling yet again a message to those who are looking up. Jupiter
will be in opposition with Earth on September 26 during The Feast of Trumpets resulting
in Jupiter being the closest it's been to Earth in 70 years.
Talk about prophetic! Head on over to EarthSky’s article, Jupiter
at opposition this month, closest in 70 years, and you will also see “2022’s
September full moon is the Harvest Moon”. The King Planet Jupiter represents
our King Jesus and the Full Moon represents the completed Bride of Christ.
Over Jerusalem on September
26, 2022, the King Planet will shine its brightest in 70 years and the fully waned
Moon will have seemingly disappeared—a heavenly picture of the vanishing of
the Bride of Christ as her shining King and Bridegroom comes near Earth to
catch her away to Eternity!
