📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. 10 days and counting till Christmas! Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men! Hopefully the Rapture will marry with Hanukkah and Christmas and usher in the Rapture! Someone once told me that Springtime was the time of our betrothal and the Fall season was the season to usher in the wedding! At this point the soonest possible date works for me! We languish Lord in these days of waiting and watching! Not wanting to disparage your plans Lord nor all that You have provided to us, but we long and desire to be in Your presence and our new eternal home! May we soon experience and realize the validation of our faith in You, Your promises and Your heart towards us!!! Come quickly and soon Lord! Be glorified in our hearts and with the expression of our lips until we are called home and for all eternity! May we experience twice the fullness of Your grace on the 25th! TR So a bit of Jewish trivia as we watch and wait ….. Per the Hebrew Calendar this year is 5783 (217 years off from being at a complete 6000 year old earth or 6 days of creation) This Shabbat is Shabbat Mevarchim (“the Shabbat that blesses" the new month): a special prayer is recited blessing the Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") of the upcoming month of Adar II, which will take place on Sunday and Monday. Prior to the blessing, we announce the precise time of the molad, the "birth" of the new moon. The moon is in conjunction with Venus today. 12/27 is a meteor shower. Hanakkah ends Sunday/Monday 12/25-26 Personally, I never bought into the idea that God was waiting for the last soul to be saved. As you say TR, many people will realize what happened after the rapture event. Then they will fall on their knees and repent. Those people will be saved, but at great cost. God has a date set already, probably from the beginning of time. We just don't know when it is. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! Will it be the night before the rapture?! Certainly hope so. Even a springtime rapture at this point doesn't seem plausible as evil circulates unabated! Truly it must be considered that the last of the harvest of souls is occurring as well! That said, the question remains, how large must the bride be?! Is God shooting for and waiting for a specific number of souls? Or is His omniscience of the final compliment of souls enough? Indeed knowing the Lord's efforts don't end with the rapture and that a huge harvest is also planned during the tribulation period, it seems that a designated number constituting the Bride seems a mute point! Ergo, it truly can be closer and more near the midnight hour! What say ye?!!! Does the size of the Bride really matter!? Will not souls still be saved and brought into Heaven?! TR The advent of False Christ’s are more specifically taking place during the 7 year Tribulation. We have many false teachers on the scene today but no one is claiming to be the Christ. Mat 24:21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. Mat 24:22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened. Mat 24:23 "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. Mat 24:24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. Matthew chapter 24 is referring to the time of the seven year tribulation. His disciples were asking in 24:3 "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" At this time they knew nothing if the Church or the Church Age so Jesus is telling them things specific to the nation of Israel and of the end of the age. He mentions false prophets, which are specific to Israel, not the Church. We have teachers, not prophets. So given all of that, how much closer are we to the rapture since that event must take place prior to the Trib?! :yahoo:
