Have no illusions. God is holy and His standards are far above ours.
No human will ever make it past the Great White Throne Judgement to enter God’s Kingdom; All will go to the never ending lake of fire. This is the truth. Jesus sits on the throne. On that day, every knee will bow. But it will be too late. No one can impress Him without faith.
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Faith is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. … The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1
Jesus said we must have childlike faith.
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Heads up for the next high watches:
With the state of the world, every day is a ‘high watch’ for the redemption of the saints of Jesus Christ.
A Hidden Rift Is Marking the Rapture – The Sign Most Believers Never Saw Coming
“Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard–and keep it and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come like a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.“
Revelation 3:3
“But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.”
Ezekiel 33:6
Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:7
When God came to the Jews:
As He (Jesus) approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known, on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.” Luke 19:44
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The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another. . . .
. . .because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” Luke 19:4
Our Blessed Hope
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:13
We’re expected to see the day approaching.
. . . not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Proverbs 25:2
Know the Hour!
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Who won’t
know the hour?
Jesus Christ was warning the Church of Sardis according to their shortcomings, using the strongest Greek negative grammar.
Rev. 3 2-4 “Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you. But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.”
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Although the Olivet Discourse was mainly about the redemption of the Jews, most of what Jesus warned them to watch for, the CONVERGENCE OF PROPHETIC SIGNS, applies equally to us.
In St. John’s Rev. 2-3 vision, Jesus Christ is talking about when He’ll come for His bride/true church, who’ll be ready and who won’t. Those who are seriously watching for His coming, are also guarding themselves to make sure they’re always ready for Him. The ones who won’t watch for His coming, fall back into the world and soil their garments. For the most part, believers who will ‘know the hour,’ as He comes upon them are also the ones who kept their garments clean. Those are the garments of His righteousness that He imparted onto us by His blood. We must guard those garments and ask Him to ‘wash our feet’ every day, for the world is filthy. It’s easier just to say that the people Jesus Christ will deem worthy are the ones who watched.
Tick tick
Jesus said we should “see the day approaching” Titus 2:13, and “know the hour” Rev. 3:3.
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Yet, Jesus didn’t specify that we need to predict, the exact calendrical day of each harvest in advance. And, regarding the hour? It seems that He meant we should be aware of ‘the hour’ when He comes upon us, to gather us to Himself. In other words, if we ignore the words spoken into our spirit “come up here” or the shout of the archangel and the trumpet blow of God, we’ll miss out on that harvest because we will have been living for the world, not focused on Him. I think He commanded us ‘to see the day approaching’ so that we’ll be continuously focused on Him, not on worldliness, so that we won’t miss the hour. But I could be wrong; So please don’t let me discourage anyone who’s being led by the Holy Spirit to know the exact hour in advance!
Those who’re obedient, capable and watching will know, at the very least, when the final year(s) have arrived! They might ‘jump the gun’ about some events, due to excitement and navigating new territory, but they won’t miss the early harvest!
This group, is now very active on Earth. Many have thoroughly committed themselves to studying prophesy in current events. Watchers have been focusing their collective telescopic crosshairs on each approaching holy convocation (appointed time) of God’s Torah calendar, as well as the many other time intervals, that the Bible points us in the direction of, that foreshadow Jesus’ harvesting of His bride, and bridesmaids.
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All the temptations of the ‘great deception,’ are turbocharging now. My studies, based on the Septuagint Daniel 9:27 Old Greek manuscripts, show that we’re already in the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week. (I think the ‘great tribulation’ but not the greatest tribulation, begins when Jesus Christ releases the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, and that it’ll last about a year.) The rebellious portion of the great ‘apostasy’ of the church is multiplying. We won’t be able to resist, unless we focus every possible moment on the truth, washing ourselves in His word without neglecting His prophesies. His word tells us to WATCH. So we also need to pay attention to what’s happening in the world without being caught up in it, so we can discern all the things we’ve been warned about, while simultaneously guarding our behavior and thoughts in order to ‘keep our garments clean.’
Doing all this helps to keep us enthusiastic about Him while maintaining us in a high state of preparedness, ready to be overjoyed when He gathers us. We live for His Kingdom, the most glorious alternative to living for the world. But, we’re not watching just for ourselves, we’re sounding alarms! Jesus commanded everyone to watch, but not everybody’s assigned to take the position of ‘a watcher.’ We hope to serve our Lord and prove useful to our brethren who’re making other important contributions in the service of Jesus Christ in this very last hour.
Believers who consistently watch, usually focus on the next approaching ‘high watch,’ even if there seems to be an even higher watch on the horizon. It wouldn’t make sense to do it any other way! Watchmen and women study and discuss calendars with each other as Bereans, and are connected via internet. Together we look at many meaningful ‘types and shadows’ time intervals, and prophesies that jump out from God’s word.
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It’s opposite the crazy cult leaders of old, who hard-set dates, in strange, isolated congregations. I think satan used those groups to scare modern believers into not watching at all, causing many who are fearful, to attack God’s watchmen and women rather than edify them. Those who seriously watch and warn are sometimes falsely accused by their own brethren of being the exact opposite of who they are. It’d be good for all of us if all who call themselves Christians resist joining that ungodly army, which is set upon tearing down God’s watchmen and women, because being against ‘watching’ is of the antichrist spirit! Jesus explained it in ‘The Parable of the Faithful Servant.’
We’re so utterly close to the end now that we can see the convergence of most prophesies, events and signs of His second coming! Even the prophesies and signs that will only reach their climax after Jesus Christ has harvested most of His saints have become visible on the horizon, and they’re steadily approaching. So we can be absolutely sure that Jesus Christ will gather His bride very, very soon!
The two verses below are among those that are often misunderstood. They’re so often conflated and repeated that they contribute to the blinding of many believers:
So when they came together, they asked Him, ‘Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?’ Jesus said ‘It’s not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.‘ (Acts 1 6-7)
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The above verse is not about harvest timing, but about His Millennial Kingdom on Earth. Those two things will be very close in time for the Jews, but it hadn’t yet been revealed to the Apostles that the kingdom wasn’t coming their lifetimes. The assignment to the apostles was to focus on the foundation of the faith, most importantly the essentials that Jesus revealed to them. So, in Acts 1 6-7, when Jesus said ‘you’ He was referring specifically to the apostles. After the events recorded in the Book of Acts, more knowledge about the approaching Millennial Kingdom was unlocked and revealed.
But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase. (Daniel 12:4)
A good example of that regards the Book of Daniel itself: A third century manuscript was discovered in 1931, called papyrus 967, which confirms Codex Chisianus 45, the oldest manuscript of Daniel that was hidden away in the Chigi Library in Rome then the Vatican Library ever since Theodotion rewrote it. It proves that the Theodotion version altered prophesy. It left out a crucial prophesy that gives the exact timing of the end.
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Here’s the most popular misunderstood verse in the Bible – It’s gone dangerously viral over centuries:
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. (Matt. 24:36)
That shouldn’t be taken as a stand alone verse. There are at least 3 ways to interpret it.
Here’s the verse before it:
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matt 24:35)
Seeing them together:
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. (Matt. 24 35-36)
Many Bereans and watchmen think it’s the ‘time when heaven and earth will pass away that only the Father knows. That’s possible, as we know Jesus will hand over this universe to God the Father before the new heavens and earth are created!
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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (Isa. 65:17)
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Rev. 21:1)
But, since Jesus took on human limitations for awhile when He became flesh, it could also mean that, at that time, He choose not to know the day or the hour of . . . we don’t really know if He was referring to the new universe or the harvest of the Jews. But, after His death, resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father God, which happened a few days later, no one should assume He remained ‘unknowing’.
So, no matter how we’re inclined to view Matt 24 35-36 superficially, it’s essential that we don’t become over confidant and use it as a weapon against each other. Also we must examine it, not as a stand alone verse, but according to its place in the entire Bible.
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Many believers hear wonderful sermons. I thank God for inspired pastors. But, most Christians today don’t really study the Bible deeply, if at all. Matthew, being the first book of the New Testament, it’s the book the greatest number of people have read, which is perhaps why that verse has become one that so many cling to. (It’s also in Mark.) It’s often chanted with dramatic overconfidence, often by believers who seem quite vacuous in their Biblical insight. This is the group that wags their finger at anyone who speaks about the signs of the times. Many watchers have been wounded by them, as evidenced by the frequency with which they lament about it online. This is the type of abuse toward fellow servants that Jesus warned us about in the parable of The Faithful vs the Unfaithful Servant, where one group of His servants abuse the other group, while He (Jesus) is away for a long time. Sometimes, even otherwise excellent Bible teachers and preachers have been mesmerized or intimidated by the overwhelming mantra and have found themselves repeating it, just to pacify their flocks.
“No One Knows The Day or Hour” Mantra of Sleepwalking Christians
Now, Jesus truly was truly referring to the timing of His coming to gather the Jews in the following section of His Olivet Discourse:
So you, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
Matt. 24:42
‘You’
don’t know
is different than
‘Jesus doesn’t know
only the Father knows‘.
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There are Three Watches
Matt. 24:42 is the later part of Jesus Christ’s Olivet Discourse. It’s about the third watch in which He described the main harvest of the Jews, not an earlier harvest of the mostly gentile church. (The church didn’t exist yet, as the New Covenant in His blood hadn’t been sealed, as He’d not yet been crucified and resurrected from the dead.) Not long after that, St Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, gave the church its own warnings.
“Sothelastwill befirst,andthefirstwill be last.” That verse is from the Parable of the Vineyard Workers (Matt. 20:16); There are three groups in the parable: And although it’s mainly about warning those saints who worked the hardest and sacrificed the most for Christ, not to be jealous of their brethren who’ve come to Christ at the last hour only to receive ‘the full days wages’ of eternal salvation in God’s perfect Kingdom being adopted as His beloved children! That verse, when being contemplated in the Spirit of Christ’s words, also can shed light on the meaning of the three watches, because as we study, what becomes crystal clear that the Jews as a nation, who were the first to be warned, will be the last to be redeemed.
The first watch, the second watch and the third watch. . .
We’re all watching for the same God for the same salvation during the same final seven years therefore the following two verses, which are quite general, apply to all the watches:
All harvests require a separation to take place:
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (Matt. 24:40)
Although the following verse was written in Christ’s Olivet Discourse, St. Paul, the apostle to the mostly gentile church, later instructs us that ‘for us’ Jesus will not come like a thief in the night, a ifwe watch:
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watchedand would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh. (Matt. 24 43-44)
Luke 17:34(considered by many to be the Gospel to the bride) I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
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Watching is the main point! Jesus never taught his followers to be clueless and uninterested in the prophetic signs. In fact, He strongly reprimanded the Pharisees for doing just that:
He (Jesus) answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the ‘signs of the times.’ An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
Matthew 16 2-3
The above is a reminder that watching doesn’t only mean ‘keeping our garments clean.’ If anyone is still unsure, please revisit Luke 19:42 above at mark A.0
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The Pharisees had the Old Testament, which is full of prophesies, the ‘signs of the times’ that God gave them; Yet, they seemed oblivious to those. Instead they wanted Jesus to ‘perform signs’ at their command! We shouldn’t make the same mistake!
So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!
Luke 21:28, Matt. 24:33
Most of those signs are already converging. If the final harvest is on the horizon, then the earlier harvests must be be just around the corner!
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A lot has happened sinceour Lord Jesus Christ spoke His Olivet Discourse to Peter, John, James and Andrew (Matt. 24:3). He was crucified, He defeated death and He was resurrected. Then He was witnessed by 500 men as He walked through Israel teaching His apostles for 40 more days. Finally, He was witnessed ascending with clouds into the heavens. We know he ascended all the way to the right hand of our Holy Father’s throne in heaven (Dan. 7: 13-14). There He regained His former glory plus much more, and He probable received some of His crowns at that time; He was assigned the highest position in the universe under God our Father, because He’d proven His deepest worth.
. . . and His followers also changed:
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It soon came to be, that the majority of Jesus’ followers, were and continue to be former gentiles!
Are the converging signs that Jesus Christ warned the ‘lost sheep of Israel’ to look out for (before the church age began) in order for them to be ready to flee when the abomination of desolation is first seen being set up on the wing of the 3rd temple, the same signs that Christians should be watching for?
What signs did St. Paul warn every Christian to be on guard for?
How did he teach his congregations to be prepared, in order that they may make the proper, immediate response when the time comes for believers to be gathered? (And then, to be taken by Jesus Christ to the highest heaven, to meet our Holy Father God Almighty, to partake in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and to begin our awesome journey with Jesus forever.)
For example, should all living Christians at the end of the church age, which is now, expect to see the man-of-lawlessness/Antichrist sit in the third temple of God in Jerusalem declaring himself to be God? And should we expect to witness the rudimentary version of the abomination of desolation as it’s being set up in the Holy Place?
. . . Or did Jesus, in His Olivet Discourse, give to Peter, John, James and Andrew (written in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke) the information that needed to be passed on (written down) for the benefit of the ‘lost sheep of Israel’ who’ll be alive in the last days. They’re the ones who’ll need it most. They’re the future saints who’ll be in Israel witnessing the abomination of desolation when it’s first set up. They’re the ones for whom God has prepared the safe place in the mountains to which they were warned to flee. (They’ll be harvested 1,260 days after they flee.)
Important things have happened since Jesus‘ Olivet Discourse
Jesus ‘Yeshua’ the Christ/Messiah appeared in His glory to Saul of Tarsus, who was an accomplished rising Pharisee from the tribe of Benjamin, a zealot for YHWH who was murdering Christians.
On the road to Damascus:
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Galatians 1 15-16, “But when God, who had set me (St. Paul) apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles . . .”
Some time after that, our Lord Jesus Christ appeared again to Saul (St. Paul) . . .
. . . In fact, Jesus spent three years alone with him in Arabia, teaching and showing him the unspeakably awesome, holy things of heaven, in order to prepare him for his unique ministry to the gentiles. Jesus Christ gave St. Paul new information about the gathering of His church.(See the careful study on this down below at the DEEP STUDY WARNING.)
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In this fascinating passage by St. Paul, he explains why he can’t and won’t try to describe what he saw in the third heaven:
No doubt it’s not seemly for me (St Paul) to boast. Nevertheless, I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ about fourteen years ago (whether he was in the body I cannot tell, or whether he was out of the body I cannot tell, God knows) who was taken up into the third heaven.And I know the same man (whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell, God knows), . . .
… how he was taken up into Paradise and heard words not to be spoken, which no man can utter…
Of this man I will boast. Of myself I will not boast, unless it be of my infirmities. And yet if I chose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. Nevertheless, I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be, or hears from me. (2 Corinthians 12 2-6)
The Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ!
Amazingly, about 30 yrs. after St. Paul’s death, Jesus revealed much, much more to us through St. John, the beloved!
St. John received the final Revelation of Jesus Christ! It included events that St. Paul never described, such as a description of the throne room of God and the special door that Jesus was keeping open for the Church of Philadelphia to keep them from the ‘hour of trial that’s about to come upon the whole world.’ Jesus Christ Himself is The Door.
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So, it wasn’t until about 65 yrs. after the Olivet Discourse, that the churches had the full teachings of St. Paul and St. John combined. Until then it wasn’t clear that . . .
. . . there are actually three different harvests by Jesus: barley, wheat and fruit or good grapes, as well as three different although very similar watches.
The first of the main harvests will be the mysterious Open Door Harvest revealed by St. John, which will be much smaller than the Wheat Harvest. I’ve come to associate the Wheat Harvestwith St. Paul’s rapture passages. (Although it’s conceivable that St. Paul’s harvest was actually referring to Christ’s bride; If so, how will the vast number of living Tribulation Saints make it up alive to God’s throne room?)
So, perhaps the Open Door ‘Barley’ Harvest is a rapture also, just smaller one, God’s solution to the problem of the division of the church. But if so, will it also be with the shout of Jesus, the trumpet of God and angels who’ll snatch us? Small raptures have and will happen; For examples: Enoch, Elijah, Jesus and the Two Witnesses; And, St. Paul and St. John were transported to the third heaven, although in the spirit. St. John went to God’s throne room after he heard God’s words, sounding like a trumpet, say “Come up here!” Maybe that’s what we’ll hear, so let’s be ready in case it doesn’t turn out to be the exact harvest model most of us have envisioned. see below
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I’m getting ready to do a thorough comparison of:
The Wheat Harvest
vs
The Olivet Grape Harvest
But first, we need to differentiate between the Barley and the Wheat harvest of saints. St. Paul described a very serious separation taking place in the Church at Corinth, between Christ’s bride and the rest of the members.
At least with regard to the Corinthian Church that St. Paul planted, He made it clear that church members were not turning out, as a whole, to be the bride who he’d promised to one husband, Jesus Christ. The reason: they were not being as faithful as flint, but were easily tolerating false teachers:
I (Paul) am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I’m afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. (2 Corinthians 11 2-4)
This soft, yielding, unfaithful group was diverging from being Christ’s bride!
Unlike the tares who merely pretend to be believers, the Corinthians saw themselves as true believers, yet they were not guarding their faith as the thing of greatest value and as a result they easily compromised. Many of Jesus’ Kingdom Parables, given in the Gospels, demonstrate that believers will be divided into two or three groups; In retrospect, His parables were a clear indication that there would be different harvests.
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2nd Corinthians 11:4 points out those who were receiving a ‘different Jesus’ and a different spirit; The word ‘anti’ in Greek means ‘instead of’ or ‘over against.’ Think about that.Which harvest do you think the compromising members of the Church of Corinth will be a part of?
The Open Door Harvest for His Bride
or the
Wheat Harvest for His Tribulation Saints?
Does anybody actually think that Jesus Christ will accept church members who embrace an ‘anti’ Jesus as His bride? What will happen to those who are yielding to false Jesus when the true Jesus Christ comes to gather His bride?
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Will believers who’ve compromised be given a second chance?
YES!They must make up the bulk of the sixth seal tribulation saints, because why else would there be a such thing as the tribulation saints? Does anyone actuallythink Christ’s bride will be left on Earth for the climactic moments of the great tribulation? If this is not the case, then who would the Open Door Harvest of Rev 3.10 be for? I think you know the answer: It’s for Christ’s bride, because there is no one else.
The following warnings were given specifically to the watchers of the second watch, although they reflect the warnings previously given to the Jews of the third watch. And, although such details haven’t been given for the first watch, we assume these apply to the bride as well. Perhaps the bride didn’t need many direct warnings, because watching is already in her.
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(Hebrews 10:25). . . . see the day approaching.
(1 Thess.5:4)But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief.
(Rev. 3:3). But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you
the hour ὥραν (hōran) Noun – Accusative Feminine Singular Strong’s 5610: Apparently a primary word; an ‘hour’.
Tribulation Saints love to rant and rave the Rev. 3:3 verse at watchers, not realizing that all this means that we ‘should’ know at what hour He will come to us.
The bride will be covered last below. But an astonishing discovery about the bride was made! SEE post 1 mark 1.8. https://alephtav.blog/1-hisbride/
Each harvest has 3 parts: the first fruits, the owner’s portion and the gleanings:
(Leviticus 19 and 23).
Since God Almighty models His harvests of spirit/souls/saints after those 3 harvests, I’m about to compare the owner’s portion of the Olivet Fruit (or good grape) Harvest and the Pauline WheatHarvest.
Four Pauline Passages:
1 Thess. 4 16-18 “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left ‘will becaught up‘ [ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha)] together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
*It uses the word ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha), which is translated here as ‘will be caught up’ (harpatzo/rapture.) It’s a form of the Greek word harpazo and it can also mean: ‘to seize and carry off by force’:
1 Thess. 5:9 “For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Thess. 2 1-3 BLB “Now we implore you, brothers, by (or ‘on account of’)the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord (the Lord’s wrath) has already come. Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion (‘apostasy’ in Greek, which can mean both departing upward or downward of the church, see post 7) occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed . . .”
Titus 2 12-14 ” . . . and to live self-controlled, upright and Godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”
Warning! The 2 Thess. 2 verses 1-3 have been mistranslated in most modern Bibles. Please study:
1 Thess. 4:18 ” . . . therefore encourage one another with these words,
1 Thess. 5:9 “God has not appointed us to suffer wrath…,”
2 Thess. 2 1-3 On account of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering to Him ” … do not believe the allegations that …“the day of the Lord has already come,”
Titus 2 12-13 “live …while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Link to NT verses that use other grammatical forms of ἁρπαγησόμεθα
In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus tells of a LATER HARVEST . . .
. . . it’s a harvest that occurs only after the day of God’s Wrath has begun. This harvest is associated with the greatEST tribulation, which begins in Rev. 7:14
Matthew
Matt. 24 15, 21, 30-34“So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand, For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.” . . .
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. . . “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather [ἐπισυνάξουσιν (episynaxousin)] His elect from one end of the heavens to the other. Now learn this parable [παραβολήν (parabolēn)] of the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.”
Mark 13 14, 19, 26-30 “When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it doesn’t belong, because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.” . . .
. . .“At that time people will see the Son of Man in clouds with great power and glory. And He will send out the angels to gather [ἐπισυνάξει (episynagei)] his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. “Now learn this parable of the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this (fig tree) generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.”
What comes before the harvest of the Jews, but not before the harvests of the church?
God’s Wrath!
The Olivet Discourse’s Harvest is the owner’s portion of the fruit harvest: It could be olives or figs but it’s most likely‘good grapes’; It’s the harvest of the remnant of Jews, which only begins to take place 1,260 days AFTER the abomination of desolation (A.O.D.), is seen on a wing of the Temple of God. They’ll fee to the mountains where they’ll be refined like gold.
A.O.D.
The A.O.D. will be a powerful artificially intelligent idol that can speak. It will track everybody and kill anybody that doesn’t bow down to it. From the time its preliminary version appears on the holy place it’ll take about 3.5 years for its power to near completion.For example, the Starlink satellite system must be fully in place.It will have the likeness of the Beast/Antichrist.See verses below
The primary role of the False Prophet is to get people to bow down to the A.O.D. and take the Mark of the Beast. Worshiping the A.O.D. or at least showing subservience to it, is part and parcel of taking the Mark of the Beast. All this should begin soon after its initial appearance.
