Recently I watched Before the Wrath, a
documentary beautifully portraying WHY the Bride of Christ must be snatched off
the earth BEFORE wrath is poured out:
While scholars debate the timing of
the Rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the
first place; knowledge that was once understood by those in the first century.
Today, researchers in the Middle-East have rediscovered ancient anthropological
evidence from the time of Christ that reveals exactly how and why the Rapture
must occur; unveiling new biblical insight that will reignite hope for
believers and prepare the world for what's coming.—Brent
Miller Jr
So I thought it would be a blessing to my readers to have
our thoughts go towards that magnificent Day and share some reasons why it is
certainly so near.
First, let’s think about why the Rapture and the Wedding of
the Holy Bridegroom and Bride must occur before the 7 years of Jacob’s Trouble.
Second, we can ruminate on when we think it might
happen if this Hebrew Year of 5785 is the Year of His Appearing.
According to the tradition of the ancient Hebrew wedding, the
guests gathered to be witnesses when the Friend of the Bridegroom announced the
consummation of the marriage:
12. Finally, there would be a
marriage supper for all the guests invited by the father of the bride.
The bride and the groom would be
in the wedding chamber for seven days. When the bride and the groom
initially went into the wedding chamber, the friend of the bridegroom stood
outside the door. All the assembled guests of the wedding gathered outside,
waiting for the friend of the bride-groom to announce the consummation of the
marriage, which was relayed to him by the groom. John (Yochanan) the Immerser
(Baptist) referred to this in John 3:29. At this signal, great rejoicing broke
forth (John 3:29). The
marriage was consummated on the first night (Genesis [Bereishit] 29:23).
The bloodstained linen from this night was preserved. It was proof of the
bride's virginity (Deuteronomy [Devarim] 22:13-21).
On the wedding day, the bridegroom
is seen as a king and the bride as a queen. During the consummation of the
marriage, the bridegroom (Yeshua) will be crowned King over all the earth and
the bride (the believers in Yeshua, the Messiah) will live with Him and rule
with Him forever. The crowning of the King and the marriage can be seen in
Isaiah 62:3-7. At the end
of the week (seven-year tribulation, or birthpangs of the Messiah), the
marriage supper will take place. [12 Stages of Wedding
of the Messiah excerpt]
Some scholars say the marriage supper of the Lamb is in
Heaven after the Rapture of the True Church while others teach it is on Earth
after the Second Coming. I found this intriguing and share these two perspectives
below.
What is wonderful is that although these
scholars differ as to where the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place,
they both agree that the marriage itself takes place in Heaven after the Rapture.
So feel free to skip the next section if you want to think
only about when our Wedding Day might happen.
Marriage Supper in Heaven or on Earth?
Renald E. Showers in The
Marriage And Marriage Supper Of The Lamb writes that the marriage supper is
immediately following the Rapture:
Once the marriage had been
consummated by the bride and groom, the wedding guests would feast and make
merry for seven days.5 Thus, the marriage supper lasted for one
week (Gen. 29:21–23, 27–28; Jud.
14:1–2, 10–12, 17), and it
corresponds to the expression “marriage supper of the Lamb” in Revelation 19:9.
. . . The marriage supper began on
the same night that the groom took his bride to his father’s house and
consummated their marriage through physical union. After the marriage was
consummated, the groom announced the consummation to his friend standing
outside the bridal chamber (Ps. 19:5; Jn. 3:29),
and the announcement was then delivered to the wedding guests who had already
assembled at the groom’s father’s house. Upon receiving this news, the guests
began to feast and make merry.10 Thus, the marriage supper
began very shortly after the groom brought his bride to his father’s house. In
harmony with this custom, the marriage supper of the Lamb must begin very
shortly after Christ takes His bride, the Church, to His Father’s house in
Heaven at the time of the Rapture.
However, Thomas Ice at raptureready.com
gives a different perspective:
The Marriage Supper
It is at this point that many
Christians today often confuse the marriage of the Lamb with the marriage
supper of the Lamb. But they are two separate events that occur at two
different times in history. Revelation 19:9 says, “Blessed are those who are
invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” This passage clearly has a forward
look anticipating a future time. It cannot refer to anyone in heaven since the
church (the bride) is the only redeemed entity in heaven. However, after the second coming when
believers from other ages will be resurrected (Dan. 12:2) along with
tribulation saints, both mortal and resurrected ones (Rev. 20:4), these will be
the invited guest who will be guests at this celebration supper. I believe that
the marriage supper will be during the first part of the millennial reign of
Christ. Fruchtenbaum says:
Hence, the “many” who are bidden to attend the marriage
feast on earth are all the Old Testament saints and the Tribulation saints
resurrected after the Second Coming. While the marriage ceremony will take
place in Heaven just before the Second Coming, the marriage feast will take
place on earth after the Second Coming. In fact, it would seem that
the marriage feast is what begins the Millennium or the Messianic Kingdom; the
Church’ s co-reigning with the Messiah will start with a tremendous marriage
feast.[2]
2 Marriage Suppers
Did you realize there will be “two” marriage suppers?
