Matthew 24:44 “For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”

Luke 18:8 “I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” 

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  – Hebrews 12:2

Of course with the Great Sign, there were many watching and hoping to go home with Jesus on September 23, 2017 when the Revelation 12 Sign was fulfilled in the sky.  Now, however, many have abandoned their hope that Jesus is coming soon and they have gone back to their routine and are not waiting and looking for His appearance.   But “Fixing” your eyes upon Jesus and “Waiting” for the Blessed Hope is a what faithfulness is all about.  It is easy to wait when you can clearly see the Sign that you are waiting on but it take much more faith to continue to wait when the Sign has come and gone.  Will Jesus find faithful followers waiting when He comes at an hour when He’s not expected? 

When Jesus went to the cross all the disciples fled and not one of them were waiting at the grave site for His resurrection, even thought Jesus told them repeatedly that He would rise on the third day … the sign of Jonah.  Of course the disciples didn’t have the power of the Holy Spirit in them at that time … but we do and therefore we should be ready and waiting to see Jesus when He comes to rapture His Church.  Mary Magdalene was the first to see the resurrected Jesus but she didn’t go to the grave with the anticipation of seeing Jesus in His risen body but she went to the grave to put spices and oil on the bandages.  She even mistook Jesus for a gardener when she first saw Him.  Isn’t it ironic the first gardener, Adam put man into the slavery of sin, the last gardener, Jesus, the last Adam, freed man from the slavery of sin.

Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time. 2“You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; 3also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4“For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.” 5Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

God instructed Noah and his family to “wait” for seven days in the ark after the doors were closed before He released the rain and flood waters.  Waiting gives time for prayer and reverence toward God in seeking to know what He is doing, especially when judgement is coming.  And in a sense the Church is like Noah’s family, in that we are the believers in Jesus Christ who are trusting God to protect us from His wrath.  We are waiting for God to rapture us to Heaven and then open the scrolls of His judgement and release His wrath upon the world for seven years.  The Church is not waiting in a physical ark and the doors are not closed to keep out unbelievers but the doors are open to anyone who will repent and get upon the ark of God’s salvation in these final hours.  

Luke 24:49 “And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

After walking among them for 40 days after His resurrection, Jesus instructed the Disciples to “wait” in Jerusalem after His accession and then 10 days later the Holy Spirit came “down” at the feast of Pentecost.  Now it is as though God is saying “wait” 10 days after the appointed feast and the Holy Spirit will be taken “up” on the Jubilee/Rosh Hashanna.   

LEVITICUS 25  

8. And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; 
and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

9. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, 
in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

10. 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.

11. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, 
nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

12. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Some Rabbi’s teach that in a Jubilee year the Jewish new year begins on the 10th of Tishri, the day of Atonement, not on the 1st, the day of Rosh Hashanna.  On the beginning of the Jubilee year, the 50th, year the slaves would be celebrating at Rosh HaShanah (Feast of Trumpets), with a shout, and be waiting to be released on the Jubilee trumpet in 10 days.  If the Jubilee trumpet sounded on Yom Kippur in the 49th year, the slaves would still have one more year of labor before their official release could take place in the 50th year (per Leviticus 25:10).  http://www.unsealed.org/2017/09/when-september-ends.html

Of course it is hard to know if this is true because it is unlikely that the Jews ever properly celebrated a Jubilee year the way God commanded them in the scripture by releasing debt and letting the fields rest for a full year.  As a matter of fact, this is reason they went into captivity in Babylon for 70 years, which represents a year for every seven years that they failed to observe the Jubilee during the 490 years of the Davidic Kingdom.  However, if it is true that the Jewish New Year really begins on the 10th of Tishri this year then the Lord could rapture His Bride, the Church on that day and fulfill the Rosh Hashanna feast this year 2017, the year of the 5993 sign!  Also if God takes the church on the Day of Atonement this will confound the world and the Antichrist will use this date to declare that Allah took the infidels in judgement from the earth. 

I have noticed that determining the start of the Jewish year is actually a complex issue … no wonder no one knows the day or the hour.  According to Jewish tradition, over a 19 years time the Jews would add a month 7 times in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and the 19th years, a Jewish leap year.  And by my calculation this is the year 5993 = 19*315+8 which “is” a Jewish leap year where you add a month.  However, the year 5777 does not add a Jewish leap year, nor is it a Jubilee year.  Based on adding a month this year 2017, Rosh Hashanna would occur in October and not September.  Blessings and Glory to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, His ways are perfect and True!

Deuteronomy 34:1Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 3and the Negev and the plain in the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 4Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” 5So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day. 7Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated. 8So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

I think our waiting for 30 since the Great Sign is similar to the time with the Jews waited and mourned the death of Moses before crossing into the promise land.  We are in a time of repentance where we mourn for the judgement that is coming, yet we look with joy to our future, the raptue of the Church and the blessed hope of Jesus!

Leviticus 12: 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:
‘When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.  3‘On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4‘Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed. 

Yes, here in Leviticus we have one more place in the Bible where there is a “waiting period”, this time for 7 days.  And in a sense that is what we have witnessed in the sky, from Revelation 12:1-2 and 12:5, a male child was born on the 3rd of Tishri and now we are “waiting” for that child to be taken to God’s temple in Heaven where he will be circumcised unto God.  This is a beautiful example of why the Church is waiting for these seven days before being “caught up” to Heaven.  I may be a fool for Christ for believing in all these things but my heart’s desire is to know God and enjoy Him forever and how much more so will this be true when I am in His presence.  God doesn’t fault someone for loving Jesus too much and if the world calls me a “fool” for believing in Jesus, then I will praise Him for being found worthy to be called a “fool for Christ”.  I’m not crazy … I’m praisey.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Happy to go

Happy to stay

Happy to do it God’s way

Blessings – Rogersings    +8^)     Come Maranatha Come!

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