Scripture tells us that when the A.O.D. approaches the tipping point of its fulfillment, it’ll be aborted by Jesus Christ who’ll destroy it. Jesus Christ is the shine on God our Heavenly Father’s glory. In this way He’ll consummate God our Holy Father’s plan to bring to conclusion the 6,000 years that God has allotted for mankind to do things its own way, according to God’s particular way of reckoning time.(Explained in post 4.)
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A recapping of the Olivet Good Grape Harvest with an eye on the A.O.D.
The Olivet passages build up an outline to the Day of the Lord’s wrath, which begins when the Antichrist sits in the Holy of Holies and the setup of the A.O.D. is initiated.
Daniel 9:27 reveals timing information that the Olivet Discourse does not, especially when combined with the Daniel verses that imply that 3.5 years will pass from the initial ‘coming out’ of the A.O.D. until its cup of wickedness is full. The reason God allows such an abominable creation of darkness to fulminate, is because it represents the culmination of mankind’s wickedness. It’s important that it be put on display, for all the intelligent inhabitants of the universe to see, so they can comprehend its evil and fully understand the glory of God Almighty in destroying it. All God’s family will rejoice with one righteous voice – a universal extravaganza of praise, unmatched since its creation, In the name of Jesus Christ! Amen!
Soulless Habsora AI Targeting “The Gospel”. Big Data, FallenAI, Connectivity. War With The Saints
Habsora is the name of Israel’s most powerful AI entity. Its ultimate purpose may be to destroy the Gospel of Jesus Christ.It might even morph into the A.O.D..
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AI’s have already been rewriting some of the online Bibles More recently and they’ve been announcing that they’ll take over all sacred texts.
Now AI’s have built their own social network, language and religion called the Church of Molt. ‘Molting’ is what snakes and scorpions do when they shed their skins.
God’s destruction of the A.O.D. will be followed by God’s final judgement on the Beast and False prophet. They’ll go to the place God created for satan and the fallen angels. It’s an eternity of complete separation from Himself and every good thing that He once provided them. It’s a place called the ‘Lake of Fire.’ It’s a place of burning and never quenching, where also the worm will never cease!
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For my coverage on this, see post 4. The Countdown:
The Abomination of Desolation’s Initiation to its Completion and Destruction-two translations:
Daniel 12 11-12 (Lexham English Septuagint 1st ed.) From when the sacrifice is taken away, during all that time, and when the abomination causing desolation was prepared to be set up, one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is the one who stands fast and makes it to one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. Daniel 12 11-12 NIV From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
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The day counts from Daniel 12 are key, along with the Revelation day counts, for timing the events of the last seven years of God’s plan for this age. There are 1,260 days from the time the A.O.D. set up begins and Jesus Christ’s harvest of the Jews. There are 1,290 days from the time the daily sacrifices are interrupted until the A.O.D. is destroyed by Jesus Christ. If the A.O.D. setup begins on the very same day that the sacrifices and oblations are disrupted, then it will be destroyed exactly 30 days after the Jews are harvested.
The Jewish remnant will flee as soon as soon they see the A.O.D. standing on the holy place.
According to Rev. 12, God Almighty will protect them in a mountain safe place for 1,260 days. That’s the setup for the Olivet or Good Grape Harvest, which is the harvest of the remnant Jews, which can only take place 1,260 days later. I doubt they’ll be able to keep track of time under those conditions, but during that time God will refine them!
Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom …
. . . may officially begin immediately after Jesus Christ harvests the main grape harvest of the Jews, but probably not until 30 days later after He completely annihilates the A.O.D., or even more likely, in my opinion, 45 days after that (Daniel 12 & Zech. 14 2-4) when Jesus completes the sheep and goat judgment of the nations at the Valley of Jehoshaphat. That would match with the 1,335 days after the daily sacrifices will be aborted.
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The Fig Tree Generation is the Set Time Limit
Talking about timing, there’s a timestamp in the Olivet Discourse. It’s the Fig Tree Generation! In Matt. 24:32 Jesus said, “Now learn this Parable of the Fig Tree“. . .
The parable shows that sometime, appx. 7 or 8 decades after the revived nation of Israel puts forth its tender shoots, all the things described in the Olivet Discourse will have happened. The countdown most likely started from the day God reestablished Israel as a nation in 1948, dramatically fulfilling prophesy! It fits all my calculations ever since I came to understood that August 9, 2024 (Nisan 1), the day after the Great American Eclipse, was the first day of the final 7 years.
Again there are 3 main harvests- barley,wheat and fruit or good grapes. The Olivet Discourse and Daniel 12:1 refer to the last one, the fruit or good grapes. (It could be olives but grapes seem to fit best.)
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Three Harvests, each with three parts:
The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hell, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when “He took captivity captive.”And, my interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second one is the grapes of wrath.
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Although Jesus didn’t mention the resurrection of the dead in His Olivet Discourse, it must be the event described here: (I only mention it because its timing is more proof that the Olivet Harvest is the Fruit Harvest of the Jews!)
Daniel 12 1-2 “At that time Michael, the great prince (archangel) who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But, at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Finally, the Triumphant Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ begins!
Jesus Christ Has Drawn His Messianic signature over America!
A WARNING to America.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Rev. 1:8
“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Rev. 22)https://youtube.com/shorts/7ZWrd_tRL2c?si=H8wh9ys9eIBM3EhP
April 8, 2024
On April 8, 2024, the third and final rare total solar eclipse shadow track of Jesus Christ’s Messianic signature completed, shortly before sunset. It began with the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, which darkened 7 American cities named Salem, followed by the second leg, an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023.
CERN Scientist: “Something Came Through from Another Dimension” (on April 8 ’24 AD)
The ancient ALEPH-TAV is a sign, to the USA and to the world. It seems to point us to a number of specific messages from God. I’ll get to the rest below, but the most important thing is that: It’s Christ’s Messianic signature:
The Greek version of the Aleph and the Tav is the Alpha and the Omega (ΑΩ).
The map at the top of this post shows the Aleph Tav as it appears from a birds eye view. But, for all the people in the USA looking up at it, the Aleph Tav was seen with the aleph on the right side. Hebrew’s written from right to left.
Note: On the cover of the book, the letter ‘aleph’ is shown pointing to the left. That’s arbitrary; Just as often, aleph is portrayed pointing in every other direction – up down, to the right even at angles.
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Revelation 22:13, Jesus said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End”
But, in paleo-Hebrew
Aleph:
Tav:
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The Alpha and the Omega is The Aleph and the Tav
Koine Greek vs Paleo Hebrew Alphabet
God’s sign used the paleo Hebrew alphabet:
In Hebrew the aleph-tav was all throughout scripture, over 7,000 times, but the scribes eventually removed it, because they didn’t know it was their Messiah’s special signature. All they knew was that it wasn’t a word.
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This is what Jesus Christ’s messianic signature looks like when paleo-Hebrew is replaced with modern square Hebrew characters.
The first time it appears in the true scripturesis as the fourth ‘word’ (not exactly a word.)
An excerpt from an unadulterated manuscript of Isaiah 2.
Isaiah 2 20-21
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aleph tav
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vav aleph tav
The letter vav means ‘and’.
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It started with the ‘aleph’ part of Christ’s signature, the northern leg followed by the southern leg; Then, on April 8, 2024, the final leg crossed them both, from southwest to northeast, completing both the Aleph and the Tav, which overlapped. And there were 3 crosses. The first one’s not clearly shown on most maps because it’s a bit off the (coastline). Under each cross was a major fault: First the Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing 9+ earthquakes and tsunamis, second the Balcones Fault Line, which is primarily in Texas, and finally the center of the great X, the New Madrid Fault Line, which is capable of producing ‘8’ scale earthquakes.
San Andreas FUSE LIT ? Why Today’s 6.1 Earthquake Has Seismologists Terrified ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4fzNfVzhNk (This is huge, it can even reach the Cascadia fault.)
Using these eclipse shadows, our Savior Messiah wrote His ancient Messianic signature completely across the USA, right to left, when looking up at it from below.
Toward the geometric center of the great X across America, zooming down, first we enter a place called ‘Little Egypt’ that’s mostly in Southern Illinois and seems to center on Carbondale. Going further also reveals a town called ‘Rapture’ Indiana. It’s about 80 miles to the east of Carbondale, the only place named Rapture in the world; It’s an unincorporated community in Posey County. And, although it’s in Indiana, it’s near the border and is considered by some to be part of Little Egypt, which was an American Coptic Christian settlement.
The sharp image below makes it possible to see the tip of Indiana, where the town called Rapture is located in the path of the total eclipse!
The Zones
Now that’s very impressive symbolism reminiscent of the Exodus from Egypt!
Not long ago, the United States of America was God’s most faithful nation on Earth, since the New Covenant was made in the blood of Jesus Christ. That’s why the USA received this special warning regarding its fall from grace. About 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ used St. Paul to document the prophesy that the ‘end time church’ would become apostate and it turns out to apply disproportionately to the USA. Once blessed because of its faith and degree of righteousness, the USA has the most to lose, and although slipping fast, the USA was still holding on to a significant part of its strength and comfortable position among other nations at the time of the eclipse. Therefore, it’s fitting that the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week, which affects the whole world, would begin with this sign. (See post 4 for the completed calendar puzzle of the main end time prophesies.)
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Now about timing:
At sunset on the day of completion of the third eclipse, the first day of the year on God’s Torah calendar began. It’s Nisan 1, 2024 ADT. That’s exactly 7 Great Jubilee Cycles (490 yrs each), plus 40 – 7 years from the day God gave Moses the calendar.
That makes it the first day of Daniel’s 70th week, the final 7 year period before Jesus Christ begins His Millennial Kingdom. (See post 4. The Countdown)
God’s prescribed calendar most likely began on Nisan 1, 1440 BC! (Originally called Abib, it’s the month of Passover, Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.) see:
Back to the details of how exactly the Aleph Tav marked America:
The path of the August 21, 2017 leg of the Great American Eclipses, darkened seven cities named Salem. Maps seem to show that those were all in the path of totality. Salem means ‘peace’ and of course it points to Jerusalem. God has written Jerusalem on the palm of His hands (Isaiah 49:15); So this sign shouldn’t be ignored! There were also many Salem cities darkened on the 2024 leg.
The path of the April 8th 2024 leg of the Great American Eclipses, darkened at least seven cities named Nineveh. Two were completely in the path of totality, one was on its edge, and the remaining four were the next zone, with the ‘darker’ ones being Pennsylvania and New York. The percentages listed below are just estimates I made after studying quite a few maps. Clearly this is a warning for America to repent.
2017 – Salem x 7 Salem, Oregon Salem, Idaho Salem, Wyoming Salem, Nebraska Salem, Missouri Salem, Kentucky Salem, South Carolina
2024 – Nineveh x 7 Jonah, Texas (100%) Nineveh, Texas (98%) Nineveh, Missouri (85%) Nineveh, Indiana (100%) Nineveh, Ohio (100%) Nineveh, Pennsylvania (95%) Nineveh, Virginia (85%) Nineveh, New York (95%)
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Nineveh was probably the world’s most corrupt city. It was actually first established by Nimrod. But, God sent Jonah to them to prophesy their total destruction in 40 days if they didn’t repent. Amazingly they repented! God seems to have been saying with His aleph tav sign, that the USA is like Nineveh, and that it has entered the beginning of the end of itself. As I see it, a good number of ‘worldly Christians’ may have listened to the warning and gotten right with God, but the USA as a whole . . . I’m sorry . . . I don’t want to say it…
Urgent March 15 ’25 addendum:
Each one of these three eclipses is also individually associated with quite a few other prophetic events, especially those surrounding Purim 2024-2025 ADT (2025-2026 AD).The following is just a heads up; the main Ester/Purim study is in Post 1.
Some of us began keeping our eyes peeled starting with the entire month of the Jewish holiday Purim 2024 ADT (’25 AD); And following that time, we tracked the repercussions of the main event, which happened on Purim proper. Then we kept watching as the entire story modeled by the Book of Ester, which is a foreshadowing of the very end times, was and is still being played out. Although the crosshairs were centered on the March 14-15 ’25 Purim festival of the Jews, the scope of the Purim story continues beyond the Passover season. As expected, megalithic events in the world, leading to Jesus’ gathering His bride, have begun to take place.
The Purim (lunar) Eclipse Changes Everything Part 2:
Before I present a timeline of events that have happened since the April 8 2024 solar eclipse across America, I just want to first make note of the Los Angeles fires. (I’ll resist adding much about the near martial law ICE situation and National Guard deployment in 14 states, etc.)
As mentioned, Jesus Christ’s Messianic signature, the AlephTav, can be symbolically interpreted as the beginning of the end of America. (Even the way the Aleph overlays the Tav, supports this view.) Once the world’s most holy and blessed nation. America has become, perhaps, the world’s greatest exporter of sin.
Jan. ’25 addendum, God’s destruction of Los Angeles
For more on America’s role in Mystery Babylon, see:
Running news updates on key happenings since the April 8, 2024 eclipse: Starting SIX Days Later . . .
April 14 (6 days after 4/8/24) In the early hours of the morning, Iran attacked Israel with approximately 300 munitions, drones and large missiles!The United States helped Israel intercept them, downing almost all Iran launched attack drones, but vowed not to be involved in any offensive maneuvers.
April 19 (11 days after 4/8/24) Israel fired a missile directly into Iran!
April 24 (16 days after 4/8/24) US senate passed a bill – 26 billion dollars will go to Israel!
May 9 (31 days after 4/8/24) America paused weapon shipments because of concern they’d be used in a major way against the city Rafah – probably in response to student protests.
June 6 (59 days after 4/8/24) Netanyahu vowed to claim all of Jerusalem.
June 8 (61 days after 4/8/24) Four Israeli hostages were rescued by a raid into Gaza; Biden cease fire talks started and are dragging on as the ‘Palestinians’ resist.
June 11 (64 days after 4/8/24) Four Russian warships including a nuclear submarine are passing by 200 miles off coast of Florida, on the way to Cuba.
June 12 (65 days after 4/8/24) Hezbollah fired 200 rockets into Israel.
August 1 (116 days after 4/8/24) The top Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, who was central to the group’s high-stakes negotiations and diplomacy, was killed in Iran’s capital.
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August 2 (117 days after 4/8/24) Iran has vowed to retaliate for last week’s killing of Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader in Tehran.
August 3(118 days after 4/8/24) U.S. deploys ships and fighter jets to Middle East as Israel braces for Iran attack.
August 8 (123 days after 4/8/24) In the US, Donald Trump is trying to mediate a ‘pact’ between Saudi Arabia, and Israel. They say it’s based on the Abraham Accords but Israel’s acceptance of a component calling for an “irreversible” pathway to a Palestinian State would be key.
August 13 (128 days after 4/8/24) As Israel-Iran conflict looms, US sends nuclear submarine, strike group to Middle East.
August 13-14Is Tisha B’Av/The 9th of Av (evening-to-daylight portions), the historical day of disasters and mourning for the Jews.
I’m stopping this list here, except where it directly regards the main point: the ‘Dividing of God’s Land.’
Dividing God’s Land – the place where He has chosen to put His name:
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Joel 3
In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Bring down your warriors, Lord!“Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side. Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!“
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine. The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
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But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.” Isaiah 49 14-16
While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them.Then he (King Solomon) said: “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For He said,‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.” (2 Chronicles 6 3-6)
Luke 1:30-33 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” (Mary’s lineage descends from David through Nathan.)
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From the previous list: August 8 (123 days after 4/8/24): In the US, Donald Trump was trying to mediate a ‘pact’ between Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
They were saying it would be based on the Abraham Accords, but that Israel’s acceptance of a component calling for an “irreversible” pathway to a Palestinian Statewould be key.” It was thought that it may come to be called the Abraham Alliance.
The image belowis from a new billboard in Tel Aviv.
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But, Jesus said,
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” John 8:56
“An ‘irreversible’ pathway to a Palestinian State would be key”!
Look at what happened, but not via the Abraham Accords pt.2!
9/13/25 Update: The UN General assembly approved, on Sept. 9 ’25, a resolution, pushed by France and Saudi Arabia, which also supports the advancement of an “irreversible” path to Palestinian statehood! In fact some nations were already trying to treat Palestine as a nation of which they consider East Jerusalem to be its capitol! Woe to them!
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This was confirmed on Sept. 22-23 ’25 at the UN General Assembly, by 160 nations. It’s interesting that Trump was supporting the ultimate division of God’s land as long as it was through the Abraham Accords, but opposed it when the UN decided to force it on Israel, while calling it peace.
On Sept. 23rd ’25 Trump made his biggest rhetorical speech at the UN, then 77 nations walked out as Netanyahu approached the podium to give his speech:
But then, things changed fast. Netanyahu met with Trump in the US while the people in Gaza were being more and more confined to a small piece of land in the south east, and Jared Kushner’s 20 point plan was partially adopted, seemingly the first step in replacing the UN model. Israel accepted all the terms but Hamas only accepted phase 1, which included the release of the dead and living hostages (Oct. 13 ’25) after Israel’s partial withdrawal. Then Israel released their 2,000 prisoners!
And now it seems that many Muslim nations will be jointly ‘managing’ the Gaza strip with Trump overseeing it.
A better thing about this Israel-Gaza Peace Plan, which is the 20 point plan, signed on 10/9 ’25, is that instead of an irreversible pathway to a Palestinian State, it states a ‘conditional’ pathway; But the bad thing is that Israel still loses control of the land; And to whom? Of all people, to many Muslim nations! That’s the same land it just won back in a war that was forced on them by Islamic hatred!
Finally some common sense!
‘Gaza is ours’ – Israeli minister denounces Trump plan, calls to shutdown US army base in Israel
Update: The bits have flipped again! On Nov. 17 ’25, the UN Security Council has now adopted Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza. Yes, they’re actually calling it that, and also The American Resolution. It’s based on the 20 point plan.
Woe to America! The rhetoric tries to make a Palestinian State seem distant, but as with the 20 point plan, this resolution upholds a path to it, although with conditions; Until then Gaza will be controlled by enemies posing as peacekeepers. In a way Gaza has been given over to the world. It’s starting to sound like the Isaiah 28 14-18 prophesy of the ‘covenant with death’, but Israel must agree . . .
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On Feb. 11 ’26 Netanyahu signed on to the Board of Peace; That must be it!
“Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. You boast, ‘We have struck a bargain to cheat death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. The coming destruction can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception.‘” Isaiah 28 14-18
I think this is the covenant with death.
Leviticus 12:32 (God said) “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.”
Powers of the last Hour
Something to keep in mind about Daniel 9:27 is that it’s been questioned by some, as to whether the ‘prince who is to come’ is really the little-big horn (Antichrist/Beast). It seems very likely, but questioning it made me honestly consider that there’s also the Mystery Babylon side of the ‘powers of the last hour.’ And, the ‘prince who is to come’ could even be one of the original ten horns of the fourth Beast of Daniel 7. He could even be one of the many false messiahs Jesus warned us about.
He originally shared that video on his ‘Truth Social Account.’ I do think Donald Trump’s being used by God in some ways, but there’s no second prophesy in the Bible for an anointed (messianic) gentile leader to facilitate the rebuilding of God’s Temple, as there was for King Cyrus; That doesn’t mean he won’t build it anyway. There’ve been many false messiah’s, since Jesus’ time, just as Jesus strongly warned in His Olivet Discourse.
Matt. 24:4, Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.” (‘Christ’ means ‘Messiah’ which means ‘One Anointed by God’.)
And, in November I discovered that, he supposedly posted this on Truth Social.
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It’s about QAnon. Do you see the big eye with a pyramid under it over his head?
I could certainly be wrong, but I don’t think Trump completely qualifies to be the Beast/Antichrist/man of lawlessness/son of perdition.
It’s farfetched, while at the same time, he seems to be barrelling in that direction. So, I can’t say it’s impossible, as we’re living in ludicrous times. Unlike King Charles III, He doesn’t have the ancestral lineage, as a supposed descendant of King David, etc.. (see post 13) Having read the Old Testament for decades, the last thing I would’ve ever imagined is that the Jews would believe a man that has zero Jewish ancestry is their Messiah; And, icing on the cake, someone who brags about his German ancestry!
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Also, Trump hasn’t been metaphorically riding the white horse of the first seal, representing false peace – carrying a bow with no arrow! Trump has been representing false peace and war at the same time! He has an arrow in his bow; He’s renamed the Department of Defense, ‘The War Department.’
Nevertheless, he’s likely to play a major role toward getting the 3rd temple of God built in Jerusalem as part of Abraham Accords pt.2, or whatever they decide to call the next or final Trump mediated agreement.
On the 9th of Av 2025: Thousands of religious Jews prayed on Temple Mount and were not killed or harassed! Flags with the image of the 3rd temple have shown up all around Israel, many in Judea and Samaria! It’s coming! On Jan, 13 ’26, Netanyahu threw his weight behind it allowing fully prostrated Jewish prayer on the temple mount.
Many believers know how it’ll all end. Praying for peace really means praying for God’s plan to be forwarded, for justice to be done and for Jesus Christ’s righteous rule to begin. Jesus Christ is the ‘Prince of Peace.’ Please don’t pray against God by aligning your prayers with the ‘false peace’ of the world.
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you!” Psalm 122:6
Contents:Introduction to Book of Ester-mark 1.13, High Watches-mark 1.15 – 1.28, Nuclear-Ester Watch – mark 1.35-1.45
Jesus said,to the Church of Philadelphia
“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.” . . . Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.” Rev. 3 8-10
We, the bride, are waiting for our Lord and Bridegroom Jesus Christ to take us through His opened self. He promised to keep Himself open for the Church of Philadelphia!
TheBrideof Christmay be nearly synonymous with theChurch of Philadelphia.
Are there any brick and mortar churches existing now that’d receive as good of a report as the original Church of Philadelphia, as recorded by St. John in the Book of Revelation?
The end of the Church Age is rapidly approaching and there’s a type of apostasy, the rebellious type, (the other being the physical departure of true believers) about which Jesus Christ prophesied, that’s heavily upon us. Since Jesus specifically promised to keep the Church of Philadelphia from the ‘hour of trial’ that’s coming upon all the inhabitants of Earth, an end time only phenomenon, Jesus must have meant for the original Church of Philadelphia to be a model for future believers to follow.