. . . The Old Testament teaches
that during the Millennium there will be another marriage supper, different
from the marriage supper of the Lamb. This millennial marriage supper will be
associated with the second marriage of God and the nation of Israel. At the
beginning of Isaiah 25:6ff, a passage describing the blessings of the
future Millennium, Isaiah declared, “And in this mountain shall the Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.” The word for
“feast” in verse 6 is the same as that used for the wedding feast in Judges 14:10, 12, 17.
Isaiah’s statement indicates that the wedding guests at this millennial
marriage supper for God and Israel will be all the other people living in the
world at that time. “Isaiah was speaking of a future time when (after God’s
worldwide judgment) His people in Israel and other nations will feast together
in peace and prosperity. This is the 1,000 year reign of Christ.”11
. . . As noted earlier, it was
customary for the wedding supper of Bible times to last for one week, or seven
days.14 It is the conviction of this writer that, in
relationship to the marriage supper of the Lamb, the seven years of the 70th
week of Daniel 9 will correlate to that time period. According to this
view, then, the Rapture of the Church and marriage of the Lamb will occur before the
70th week (Tribulation period). . . [The Marriage And Marriage Supper Of The Lamb
excerpt]
Revelation 19 is clearly referring to the first marriage
supper—the marriage supper of the Lamb.
WHY is the Lamb’s Marriage Supper mentioned in Revelation
19?
Again, there are contrasting viewpoints in answer to this
question.
If the marriage and marriage supper
of the Lamb are not to take place at the Second Coming and during the
Millennium, why are they mentioned in Revelation
19 between the judgment of the great whore and the Second Coming of
Christ? Two possible reasons are as follows: First, to draw a contrast between
the great whore, with all her impure unions, and the bride of Christ, with her
pure union with Christ; and second, to draw a contrast between the blessing of
those called to the marriage supper of the Lamb and the judgment of rebels at
the Second Coming of Christ. [The
Marriage And Marriage Supper Of The Lamb excerpt]
In contrast to this perspective, as already presented above, Revelation
19:9 is stating that the wedding ceremony has already taken place and
the grand finale--the wedding feast--takes place as the 12th and
final stage of the ancient Jewish wedding ceremony. The Wedding
of the Lamb occurs in Heaven after the Resurrection/Rapture of those in
Christ, but the Marriage Supper occurs on earth after the Second
Coming when the guests—those who have eternity with Christ but are not
part of the Bride—are resurrected.
A Summer or Fall Wedding?
Though I am looking forward to Our Wedding Supper, I am more
excited about The Day of the Wedding and how close we are to that Day!
In a recent report
from Israel, a growing chorus of religious voices now advocates moving beyond
the Western Wall entirely, urging Jews to pray directly on the Temple Mount
itself. Scholar Don Stewart shared how this is an indication of how close the
Rapture is. This movement toward praying on the Temple Mount itself was
prophesied by Patrick Winfrey to be
the final sign before the Rapture (my related article—2018 Final
Signs).
Will the Rapture be as early as this Summer? Luis B. Vega
believes the Bride of Christ will have a Summer Wedding as Israel returns to the
rituals of the Old Covenant as explained in his article A13-Cana-Wine where
he offers prophetic correlations between the Wedding of Cana and the Rapture of
Christ’s Bride:
All that to say, that the Rapture
has to be Pre-Tribulation Period because it will be at that Point in Time that
the New Wine Age will have been concluded. And thereafter, the Age of the
Jewish ‘Water’ will return for that Last Sabbath Week of Daniel. It will be all
about the Ceremonial Cleansing and ‘Dead Religion’ again. This is why the
Orthodox Jews are frantically preparing for the Ashes of the Red Heifer, the
rebuilding of the Temple and the start of the Daily Sacrifices. But that
‘Water’ Covenant could only provide temporary Daily Cleansing. As noted, it was
and is a Cleansing Agent that can only affect the ‘Outside’ and not the Inner
Vessel where the Transformation needs to be made.
The 4th Cup and a Summer Wedding?
At the supper before His crucifixion Jesus promised that he
would not drink wine or the “fruit of the vine” again until a specific time:
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this
fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's
kingdom. - Matthew 26:29 KJV
Biblical scholars refer to this as “the 4th cup”
because of Jesus prophesying this during the Passover seder:
Jesus urges His disciples to drink
of the third cup. Then He does another interesting thing with respect to the
glasses of wine. He does not drink the fourth cup, the Cup of Restoration. He
says of that wine: “I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” He and the
disciples still sing the hymn that was customarily offered over the fourth cup,
but Jesus does not drink the wine. He declares He will drink it with them in
His Father’s kingdom — when the Cup of Restoration is fulfilled. khouse.org
So when does the Bride and Groom partake of the “4th
cup”?