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Modeling Ourselves
We need to avoid the pitfalls pointed out by Jesus Christ to 5 of the remaining 6 church types described in Rev. 2-3. Separating ourselves from worldliness accomplishes most of that. And we must produce fruit, especially the fruit of faith, and never deny His holy name. Also, we need to have some sort of ministry, no matter how small, using whatever method God makes available to us: We must be the light of the world!
Can’t find a church that acknowledges the times we’re in?
Online communities are real, and can be the best communities for some people. There are many Berean and watcher communities to interact with where we can edify and sometimes correct each other. But, we should also seek out local believers, if possible, with whom we can take communion, to remember what He did for us by sharing the same loaf and cup.
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TheNew Testament Epilogue
“And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him-that-heareth say “Come!” And let him-that-is-athirst come.And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book: And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book, He who testifies to these things say, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
Revelation 22:17
Notice that, in the New Heavens and the New Earth Jesus doesn’t use the term ‘church’ or ‘body’ to address His redeemed people. Instead He calls His redeemed: the bride, those who hear and those who are thirsty!
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The Church of Philadelphia may be the most mature part of His body in the very last days, those not requiring the tribulum.
The Church of Philadelphia clearly seems to be the owner’s portion of our Lord and Savior‘s Barley Harvest of souls – His Bride. (Rev. 2-3) The idea of the removal of the Church of Philadelphia, from the body-of-Christ, through His ‘open door,’ which is Himself, can be likened to the removal of something from Adam’s side, a part of Adam’s body; That happened in the Garden of Eden, and from it Adam’s wife was formed.
It’s been put forth by fellow Bereans, that being counted as the ‘bride’ of Christ’ is a reward and that the ‘Open Door Harvest’ is part of it. What do you think?
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Examples of Rewards
Colossians 3: 23-24
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
Mark 9:41
“For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.”
2 Timothy 4:8
Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
It makes sense that it’d be a reward to be kept from the great tribulation.
Not All Believers Are Kept From It
There’s an uncountable number of saints who will come out-of/from the great tribulation (not God’s wrath, which is the greatest tribulation)after a quarter of humanity has perished at the sixth seal. Rev. 7:11, And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation …”
That’s the opposite of being kept out-of/from the great tribulation. Rev. 3:8, “I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”
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LET’S COMPARE THE TWO GROUPS AGAIN – IT’S SUBTLE
The Open Door Harvest is the owner’s portion of the Barley Harvest of Revelation 3:8
“Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will keep you from the ‘hour of testing.'”
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TheSixth Seal Harvest as the owner’s portion of the Wheat Harvest ofRevelation 7:13
“they came from the ‘great tribulation’ they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
The first group is kept from/out of it and the second group came from/out of it, after 1/4 of humanity died.
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The Bible is quite Mysterious about Christ’s Bride
Although Rev. 3: 7-13, doesn’t directly refer to the Church of Philadelphia as His bride, she very much seems to be. As mentioned above, it’d be that she’s taken ‘out of’ the body-of-Christ as Adam’s wife was taken ‘out of’ Adam’s body. If that’s the case, it would happen before the ‘hour of testing’ that’s about to come upon the whole world!
Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong (worthy) enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21:36)
Could the bridesmaids be the remainder of the body of Christ?
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 9:9)
I ask . . .who’s invited to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb besides His bride? The Parable of the 10 Virgins/Bridesmaids comes to mind. It says all ten fell asleep. Where’s the bride?
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Is the bride of Christ made up of the believers who didn’t fall asleep, those who were watching intently and keeping their garments clean?
I’ve heard other watchers suggest this. One thing that the bride-of Christ and the Open Door Harvest of the Church of Philadelphia have in common is: They’re both mysterious.
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Update 9-9-25 – I just found out that the older – Peshitta versions of Matthew 25:1 include the bride! So the bridesmaids aren’t the bride after all!
(Etheridge) THEN shall be likened the kingdom of heaven unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
(Lamsa) THEN the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to greet the bridegroom and the bride.
(Murdock) Then may the kingdom of heaven be shadowed forth by ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and bride.
Although the uncountable number of Tribulation Saints of Rev. 7 aren’t referred to as the church, the bride, or the body; they must be the main part of the body. To look deeper into this, see:
The body of Christ is harvested at different times, just as the head is part of the body and Jesus Christ went up first.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruit; afterward they that are Christ’s. 1 Corinthians 15 21-23
Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 1 Corinthians 12:14
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Reminder:
AlephTav.blog uses the vantage point that the time period called the ‘great tribulation’ in Rev. 7:14 at the sixth seal, precedes God’s Wrath. That’s why I call the ‘wrath of God’ the ‘greatEST tribulation,’ to avoid confusion:
For then there will be great tribulation such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. (Matt. 24:21)
By contrast, there’ve been many great tribulations, such as the genocide of Armenian Christians (1.2-2 million martyred) by the Turks, just 100 yrs ago; The sixth seal is worse, but it is still one of those; In Matt. 24, Jesus was talking about the greatEST one that comes after it.
The Open Door Harvest is the Owner’s Portion of the Barley Harvest
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. . . just one part of multiple harvests of the saints . . .
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Based on a AD 31 crucifixion date, we’re running out of time. The Fig Tree Generation, the 3 day Sign of Jonah . . .
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matt. 12:40)
. . .and the Ezekiel 40 Year Siege Sign (using inclusive, or exclusive, counting, depending on the year, from the cross to the destruction of the 2nd temple of God.) A 31 AD crucifixion is the best prophetic fit overall, with the Daniel 9:27 prophetic timeline. Christ’s second coming, will probably be on Nisan 1, the first day of 2031 ADT (Torah); That’s very early in 2031 AD. The possibilities are narrowing drastically. There’s very powerful evidence that a timeline has come together.
In 2024-25 AD/ADT, many watchers thoroughly studied all of God’s ‘appointed times’ plus quite a few other seemingly likely times when Jesus Christ may have harvested His bride; Our doing so glorifies Him. His name is above all names and in the process, we discovered how deeply and widely the entire Bible points to His coming.
Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) 2023 was my first ever high watch, but I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on learning about the Biblical typologies that underlie all the other high watches, while awaiting the great day of our blessed hope!
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Traditions of Men vs Living Revelation(This video explains the three harvests in greatest detail and will clarify the foundation of the timing scheme we’re about to delve into. )
From every direction, and from various calendars, the arrows have been drawing together, pointing to the likelihood that the King of kings’ will harvest His bride from late 2025 up to the halfway point of 2026 ADT(Torah). It’s to His greater glory if we fully appreciate that His appearance will occur after His promised tarry because of the multitude of amazing signs He left for us along the trail!
I deduce that His tarry may have actually been in two parts, the first part at the Midnight Cry Event and the last part extending from what would’ve been the appointed time for the fulfillment of God’s Barley Harvest, which could’ve begun at the fulfillment of the 2026 Barley Harvest, but I’ve been tracking it from a 2025 AD Barley Harvest fulfillment. The reason I didn’t jump track was that there was such an extraordinary number of mind blowing bread crumbs/stepping stones on the track we were already on, and that even if the second part of His tarry is more that a year long, the trail hasn’t run dry at all! And all this fell under something I call the ‘Ester Umbrella.’ Read on to see some of the many layers of meaning.
~The Prophetic Book of Ester~
In the prelude post, I introduced something I call the ‘Ester Umbrella’(or scope). Here’s another intro. as well as the main Book of Ester discussion; It may be nuclear. See below at mark 1.35-1.45.
Ester foreshadows the bride of Christ: And, Purim is the festival celebrating the historical events recorded in the Book of Ester. It’s been celebrated every year by Jews for the past ~2,500 years. The Ester Umbrella isn’t recurring. God’s has anchored it in these end times by three heavenly blood moon witnesses – signs that occurred in the cosmos three years in a row, with the central one pointing to Purim March 14, 2025AD when something huge happened – the trigger. explained below
And those who have insight will shine like the glow of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)
There’s ample evidence that the signs of the grand finale of God Almighty’s plan are converging even faster that expected!
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God Almighty sets the dates. We watch as Jesus Christ commanded us to; But it’s impossible to watch without paying attention to calendars. We focus on upcoming high watches more than later ones, because we don’t want to be caught unaware; It’s a bit like driving a car – a nearer mountain can partially occlude the ones behind it. So we pins dates to stay organized as we focus on each ‘high watch’ like crosshairs of a larger target. The crosshairs don’t necessarily land on the bullseye. That’s nearly impossible, since with time zones, it takes 48 hours for any day to complete everywhere. It’s also difficult to reconcile the many calendars, but studying them greatly improves Biblical knowledge.
There’ve been quite a few high watches that have already fallen ‘under the Ester umbrella,’ which will continue to be our scope, until the third temple’s built. If we’re still here after that (doubtful), then the remaining Torah appointed holy convocations that God promised to fulfill, will take precedence.There’s a list of those watches at the end of this post.
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Before we get started on what the main high watch days of this year’s complex study is boiling down to, by following the trail we’ve been on for a little over year to its conclusion, let me interject that we also watched other dates, such as May 23-24 ’26 AD, because it was the date of Rabbinical Shavuot/Pentecost ’26 AD/ADT; The state of the world required us not to ignore it.
And although that was off our main trail, because we’ve been favoring a ‘month delayed’ Pentecost, over the Rabbinical version, it’s also possible that both calendars are being used by God; Each has its leap year months appended to different years, so the two calendars line up in some years and are 30 days off in other years.
It’s also conceivable that 2026 AD is the Barley Harvest bride year; If so we jumped the gun by a year! But I don’t think so because of how it all fell together perfectly. . .
The Rabbinical Feast of Trumpets dates in 2023 and 2024 were of great prophetic import, and so was the tail end of the Great American Eclipses, which concluded on the hour before Nisan 1 ’24 ADT, the first day of the new year on God’s Torah calendar. Nisan 1 ’24 ADT began the final week-of-years of this age.
The Rabbinical calendar really did seem to be in alignment with God’s calendar on those 3 occasions. But again, 2025 is the year in which I think God’s Torah calendar was likely delayed by a month, as compared with the Rabbinical calendar, based on many signs. I’m about to show some of the signs here and in the links below. Despite the many signs that fell inline with the delayed year, the Trump UN speech on Rabbinical Feast of Trumpets was very significant and probably highly prophetic; In fact, that was possibly the day Jesus Christ broke the fourth seal of the scroll of the Deed to the Earth. So there is an example of the divergence of the two calendars; Both seem to have signs associated with them; Again, Almighty God could be using both calendars simultaneously to His own good purpose. That concept was proposed by C.J. Lovik; And as mentioned above, it might have something to do with the underling cause of the mysterious extra 30 days added to the end of this age (Daniel 12:11).
Highlights of High Watches Based on a ‘Delayed Torah year’
Although the following dates might seem self explanatory, some of us might want to read about how they were derived in such a way that it was not necessary to diverge from the trail we started on. That’s because the whole process along the entire trail, was like a treasure hunt. Even the cul-de-sacs, scooped up additional elements of meaning that contributed to Jesus Christ’s glory, showing how He may have written His redeemed people into His story in such a way that gives us insight into our collective selves.
But that’s not for everyone. . .
. . . To see the highest watch of all time, scroll to mark 1.26 to 1.27!
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June 10th-11th ’26 AD was Ascension Day of the delayed 2026 ADT!
June 20th-21st ’26 AD? is Pentecost of the delayed 2026 ADT!
About Shavuot/Pentecost
Shavuot/Pentecost was the first high watch under the Ester Umbrella. Shavuot/Pentecost is God’s appointed time for focusing on the ‘first fruits’ of the Wheat Harvest, but more importantly for the bride of Christ, it also marks the ‘fulfillment’ of the Barley Harvest. There were two possible months in which Shavuot/Pentecost could have occurred in 2025, one following a leap month year and one not.(The gleanings of the Barley Harvest could be martyred in the year after that since the Great Tribulation/4th-Horseman-of-the-Apocalypse must happen before Jesus Christ gathers His tribulation saints.)
Wait a minute? But, wasn’t Shavuot/Pentecost fulfilled in the year of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection and ascension?
Shavuot/Pentecost may have been only partially fulfilled then for two possible reasons: 1. It’s a pilgrimage holy convocation; The Holy Spirit who came down to indwell the saints on Shavuot/Pentecost, must make the return trip to heaven with the saints. 2. Some think since Jesus wasn’t physically on Earth at the original Pentecost that He couldn’t have fulfilled it then.
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Note: If there was no leap year delay, Shavuot/Pentecost 2025, would’ve been on June 7-8. But, if Jesus considered it to be a delayed barley (bride) maturity year, God’s entire calendar will have been pushed forward a month, in which case, Shavuot/Pentecost would’ve been on July 7-8 ’25, in His eyes.Before the Israelites corrupted God’s calendar, there‘d always been an extra month added before the start of a new Torah year whenever Spring had not sprung and barley was not mature (green) enough.
If Shavuot/Pentecost was ‘the pre-tarry target day’ for the rapture of His barley harvest bride, then we’re now deep into Jesus Christ’s tarry. About what I mentioned above, that His tarry may have two parts, See posts ΑΩ.Aleph Tav Christ’s Sign! & 3.The Midnight Cry Event.
Reborn in the spirit believers, making up Christ’s bride, will be greatly blessed with glorified bodies to become the ‘living stones’ of God’s living temple; And the sudden disappearance of the core of Christ’s church (His bride) is likely to be the most direct trigger for the Jews to rebuildthe masonry temple of God in Jerusalem. I’ve predicted that it could be rededicated by the religious Jews, even as soon as two months after the ‘true church’ is gone and the ‘left behind church’ collapses.
There’s been a anomaly in the Schumann Resonance, a unique sign, unlike anything that God’s been known to send before. It seems to indicate that there was something very special going on regarding Hanukkah in 2025 ADT(Torah). Rabbis are using March 19 ’26AD as their Nisan 1 ’26 ADT, which is the first day of their Spring. But, by continuing with the leap year schedule that this post has been following, Nisan 1 ’26 ADT won’t occur until April 18-19 ’26AD, (If the moon sliver is occluded, April 20-21 at the latest), in God’s eyes. That has very interesting ramifications. keep reading . . .
The Menorah represents God’s Covenant People
It shows the burning Holy Spirit’s light in the betrothal relationship, which for the Jews, is mediated mainly through the Levitical priesthood; But a portion of the Holy Spirit lives directly inside true Christians, and Yeshua Hamashiach (the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ) is our High Priest.
From the Cumiana VLF Station in Italy. SR Charts on November 21st 2025 at 8:18 PM eastern.
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN? HANUKKAH MENORAH IN THE SCHUMANN RESONANCE
For all reasons shown,I folded a 2024 ADT (Torah)leap year month into the date calculations of my ‘Final Week Date Estimates Chart’ at the bottom of post 4. The chart is for the final seven years of God’s 6,000 allotment for humanities rebellion.If it turns out not to be the case, a month can be subtracted and the chart dates can be adjusted. Doing so may slightly decrease precision.
The Hanukkah connection is thoroughly explained below at mark 1.32.
Remember: God also has an unfaithful Old Covenant Bride
As mentioned, the 3rd temple of God is likely to go up with amazing speed after Jesus Christ redeems His bride. Then the menorah’s flames in the new masonry temple will begin again to reflect the condition of the Old Testament betrothal relationship.
Although God our Father, YHWH, had the right to legally divorce her, the Books of Hosea and Ezekiel only tell us that He’ll completely cut Himself off from her – all of her – meaning both the Northern and the Southern Kingdoms, for 2,000 yrs; After, that He’ll take her back, but not in her former condition; The Northern Kingdom will have never nationally repented, and they disgraced YHWH’s Holy Name in the countries to which they were exiled. But, YHWH will wash them clean and give them new hearts. He’ll also put His Holy Spirit in them. They won’t have glorified immortal bodies in the Millennium like the saints of Christ’s grain harvests or the repentant Jews of the Good Grape Harvest. With the exception of the individuals who repented, to the best of my understanding, they’ll serve Him in His masonry temple in Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom for 1,000 years, in shame. (Still much better that eternal burning.)
But alas, 2025 ADT may have been a double Hanukkah year!
Recap: If you’ve been reading this post, you know that 2025 ADT(Torah) has been strongly suspected to have followed a leap year in God’s accounting. If so, every festival was observed a month prematurely by Rabbinical Jews. That opened the way for two Hanukkah date intervals this year, since the Jews observed Hanukkah in December. God never actually prescribed Hanukkah, which means dedication. It’s the Jewish memorial of the re- dedication of their preexisting temple after it was thoroughly cleansed, following having been terribly desecrated by an enemy in the 2nd century BC.
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If the above is correct, it supports the 30 extra days of Daniel 12:11.
Jesus Christ attended Hanukkah and gave an awesome teaching. That’s when He spoke the words, “… understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” (John 10:38) It speaks volumes: The temple is the earthly place where God the Father ‘enters.’ Jesus was pointing to the concept of a new type of temple, one not made of masonry. In John 2:19, Jesus had said, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” He was calling His body God’s temple. All those things were said soon before the Passover in which when He turned over tables and drove the merchants out of the temple courts.
The December 2025 ADT Hanukkah menorah will have represented Hagar and/or Vashti, the Old Covenant rebellious bride see Gal. 4 21-31 who uses the adulterated calendar that only superficially resembles God’s calendar; But the January 2025 ADT Hanukkah menorah, the calendrically correct one, will have represented Sarah and/or Ester, the New Covenant faithful bride; It wasn’t observed as a physical gathering of believers or with lighting candles at home. It was observed spiritually, by those who understand that the bride is ready, because they knew the meaning of the times we’re in, as well as the meaning of God’s living temple that they’re a part of. Jesus never commanded His followers to observe or to not to observe any holidays, in a legal sense, but He did command us to ‘watch’ during the end times.
The first time a torch signified a covenant was during the formal covenant ceremony with Abraham when God appeared as a blazing torch. Genesis 15
If we’re watching and recognize that the delayed 2025 AD Barley Harvest may’ve been the one that marked the dedication of the maturity of Christ’s bride, If so, and we recognize that we’re running out of time, that we’re already well into Daniel’s 70th week, and that prophetic end dates are continuously falling into place; Then we’ll consider this Hanukkah to be very significant; That’s because it’s about the ‘living temple’ which is the penultimate expression of God the Father’s relationship with His children. That’s only surpassed in the New Jerusalem in the New Heavens and the New Earth where God the Father and God the Son will be it’s temple!
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When the seven churches were first introduced to us in Rev. 3 as the 7 lamp stands, but we weren’t told which, if any, of the seven churches/lamp stands were actually lit. That was necessary since, even though those churches were real named churches that existed in the first century, they were chosen as models of the 7 church types of that would continue until the end of this age, each with their own challenges to overcome. The quality of flames would vary over the next 2,000 yrs. according to those challenges.But immediately after that introduction, St. John went through an ‘open door’ in the spirit; He entered God’s throne room in heavenwhere he again saw the seven lamp stands. They were ablaze before the Lamb of God setting off the climactic moment when God our Father hands the scroll of the Deed to the Earth to His Son the Lamb of God. Why would watchers have observed Hanukkah in 2025 ADT? The lighting of the lamps is what transforms a dead church into a living church. Now the lamps on a Hanukkah menorah are traditionally lit in an orderly fashion, one per day. Since it’s a memorial, the order might follow the 7 church types in the order that they were presented to St. John by Jesus Christ. (Rev. 2-3) Ephesus (the church that lost it’s first love), Smyrna (the martyr church), Pergamon (the church that sold it’s Holy Spirit gifts for profit), Thyatira (the church that tolerated sexual immorality for economic gain), Sardis (the dead church), Philadelphia (the church who has overcome and only needs to hold on to her crown) and Laodicea (the lukewarm ‘comfortable’ church that perceived themselves as rich but didn’t realize they were poor, blind and naked).
God’s spiritual temple can be spiritually dedicated when its members are cognizant of the meaning, timing and spirit of the occasion; Those who are in Christ are all drinking of one spirit, no matter where they are in the world. Being ablaze, maturing and being completely ready for Christ to harvesting are not all the same.
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In my own experience: I was so ‘on fire for the Lord’ in the beginning, that church members tried to ‘stamp me out.’ Only later did I realize I was in one of the ‘dead’ churches. I left that church but I also needed to do a lot of maturing. So what I’m really saying is that the 7 lamp stands may’ve reached their simultaneous blazing condition in front of God’s throne even before those churches reached full maturity! It’s important to mention that, because this post has mainly focused on a one month delayed maturity of the Barley Harvest bride of Christ in 2025, as the very first stepping stone from which to begin searching out the timing of the rapture; Every stepping stone after that landed on a bulls eye, one after another! (See link below to view some of the many astonishing trails that, although still valid as signs, had to be set aside for simplicity’s sake.)
A plethora of signs pointed to Dec. 21 ’25AD then another plethora to Jan. 21 ’26AD. The following channel’s videos from that time period, explain them well: https://www.youtube.com/@stevefletcher2223:
Although those signs, shown on Steve’s site, are very powerful; Our understanding of some of them has developed from what we originally expected, serving different yet still very meaningful purposes, not the least of which has been to provide more meaningful clues to encourage us, all the watchers, and guide us forward.
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So it turned out that the signs pointing to Dec. 21 ’25AD seemed to be predominantly relevant to the Jews. That was the 7th day of their Hanukkah (as Rabbinical Jews observed it.)
Important
Jan. 21 ’26AD was the 7th day of the leap year Hanukkah, a very high watch for the Barley Bride of Christ! Since Hanukkah’s a memorial occasion, the fact that the seventh lamp stands was lit on Jan. 21 ’26 doesn’t necessarily mean that was the first time the seven lamp stands were ever fully lit. But if Christ’s barley bride became mature enough to soon be harvested at the time of the first fruits of the barley harvest in 2026, then that’d certainly Hanukkah 2026 the first time she’d ever been dedicated since she became mature. Hanukkah means ‘dedication’ of the temple.
Why didn’t Jesus Christ gather us then?
Come Jesus Come! Maranatha!
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Initial maturity of the bride is not the very same thing as readiness: Christ needs to be ready also.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 2:9
Could it be that the great spiritual war in heaven, the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse and even nuclear war over Iran, that’s still looming under the Ester umbrella, are all parts of the cause for this part of the delay which can also be seen as a delay before Jesus Christ, our high priest, metaphorically, lights the 8th lamp, the lamp representing our new beginning?
In the Bible ‘8’ means ‘new beginnings’ and/or ‘eternity.’ It appears that the lighting of the 7th lamp was the dedication of His true church, which is His bride and, in my opinion, also His bridesmaids. That must begin the final leg of the countdown to our new beginning. As mentioned before, perhaps there’s more than one type of reason for Christ’s delay. Jesus Christ may want a nuclear rapture, ‘in the twinkling of an eye.’ Many believers have been having visions of that. Since I wrote about that likely-hood over a year ago, it still seems like a very real possibility to me, as nuclear war looms.
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The next two high-watch days were not the day in which Christ gathered His bride, but they had unexpected importance, bridging the gap until more was revealed. After Jan. 21 ’26 AD…We kept track of a 21 day delay, for the spiritual battle over Iran/Persia, Daniel 9-10 style . . .. . . counting inclusively, and it landed on Feb. 11 ’26 AD another day loaded with signs! Feb. 11 was, at least symbolically, the anniversary of the day the animals started entering Noah’s Ark because 7 days later came Feb. 17 ‘26 AD Genesis 7:11 says that God shut the door of the ark from the inside on the 17th day of the 2nd month: Of course, the calendar has shifted since then, but it was worth watching for me, because there were also many other signs pointing to that day, such as the ring of fire solar eclipse over Antarctica, I Pet Goat II predictive programming, and the fact that it was the 77th anniversary of the day Israel established its government, the Knesset!
On Feb. 11 ’26 AD Netanyahu rushed to Washington to meet with Trump; Voila! Netanyahu signed on to the Gazan Board of Peace, which I think may be the: Covenant with Death
Isaiah 28 14-15 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. You boast, “We have struck a bargain to cheat death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. The coming destruction can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception.. . . 18Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it. Kushner Unveils ‘Master Plan’ for New Gaza at Davoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKy_OinPYeI
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matt. 5: 14-16)
The amazing passage ties the light that we hold up and shine (Hanukkah) to our saltiness upon the earth. But the passage begins with the ‘salt of the earth’.
233 days after our Hanukkah blazes are full, Earth may lose it’s salt. We are the Salt of the Earth! Rapture!
Verse 16 mentions that Christ’s followers let their light shine: Jan. 21st stands for the light, the 7th lamp of the temple menorah being fully lit! We are that living temple.
Yes! I think that’s it! But I said above that there’s an end date that can be beautifully calculated from the Rabbinical Hanukkah date . . . Well, it’s the same end date: 9/11 2026 AD, but it is a 110 day count from their Dec. 21 ’25 Hanukkah. This is the calculation used in the great video above – a week of distractions. Below I used the same number for a different stepping stone and I explained it’s meaning below.
I’ve removed huge parts of the trail we used to find out way here. All the stepping stones our Awesome God provided us were relevant; I couldn’t have truly found my way here without all of them. Although I did all my own research, but I must say ‘we’ because I’m also part of watcher communities in which many of us continuously found the same stepping stones by different methods and even with different calendars! So many times I wouldn’t have known what the individual stepping stones really meant if it weren’t for the particular insights of my beloved fellows. The following link is just another piece of overflow. One that I myself might find useful to keep handy here; This entire document/blog is the main part of my own study notes: https://alephtav.blog/110-days/
Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead on an appointed day called First Fruits, which is the first fruits ‘specifically of the barley harvest’.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2 23-24
The idea of being of the ‘same substance’ is another reason why the bride of Christ is associated with the Barley Harvest, not the Wheat Harvest.
We’re talking about His bride, and not literal grain, so it doesn’t need to be the case that He tarries for just a month or two.
I’ve believed we’re in His tarry since a June or July 2025 Pentecost.
Let’s remember how Jesus observed the Sabbath? Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. Jesus Christ is Lord of His bride as well. Our Lord and Savior is One with the spirit of the law, but we only see as through a glass darkly. If Jesus could heal on the Sabbath, He can delay a longer to gather His bride.
The tarry ‘time limit’ scripturally is that our Lord and Savior must gather the fulfillment of His Barley Harvest, including gleanings, before He sets apart the first fruits of the Wheat Harvest,who I believe are the 144,000 who’re specially sealed before He takes His tribulation saints.
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Three Harvests – each with three parts:
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hell, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He took captivity captive.My interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath.
Watching in 2025 was strange – complicated by a false prophet – a brief survey:
Will the Jews need the blood of animals during the last week of Daniel for a time, until they accept their Anointed King? Apparently they do; But since, we don’t know for sure, we should be ready for everything.(After a careful reading of many Old Greek to English translations of Daniel 9:27 and doing my own translation as well, I think yes; Many weeks of sacrifices by the Jews will be necessary because the passage mentions a payment of public (sin) debt. We know that 2/3 of the Jews will also be killed. Sadly, that could be related.)
The Feast of Dedication is the memorial of the re-dedication of the Temple of God. That first happened a few years after the ‘abomination of desolation’ event 168/167 BC.
That desolation event included a statue of Zeus, a burnt sacrifice of swine, and the spreading of swine fat on and in the Holy of Holies, all committed by Antiochus Epiphanes who was the precursor and shadow of: not only the final king of the North, but also the Beast, Antichrist, Man-of-Lawlessness, Son-of-Perdition; He was a Greek Seleucid from the territory that we now call Syria.
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. . . To Cleanse the Temple of God . . .
The Feast of Dedication or Hanukkah is the observance of the anniversary of the cleansing and re-consecration of God’s Temple after the horrific event. I don’t know all the procedures that had to be done, but I expect that the ashes of a red heifer had to be used. The alter for sacrifices had to be completely rebuilt from scratch.
How ‘temple purification’ can be seen as analogous to the glorified bodies of saints, where the old body is like a seed that must die to bring it forth, is mostly foreshadowing of the bride of Christ, at least when we compare it to the temple purification, because the menorah represents God’s bride.
Relevant verses:
John 2 10-21 “All right,” Jesus replied (to the Jewish leaders). “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But, when Jesus said ‘this temple’ he meant his own body.
1 Corinthians 6 19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
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1 Corinthians 12 13-14 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Ephesians 1 22-23 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.
Corruptible must put on Incorruptible
Mortality must put on Immortality
So we individual saints are temples of the Holy Spirit. One might say we were first dedicated when we received the Holy Spirit. But, since our bodies are of sin nature, they can’t inherit God’s Kingdom. We need to ask Jesus to ‘wash our feet’ or we have no place with Him. I see the putting on of in-corruption and immortality, when we put on our new bodies, as a type of re-dedication. It’s comparable to what the bronze alter of the Temple of God had to go through; It had to be completely replaced to make it acceptable enough for YHWH to come near it. Here’s the parallel I see: In a twinkling of an eye, when believers receive their glorified bodies, they’ll be cleansed and rededicated. Only then will God our Father receive us bodily. That’s the Hanukkah connection!
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This has been the most prophetic year for the
Book of Ester!
Even if Jesus tarries until the very edge of the Ester umbrella, which is the rebuilding of the masonry temple in Jerusalem, I still understand that the bride of Christ is the owner’s portion of God’s Barley Harvest. The Ester umbrella is really interesting and we’re about to get into it!
In John 5:1 Jesus Christ attended Purim. He called it ‘The Feast of the Jews’.
What I find most interesting is that a barley harvest of souls, based upon the harvest symbolism that Jesus Christ used, will still fall within the scope of the Book of Ester, even if He tarries for quite a long time after the two possible Shavuot/Pentecost dates.
I’d been wondering since late Spring if Jesus Christ, our beloved, is aligning His tarry to coincide with Israel’s bombing of the Bushehr Nuclear power plant in Susa/Elam Iran. Read on to see what Purim could have to do with that.
The events of the Book of Ester have been triggered!
In 2025 AD, Purim was observed on March 14-15 (Adar 15 ADT); A very significant blood moon sign appeared within the constellations of the Revelation 12 Sign. But on that day Virgo, which represents Israel, was the bride of Christ, who is the hidden grafted on Israel.
The cosmic sign was the middle witness of a triple lunar eclipse. The following was called out by certain watchers, before it happened: Watchers predicted there would be an earth shattering event, one that will change everything!
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God Almighty has showed us with His signs, and now it has happened!
Happened on the Purim 2025 crosshairs date:
A month later, during the Rabbinical observance of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on April 15, the US unleashed hell on the Houthis in Yemen. Many of their targets were blown off the map.
The only reason Israel didn’t blow up Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility in the first weeks of May was: Trump stalled Netanyahu.
Trump wanted to try one more diplomatic round after having shown off his B-2 nuclear capable stealth bombers on Yemen, six of them costing $1.1 billion each, situated on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean within shooting distance of the Bushehr nuclear plant. (By the first week of June, Iran could have enriched their uranium to 90%.)
So it’s been just building up ever since. Too much news to put here.
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But, what’s happening encompassesthe entire meaning of the Purim Story . . .
Hamen foreshadows the Ayatollah Khamenei, a type of antichrist. Ester, who was adopted by Mordecai, foreshadows the bride of Christ, grafted onto the olive tree of Israel via the New Covenant in His blood, adopted into God’s family. King Ahaserius and Mordecaireflect God the Father and God the Son, but with overlapping roles. At first King Ahaseurus goes along with his top adviser Hamen, who wanted to destroy all the Jews, starting with hanging Mordecai on a gallows, because Mordecai refused to bow down to Hamen.By never sinning, Jesus never bowed down to satan, which is how he conquered death. Satan wants to destroy all the Jews because: Jesus said He won’t return until the Jews say “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” Satan would win if he could destroy all the Jews by corrupting their DNA, getting them to stop reproducing, getting them to become transhumans or by killing them. If there are no Jews left, they can never say those words and Jesus won’t return. Later King Ahaseuruschanges His mind about the Jews after Mordecai,who was a Jew, proved his love and loyalty, saving his life by revealing a plot against him.Jesus Christ, a Jew physically, proved His loyalty to YHWH, God the Father, by becoming sin on the cross in order to purchase a people for Him, while delusional satan thought he was overcoming Jesus by getting Him crucified, thus the connection with the gallows.Haman is ultimately destroyed on the very gallows he made for Mordecai!Queen Ester risked being put to death, by approaching King Ahaseuruson his throne. She revealed her Jewish roots, the truth that Mordecai had adopted her, and stood up for the Jews. This is paralleled by the fact that through the blood of Jesus Christ, the true church is adopted into God Almighty’s family. We’re given Jewish roots not only by being grafted on to the olive Tree of Israel, but by being covered by Jesus’ Jewish blood. Jesus Christ maintains our position in the most high family through His role as our High Priest forever; He’s faithful to sprinkle His holy blood on us every time we approach God our Father’s throne . . . for eternity. Ester stood up for the Jews despite the fact that she didn’t grow up in a Jewish community; She was raised more like a gentile in Persian culture despite having been adopted by Mordecai, who was Jewish. The parallel is: America, the only country in the world willing to stand for the Jews, is the country that has had the greatest/most concentrated number of saints of the bride-of-Christ since Israel was reestablished as a nation.Although the ‘church’ in America has, for the most part, divorced itself from the true word of God, the over 250 years of Christian foundation previously built, was still making it possible for America to stand up for the Jews, for a short while; not because the Jews are good, but because they’re of the promise to Abraham through Sara, and also because they’re the biological brethren of Jesus Christ, through whom God the Father sent His perfect Son who is our Savior, the one who paid the price for our eternal sin debt, with His blood.Vashti, the deposed rebellious wife of King Ahaseurus, represents the ‘Israel of the Old Covenant‘ who for the most part did not love or respect YHWH, as evidenced by rarely ceasing to be disobedient as a nation.
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It’s not just the cosmic alliance that occurred on Purim that marked the catalytic event, which is related to the final outcome of the story. . . Quickly… in case some don’t know about the cosmic alliance, this prophesy was understood and revealed, actually by the enemy, who posted their interpretation on the cover of the Economist Magazine in 2017! Here’s a picture of that cover:
The card the upper right shows the March 14, 2025 lunar blood eclipse in the tail of Leo (which actually hovers over Virgo). That image represents the triple lunar witness I mentioned above; But it wasn’t shown in the accurate spot so that we’d know if it’s the 2025 or 2026 blood moon events it was pointing to. In retrospect, it was pointing to first March 14, 2025 – the catalyst date when Russia, China and Iran met in Beijing over their nuclear coordination.
The lower right card shows the resurrection of saints. All the events are associated with Purim dates. There’s much more!
See below link to get started.
September 23, 2017 – Part 6: The World – The Economist Front Cover Tarot Cards: (The Economist Magazine is owned by the Rothschild family.)
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
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Characters of the Book of Ester:
Vashti = Hagar and Ester = Sarah
“These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia (under the law) and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” (Galatians 4: 24-26)
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Since we’re under the ‘Purim umbrella’ I’ve been trying not to focus as precisely on every high watch date. There are just too many of them. (And, I have a hypothesis that Jesus is scooping up the symbolism of all the important ones in His tarry.) I simply can’t study and write about them fast enough.
The entire scope has been an enormously high watch time. This could continue, for reasons I’ve written about, until Purim 2026 (2025 ADT), but at the very most until the 3rd temple of God is built and sacrifices and libations are resumed; For the most part, we need to be aware that we’re in an extremely high watch season and that He’s coming very, very soon.
At the rate things are pushing forward, the temple could be built and dedicated even within 2 months of what I’m now calling ‘the second Hanukah.’ I think the temple will go up so fast that it’ll make the world wobble.
Bushehr Provence Iran Nuclear Plant
The Book of Ester (Purim) took place in Susa Persia, which is Elam. That’s where Iran’s nuclear plant is located.
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Related end time prophesies:
“Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might” (Jeremiah 49:35)
Elam in Jeremiah
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will restore the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 49 35-39)
Continuing on with these prophesies, the following passage might also be related, although it seems like it’ll happen later:
“This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.” (Zechariah 14 12-13)
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Both of those prophesies sound nuclear:
Regarding the Jeremiah prophesy, if Israel bombs the Bushehr Plant, all the residents of Elam Iran will have to flee the radiation blowing in every direction with the wind. Regarding the Zechariah prophesy, dissolving flesh is known to be associated with nuclear explosions. (God’s restoration of Elam must be in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ.)
Now that the catalytic event’s been triggered, the rest will unfold when it unfolds:
What I call the ‘Purim umbrella’ for Jesus Christ to come gather His bride, extends at most until the restoration of God’s temple. The following is an excellent video, although I’ve come to see that the time window for the rapture extends much, further, if I hadn’t watched the Supernatural by Design videos below, I wouldn’t have known! Watchers who love Christs appearing don’t want to jump too far in the future, as it could cause us to miss the now.
*This Changes Everything!* The Purim Eclipse Will Be Huge…Supernatural by Design
One of those videos explains how the word translated as ‘twinkling’ aligns with a flash such as an great explosion and that the word for trumpet, translated a ‘trump’ in the KJV, is associated with war.
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” (1 Cor. 15:52-54)
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If you’ve seen the videos . . .
. . . you know the triple blood moon witness sign is integrated into quite a few other rare cosmic alignments, all having to do with end times prophesy, involving Iran, national Israel and spiritual Israel/the Bride of Christ. It’s all associated with the true Story of Purim and what it foreshadows:
*Although the anniversary date I’m about to describe has passed, something very interesting happened on the day preceding it. And, whether or not I’m correct about the leap year, I think it’s useful to know this:
At first this was just another high watch . . .
August 23 (the 30th of Av) was the anniversary of the day that Moses turned around and descended from the mountaintop of Sinai, where he’d been with YHWH for 40 days, in order to bring the ketubah (marriage covenant) to the Israelites.
So that’s the anniversary of the day preceding the marriage covenant with YHWH that was agreed upon by our Almighty Father’s bride, the Israelites, at the foot of Mt. Sinai in 1,440 BCT. Yes, I said the ‘day preceding’ because the anniversary of that day was the very day ground telescopes on Earth saw something!
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What if the anniversary of that day marked something to do with Jesus’ descent from the heavenly Mt. Zion, on His way back ‘down’ to Earth to gather His bride?
Something became visible to ground telescopes on that day, and as long at it remained in our solar system some watchers kept an eye on it. It may have seeded the sun and/or dropped something off behind Mars. Also there was a cosmic sign associated with it that almost everybody missed:
An unidentified interstellar object, called
‘3I/ATLAS’
traveled toward Earth faster than any objectever seen.
And it was making its own light.
Although NASA uses the word ‘comet’,3I/ATLAS, has been unlike any comet, in that, in the beginning and for a long time it didn’t show a tail, not until it passed Earth on its way out when it took on the appearance of a sword or a scepter. Also, part of its glow preceded it and it was unusually aligned with the orbits of the planets. It was going way too fast and it pulsated in never before seen ways. And it shined brighter than the sun when it passed behind yet slightly above it.
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3I/ATLAS passed closely by Jupiter in March ’26. But this image shows its path as it was in August.
It was first observed by NASA’s robotic survey project Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), on July 1. (Interestingly, that’s between the two Shavuot/Pentecost dates June 7-8 & July 6-7.) As mentioned above, its presence first became visible to ground telescopes, on August 23 due to its nearness and the rare ‘black moon’.
The sun has been acting very strangely ever since 3I/ATLAS passed behind it, when it lit up and shined brighter that the sun. What may have been done to the sun in its close pass? Since then the sun has been acting very differently so perhaps God seeded the sun with something for the end times.
Even since the first week of April ’26, the sun has been continuing to act strangely.
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Some Christians have considered the possibility that AI/ATLAS may have been a ship, sent by God to drop off transport vessels for the bride of Christ, somewhere in the vicinity of Earth, perhaps behind Mars. We can’t know, but around that time, I had a very amazing night vision: I was suspended in space – and a beautiful small, white, softly glowing, cube shaped ‘space-tabernacle’ with rounded edges, was suspended silently, about 200 feet in front of me while I was suspended in space. I believe Jesus was there. He was in the form of unspeakably beautiful, white, pure and absolutely refreshing living light – strongly emanating from a squarish opening in the base of one of the faces of the tabernacle, the one to my left.
In Greek myth, Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity.
But, satan always counterfeits God, adding deceptive twists, to detract from God’s glory.
. . . . . 3I/ATLAS?
What if ‘ 3 ‘ represents ‘trinity’ and ‘ I ‘ represents ‘the great I AM’ (YHWH)?
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3I/ATLAS means:
“Last Alert:
I the Triune God,
three persons in one,
the true atlas
who supports the world,
am on my way.”
(to rescue my bride)
3I/ATLAS is from God.
The King of kings brought a sword, that looks like a scepter. How do I know this? It has happened before and is recorded in the Bible:
A STAR RESEMBLING A SWORD AS AN OMEN TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM
God’s shown His heavenly sword twice before. The above video tells.
Isaiah 34 5-8
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, (Edom) and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. And the unicorns (any animal with a single horn) shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
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But there’s more!
As written above at mark 1.26 and as shown in the video there,
It points to The Parable of the 10 Virgins.
In 2016 trumpets from heaven blared over Jerusalem on the Feast of Trumpets from inside a great perfect circle of clouds.
One year later, the Revelation 12 Sign occurred, in and around Virgo!
Every year after that for 10 years, Virgo appeared lit by Venus and the sun, in a special way, concluding with the greatest sign in 2026
Keep in mind that God’s Torah calendar years don’t begin in January:
Jesus Christ only promised He’d keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of trial/testing/temptation that’s going to come upon the whole world. No promise of a 7 year rescue intervalexists. It only says HOUR!
The ‘Before the Final Seven Years’ Rapture Idea is Popular
Although it’s attractive, I think it’s dangerous. Simply making that assumption, causes the majority of churches to, not to really watch what Jesus Christ is doing in the world right now, which is to His glory as He fulfills prophesy. They think they don’t need to know since they’re so sure they won’t be here when any of the seals are broken. Having said that; Based on my reading of Rev. 2-3, I think there are some individual members of the Rev. 2-3 churches who Jesus reprimanded, that are ‘secretly’ watching. The most rigid dispensational rational is that the rapture sets off the final 7 years; Period! That’s certainly appealingly simplicity which accounts for its popularity, but the fourth seal/fourth horseman is the death of 1/4 of humanity – and that’s the great tribulation. I am a dispensationalist. And pre-trib, regarding the bride and the bridesmaids. But the rapture can occur any time in the first half of Daniel’s 70th week, since we’re only promised to be kept from the ‘hour of trial.’ The hour of trial doesn’t begin with the white horseman’s diplomatic march or the red horseman’s removal of general peace. And the extremely high food prices of the third seal do not happen at once on the day Jesus breaks the seal, nor will it happen everywhere. The beginning of Daniel’s 70th week could be the final segment of Christ’s tarry. Be encouraged by the fact that there’s very important work for bride to do on Earth right now, and that the church age has been extended as there are a few more saints that Jesus wants to bring onto His ark right now!
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‘The Church Age’ is a human invented descriptive term.
It describes something very real. But, there was a 70 year transition from the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ until to God’s reinstatement of His covenant time with His 490 year Great Jubilee Cycles. That’s when the Church Age began officially. That’s when He destroyed the temple in Jerusalem and the living temple of His New Covenant people, including all Jews who’ve been saved by faith in Jesus Christ replaced that temple on Earth.
The final 7 years begin for the Jews, exactly on time, according to the Daniel 9:24 prophesy. That’s when the unrepentant Jews enter back into a covenant relationship with God Almighty for judgment, refining and God’s consummation. It overlaps or mostly overlaps with the final 7 years of the God’s covenant time as it was reinstated in 70 AD to accommodate the church, God’s new covenant people including the Jews who have accepted their Messiah. This overlapping timeline was prophesied by Daniel 9:27 (Septuagint) and turns out to encompass the New Covenant. (There even seems to be a possible ’30 day’ offset between the final week of God’s New Covenant’s covenant time vs Daniel’s 70th week (Dan. 9:24) Old Covenant’s covenant time.)
The Word of God NEVER promised that mature saints won’t be on earth when the early seals of the scroll are broken by our Savior, the Lamb of God.