As I
studied this, I realized that Jesus might not have been referring to the
Cup of the Covenant which is drank by the Groom and Bride at the 6th Stage
of Marriage.
Perhaps
we will drink from the 4th Cup during a time of intimacy that
fulfills the consummation of our marriage to the Heavenly Bridegroom. As
noted by Edward Chumney in the 12th Stage of Marriage, “The bride
and the groom would be in the wedding chamber for seven days.” They do not join all the
guests for those 7 days—they enjoy only each other’s company for 7 days!
During the seven days of the
wedding festivities, which were sometimes called "the seven days of the
huppah," the bride remained hidden in the bridal chamber.17 At the
conclusion of these seven days the groom would bring his bride out of the bridal
chamber, now with her veil removed, so that all could see who his bride was. biblestudymanuals.net
Some
sources tell us that the newlyweds were waited upon by the wedding party as the
couple remained within the bridal chamber those seven days. After this
is when, according to one viewpoint, Revelation 19 and the Second Coming of
Christ to earth would then come into play where Jesus presents His wife:
And after these things I heard a great voice of much
people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and
power, unto the Lord our God:
For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath
judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and
hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. - Revelation 19:1-2 KJV
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude,
and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings,
saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for
the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine
linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are
called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are
the true sayings of God. - Revelation 19:6-9 KJV
Will our wedding be during the New Wine Festival 2025?
More exciting to consider is that our Beloved Bridegroom
mentioned “new wine”— when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom,
which could be intimating that Jesus will drink of the cup of the vine with His
Bride at a New Wine Festival. Luis B. Vega has researched this theory writing a
series of books which he offers links to in his above-mentioned article A13-Cana-Wine.
Lu Vega has presented his belief the Wedding of the Church
will happen when Boaz and Ruth’s wedding occurred—when the wheat harvest would
be concluding and the grape harvest is beginning:
One surmises that the Pentecost of
Acts occurred in the Feast of New Wine. . . This New Understanding is
predicated on their being a ‘Double Count’ and Interpretation of Leviticus
23:15-16.
One is of the Opinion that if and
when the Rapture of the Bride of Christ is to occur, it will be during a
Harvest Feast. And this Feast will be emblematic of how Jesus qualified it as
so. The only Feast of YHVH that falls within [this] parameter is when the
Church Age 1st started, Pentecost.
Jesus throughout His Ministry used
the Metaphors and of a Wheat Harvest Time to convey the End of the Age.
Source: Summer
White Wheat Wedding Pentecost New Wine Rapture and End of the Church Age pp.
2 and 21
The prophecies through Phillip Barnett point to the
possibility of the Rapture occurring during the Summer as well:
Phillip Barnett Azovmena Prophecy—June, July, August
In previous articles I have written about the prophecies
through a man of God who was sent to minister in Ukraine but is now back in the
United States, Phillip Barnett. Because of the many dreams and visions of
Brethren related to the Rapture occurring “when
the missiles come down”, I thought that November 11 (the date nuclear war
between Russia and America begins per these prophecies) would be the day of the
Rapture.
Then I
learned from a December 29, 2024, article—The Azovmena Prophecies: Safe
zones by Pastor Phillip Barnett—this was not what our Brother was shown. The
Rapture is to take place some months before the November 11 nuclear
attack:
War in the Middle East before
the Rapture
Now, I do believe there’s a nuclear
war coming to the Middle East before the Rapture: the Psalm
83 war.
Twice God says: ‘When the day of
the Lord is near’.
We can look at Isaiah the 17th
chapter, when Damascus is destroyed by a nuclear weapon. This has not happened,
and it’s going to happen soon.
In the
photo taken on August 3, 2024, a farmer harvests grapes in an orchard in the
city of Al-Kiswah, south of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The grape harvest
season began in Syria at the beginning of August.
[When is the grape harvesting season in Damascus,
Syria?
It says from the beginning of August. If this is true, then
the destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17 takes place in or around
August, for the Lord tells us the time period:
Verse 11: You plant your grapevines one day and try to make
them grow, and the next day [in the morning] you make them blossom. But at
harvest time everything will be dead [ the harvest will be a heap/disaster]; a sickness will kill
all the plants [ in the day of disease and incurable pain].]
Also, the prophecy from Jeremiah the 49th chapter,
beginning with the 34th verse could take place any day now. It could take place
these next few months; Elam is western Iran. . .
God gave Azovmena 2
And He spoke to me Azovmena 2, and
He gave me many, many details about what the Antichrist will do at the midpoint
in the tribulation period!