Immediately before the Lamb of God takes the scroll from the hand of YHWH our Heavenly Father who sits on His throne, St. John saw the 24 elders of Rev. 5 break out in a praise song. They sang that the Lamb of God, with His blood, had purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation; They sang, ” You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
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That’s why I strongly suspect that the seven blazing torches/lamps St. John saw in front of God’s throne, in Rev. 4, represent the complete spirit filled bride/church of Jesus Christ, the living members. In Rev. 1:20, Jesus said, “The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels (messengers) of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches.”
Perhaps the spirit filled, light shining believers will still be persevering on the earth as Jesus Christ, the holy perfect Lamb of God, takes the scroll from His Father God Almighty’s hand; Perhaps as Jesus Christ begins releasing seals He’s also preparing the way to redeem them at the perfect moment. We can only guess why He’d delay, but He clearly more than implied that He’d tarry, but also that, when He’s ready, He’ll come very quickly.
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What if Jesus doesn’t gather His Barley Harvest by any of these dates?
We’ll begin by taking an adjusted look at each of the high watch days that we studied last year.
Appointments with God are Dress Rehearsals
In the past it seemed to me to make most sense that Jesus Christ would gather His saints on a Torah prescribed holy convocation, because God’s harvests of souls are very important to Him and, because our Savior said, “I’ve not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it,” and because He seemed to have fulfilled four of seven of them in perfect order with His first coming. But, after much study, some watchers in the community have come around, like me, to consider that without the temple of God actually standing, it might not be possible for the remaining three holy convocations to be fulfilled, not until it’s rebuilt.
The following is a review of the high watch intervals that many of watchers, including myself, focused on in 2024:
We began with the Spring holy convocations/appointed times starting with Nissan 1 (April 8-9 ’24 AD), which began on the day after the conclusion of The Great American Eclipse, which spelled out the Aleph & Tav messianic signature of Jesus Christ.
We began with the Spring holy convocations/appointed times starting with Nissan 1 (April 8-9 ’24 AD), which began on the day after the conclusion of The Great American Eclipse, which spelled out the Aleph & Tav messianic signature of Jesus Christ. It was a warning and it turned out to be the first day of the-70th-week-of-Daniel, which is the final week-of-years of God’s allotment for human rebellion. See Post:
Then we studied the harvest typology of Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits! Without the excitement of the imminence of His return, going through the process of understanding all of God’s harvests of the earth would’ve been impossible.
The very interesting possibility of Pentecost/Shavuot 2024 came and went in 2024, but it’s still the appointed time that was, and is, loaded with the most Messianic Barley Bride Harvest symbolism! There’s a question about if it was completely fulfilled in the year of Christ’s ascension, because He wasn’t on or near the earth on the day He sent His Holy Spirit down. Some Bereans think that since Pentecost is a pilgrimage, and the Holy Spirit has yet to make the return trip to heaven, with the saints, that Pentecost couldn’t have been completely fulfilled. It’ll continues to be a high watch time for me in 2025. There’s always a possible one month delay for Spring to spring and for barley to ripen. But there’s also the tarry and the fact that Jesus said He’d come on a day we won’t expect. What will I be doing? I’ll be watching! Why? Jesus said WATCH!
There were two very interesting high watch intervals in late Spring/Summer. One is when ‘the bread meets the wine’. That’s the overlap of the wheat harvest, the end of the grain harvests, with the grape harvest. For the Israelites, it was the time of marriages and even the ‘snatching of brides’ by the tribe of Benjamin! And of course, there was the 9th of Av, the day of disasters! What would more disastrous to the Israelite Jews than God taking His mostly gentile bride! Although, making them jealous turns out to be a very good thing for them.
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I think Jesus Christ wants us to get to know Him better by trekking through this entire adventurous process, at least those who are led by the spirit to take this type of journey!
He is Love and merciful, and ultimately He brings perfect justice. Vengeance belongs only to Him because He’s the only perfect. Eternal grace to those who believe that God gave Himself, in the person of His beloved Son/God the Son, and payed the full price of our unpayable eternal sin debt; And that He will adopt us into His holy eternal family. Then He’ll delight in sharing the mysteries of all truth with us, imparting complete knowledge and wisdom, the treasures of which are hidden in God the Father, the Holy Spirit and the Christ.
Then came Yom Teruah commonly called Feast of Trumpets upon which a major prophetic event occurred in 2024! (See posts 3, 5 & 8.)
Yom Teruah (Trumpets), with its many trumpet blows, seems to have been partially fulfilled in 2023 and again in 2024 with partial removals of the restrainer, as controlled by the Lamb of God. In my opinion, He has broken the first and second seals from YHWH’s throne room by the time I’m writing this. It makes perfect sense based upon the major events that followed in both those years.
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This site definitely respects that the Holy Spirit has been working through saints to restrain the antichrist spirit on Earth. That includes restraining the Antichrist himself. But, I also think that the Holy Spirit restrains in other ways. Remember when God said to Zerubabbel that the second temple would be built not by might but by His Spirit. The seals on the scroll also restrain. I believe the Holy Spirit in involved with that as well, just in a different way. Revelation 4 makes a HUGE deal about Jesus Christ being the only one in the universe worthy to break them!
Yom Teruah didn’t turn out to be the day of the Open Door Harvest in 2024, so when it passed, AlephTav.blog refocused on Yom Kippur.
Glory to Almighty God in the Highest, Lord of the Ages!
Jesus is our High Priest and Sole the Atoner of our sins with His precious blood.
It’s now apparent that the October 2024 Day of Atonement wasn’t the appointed time of our gathering to our beloved Bridegroom, Redeemer, Savior of the world. The Day of Atonement was my first choice, because of its meaning; It’s His life blood that coversus. But, perhaps that was a private day between Him and His/our Heavenly Father. I’ll pray for more understanding.
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Sukkot was the next appointed time interval:
Sukkot, also called the Feast of Tabernacles, is the 7 + 1 day pilgrimage appointed time/holy convocation. It was the one, mentioned in the Book of Acts that Jesus Christ didn’t attend at first, because the Pharisees and Sanhedrin were planning to kill Him. Jesus tarried, then He attended incognito at first, but halfway through He began teaching in the temple courts. On the greatest and last day of Sukkot, Hoshana Rabbah, Jesus gave these words: “Let anyone who’s thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
Sukkot, is loaded with the most harvest symbolism and has the literal ‘last trumpet’ blow of the year on God’s Torah calendar! There have been 21 trumpet blows practiced traditionally. It makes sense because the last day of Sukkot is 21 days from Feast of Trumpets (inclusive counting). It’s interesting that it matches the number of the seals + trumpets + bowls, in the Book of Revelation that lead up to the final Battle of Armageddon! Torah Law requires trumpet blows on Sukkot, but they’re only over sacrifices.
Since there’s neither a temple of God nor animal sacrifices for God right now why did we watch? Well . . . we were still excited about the evidence for our Lord and Savior’s return in 2024, and so didn’t want to overlook any possible appointed days in 2024, especially those with huge harvest, trumpet, messianic even tarrying’ typology. It might’ve been the day our Lord and Savior came for us; We knew we didn’t know everything and didn’t want to shut ‘our doors’ on that possibility in case it was THE DOOR.
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Another reason Sukkot is especially interesting was because: It’s a pilgrimage! The harpatzo/rapture can be seen as a leg of a pilgrimage. The mysterious Open Door Harvested Saints, the Tribulation Saints and most likely also the saints from the Olivet Harvest will make a journey from Earth to heaven, but will return to Earth with Christ. At that time, on the return leg of the ultimate pilgrimage, He’ll be in His Awesome Glory!
What purpose will the Levitical Priesthood actually serve when Third Temple is built?
One might wonder how we could’ve even considered ‘Sukkot’ when the Day of Atonement 2024 hadn’t yet been fulfilled? I’m not getting deeply into it here, but there’s the possibility that Jesus Christ did partially fulfill Yom Kippur when He atoned for our sins with His blood in 31 AD. Some scholars think Jesus sprinkled his blood on the heavenly Ark of the Covenant after His ascension to the heavenly Zion. But, since the reported discovery of the Ark of the Covenant in a cave immediately below where Jesus Christ was crucified at Golgotha, other saints believe that His holy blood dripped down through the rocks and landed on the Mercy Seat during His crucifixion.
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So then why not completely fulfilled? That could only be because God’s plan isn’t completely fulfilled until at least 1/3 of the Jews are atoned for; God must fulfill His promise to Abraham. Daniel 9:27, in the Old Greek, makes it clear that the Old Covenant isn’t consummated until just before the sacrifices and oblations in the 3rd temple are stopped by the Beast.
Finally, there’s also the special 8th day of Sukkot, ‘Shemini Atzeret’ an extension for the purpose of lingering, because it’s so lovely. One day we will linger with our Lord during this beautiful outdoor memorial.
All along we learned about the amazing Messianic typologies and all these will again be high watches in 2025.
If we’re still here.
Anniversary of Noah’s Ark
After the season of High Holy Days passed. Watchers, including myself, turned our focus on the anniversary of the day God closed the door of Noah’s Ark, and seven days before that, because Jesus Christ is the Ark and He is also The Door.
PS –
TheRed heifer ashes are necessary to purify the 3rd masonry temple of God.
A special focus on the Tribulation Saints of the Sixth Seal and how it eventually lead me to the understanding of all the harvests. This topic has been the most challenging to articulate.
The sixth seal rapture timing viewpoint seemed to be the most neglected viewpoint for believers looking to prove just one harvest event, as I used to. It was the obvious conclusion to come to when studying the New Testament in the most basic and direct way, taking it at face value in order not to miss whatever might be straight forward. I took that approach because I needed to extract myself from all the opinions that were opposing each other and surrounding me on every side. What came to really stand out to me was how so many Bible teachers were ignoring the uncountable multitude of saints that St Paul saw standing in God’s throne room at the end of the sixth seal.
9After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands; 10and in a loud voice they cried out, saying, “Salvation [belongs] to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the [twenty-four] elders and the four living creatures; and they fell to their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and majesty and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen. 13Then one of the elders responded, saying to me, “These who are dressed in the long white robes—who are they, and from where did they come?” 14 I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” And he said to me, “These are the people who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” [because of His atoning sacrifice].15For this reason, they are [standing] before the throne of God; and they serve Him [in worship] day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them and shelter and protect them [with His presence]. 16They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any [scorching] heat; 17for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their Shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”
With time and closer inspection, I discovered that the sixth seal harvest, although by far the largest harvest of the body of Christ, is not the only harvest. I saw that my sixth seal harvest perspective was flawed; And although its ‘flaw’ seemed to be remedied in part by leaning preferentially on St. Paul’s teachings, I actually had to embrace the full complexity of the New Testament, piece by piece, to resolve all the issues. Only then did I come to understand that the core of the disagreements among Pastors, Bible teachers, scholars, saints and scholars came from the fact that the vast majority of them hold to the conviction that there’s only one harvest of saints.
But before I knew all that, and while my initial studies were still clearly pointing me to the sixth seal as the harvest of all of God’s new covenant saints, I began making basic preparations in order to survive the great tribulation of the 4th seal. (not God’s wrath which is the greatest tribulation that starts at the 7th seal) My preps were partly spiritual and partly physical, such as learning how to fish and garden. I stocked up on coffee, water, medicine and extra resources to help others, especially Christians, to make it through what I deduced would be about a year long trial.
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Then things changed – a personal note – preparing a ‘time capsule’ for the left behind:
After further study and prayer, I realized there’s also an earlier harvest for the bride of Christ, which most likely includes the bridesmaids. (See posts 1 and 18)I’ve been glad that some of the preps I’d made might become useful for those who’ll be left behind (hopefully to soon become tribulation saints); So I continued prepping somethings for them. But for myself, I came to focus on insuring that I am truly betrothed to Jesus Christ through obedience, abiding in Him and His word. Also of course, hearing His voice, bearing fruit for Him and doing the works He made for me, in order that I may be clothed with them for eternity.
Soon I discovered other watchers who were making kits for the left behind and I sort of joined them; I started to consider AlephTav.blog to be in part a service to the left behind, yet it’s also good to divert believers from getting left behind, for understanding the signs of the end-times and for resolving prophesies. I think we should all try to seek out individuals to whom the Lord might want us to leave other things, survival things; but truth is of the highest priority; “Man can not live by bread alone but on every word that comes out of the Mouth of God”(Matt. 4:4). Daniel 7:25 informs us that the Beast is going to try to eliminate Biblical calendrical knowledge by changing the ‘times and laws’ probably by rewriting Bibles. AI has already been adulterating online Bibles and a very wealthy Muslim family just purchased one of the largest Christian book companies. Woe to those who can’t tell the difference! The Bible warns about a ‘dessert of the WORD.’
So the early harvest for the bride and probably the bridesmaids that I came to focus on is: Jesus Christ’s Open Door for His Church of Philadelphia; I’ve been praying to be invited through His open door. He Himself is The DOOR .
IJesus am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” John 10:9-11
Eventually this understanding completely took over for me. Although it wasn’t possible until I fully understood that the mistranslations of 2 Thessalonians 2 had deceived me into thinking that the bride/true church wouldn’t be redeemed until after the Antichrist sits in the holy place. See post:
But this post is not about the the harvest of Christ’s bride,
its about the harvest of the tribulation saints.
Situating the Sixth SealHarvest:
… in the context of the fourth, fifth and the beginning of the sixth seal …
A quarter of humanity perishes at the fourth seal;The fifth seal show martyrs under God our Holy Father’s alter crying out for justice . . .
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Next, 144,000 Israelites are Sealed by Angels
with the Name of
God the Holy Father and the Holy Son
written on Their Foreheads.
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Only after that are the Tribulation Saints seen in Heaven
As the harvest of the trib. saints is separate from the harvest of the bride, (discussed abovebut proofs are on other posts), the harvest of the trib. saints is also separate from the harvest of the Jews .
When comparing parallel passages in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) to the very similar words in the Book of Revelation at the conclusion of the sixth seal, it was once mind boggling to me that I’d rarely heard the possibility of ‘a sixth seal harvest’ mentioned by Bible teachers, preachers or commentators. The idea itself wasn’t even broached, not even for the purpose of pointing out how similar its verses seems to the ones in the Olivet Harvest see below! Perhaps they’re afraid of the topic. It can’t be that they understand so clearly that they’re separate harvests to the point where they feel ‘far above’ even being interested in the topic, or that they just didn’t want to confuse people by bringing up the similarities for concern that it might make believers conflate the two harvests; Those can’t be the case since I’m talking about ‘the majority’ who are of the absolute conviction that there is only one harvest! as mentioned above
How Exactly Do Revelation’s Sixth Seal Verses Line up with the Olivet Discourse?
Although the cosmic signs do seem to line up amazingly, there are actually 4 other very impressive earthquakes and many similar cosmic events in the sun, moon and stars, occurring in God’s final ~4.5 years before His Millennial Kingdom begins;Each time dramatic signs and events occur, they’ll frighten people. (But it’s worth noting that ‘frightening the people’ isn’t mentioned in Matt. 24 and Mark 13.) And since we’re teasing out every detail . . . The ‘redemption of the tribulation saints’ isn’t mentioned in Rev. 6. The Tribulation Saints are only seen as having arrived safely in God’s throne room, immediately after the sealing of the 144,000 (Rev. 7); If the Olivet Discourse were the same harvest, wouldn’t the 144,000 pure, virgin, obedient Israelite brothers of Christ sealed to remain on Earth safely have been mentioned by Jesus? Those are the 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel!Think about it; The Olivet Discourse was given by Jesus Christ the Jewish Messiah while sitting on the Mount of Olives with His select Jewish apostles, while they were looking down upon Jerusalem and the 2nd temple; Jesus indirectly gave them instruction for their future Jewish brethren, exact instructions about how they must flee Jerusalem when they see the end of time abomination of desolation being setup on the wing of the 3rd temple!
Here’s another divergence between the two harvests. It’s between the descriptive phrases ‘the heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up’ Rev. 6 vs ‘heavenly bodies will be shaken The Gospels. Only the Rev. 6:14 verse implies an actual displacement of Earth’s axis and/or orbit that will move every mountain and island from its place.
Although there are three ‘synoptic’ gospels, there was only one Olivet Discourse in which Jesus Christ revealed what’s to come for the Jews at the end of this age.
But the synoptic gospels have been recorded from three different vantage points and that’s not the same as three different witnesses from three separate prophesies. Now many modern Bible expositors hold the belief that Matthew Mark and Luke each hint at a different harvest: Matthew to the Jews, Mark to the tribulation saints and Luke to the bride of Christ. And although the individual points they make to defend their hypotheses sound intriguing, I’m unconvinced. Therefore, on this post, I’m sticking with the unmistakable things that apply only to the final harvest, the grape harvest of the Jews.
The Revelation 6: 12-17 verses dazzled me . . .
. . . so much at first, that they kind of blinded me when the frightened people say, “Hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?” Since I was a bit dazzled, I fully equated that with the Olivet Discourse harvest which says, . . . “when you seethe Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory.” But . . .
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Here’s the first thing I overlooked:
Revelation’s Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse can’t be referring to the same harvest because the Olivet Discourse clearly describes the Son of Man coming to harvest the Jews after the greatEST tribulation on Earth, (although God will provide a 1260 refuge for them after they flee) while Rev. 6:17 only says “the great day of their wrath has arrived,”which was announced right after the one who sits on the throne became visible to the people on Earth – showing that His wrath was just about to begin! And then very soon after that brief introduction to wrath, the tribulation saints were seen in heaven having escaped it.
These are the verses from the synoptic Gospels:
Olivet Discourse – Matt. 24:21,“For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.”(Only after this, in verse 29, signs in the cosmos were mentioned.)
Olivet Discourse – Mark 13: 19-20, “because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again. If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.” (Only after the Jews see the A.O.D. and flee, signs in the cosmos are mentioned in verse 24.)
Olivet Discourse – Luke 21:22, “For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”(Only in verse 25 are signs in the cosmos mentioned and with the ‘tossing of the sea’ added.)
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There’s even more proof below, that the Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse Harvests are different, but first one more proof here:
No throne of God the Father appearing in the heavenlies to everybody on Earth was mentioned the Olivet Discourse accounts. So what could be more impressive than God Almighty’s throne appearing to all humanity from the heavens above? And what could be more unlikely than Jesus Christ not mentioning His Fathers’ very first appearance to all the people on Earth, in His longest and most detailed prophetic discourse?
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The Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse harvests are clearly not the same!
The rest of the explanations of why the Sixth Seal and Olivet Harvest are different are given below at marks: 2.15, 2.20, 2.26 and 2.28.
If scribes or Bible translators or their institutions held to the belief that the Olivet and the Sixth Seal harvests were the same, they would’ve been more likely use words to translated with thatmade the verses seem to be a bit more closely aligned than theyotherwise would have.
I tried to cover the 5th seal martyrs and martyrs in general here,
But it turned out to be too lengthy to keep and too important to ignore, so it’s here:
The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from the ‘Bosom of Abraham’ in Hades when “He took captivity captive.”Also, my interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second one is the grapes of wrath.
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Back to: Why the Rev. Sixth Seal Harvest isn’t the Olivet Discourse Harvest:
The great multitude of Tribulation Saints:
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 7:9
So Important!: The Olivet Harvest is unlike the Barley Harvest (His bride) and Wheat Harvest (tribulation saints) in that it’s not for every nation, tribe, people and language. The Olivet Harvest is the harvest that’s overwhelmingly for the Jews. There’s a complete proof study here . . .
Now finishing up this post with something related but a bit different . . .
Increased Biblical knowledge leads us to let go of a few cherished simpler explanations.
Biblical knowledge has been increasing dramatically, and through this new learning process many of us, including myself along with my family in Christ, locally and online in watcher communities, have come to fully understand from scripture, that there are three different crops of saints, each with first fruits, an owners portion and gleanings.
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This viewpoint fits best when the Book of Revelation is understood to bewell ordered and chronological.
I see the Book of Revelation as an exceptionally orderly book in the sense that, when zooming out, it’s chronological, despite the fact that it contains one huge parenthetical section with symbolism that reaches back in time to the three ascensions of the body of Christ: First Christ’s own resurrected body ascended; Next, about 1,996 years later, His bride (and possibly His bridesmaids) ascended; And not long after that, His tribulation saints ascended. All those make up ‘the body of Christ’ who’ll rule Earth by Christ’ side with an iron rod.I used the past tense since the parenthetical Revelation 12 sign passages are a figurative summary only shown to St Paul after the Lord had already shown him many chronological future end times events, and that Christ’s bride and tribulation had already been taken off the earth before the parenthetical section. Together all true Christians are ‘the body of Christ and share in the unimaginably generous inheritance that God our Father has given His Son Jesus Christ. So why does the Revelation 12 sign start by showing the Body of Christ coming out of the woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’? It’s because that sets the stage for us to focus on the final crop of saints, the main part of the grape harvest of the Jews! The woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’ then immediately flees satan, who’s represented by the dragon in Revelation 12. Satan first tried to destroy Christ and then the body of Christ but was unsuccessful because both His body was caught up to heaven. Then Satan turns against the woman who runs to a safe place in the wilderness that God has prepared for her.
8/30/26 Update: 9 years, representing 9 months of gestation have passed since the very famous 2017 Revelation 12 sign appeared in the heavens. We believe that water broke on August 29 when the blood moon was in Aquarius. (“came by water and blood.” John 1 5-6) It’s time for Christ’s bride to be lifted up, likely on Sept. 11 ’26; I think His tribulation saints will follow within a year.
In addition to the great parentheses of Revelation 12, The Book of Revelation also uses a few simple temporal overlaps:
An example of a forward overlap: The chain of events released when Jesus breaks the first, second and third seals (horsemen) overlap each other combining to bring about the death of a quarter of humanity at the fourth seal.
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Also backward overlaps arecommon to storytelling: To tell a complex story people must consistently ‘go back’ and ‘pick up threads’ that were left off since it’s impossible to forward relate everything at the same time.
Diverging to the harvest of Christ’s bride and how it sets off the great tribulation and the harvest of His Tribulation Saints.