The nuclear war between Russia and
the US will take place….
there are no maybes about it – on
November 11th. I don’t know what year. My guess is 2026. That is my guess.
. .
Everything is coming to a
conclusion.
Jesus is coming back. I believe
it’s a strong chance that we’re going to see a major war between Iran and
Israel very soon, next few months, this next year….[2025]? Israel has no
choice, and the Bible says, when that war comes, there won’t be a country left
in the world where the Elamites do not flee to escape radiation! And that could
happen next week, next month; it’s going to happen. . .
Whatever year the Rapture takes
place, then a couple of months later on November 11th, World War III takes
place. I believe we’re looking at 2026, but we don’t know for sure. It’s all
going to be fulfilled. The main thing is that Jesus is coming soon, and we need
to get ready. Time is short.
Or will the Rapture be at the end of the Summer around
September 22?
Here are events that are prophesied in Scripture to occur by
the end of some Summer that may indicate that God will wait until the very last
minute:
--The godly are to disappear from the earth (Micah
7:1-2)
--The Books of Joel and Jeremiah and Amos foretell of trouble coming to Israel
at the end of the Summer. (Biblically,
summer ends at the autumnal equinox which occurs in Jerusalem, Israel,
September 22, 2025,
at 9:19 pm IDT.) A related article I wrote is Did
God Signal a SEPTEMBER 23 Rapture? Should the Lord tarry past the July
New Wine Festival, we might want to take another look at this timing since this
Great Sign occurred over Jerusalem the day after The Feast of
Trumpets (According to the Hebrew
Calendar, Rosh Hashana for the Hebrew Year 5778 began on Wednesday,
20 September 2017 and ended on Friday, 22 September 2017)
thus making September 23,
2025, the 8th Anniversary of the Revelation 12 Sign of the Woman.
While
preparing this article I came across an obscure Youtube channel—Revelation 12 Timeline
Theory—which shared his discovery of a prophecy made by the controversial
Kim Clement in 2009 about the Revelation 12 Sign of the Woman which did not
appear until the year 2017. (Also, the discovery of the coming sign was only
made public in 2009 by Luis B. Vega when he posted it on his Staff
Profile on the Sonoma State University website and in articles at Five Doves.
Then Scott Clark caused the Revelation 12 Sign to “go viral”
beginning in 2011. Here are excerpts from the Kim Clement prophecy:
April 4th, 2009 - Seattle, WA
… For the Spirit of the Lord says
there shall be a sign that I will send to you, says the Spirit, there will be a
sign in the heavens. It will look and it shall be likened unto a woman
that is about to give birth, that she is in labor. For God said, there
shall be a sign, for even in the Book of Revelation, even as I said there was a
sign in the heavens, so in this nation I shall bring a sign in the heavens. . .
For God said, there is a birth taking place. And America is
suffering the labor pains, America is suffering the last hours before the birth
of this child. Did
you not know that during your labor, did you not know during your pain that
there will be something birthed, says the Spirit of the Living God. It's
about to be born. It's about to be born for this nation, a move of My
Spirit that shall shake the church, that shall shake the gates of the cities.
Listen to the Word of the Lord. It's about to be born, your travail must
come to an end, says the Lord!
...Look at the sign that is coming
in the sky. For God said would you call for God to show you? For is it not
told, says the Spirit of God, that this woman that brought and gave birth to
this child is likened unto a generation, the bride of Christ that gives birth to this great move,
this end time move, men have cried out for it. In the early 17th century they
saw your day. In the early 1800's they saw your day and prayed for it. Abraham
saw your day and prayed for this day. Daniel saw this day and he prayed for it.
For the Spirit of God said, David saw this day and sang for it...
...This is a word for the United
States of America. I've been caught up into a spirit world. I cannot move from
there now. For God says, there is a sign, there is a sign that is coming from
the heavens and you will see it. It is as a woman that holds a child, the child
that has been born... [houseofdestiny.org
excerpts]
Not only did the Spirit of the Lord show Kim the coming
Revelation 12 Sign, but he also showed him the coming Great Shaking to Awaken that would result in
the last Great Harvest before the Rapture! (Related: THE
GREATEST GENERATION, THE GREAT SHAKING, AND THE LAST TRUMP and “I
AM COMING FIRST IN YOU, MY CHILDREN, THEN I WILL COME FOR YOU!”)
Dear Brethren, may this encourage you as it did me and fill
your heart with the hope that any time now our loving Messiah will return as He
promised to take us to the place He has prepared for us.
If 5785 is finally the Hebrew Year of the Rapture, our
Heavenly Homecoming will take place between now and September 22-23, 2025, the end of
the Summer. Let us think on these things!
Related: T. W. Tramm’s Judgment
Sign at Feast of Trumpets posted June 5, 2025
Updated 6/17/25