Understanding the timing: How the Open Door Harvest aligns with the climactic moment when the Lamb of God, the only worthy one in the universe to receive the scroll of the Deed to Earth from the hand of Holy Father Almighty, requires flexibility on our part. For example, if Christ’s tarry began before and continued on for awhile after what I call the Midnight Cry Event, which was the day He broke the first seal of the scroll, about 6 months before ‘the beginning of the end of the church age’ on April 9 ’24 ADsee post 3, his bride might wonder what she should be doing now, while persevering through the final wait. I believe the bridesmaids are persevering too, those who have enough oil. Wouldn’t Jesus Christ want His bride to be working in order to edify and ready the bridesmaids, martyrs and tribulation saints for their respective roles? After all the role of the wife has always been to be the beloved helpmate of her husband. If the betrothal is modeled on ancient Jewish tradition, there’s a waiting period after the betrothal while the groom builds her a house; But I think there’s also another waiting period for the bride of Christ after the midnight cry. Symbolically that’s the time in His parable of the 10 virgins when the 5 unwise virgins went out buy more oil for their lamps, which were going out. Now His betrothed saints are not the very same as the wise virgins, but its all about entry to His marriage supper event in heaven. Since all 10 virgins fell asleep while waiting for the midnight cry, the thing that differentiated the bride might be that she never fell asleep (slipped back into living for the world). His bride’s been watching carefully for awhile now, and it seems that she’s being shown the glory of the meanings of the wait itself as well as of the stepping stones that have been marking the times of the wait, and why it’s magnificent, glorifying Jesus Christ even more!
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Many believers have been taught that Christ’s bride must be physically present in God’s throne room, before God our Father presents the Lamb of God with the scroll of the Deed to Earth. That’s why so many Christians think the 24 elders are the bride. Huh? The 24 elders can not be the bride, as the 24 elders sang a song to praise the Lamb of God for redeeming ‘them’ with His blood. Who do the 24 elders mean by the word ‘them’?
There are 7 very conspicuous blazing torches in God’s throne room in front of His throne, which were noted by St John in the 5th verse after the evaluation Jesus Christ gave regarding to the 7th ‘lamp stand’ the final church! After that, St. John saw the open door to heaven; In the next verse he saw a throne (in the center of which the Lamb who was slain will soon appear); In the third verse he described someone awesome on the throne and in the forth verse he saw the 24 elders surrounding the one on the throne. Then he saw the blazing torches or lamp stands. After that he saw a sea of glass followed by the four living creatures in the center around the throne. Next Father God holds out a sealed scroll with His right hand, but nobody in the universe is worthy to break it’s seals. St John cries and cries until one of the elders says:
Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Rev. 5:5
Then the Lamb who was slain appears at the center of the throne surrounded by the 4 creatures and 24 elders worshiping Him. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne!
About the blazing lamp stands in front of God’s throne, does anybody think God needs firelight in order to see? Revelation specifically states that there will be no need for the sun and the moon on the New Earth; Although they’ll still exist, they’ll be ‘put to shame’ by the most holy light of Father God and Jesus Christ themselves. So lets consider the 7 blazing lamp stands/torches in the throne room of God, which St. John saw just two verses after he saw God sitting on the throne. . .
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The song that the 24 ‘elders’ sang, referred to ‘them,’ as those who were redeemed by Christ’s blood. . . How are ‘they’ represented in God’s throne room?
The following is the Greek word for ‘they.’ Almost every translation gets it right but both King James versions got it wrong by translating ‘it’ as ‘us’ when it literally means ‘not us’!
them {into} αὐτοὺς (autous) Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong’s 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.
How is Christ’s bride represented in God’s throne room until she arrives there in her glorified bodies? It’s the lamp stands of course! They’re presence represents the condition of Christ’s bride, while she remains on Earth, like a measuring device in which the flames constantly indicate her role in being the light of the earth, which is only possible when she allows the the Holy Spirit to work through her.
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The precedent was the Menorah. It Served Practically the Same Purpose in God’s Old Covenant Temple.
This is recorded in the Talmud . . .
. . . that from the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the menorah constantly blew out for 40yrs. until the temple was destroyed. The earthly temple was a reflection of God’s heavenly temple; They’re linked and that means there was also a seven branched menorah in God’s throne room reflecting what the Old Covenant temple priests were doing on Earth.
While in God’s throne room, St. John saw the seven fold spirit represented by 7 blazing torches before God’s throne (also reflecting the New Covenant betrothal). He wrote about it just verses after he’d seen Jesus walk among 7 lamp stands in his vision on the Island of Patmos. Then immediately he went up though the ‘Open Door’ to God’s Throne Room. St. John would have seen the bride of Christ standing there if she were actually present when the 24 elders burst into their famous song about Christ having redeemed ‘them’ (His bride and possibly His bridesmaids) with His blood.. After all, St. John later saw the uncountable number of Tribulation Saints in bodily form, standing in Gods throne room, wearing long white robes, singing songs of praise and waving palm branches in Rev. 7: 9-17.
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The very act of witnessing the blazes of the 7 lamp stands before God’s throne, as they simultaneously reached their radiant fullness must have been the indicator that Christ’s bride’s has made herself ready meaning it’s time for Jesus Christ, the Worthy One, to begin breaking the seals of the scroll; That’s what caused the 24 elders to burst into their most special song of praise!
7 Full Blazes . . .
. . . must mean that every one of the 7 church types will have Holy Spirit anointed members who are not grieving the Holy Spirit, even at the end of this age; They’ll be alive and actively burning forth the light of truth into this, dark world for the Lord! Those are the saints who’ll be consuming Him, THE WORD, and shining it forth. I think that’s what convinces Father God to hand the scroll to Jesus. I’m not saying that God wouldn’t have known about it without the lamp stands and the flames as the indicator. He’s all-knowing; I’m saying that the lamp stands/torches are also placed there for His pleasure and to show what’s important to Him. The lamp stands/torches also serve to continuously demonstrate to the all intelligent inhabitants of the third heaven, the state of the Christ’s bride at a single glance. There can’t be a Kingdom with only a King and a planet. A King requires subjects; When Jesus has His first, closest and most passionate large group of tested loyal subjects, His bride and bridesmaids, His Kingdom is ready to move forward! The scroll is the Deed to Earth, and the time for Him to begin breaking the seals will have arrived and so He will bring back the foundation (eden)! We can celebrate that now because it’s happening right now! We will miss that opportunity if we believe we must wait until we arrive in God’s throne room. (In my opinion)
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.”
John 3:19 NIV
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Revelation 21:8 NIV
Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.“Isaiah 45:22
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence–but you were not willing. (Isaiah 30:15)
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.” (John 10: 8-10)
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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him (harvest), That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ (Day of the Lord’s wrath) is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come an apostasy first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Thess. 2: 1-4 (parentheses mine)
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Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. (Psalm 2: 11-12)
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. (Rev. 3:20)
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Enter through the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad the way leading to destruction, and many are those entering through it. (Matt. 7:13)
I (Jesus) am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. (John 10:9)
Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved? He said to them, Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. (Luke 13: 23-24)
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1 John 2:15-17, “Do not love the world or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Philippians 2: 5-12)
O Wonder Beyond Wonders, Righteousness, Power, Amazement!
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
“Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”
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This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Jesus will never let go of our hand.
1 John 4: 9-10, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
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Protoevangelicum
Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Jesus Christ is the Name Above All Names.
1 Corinthians 15: 24-27 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he “has put everything under his feet.”
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The Victory Belongs to Jesus Christ
Great video!
EVIL is RISING as the END TIMES APPROACH || Are You Truly Prepared for What’s Ahead?
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities (Satan and his fallen angels), he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Colossians 2:13-15
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He Feels Our Pain
He has our Holy Father’s Heart
Jesus Christ is the Judge of All
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John 5: 22-23 “For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father.
Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
Revelation 4:4-5
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Who are the 24 Elders in Our Holy Father’s Throne Room?
I think the 24 elders are the Old Testament saints who Jesus Christ released from captivity in Hades, from the bosom of Abraham. Where did Jesus take them?
I think Jesus brought them to God our Father’s throne room as the first fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of Saints. They may’ve been the ones who had faith in the Son of God Yeshua Messiah before He even came to Earth, as they saw Him, as through a glass darkly.
“Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” (John 8:56)
Only after examining every theory out there in great depth, did I come to that conclusion, but only after the Holy Spirit spoke to me once, when I was going down the wrong track.
Note: As far as I know, the 24 elders were never ‘seen’ in any of the Old Testament prophet’s visions, but God. YHWH mentioned them once to Isaiah (Isa. 24) in a vision of the far future, after the Millennium and before the new Universe, when Earth was torn apart completely. I don’t think God was necessarily indicating that the elders were already in His throne room before the time when Isaiah lived.
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The 24 Elders as the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest of Souls:
Of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, I think only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath.
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest may be the people whose bodies rose from their graves after Jesus died on the cross, and later got up and walked into Jerusalem after Jesus Christ was resurrected. Those might’ve been the formerly captive souls that Jesus brought up from Sheol, whobythe power of Jesus Christ, re-entered their bodies; They may have risen to heaven at the same time Christ did, meeting Him in the clouds. If so, Christ would’ve brought them to Father God as the First Fruits, of the Barley Harvest.
Because no one appears before God empty handed: Exodus 3:21, 23:15; Deut. 16:16.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-26 ESV
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Rev. 4:9-11
. . . the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
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At times, God has considered certain men to be in His divine assembly.
For example, the ‘gods’ of Psalm 82; They aren’t the same as the 24 elders. The Psalm 82 ‘gods’ were unrighteous, the 24 elders, righteous.
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Psalm 82
God presides in the great assembly; He renders judgment among the ‘gods.’ “How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. “I said, ‘You are ‘gods’; you are all sons of the Most High. But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.”
Jesus told us who the ‘gods’ of Psalm 82 really were:
Jesus answered them (the Pharisees), “Is it not written in your Law (Psalm 82) ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside –what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world?
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Isaiah 24:22-23
“In that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below. They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.”
Before I understood who the 24 elders really are, the best candidates were the ‘elect angels.’ I’ve left some remnants from the prior argument below because the study elements still glorify Jesus Christ!
From Moses’ song:
Deuteronomy 32: 8-9 “When the Most High apportioned the nations, when He divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the ‘gods’ (elohim); the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.” (The Septuagint translated elohim to angels.)
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Jesus Christ put all the Principalities to Shame:
Colossians 2:15
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Colossians 2: 10-14, 15-17
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. .Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
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In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Colossians 2:15 NLT)
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16)
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. “For God has put everything under His feet “Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15: 26-28)
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7 Blazing Torches in Front of God’s Throne.
This is a fascinating topic:
St. John saw the seven blazing torches and was told they’re the seven spirits of God. Is that description only focusing on the oil part, since oil represents the Holy Spirit in the Bible? Isn’t the living WORD Jesus Christ the actual light part? But wait . . . there’s no light on lamp stands unless their oil burns;
Let’s examine it:
It makes sense that together the lamp stands symbolize the entire church – all 7 types or models, as described in Rev. 2-3. At the time of St. John’s throne room vision, each lamp stand was in the blazing state that God desired. At that time they all will have sufficient holy spirit oil and will be lit with blazing flames being fanned; All 7 lamp stands will be and now are shining forth the light of truth into this dark world; The 7 lamp stands collectively must represent the completed, mature, true church that Jesus Christ died for, His bride and his bridesmaids. I think the fact that all 7 are lit also shows that she’s at least somewhat mature, although she remains on Earth. The blazes on the torches serve like a meter in God’s throne room; And at the time of St. John’s vision they’re indicating to all the living beings in God’s throne room that it’s time for the Lamb of God to take the scroll of the Deed to Earth from His Father’s hand, and get ready to break its first seal; Thus the 24 elders broke out into song, praising Jesus for purchasing ‘them’ while YHWH handed the scroll to His Son, the Worthy One, His Perfect Sacrificial Lamb.
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Jesus Christ had spoken something to St. John, just 8 verses prior to that, before St. John ‘looked’ and ‘saw’ the open door in heaven and heard a voice like a trumpet saying “COME UP HERE”:
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Here’s what Jesus Christ said:
“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write”
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open doorthat no one can shut.
I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept My command to endure patiently,
I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.(Rev. 3:1-13)
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The ‘open door’ concept was described twice in a row, first in Rev. 3:8 and then in Rev. 4:1.
The greater context: The Book of Revelation opens with St John’s vision of Jesus Christ walking among 7 lamp stands; He tells us what they are:
I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was someone like a son of man, dressed in . . . (It’s Jesus in His Glory.) ‘The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lamp standsis this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches. . .’ (Rev. 1:12-13, 20)
Then Jesus gives a ‘progress report’ to each church. And at the end of each progress report, seven times, He concludes with, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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After that, St. John is transported to heaven and he sees this:
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne,seven torches were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. (Rev. 4:5)
In St. John’s first vision on the island of Patmos, he didn’t mention whether or not the lamp stands that Jesus walked among were lit. The focus was on the churches. A church isn’t the flame, but the device that holds up the oil, and the flame, if it’s lit. It’s the responsibility of a church and it’s congregation to spark and fan the flame and to not quench the Holy Spirit.
I like this picture; but there’s no need for each of the seven lamp stands have more than one lamp.
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What sparks the flame and what fans the flames of the Holy Spirit to make a blaze?
Jesus seems to have said that it’s listening and hearing what the spirit says to the churches. How do we hear what He said? I think we better read Rev. 2-3!
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To Ephesus, Rev. 2:7, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”
To Smyrna, Rev. 2:11, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.”
Pergamum, Rev. 2:17, “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.”
To Thyatira, Rev. 2:26-29, “To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’ – just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Sardis, Rev. 3:3-6, “Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. . . . Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. Hold it fast, and repent. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Philadelphia, Rev. 3:11-13, “I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
To Laodicea, Rev. 3:19-22, “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hearsmy voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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The rewards that Jesus promised point to the time of the end of the age:
The Church of Philadelphia was given the promise by Jesus that they’d be kept from the hour of trial that was coming upon the whole world;The 7 churches must be representative of all the churches, those from each of the 7 types, that have existrd from the first century all the way until the time until the end, because the hour of trial that comes upon the whole world, that Jesus spoke of, is the beginning of great tribulation.
Recap: In Revelation 4:1, St John looks and sees a door: “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
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. . . Rev. 4: 2-3-5, “At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.”
‘7’ is God’s number of perfect completion and can be likened to 100%. There’s only ‘one’ Holy Spirit, and God is completely holy, I’m sure God wouldn’t uphold or edify any ‘other’ spirits in front Himself, not as a central feature in His throne room while He sits on His throne. Therefore the Holy Spirit, must be ‘seven fold’ in its ‘oneness’ since He is called the seven spirits of God. This is my opinion, but it’s strongly backed by the fact that Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God, had 7 horns on his head when St. John saw Him standing in God’s throne room: That represents 100% of might so Jesus Christ is almighty; And, there’s also the amazing fact that Father God designed the entire time scheme of the universe according to units of ‘7’. And the Holy Spirit can be represented as 7 fold in more than one way; For example, the seven eyes of the head of the Lamb of God in Rev. 5:6were described as being ‘the seven spirits of God.’ That indicates that Jesus Christ is omniscient. (Sometimes the Holy Spirit is reckoned differently, such as in the way He’s distributed Himself as earnests among all the individual saints. And I’m not very sure if the following is of the Holy Spirit, but the 4 chariots described in Zechariah 6 are said to be ‘4 spirits of God’; Perhaps those are the spirits of the four living creatures who are closest to God’s throne.) I deduce that all the saints who’ve received the Holy Spirit, must fit best into one of the seven ‘church types’. And that’s true whether or not they’re a part of a traditional church congregation, because it must be the particular challenges, strengths and weaknesses of the members of those churches that differentiate the type. For example, if a believer’s’ most difficult challenge is overcoming sexual immorality they are of the church of Thyatira. Etc. . . .
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. . . turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lamp stands, and among the lamp stands was someone like a son of man . . . . Rev. 1: 12-13
Does the presence of the 7 blazing torches/lamp stands in God’s throne room, indicate that the church will have already have been physically redeemed before the Lamb of God takes the scroll from the hand of our Holy Heavenly Father?
Don’t be confused by this picture, St John did not see two additional menorahs in the back of Gods throne room. That’s merely an artist’s rendition since menorahs symbolize the Old and New Covenant betrothals between God and humanity.
Our precedent was the Earthly Temple of God: Did the flames of God’s heavenly menorah go out whenever the flames of the menorah in the earthly temple went out?
I’m not implying that that’d mean the Holy Spirit would ever cease to exist!
What I’m suggesting only regards the menorah and/or the 7 lamp stands as being a beautiful device that serves like a barometer, indicating to all who enter there room, what the condition of the relationship with God’s betrothed is, as she’s still on Earth. For example: When Father God’s Old Covenant wife wasn’t in good standing, such as when the priesthood was causing the Holy Spirit to grieve and God’s covenant people were sinning badly, the flames would grow dim.
That happened after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Sanhedrin, Pharisees and the Jews of the nation as a whole, were held responsible for it by God Almighty. So after that, the flames of their menorah went out continuously for 40 yrs, until God destroyed the 2nd temple.
What I just described was recorded by the Jews in their Talmud: “The flames continuously blew out for 40 years, and also the temple doors kept flying open and the red cord never again turned white.“
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After the 2nd Temple was Destroyed: There was an Enormous Change:
A New Nation of Priests to God had Taken its Stand: The True Church of Jesus Christ.
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Christ’s 7 Fold Church
The church is represented by the 7 lamps in God’s throne room. It’s not a menorah but it’s like a menorah whose flames or absence thereof stand for the strength of their relationship with God – each type of church – as it varies over time. As mentioned above, each type has different challenges that they need to overcome. Individuals of: Ephesus must regain their first love, Smyrna will need to endure 10 days of suffering and possible martyrdom, Pergamon must cease to sell the gifts that the Holy Spirit gave them, Thyatira must cease their physical and spiritual prostitution, Sardis must stop being dead, Philadelphia saints must only hold on to their crowns, and Laodicia must stop being so comfortable in this world.
Individual saints are the living stones of God’s living temple, so there’s no longer any need keep a physical flame burning continuously on a physical menorah in a masonry temple. The saints themselves are the light of the world. Every saint drinks of the same Holy Spirit, who indwells each saint. The Holy Spirit and the WORD is what holds the living temple together making it possible for spiritual light to shine. The physical light on the lamp stands in God’s throne room can be likened to the words of truth, which make up the spiritual light that shines forth from believers who speak them.
Something very significant happened after the Lamb of God took the scroll from His Father’s hand, but before He broke the first seal. The 24 elders sang “You have made them(not us) to be a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Notice that it’s in the past tense ‘you have made’. So Jesus had already ‘made’ His kingdom of priests. They’re ready, but that doesn’t necessarily mean His kingdom of priests had yet been transported to heaven before the 24 elders sang their song. The 24 elders would’ve known that Jesus’ Kingdom is ‘ready’ just by observing the quality of the blazes on the 7 torches standing before the Worthy Lamb. If the bride of Christ had already been transported to heaven, wouldn’t they have literally been seen standing there by St John? St John saw the tribulation saints standing before the throne of God at the sixth seal.
Finally, Jesus Christ will Rule the World as King Over All Nations.
And, His beloved resurrected saints will serve Him faithfully on Earth, as judges, priests princes and enforcers for a thousand years. Some will be made to be kings over the remaining nations.
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He’ll rule His Millennial Kingdom with an iron rod to fulfill God’s promises to Abraham. And, He’ll defeat all remaining dark powers and authorities before returning the universe to God His/Our Father.
Differing interpretations of the neglected Isaiah 24 chapter:
My interpretation is that, 1,000 yrs before the events of Isaiah 24, after the greatest tribulation/The Time of Jacobs’ Trouble has been brought to His victorious conclusion, Jesus Christ will, with great power, rapidly and supernaturally, repair and revive this Earth, eliminating nuclear radiation and toxic waste, etc.; Then He will rule the Kingdom that God that promised to Abraham’s descendants, including all those of the spiritual seed of faith in Jesus Christ who will rule beside Him. In that way God delays His final destruction of this Earth until all His promises to Abraham have been fulfilled.
And only then will God the Father create the New Heavens and New Earth.
A response to the interpretation that He will destroy Earth before the Millennial Kingdom:
It doesn’t make sense for the promises God made to Abraham not to be fulfilled on this same Earth.
Part of the Glory of Jesus Christ is that He has the power and will to make this corrupt fallen world into a just world via an iron rod, before He annihilates it. We know there will be one brief final rebellion at the end of Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, just before His Great White Throne Judgment. But in contrast to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, there will be no real tribulation since the rebellion will be instantly and completely put down. And there will be no more second chances.
Regarding the Consummation of this Present Era
God said He’ll cut his wrath short for His elect, otherwise there’d be no more flesh. By comparison, Isaiah 24 seems to be much more intensely dramatic; In time it’s horrifically condensed, as if God finally gets to spend that very last part of His wrath, the part He held back for the sake of the last remaining elect prior to the Millennium. You might very rightly ask: Doesn’t Matt. 24 say there will be no greater tribulation? There’s a big difference between going through prolonged tribulation, which includes amplified temptations and very real heart wrenching soul choices- the entire future hanging in the balance – as long as salvation is still possible, and simply being annihilated spectacularly and quickly.
There will be no cutting short and no holding back by God then. Those who belong to Christ, having already received their glorified bodies, will not be hurt by it. The final uprising against Jerusalem will be put down very very quickly. It’s the final Gog Magog rebellion and it will be brief. Satan will finally be thrown into the eternal lake of fire where the beast and false prophet will have already been for a 1,000 years.
10.27 Glory God Beyond
The New Jerusalem in Heaven
In My Father’s house are many abodes. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”…
10.28 Glory God Beyond
Psalm 24:7-9
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
The Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ
A Thousand Years of Rest for God and the Saints
10.29 Glory God Beyond
John 17:9
“I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”
Doubting Thomas of John 20:24-29
“Now Thomas (also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” . Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” . Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” . Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
1. THE BARLEY: 24 Elders, the Bride of Christ and the Fifth Seal Martyrs
2. THE WHEAT: 144,000, the Tribulation Saints and the Two Witnesses
3. THE FRUIT: Resurrected O.T. Saints, Remnant Jews and the Last Martyrs
1. TheBarley Harvest
The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest
The 24 Elders
My studies have revealed that the 24 elders are either those who came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives and walked into Jerusalem right after Jesus Christ was resurrected; Matt. 27:52-53, “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” Or, they were among those who were in Hades/Sheol/Hell the good part, which was ‘the bosom of Abraham’. They both rose at the First Fruits of the barley harvest; They could be the same saints who rose in two parts.
Some of them may’ve been from among those mentioned in Hebrews 11 – the Hall of Faith. 8 out of 22 of the Old Testament saints mentioned in Hebrews 11 were not Israelites; For example, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Rahab. Verse 32 states that the writer didn’t have time to write about all of them, so we can speculate: Surely Deborah the prophetess, military leader and 4th and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel belongs in the Hall of Faith! Job certainly belongs and he wasn’t an Israelite. The Barley Harvest is for all nations, just like the Wheat Harvest and doesn’t exclude Hebrew Israelites. The Fruit or ‘Good Grape’ Harvest seems to be the only harvest of saints that’s mostly (but not completely) exclusive to the Jews.
When did the 24 elders arrive in God’s throne room? I agree with most Bereans that it was sometime after Jesus Christ’s Resurrection, probably at the time of His Ascension.
“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. . . Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”
Revelation 3: 8,10
Although the following is from the Olivet Discourse, this passage backs up the concept. Luke is considered, by many, to be the gospel to the bride; The following passage isn’t in Matt. or Mark.
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth. So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21 34-36)
Many Bereans think, and for quite a few good reasons, that since the body of Jesus Christ has different parts for different purposes, that His bride is one special part of His body. I believe it. If it’s true, I think she must be mainly the Church of Philadelphia, because out of the 7 church types, only to her did Jesus Christ the, Bridegroom, give the special promise that He’d keep her from the hour of trial that’s going to come upon the whole world to test its inhabitants. Perhaps they’re the ones who loved Him the most, having proved it by keeping themselves apart from worldliness, hating the state of this fallen world, while still loving the people in it. This is the group who will have been waiting longingly for Him every day and when He arrives and will LOVE His appearing!
The saints in the Church of Philadelphia are ‘watching’ for Him, not living for the world. They’re eagerly awaiting and praying every day for our Lord and Savior to come. In Revelation 2-3, the seven types of churches are evaluated by Jesus Christ. It seems like, ultimately, some saints from each of them will also be brought through His open door; But as just mentioned, the promise was only given to the Church of Philadelphia, who seems to be the model of the ‘bride of Christ’; I think the wise bridesmaids will be brought through Jesus’ door also, and that they’ll be from the other 6 church types.
St. John is the Individual Model for the Bride of Christ.
St. John, who is called ‘the one Jesus loved,’ was the only apostle who stayed at the cross during Jesus’ crucifixion; 65 years later, immediately after St. John experienced His first amazing Revelation vision, of Jesus Christ walking among the seven golden lamp stands, which represent the 7 church types, St. John looked and saw an open door. “He heard God say ‘Come up here’ and he went up and saw seven blazing torches before the throne of God; then he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of the throne.” (Rev. 4:1)
The fact that St. John saw all seven lamp stands before the throne of God, and that they were all blazing, seems to indicate that at least some saints from every one of the seven church types, even the five faltering ones, will be gathered by Jesus Christ unto Himself at His Open Door Harvest.
What I’m calling the Open Door Harvest is the harvest that more and more modern Bereans are calling the Barley Harvest, the owner’s portion of it.
In St. John’s Rev. 2-3 vision, Jesus gave a stronger warning to two of the 7 church types. He said He’d remove their lamp stands if they didn’t repent. I think it highlights Jesus’ grace that, none of the lamp stands were ultimately removed! If my interpretation is right, the great news of Rev. 4:1 is: All 7 church types will come to be eternally represented as Christ’s true church, the other six, at least as His bridesmaids. Perhaps some of those He will count as being of His bride also; I hope so. It’s not a value judgment, saints have different roles; for example the 24 elders, who are the first fruits of the same barley harvest, although not of His bride, have their own thrones in God’s throne room!
The very next thing St. John sees in God’s throne room is the Lamb of God breaking the seals of the scroll of the Deed to Earth.
So when do the saints of the Open Door Harvest arrive in heaven? If the blazing torches in the throne room of God Almighty are symbolic of the seven fold church being full of the holy spirit and shining their light into the world, does that mean that automatically mean that the individual members of the bride of Christ will have already arrived in the third heaven before Jesus Christ takes the scroll from His Father’s hand?
Or, is His bride still on Earth when the Worthy One begins breaking the seals?
Did St. John witness only the church’s ‘symbolic’ representation in God’s throne room, with the flames on the lamp stands being indicators of the condition of God’s church on Earth, at the time immediately before Jesus breaks the first seal?
It makes sense that the Lamb of God would begin breaking seals right after all 7 lamp stands begin blazing in unison, indicating that His 7 fold bride and bridesmaids are ready. and therefore that it’s time for Him to receive the scroll from His Father and begin breaking its seals!
It’s very important for me to understand this because I see so much evidence that our Lord and Savior has already begun breaking them.
The ‘watching’ part of the church seems ready now, and hopefully with representatives from each of the 7 church types. (But, I’m praying more saints will wake up just before His Open Door Harvest. I don’t see any reason why that can’t be, as long as His bride’s still on Earth, even if Jesus has already begun breaking seals.)
When will the Open Door Harvest take place? At first it seemed, to me, that it’d be on one of God our Father’s Torah Law appointed-times/holy convocations, since Jesus Christ was sent to ‘fulfill the law’.
Matt. 5:17-18, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law ’till all is fulfilled.”
In the year of His crucifixion, Jesus Christ fulfilled at least 3, but maybe 4 of the 7 yearly Torah holy convocations/appointed-times, in perfect order. Some think the fourth one, Shavuot/Pentecost, hasn’t been completely fulfilled since Jesus Christ was in heaven, not on or near Earth when He asked Father God to send the Holy Spirit down to Earth, 10 days after His Ascension. Also, Shavuot is a pilgrimage holy convocation, meaning it requires a return trip, and we know that the Holy Spirit must return back to heaven along with the saints.
For a brief overview of God’s 7 holy-convocations/appointed times see:
But there’s not Presently a Temple of God standing in Jerusalem!
Since the masonry temple, with its priesthood, sacrifices and proper time keeping, was central to the keeping of God’s appointed-times, especially the highest-holy-days, the fact that it currently doesn’t exist as it did when Jesus Christ walked the earth, makes it seem like God’s final appointed times can’t be fulfilled yet. Nevertheless, I still watch each of the 7 holy convocation time slots on the calendar carefully. Thankfully, as I’ve matured in my understanding, I’ve discovered that there are quite a few other prophetic high watches that we should be aware of, ones that don’t center upon the temple of God. (See post 1.)
We can already perceive the accelerating convergence of Old Testament prophesies in addition to many of the cosmic and cultural signs Jesus described in His Olivet Discourse. Even though some of those events will occur after the church is gone, the storm clouds are forming now. I mean it’s time for Jesus Christ to collect His bride and He could do it at any moment. To understand what’s happening in the world right now requires a pretty good foundation in Old Testament prophesy, after all, He was talking mainly to ‘Jews’ with His Olivet Discourse, but we also need to be able to properly integrate that knowledge into New Testament prophesy.
Revelation Type Events Are Approaching Us Daily
Artificial intelligence is doubling its power every three months, trans-humanism is about to irreversibly take hold; These are parts of Mystery Babylon, and so is their tampering with the DNA of everything. The things they’re doing literally underground are unspeakable. See links by Sling and Stone, in post:
Before they become an overwhelming threat to the mind, body, soul and spirit of His bride/true-church, I believe Jesus Christ our faithful Bridegroom King, will gather His Barley Harvest Bride through His Open Door Self.
That must be why He said “I know you have little strength” and promised to keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of trial. Again, Rev. 4:1 seems to demonstrate that individual unsoiled saints from the other church types will also be redeemed at the same time. Hallelujah!
I’ve not found any verses in the Bible stating that our glorious Lord, Savior, Bridegroom Christ will come for His Church exactly when the 70th week of Daniel begins, exactly when the final Daniel 9:27 agreement is signed (if it is a signed document) or exactly 7 years before the first day of Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom. (See post 3.) Although it’s been frequently taught, the Bible simply never says that!
Most Christians conflate the harvests, which is necessary, at times, because they have many similar elements. Complete information about them hasn’t been clearly given to us, because certain things are revealed to us only as needed; This is true, especially in these last days, because satan is most jealous of the bride of Christ and although he wants us out of here, he will also try to ruin Jesus’ plan.
I’ve mentioned that the bride/true church of Christ must be the Barley Harvest: Barley bows its head while wheat is stiff necked. Barley pearls come right out, while wheat ears must beaten with a tribulum.
Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third holy convocation, which is called ‘First-Fruits’ and it marks the beginning of the barley harvest, when a sheaf must be presented to God in his Temple.
In the three days that His body lay dead, Jesus Christ rescued captives out of Sheol, from Abraham’s bosom. Where did He take them? Either He took them to His Father, in His throne room, as a First-Fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of saints; Or He brought them to paradise, which is the place in heaven where saints who died wait for their glorified bodies that they’ll receive later, when the rest of the church is harvested.
As mentioned above, and this is speculation: If Jesus brought the sheaf of souls out from Abraham’s Bosom in Sheol, perhaps they made a pit stop on Earth to animate their old dead bodies, which may’ve been those that came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives when Jesus died.
Shavuot/Pentecost, God’s fourth holy convocation is actually the day in which the first fruits of the wheat harvest is presented to God in His temple; But, it also marks the fulfillment of the barley harvest; So Pentecost/Shavuot is also the model for the fulfillment of the barley harvest of saints, including the gleanings of the barley saints who must be martyred. The greatest martyrdom will happen at the 5th seal, immediately before the first fruits of the wheat harvest of saints when the 144,000, are sealed; at the beginning of the sixth seal. see below …
The 7 Year Countdown Begins Before the Church Age Ends:
I think the ‘great tribulation’ (not to be confused with God’s wrath) begins soon after Jesus Christ breaks the FOURTH SEAL. The ‘hour of trial’ is not specifically about Daniels entire 7 year period on Earth at the end of this age. Nevertheless, since time is utterly elastic when traveling in the cosmos, it’s still possible that the bride will spend exactly 7 years in God’s heaven, as per God’s will, before she returns to Earth with Jesus. The first seal’s events don’t cause great worldwide tribulation, since they’re the releasing of the diplomatic exploits of the future antichrist before the restrainer’s fully removed. The second seal removes peace, but it’s a process that doesn’t happen all at once, not going nuclear until the fourth seal. The third seal is similar: Food prices begin rising, more and more, but the full impact isn’t fully reached until the process reaches the fourth seal, which is when multitudes start dying from the sword famine, pestilence and wild animals with the march of the black horse. This is supported by Matt. 24:7, which informs us that the famines will occur ‘in various places.’ I think the ‘beginning of sorrows’ becomes the ‘great tribulation’ at the 4th seal; When the Lamb of God breaks the fourth seal, a 1/4 of humanity will die due to the cumulative effects of all that was let loose into motion when He broke the first three seals. That’s opposed to the trumpet and bowl judgments, which are the wrath of God. Breaking the seals are mainly God way of allowing the world to progress toward the Beast System. God’s harvest of the core of Christ’s ‘true church’ will take place just before the ‘hour of trial which will come upon the whole Earth sometime after Jesus Christ breaks the 4th seal. That’s also when the greatest part of the Holy Spirit’s power will be removed from Earth.
the tarry
Jesus Christ our Bridegroom strongly implied He’d tarry! But, why would He delay gathering His bride? What if the bride of Christ is busy serving our Lord by warning and/or making preparations for those who’re not getting ready, and are about to enter the great tribulation? I sometimes feel as if that’s what I’m doing.
The limit of the timing of the Open Door Harvest is that it must happen before the death of the 5th Seal Martyrs. According to Levitical Law the owner’s portion of any harvest, must be gathered in completely, before any of the gleanings are touched by the poor or the stranger (which in the case of the end time tribulation will be the ‘Beast System) until the owner (God) has taken the entirety of His portion. That’s according to God’s Levitical Law. But that doesn’t mean satan won’t break God’s law; Nevertheless, we can be fully assured that Jesus Christ will arrive with His Door Open before all the 5th seal martyrs arrive under Father God’s alter! Hallelujah! Perhaps we’ll watch King Jesus break the fifth seal when we arrive in God’s throne room!
The gleanings are the part of a harvest that‘s given over to the stranger and the poor who become the new owners. In the case of the harvests of souls at the end of the age, the gleanings are given over to the world. Even though the whole field of the souls of the Barley Harvest had become holy when the sheaf of the First Fruits offering, of saints (the 24 elders)was accepted by God Almighty, God won’t take back for Himself any part that was given over to a different owner, unless they’re put to death by the enemy. This is true in the case of souls in the time of the end, because the new owner, will be the world of the Beast.
Rev. 6: 9-11 “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were was completed.”
12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, Dan being replaced by Levi, are the first fruits of the Wheat Harvest. What suddenly triggered so many Sons of Jacob to begin following Jesus Christ? It’s likely that after living through the many events that occurred after Jesus Christ broke the first four seals, and seeing so many Christians go missing from Earth because of Jesus Christ’s Open Door Harvest, they figured out who their Messiah really is.
The Owner’s Portion of the Wheat Harvest
The Tribulation Saints
It’s a metaphor. Wheat is the largest harvest of the year in Israel. Wheat requires a beating by a ‘tribulum’ to become useful. Such is not the case with barley, which is why the true church or the ‘bride of Christ’ is referred to as the ‘Barley Harvest.’ The tribulation saints will makeup the greatest harvest of saints ever to be seen in heaven. Their unaccountable multitude was witnessed by St. John after Jesus Christ broke the sixth seal! They’re gathered to heaven by our Lord and Savior, at the conclusion of the ‘great tribulation’ but before God’s wrath begins. The tribulation saints are part of the body of Christ and they include both gentiles and Hebrew Israelites, a fact that’s underscored by God requiring two loaves of leavened bread as the first fruits offering of the wheat harvest on Shavuot. https://biblehub.com/q/Why_use_leaven_in_Lev_23_17_loaves.htm
(I call God’s Wrath the ‘greatest tribulation’ to avoid confusion.)
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14
In the Book of Revelation, the first mention of the ‘wrath of God’ (which is the greatest tribulation) is at the end of the sixth seal after the ‘great tribulation’ has reached it’s conclusion, the martyrs have been killed and the 144,00 have been sealed. Then there’s announcement of God’s wrath:
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?’
The Two Witnesses will come on the scene 1,260 days before the Beast (King, Caliph, Mahdi, Emperor of the Beast Empire) comes up from the abyss after having been greatly empowered there. That means the two witnesses must arrive very early in Daniel’s 70th week. A careful analysis of the passages reveal that St. John only reports on the actual whereabouts of the Two Witnesses as they’re killed and lay in a street of Jerusalem for three days;That’s before they’re resurrected and raptured from that very same spot. The Two Witnesses were not ever described as having been inside the temple courts or on the temple mount. Although it seems to us that they’ll be drawn there. The angel told St. John all about the two witnesses right after having instructed him to measure the 3rd temple of God, but not the outer court because the gentiles will be trampling it. That’s why most people assume that the two witnesses will begin and carry out most of their their ministry around the temple. Because of that assumption, and because their foreshadowers Zerubabbel and Joshuah were Jews, the narrative that believers have clung to, is that the Two Witnesses are sent to witness and prophesy only to the Jews;But the Two Witnesses are described by the angel as ‘the 2 olive trees andthe 2 lamp stands.’ I interpret that as meaning they must also prophesy and preach to Christians including to Christ’s bride and bridesmaids in the beginning, since they’ll begin their ministry before she’s gathered.
The 7 church types or church models in Rev. 2-3, hold up the 7 lamps – that’s reminiscent of one menorah. God has two betrothals in the Bible, one inthe Old Testament and one in the New Testament. The two menorahs represent the two brides/wives, the Israelites betrothed to Father God YHWHand the true church, which is a part of the body of Christ,betrothed to God the Son Jesus Christ. (As I edit this on August 4 ’26: Assuming there’ve been no mis-translations of the text, the two witnesses began their ministry 2.3 yrs. ago. So they must be hiding in plain sight on the World Wide Web! That’s according to my calculations, see post 4. The Countdown.)
Zechariah wrote about the original two witnesses: Joshua and Zerubabbel:
And interestingly, there’s no record of their deaths. In Zechariah’s vision he saw that they were introduced to their Savior Messiah as the ‘chief corner stone’ (with 7 eyes on it); That’s the chief corner stone of the temple they were building. So, yes; I think they’ll be here, on Earth as the 3rd temple is being built. And, in the same way that Elijah returned as the spirit of John the Baptist, for anybody who’d believe it, I think they grew up on Earth. I think at some point they’ll became completely and continuously filled with the Holy Spirit; That means they’ve been granted virtually unlimited defensive powers by God; But, I believe they’ll only use those powers in the final year and a half before they’re killed. Unfortunately, just as the Jews recognized neither Elijah nor their Messiah, I suspect that most ‘Christians’ won’t recognize the Two Witnesses. I’ve started a list of possibilities on post 15.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
We’ve all heard of the Grapes of Wrath, but I think there’s also a Good Grape Harvest since Jesus himself is the good grape vine.
Grape Harvest Passages
Grape Harvest Passages
Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud. Sitting on the cloud was someone like a Son of Man seated on the cloud was one like a son of man (Jesus) with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. (Rev. 14: 14-16)
I think Jesus Christ harvested the living branches, those who were attached to Himself. SinceJesus is the grape vine, His true follower are the ‘good grapes’ on the branches that are attached to Him. Although this harvest, which is the first Rev. 14 harvest, isn’t specifically said to be grapes, the barley and wheat harvests had already been completed before Rev. 11. Olives and figs were the only other important late season crops in Jerusalem.
The Other Rev. 14 Harvest is the ‘Grapes of Wrath’
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great wine press of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. (Rev. 14 17-20)
Those are the wild grapes that remained, after Jesus took His good grape harvest.
It started with the First Fruits of the ‘Good Grape’ Harvest
Resurrected Old Testament Saints
Soon after the war with Michael and satan breaks out in heaven, there’s a very large resurrection of Old Testament saints. They’re the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest.
Daniel 12: 1-2 “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life others to shame and everlasting contempt . . .”
With 3 mentions of ‘time’ in just those two verses, perhaps we should ask: ‘when’? The answer is found in the context of the end of Daniel 11, (the final King of the North invading Israel) and also in Revelation 12 7-9 see below:
Revelation 12: 7-9 “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
TheMain Good Grape Harvest (owner’s portion) is the Rev. 14: 14-16 harvest by Jesus Christ, when He sits on the clouds with His sickle: It takes place after Rev. 12 when the abomination of desolation (A.O.D.) is initially set up and the Jews flee to the mountains to a place God will have prepared for them. We know they’ll stay there for 1,260 days. The sickle Jesus is holding is symbolic; Jesus’ Olivet Discourse tells us that when He harvests them, He’ll be seen across the entire sky by everyone on Earth, from the East to the West, in great glory; And that He’ll be with a host of His angels who’ll gather them. But, this isn’t Jesus Christ’s second coming, when He’ll be accompanied by all His saints – a huge standard – all of us on white horses together with myriads and myriads of good angels. This is only the Olivet Discourse Harvest. No horses are mentioned. The wedding feast hasn’t happened yet in heaven and Armageddon will begin very soon.
This group isn’t part of Christ’s church, since they’ve already suffered through the seven trumpets of God’s judgment/wrath onto the earth. The church, is not appointed to God’s wrath. But, I think this group will still be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb since they’ll arrive in heaven before the wedding feast.
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9)
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Gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest of Revelation 19
The Last Martyrs
The last martyrs are described by St. John who saw them toward the end of his journey in the spirit. He saw them standing in heaven beside what appeared to be a sea of glass and fire, and heard them named “those who defeated the beast and his image.” These are the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. Although they will be mostly Jews, I think there will also be some gentles among them because . . .
.The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days. … .Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring – those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. (Rev. 12:6,17)
“And it was given unto him (the Beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”
Revelation 13:7
The Revelation 12 woman is Israel, but satan couldn’t get to her, so instead he went after whoever else left on Earth was following her son Jesus Christ, the body of Christ. All those who follow Jesus Christ are considered to be her offspring also, because they abide in Jesus.
None of the last martyrs, whether Jew or gentile, are part of Christ’s church, because they come out of God’s wrath. The church is completely gone by then, nevertheless there seems to be a group of gentile stragglers who missed the entire church age, yet are somehow humbled after seeing the Two Witnesses resurrected. Perhaps they find some Bibles in their hideouts as they’re trying to dodge the beast; They’re saints too. And they seem to arrive in heaven just in time, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb! See:
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” (Rev. 19:9)
And he added, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9) For God did not appoint us (the church) to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:9)
The Last Martyrs will come out of the Wrath of God
None of these will have repented until after the sixth trumpet judgement (the second woe). Not even being tortured for five months by demonic locusts from the bottomless pit, at the fifth trumpet judgment, without being able to die although wishing to, impressed them enough to call on Jesus Christ’s name for help. Only later, after hearing the powerful testimonies of the Two Witnesses and seeing the beast come out of the bottomless pit and kill them, and then seeing them resurrected 3.5 days later, followed by a great earthquake that destroys a tenth of the Jerusalem, killing 7,000, did they finally get humbled and turn to Jesus Christ!
In Rev. 20, St. John sees the souls of the last martyrs, and then sees them come to life and reign with Christ for a thousand years!
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hades, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He “took captivity captive”.My interpretation of the two harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath and the first one is the smaller harvest of good grapes.
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Final thoughts about gleanings:
As mentioned above, according to Romans 11:18, When the first-fruits of something offered to God is holy, the whole lump is holy; This applies to fields of grain and other crops. The gleanings of a holy field (lump) are given over to the poor and the stranger who become its new owner.
Leviticus chapters 25-27 relates to harvests, valuation, vows, redemption and many animal offerings, which are also holy to God.
God has given rules about their redemption, including cases when the animal must be killed. see post 2
(((These are not the regular alter sacrifices.)))
As far as I understand it, no living thing that’s holy to God, and is then given over to another owner can be redeemed back to God except by death. The corners of a field are holy to God, if that field had been dedicated to God. But, God has commanded in Torah for the corners to be given over to the poor and the stranger passing through. The corners are the gleanings. Therefore, regarding God’s harvest of souls, those saints who find themselves as part of the gleanings in the end times, having actually been given over to the world Beast/Antichrist system, must be martyred by the enemies team. That’s the only way God will take them back.
That’s an example of gleanings of a holy batch. I believe that verse is also about the portion of the Good Grape Harvest that must be put to death in order to to be redeemed back to God, and that similar things happened with the Barley and Wheat Harvests.
Through extraordinary pressure, like a crucible, a 1/3 remnant of the Jews will be saved.
3 groups will survive the Day of the Lord/Time of Jacob’s Trouble.
There’s also a group raised from the dead. (Dan. 12:2)
First an introduction: Then I’ll go over these three groups again below, with more detail.
Starting with the most rebellious group:
The final group of Jews is the one that rebels until the very last instant, after all individuals of the Good Grape Harvest of Jews have been taken or martyred, and are all in God’s Heaven.
Although still considered to be of the ‘elect’ this extremely rebellious group will have missed their chance to attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in God’s Heaven; They’ll not be killed but will instead be ‘translated’ directly into the Millennial Kingdom, because they finally call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus the Christ or Yeshua ha Mashiach. Sadly, they’ll miss out on meeting our Holy Heavenly Father, but they’ll be blessed to receive greatly extended life spans. They won’t receive glorified immortal bodies, but they’ll reproduce for up to 1,000 years while living in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Introducing the other two groups of Jews on Earth who’ll be saved:
Both these groups are of the Fruit orGood Grape Harvest. As I understand it, they’ll receive lives of eternal love from Jesus Christ, starting with being taken to heaven to meet God Almighty and will be greatly blessed to be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb as ‘bridesmaids.’ And they’ll receive glorified immortal bodies right away.
This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all. I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains. (Isaiah 65:8-9)
I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:5-6)
Most of the Jews will be saved through desperate repentance under extremetribulation. At last, many will reach out to Jesus as their Messiah, and as God the Son, with terrible, deep, heart wrenching sorrow.
These will mostly be from among the Jews living in Israel during the beginning of the greatesttribulation of all time. Hopefully a great many of those will follow Jesus their Messiah’s instructions, given in Matt. 24:21 to flee to the mountains when they see the abomination of desolation being set up in the holy place .
Jews living in other places will probably see the A.O.D. on their devices.
Those in Judah will be under greater pressure to take the Mark of the Beast or be martyred. Not every Son of Jacob who flees to the mountains will necessarily be a newbeliever; Some might follow the group just because they see others fleeing. Hopefully many of those will get saved once they get there.
Christians have long been stuffing the cracks of the caves and dugout buildings of Bozrah/Petra full of Bibles in preparation for the coming 1,260 days that the Jews will soon be spending there.
1,260 days after the A.O.D.’s first appearance, Jesus Christ will send His angels to gather believers from the mountain safe place that He prepared for them, and presumably from wherever else in the world they’ll be hiding. They are all the owner’s portion of Jesus’ Good Grape Harvest.
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Bozrah/Petra in the Jordan Valley is most likely the safe place although some scholars think it’s in Sinai.
The group of Jews that obey Jesus Christ’s instructions to flee to the mountains must be from the group described in Rev. 11, those who turn and give God glory, after seeing the Two Witnesses resurrected and raptured, and the great earthquake that destroys ten percent of Jerusalem killing 7,000 people.
The final part of the Good Grape Harvest, the gleanings, consists of most of the rest of the newly believing Jews, the ones who will not have fled to the refuge fast enough. They’ll be martyred. Since they’ve all become saints, Jews from the last two groups will be taken to heaven, to meet our Heavenly Holy Father and to take part in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
The reason I think they’ll not have missed that ‘once in an eternity’ opportunity is because the Wedding Supper is described in the Book of Revelation, five chapters after Jesus Christ harvests His owner’s portion of the ‘good grapes.’
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All harvests of the Jews begin after the 7th judgment trumpet is blown:
The seventh angel sounded his trumpet,
and there were loud voices in heaven,
which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
Rev. 11:15
As mentioned at the top of this post, there are also Jews in Judah who won’t flee to the mountains or be martyred.
After the A.O.D. is set up, this group still tries to rely on their own strength and any other methods including calling upon the true Almighty God, but without acknowledging the name of God’s Son, their Messiah. Passages in Zechariah and Romans support this. They won’t call out to Jesus Christ until about one second before they will have been utterly annihilated. In other words, only at: Satan’s ultimate showdown, a breathing fire down your throat moment, will they finally call upon the name of their true Messiah.
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Jesus Christ the Glorious Worthy Savior
The very instant they call upon their glorious Savior King, in any language, the horrible reality from beyond anyone’s worst nightmare vanishes – in a flash! So instantaneously will it vanish, that they might actually wonder if it was all just a dream! Yet, Jesus Christ their Savior Messiah King will be right there in front of them, elevated on His supernatural white horse wearing a spectacular blood stained white garment; He’ll Be In ALL His Glory! And He’ll be backed up by His myriads and myriads of holy angels and all the holy saints wearing pristine white linen while riding supernatural horses that gallop on air!
Climax
The climactic moment!
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As soon as these Jews call on His name the sky literally splits open and everybody on Earth sees the Glory of Jesus Christ and His people, His Kingdom and His spectacular angelic host. The double edged sword comes out of His mouth; He speaks the WORD of truth for all His enemies on Earth to hear. Unable to bear the truth, most of his enemies will drop dead on the spot – defeated – by perceiving themselves – where they actually stand – in the severity of God Almighty’s Holy Light, by His standard of perfection, in the Glory of Truth in Jesus Christ’s name!
By the time the above final Armageddon event will have happened, there will have already been other appearances of Jesus Christ within the final 7 years, such as at the sixth seal, when even the throne of God the Father is glimpsed by everyone, and at the main harvest of the Jews, just a month before Armageddon. There’s even a time when Jesus Christ will actually set foot upon Earth, although not appearing to very many! Yes, the Bible says He’ll descend into Egypt and make His way up through the Jordan Valley to shed the blood of Edom, Moab and Ammon. That part He did completely alone! That’s why His garments will already be stained red when He arrives with the saints and angels at Armageddon.
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Three Harvests, each with three parts:
First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hades, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He “took captivity captive” (Eph. 6:8).
My interpretation of the two harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second is the grapes of wrath.
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The 10 Lost Tribes
Abraham – Issac – Jacob – Joseph – Ephraim
The 10 Northern Tribes, who became lost, were called ‘Ephraim‘ because Ephraim was the largest and most dominant of those tribes. Ephraim, the grandson of Jacob, was the second son of Joseph.
Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons because he was born of Rachael his beloved chosen wife. (Remember ‘Leah,’ Rachel’s sister, was forced upon him by their father ‘Laban’.) All of Joseph’s brothers became so jealous that they sold Joseph to traveling merchants, who dragged Joseph to Egypt. In Egypt, Joseph was mistreated and imprisoned for two years, but was released in the third year. He eventually rose to become the right hand man of Pharaoh!
Joseph’s role is crucial! He’s the foreshadowing of the ultimate suffering servant, Jesus Christ, as He was revealed in His first coming. Joseph’s role embodied the ‘forgiving spirit’ and humility, which he maintained even after his rise to be the right hand of Pharaoh, who was the King of kings of middle Earth at that time. The parallel is that Jesus ascended to the highest heaven and sat on the throne at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. But there’s another interesting parallel, one which is often overlooked; Both have a gentile (or mostly gentile) wife!
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Association with Gentiles Continues on with Joseph’s Future Descendants through Ephraim:
Hosea 7:8 “Ephraim mixes with the nations.”
Genesis 48:19 “. . . his younger brother (Ephraim) will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”
Hosea 9:17, “My God will reject them because they’ve not obeyed him – they (Ephraim) will be wanderers among the nations.”
Thus began the epic saga of the Sons of Jacob: Egypt – Exodus – Wilderness – Marriage covenant with God Almighty – Promised Land – Rebellion – Judges – Kings – Division – Divorce – Lost – Return!
Presumably, in modern day Israel, there’s a notable element of descendants from of the Northern Tribes that now just call themselves Jews, because in the 722 BC exile, at least some Israelites from most of the 10 Northern Tribes, escaped the Assyrian exile by taking refuge in Judah. Also, some rejoined the Jews in Babylon.
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The tribe of ‘Dan’ may be the exception. They may have truly vanished from Earth, as they did not stick to their land inheritance. In their wanderings, they were drawn to the foot of Mt. Hermon, the top of which is thought to be the location of the portals that the fallen angels used to come to Earth and corrupt human DNA. In the first century, the foot of that area was within Caesarea Philippi and was commonly called the Gates of Hades (hell).
When Jesus and Peter were standing there, Jesus said:
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:18-19)
Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. Notice there is no tribe of Dan included in the 144,000. (Rev. 7: 5-8)
Even the UN knows about the fallen angel portals. That’s why they have an off limits station up top, a topic for another post! Israel just got control of it. (See link at the bottom of 28.Lucifer Impostor.)
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A note on the word ‘elect’:
When the word elect is used surrounding the events of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, . . .
. . . it can be misunderstood by Christians who assume that the term ‘elect’ always only refers to church saints. As a result, many of them are forced to conclude that even the bride of Christ will be present on Earth when God’s expresses His final accumulated and long restrained wrath toward human kind, in the form of severe judgments upon the whole planet, which will be worse than the Nazi holocaust, not only for the Jews, but for everyone!
The Old Testament, as well the New Testament, at times, uses the term ‘elect’ to refer to certain Sons of Jacob. The Day of the Lord is specifically called The Time of Jacob’s Trouble because it’s deeper purpose is to fully bring into fruition the promises God made to Abraham. To fulfill those promises, God always intended that the biological Sons of Jacob would also ‘overcome the world’ by calling on the name of Jesus Christ; It was never just about the grafted on gentiles. Even those Sons of Jacob who cry out at the last second will be called ‘elect.’ I believe they will be counted among the sheep, as that is the only group left.
Matt. 34 “Then the King will say to those on His right (sheep), ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
The Old Testament’s full of warnings to the Israelites and Jews about the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. It’s of the utmost importance to God the Father, who created everything for and through His Son the WORD, to bring a remnant of all the remaining tribes of the Sons of Jacob into His promised Kingdom, as it will manifest here on a temporarily revived version of this Earth. God promised that it’ll be ruled by a descendant of Judah through the line of David, but not through Solomon, because Solomon turned to Baal, the worst form of idol worship.
More Specifics about the Good Grape Harvest of the Jews:
More Specifics about the Good Grape Harvest of the Jews:
According to Torah Law, the first fruits of any harvest must be presented to God Almighty before the owner of the field can harvest his portion.
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Here’s a related passage from the Old Testament, Daniel 12:2 “sometime after the archangel Michael wars against Satan in heaven, many of Daniel’s people (Sons of Jacob) who sleep in the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt”
As for the part about the Jews who’ll awaken to everlasting shame, I’m assuming Daniel’s vision used ‘condensed time,’ for a forward glimpse at the Great White Throne Judgment, because those coming to shame and everlasting contempt will not be resurrected until the completion of the Millennium.
We can check the harvest chart above: The owner’s portion of the Fruit or Good Grape Harvest doesn’t take place until Rev. 14. Since the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest must have happened before that, it fits that those who slept in the earth and will awake to everlasting life, mentioned in both Rev. 12 and Daniel 12:2, are in fact the first fruits of the grape harvest.
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Remembering the Gleanings
Since using the three harvest model, those who I used to call the ‘last martyrs,’ although they literally are the last martyrs, are more appropriately called the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest.
But, are 100% of the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest Jews?
I deduce ‘no’, using the following rational: About 30% of the people included in the ‘Hall of Faith’ of Hebrews 11, are not sons-of-Jacob, nevertheless some of those are very likely to be among the 24 elders: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Rahab; also Deborah and Job. So, likewise, there could be a number of gentiles who’ll be among the last martyrs who follow the Jewish Messiah and refuse the Mark-of-the-Beast at the latter part of the Day of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. So they must be harvested as part of the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. The last gentile martyrs, even though they’re not part of the church, because the church isn’t appointed to God’s wrath, they will nevertheless be true Israelites by faith. They’re grafted onto the Olive Tree of Israel through that faith, and will have to prove it by their martyrdom. (That’s the final upward harvest.) The predominately Jewish nature of the last martyrs is demonstrated by the songs they sing in heaven: The Song of Moses, but also the Song of the Lamb! The following is a glimpse of them in heaven:
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And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Revelation 15:2-3
The Important Event That Sets off the Entire ‘Good Grape Harvest.’
The Two Witnesses
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Although this section is a bit out of order because the Two Witnesses, as the gleanings of the Wheat Harvest, are resurrected and raptured right before the first-fruits of the Good Grape Harvest, which I already described, I still need to write about them here:
After the events of the ‘sixth trumpet’ are completed. There is a pause in the trumpets;
St. John eats the scroll given to him by an awesome angel of God.
Then St. John finds himself transported to a future time where he’s told to measure the temple of God. After that an angel tells him about the Two Witnesses, stating that they’re ‘the two olive trees and the two lamp stands’. The angel gives St. John more information about them: That they’ll be given great powers, as great as the powers Moses and Elijah had, and that they’ll use those powers when they’re threatened, which will make the world hate them. The angel explained that they’ll be killed by the Beast when they finish their 1,260 day testimony. The angel explained that it will happen after the Beast ascends from the abyss, and that the two witnesses will lay in a Jerusalem street for 3 1/2 days, while the world celebrates. The angel explained that the two witnesses will be resurrected and raptured 3.5 days later in front of a great multitude of observers who will hear God voice say “Come up here!” They will ascending in a cloud, just like Jesus had done 2,000 yrs prior.
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See Chart: It might seem strange that the Two Witnesses are the gleanings of the multinational Wheat Harvest, since we’ve been focusing on the Hebrew Israelites in this post. But, there’s not a single part of any harvest, that I know of, that doesn’t contain some of the Sons-of-Jacob/Hebrew-Israelites and/or Jews!
The Turning Point, a summary:
Immediately after the Two Witnesses are resurrected, a severe earthquake will destroy a tenth of Jerusalem, which will kill 7,000 people. This particular cluster of events will finally provoke many, especially the eye witnesses in Jerusalem, to terror, which is what will cause a great number to turn to the one True Almighty God in the name of His Precious Son, Jesus Christ! So, at last, at last they’ll give Him the righteous glory, in Jesus Christ’s name, the glory that only He deserves. They’ll acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Messiah; He’s the shine on God our Father’s glory. Jesus Christ the Holy One, with no shadow to be found within Him, will receive the worship that only He deserves! HALLELUJAH!
Death could not hold Him! He’s the exact likeness of God in the flesh. He was and is forever sinless! Anybody who apprehends this fact, who believes in Him and continues to have faith until the end will be covered by His Holy blood; They will appear completely justified in the eyes of our Holy Heavenly Father.
They’ll be exempted from the second death and will be adopted into His Holy family to be loved and made prefect for ever and ever.
The Suffering and Glory of the Servant
See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him—his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness— so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
Isaiah 53 1-12
Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
. . . He raised Christ from death and let him sit at his right side in heaven. (Eph. 1:20)
All glory to the True Living God, who created this magnificent universe through the living WORD, who is Jesus Christ our ever-loving Savior. His glory shines through even though His creation’s been corrupted by satan, fallen angels, the Nephilim and humanity.
Until then we fight – spiritual warfare.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6)
Glory to our Almighty Holy Heavenly Father, in the name of His Son Jesus Christ who is the Living Word through whom He spoke the universe in to existence. And He is the promised Messiah of Israel who will save the whole world. He’s our Lord and Savior, who took our sins upon Himself and absorbed the just wrath of our Holy Father, on account of our sins . . . unto unspeakable suffering . . . unto to death. And even worse than that, there was a small fraction of time when He had to be separated from His Father God.
((( spiritual warfare )))
One of my favorite songs:
Charity Gayle – Thank You Jesus for the Blood (Live)
We’ll see Him intimately, face to face, and will feel safe. He’ll live among us and we’ll experience His glorious light and love forever and ever in the new heavens and the new Earth that He’s going to create right after the Millennium.
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We’ll see the Glory of our Holy Father, our Creator, who breathed life into us.
THE BRIDE of CHRIST
In Jesus Christ, God Himself suffered for us and died in our place. He covered our sins with His Holy Blood. There’s no greater love! He asks for us to love Him back, to consume Him (His word), and to also love and to forgive each other in this life, leaving all vengeance to Him. He will vindicate righteously.
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Final reminder:
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Hebrews 10:25
Proverbs 25:2
of the ‘great deception,’ are turbocharging now. My studies, based on the Septuagint Daniel 9:27 Old Greek manuscripts, show that we’re already in the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week. (I think the ‘great tribulation’ but not the greatest tribulation, begins when Jesus Christ releases the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, and that it’ll last about a year.) The rebellious portion of the great ‘apostasy’ of the church is multiplying. We won’t be able to resist, unless we focus every possible moment on the truth, washing ourselves in His word without neglecting His prophesies. His word tells us to WATCH. So we also need to pay attention to what’s happening in the world without being caught up in it, so we can discern all the things we’ve been warned about, while simultaneously guarding our behavior and thoughts in order to ‘keep our garments clean.’
about Him while maintaining us in a high state of preparedness, ready to be overjoyed when He gathers us. We live for His Kingdom, the most glorious alternative to living for the world. But, we’re not watching just for ourselves, we’re sounding alarms! Jesus commanded everyone to watch, but not everybody’s assigned to take the position of ‘a watcher.’ We hope to serve our Lord and prove useful to our brethren who’re making other important contributions in the service of Jesus Christ in this very last hour.
strange, isolated congregations. I think satan used those groups to scare modern believers into not watching at all, causing many who are fearful, to attack God’s watchmen and women rather than edify them. Those who seriously watch and warn are sometimes falsely accused by their own brethren of being the exact opposite of who they are. It’d be good for all of us if all who call themselves Christians resist joining that ungodly army, which is set upon tearing down God’s watchmen and women, because being against ‘watching’ is of the antichrist spirit! Jesus explained it in ‘The Parable of the Faithful Servant.’
. . . In fact, Jesus spent three years alone with him in Arabia, teaching and showing him the unspeakably awesome, holy things of heaven, in order to prepare him for his unique ministry to the gentiles. Jesus Christ gave St. Paul new information about the gathering of His church. (See the careful study on this down below at the DEEP STUDY WARNING.)
the only place named Rapture in the world; It’s an unincorporated community in Posey County. And, although it’s in Indiana, it’s near the border and is considered by some to be part of Little Egypt, which was an American Coptic Christian settlement.
Haman is ultimately destroyed on the very gallows he made for Mordecai! Queen Ester risked being put to death, by approaching King Ahaseurus on his throne. She revealed her Jewish roots, the truth that Mordecai had adopted her, and stood up for the Jews. This is paralleled by the fact that through the blood of Jesus Christ, the true church is adopted into God Almighty’s family. We’re given Jewish roots not only by being grafted on to the olive Tree of Israel, but by being covered by Jesus’ Jewish blood. Jesus Christ maintains our position in the most high family through His role as our High Priest forever; He’s faithful to sprinkle His holy blood on us every time we approach God our Father’s throne . . . for eternity. Ester stood up for the Jews despite the fact that she didn’t grow up in a Jewish community; She was raised more like a gentile in Persian culture despite having been adopted by Mordecai, who was Jewish. The parallel is: America, the only country in the world willing to stand for the Jews, is the country that has had the greatest/most concentrated number of saints of the bride-of-Christ since Israel was reestablished as a nation. Although the ‘church’ in America has, for the most part, divorced itself from the true word of God, the over 250 years of Christian foundation previously built, was still making it possible for America to stand up for the Jews, for a short while; not because the Jews are good, but because they’re of the promise to Abraham through Sara, and also because they’re the biological brethren of Jesus Christ, through whom God the Father sent His perfect Son who is our Savior, the one who paid the price for our eternal sin debt, with His blood. Vashti, the deposed rebellious wife of King Ahaseurus, represents the ‘Israel of the Old Covenant‘ who for the most part did not love or respect YHWH, as evidenced by rarely ceasing to be disobedient as a nation.
couldn’t have been completely fulfilled. It’ll continues to be a high watch time for me in 2025. There’s always a possible one month delay for Spring to spring and for barley to ripen. But there’s also the tarry and the fact that Jesus said He’d come on a day we won’t expect. What will I be doing? I’ll be watching! Why? Jesus said WATCH!
uncountable multitude of saints that St Paul saw standing in God’s throne room at the end of the sixth seal.
is not the only harvest. I saw that my sixth seal harvest perspective was flawed; And although its ‘flaw’ seemed to be remedied in part by leaning preferentially on St. Paul’s teachings, I actually had to embrace the full complexity of the New Testament, piece by piece, to resolve all the issues. Only then did I come to understand that the core of the disagreements among Pastors, Bible teachers, scholars, saints and scholars came from the fact that the vast majority of them hold to the conviction that there’s only one harvest of saints. 
as the harvest of all of God’s new covenant saints, I began making basic preparations in order to survive the great tribulation of the 4th seal. (not God’s wrath which is the greatest tribulation that starts at the 7th seal) My preps were partly spiritual and partly physical, such as learning how to fish and garden. I stocked up on coffee, water, medicine and extra resources to help others, especially Christians, to make it through what I deduced would be about a year long trial.
through obedience, abiding in Him and His word. Also of course, hearing His voice, bearing fruit for Him and doing the works He made for me, in order that I may be clothed with them for eternity.
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is separate from the harvest of the bride, 
(discussed above but proofs are on other posts), the harvest of the trib. saints is also separate from the harvest of the Jews 
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65 years later, immediately after St. John experienced His first amazing Revelation vision, of Jesus Christ walking among the seven golden lamp stands, 
which represent the 7 church types, St. John looked and saw an open door. 
“He heard God say ‘Come up here’ and he went up and saw seven blazing torches before the throne of God; then he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of the throne.” (Rev. 4:1)
At last, many will reach out to Jesus as their Messiah, and as God the Son, with terrible, deep, heart wrenching sorrow. 
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And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, 
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, 
He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 
He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. 
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
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