I enjoyed reading Chance’s article on “First Fruit Rapture?” Not only did he remind us we are now in the barley harvest season just like when Ruth married Boaz but this verse really stood out for me “Exodus 23:19 “... the best of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God” wow ... is there also a hidden symbolism reference to the graves being opened and the dead in Christ rise first and then we on the ground rise up and will be brought up into the heavenly house of the Lord? We are approaching Passover and the Week of Unleavened Bread. Included in this time period is the Feast of Firstfruits. In 1 Corinthians 15:20, "But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep." And 1 Corinthians 15:23 we learn that there is an 'order' to the resurrections. Christ being the first firstfruits of the dead to be resurrected. In Romans 8:23 we are told that we have 'the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." During the Feast of Firstfruits, the Jews were told to bring in "the best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God." Exodus 23:19 In Colossians 1:18, "He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything." 16 Nissan starts the Feast of Firstfruits. Sunset 16 Nissan to sunset 17 Nissan, March 29/30. This occurs during the week of "The Week of Unleavened Bread" that starts on 15 Nissan. Passover begins on 14 Nissan, the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on 15 Nissan, and Feast of Firstfruits begins on 16 Nissan. The grain of the first harvest is the barley harvest. This was planted in the winter...then it matures through winter. This feast is a reference to Christ as the firstfruits of the grave. Will we also be firstfruits to be Raptured and brought into the house of the Lord? The first resurrection was Jesus. The second resurrection will be of the believers in Christ. Might they be resurrected on the same day as Jesus? As Christ is the "head of the Church", the Church is the body - what happens to the head, should happen to the body. In reading about Ruth the Moabitess (a Gentile) she came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. Ruth laid at the feet of Boaz (a Jew) on the threshing floor when he winnowed the barley. Boaz 'redeemed' Ruth - this has been compared to the Jewish Jesus taking a Gentile bride, the Church, in marriage. It was with the barley. The son of Ruth and Boaz was Obed, the father of Jesse, the father of King David....and that line continued down to Jesus. We have had numerous letters to Doves about the High Holy Days over the years - looking at each one as a Rapture possibility. Feast of Firstfruits/Easter/Resurrection Day. Pentecost/Feast of Weeks. The Feast of Trumpets. Day of Atonement. Feast of Tabernacles. We've had letters for all of these. One day, hopefully we'll be right! And hopefully, this year! And then throw in 'the pestilence/plague' - Covid-19.... Are we there yet?? We have the firstfruits of the Spirit in us - this is what pulls us to 'the resurrection of our bodies' to be changed to immortality - our yearning for the Rapture - pulling us towards our heavenly Home to be with our Creator. Will the "order" of the resurrection of the Church/believers in Christ be on the same day that Christ was resurrected, only separated by time, some 2,000 years? Will "the best of the firstfruits" be, not just the Lord, but His Church that He comes for in the clouds? Remember, "The tombs were broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. After Jesus' resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many." Matthew 27:52,53 So this has happened before on Resurrection Day! The Feast of Firstfruits! - Fair Use - How exciting! Leet it be! TR 1337? 😉 :mdrmdr: Good one! You lost me there for a moment until I googled the number to know the meaning. :yes: I wonder if Chance brainstormed that verse while wearing Ralphie’s decoder ring and drank a cup of ovaltine before ciphering the “symbolic” reference and finally cracking the code for our generation to understand? :scratch: And wouldn’t it be fun in the next life ... if the Lord sends us on treasure hunts to various planets/galaxies with riddle clues and treasure maps and we need those decoder rings as we hunt for the rare items to bring back? B-) All those who have been reconciled to God the father through our Lord Jesus Christ are leet. :yahoo: LOL, I had to google “leet” and its referring back to 1337 :mdrmdr: I stopped at the urban dictionary meaning and should have continued to scroll down further to the Wikipedia definition that number really means “leet”. I feel like this is Abbott & Costello with “Who’s on First” ... :wacko: This brings back memories on the RF board ... do you recall the French guy who would mostly post jokes and in his complementary closure line was GBYA? Since I didn’t know what that meant :scratch: I mistakenly used Google search and the definition they only gave was “Google Before You Ask” so anything he posted I was afraid to ask questions or respond. Then one day he wrote out ... God Bless You All ... and I thought AHA! ... that is what he REALLY meant all along ... how sweet ... and here I falsely misjudged him for being a little pretentious. But a few others did the same and were happy those letters meant something nicer. B-) I so appreciate John Tng's doing these letters every week. I really look forward to them. Thought this was interesting that Biden plans to push a Palestinian State this month in Israel--"an Arab state inside Israel’s borders that is ethnically cleansed of Jews with its capital in an ethnically cleansed Jerusalem, as per the pre-1967 political reality." And this link: https://endtimeheadlines.org/2019/12/when-the-u-s-divides-my-holy-land-i-will-divide-this-land/ "So many people have been shown that after the U.S. is involved in a peace deal that permanently divides the land of Israel, our own land will be divided." They show a map, which looks to me like there will be an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault Line. Yes, very interesting ... how they want the Palestinian statehood in place by this month. Hmmm ... and the New Madrid fault line is stirring. Could this be the sudden destruction with major earthquakes going off I thought this article was interesting too ... by A Goodrick The Abraham Accords are not really about military peace with Israel's neighbors, but they are about commercial enterprises being signed by the Arab nations with Israel. A commercial bonanza. The "Peace to Prosperity Plan" put forth by the former Administration, involves Capitalistic Corporations partnering with the Government of Israel. When Corporations take over the infrastructure of Jerusalem, they have the control, and not the government. Almost all Governments today are broke. When Ronald Reagan became President, America operated in the black. When he left office, we operated in the red. And America has been printing paper notes and giving away money (stimulus checks ) ever since in order to be so broke, that it needs to RESET life without an accountable government in charge. We need the arbitrary bottom line of Corporations to take over. Corporations will now run future infrastructures, roads, transportation highways, sewer systems bridges, airports etc. Governments have to service the people; corporations don't. The expert on global RESET is Joan Veon who explains. *Public-Private-Partnership* in a consice and simple manner, that as far as I'm concerned, she's a genius in this area. And if she can help me to understand this 2021 concept (Agenda '21), she can help anyone to understand the fog we're being forced into. She did all her research single-handedly, and paid her own way to all the many Davos Conferences she attended for years, as well as to the many other global governance events she attended. Her sole goal was to serve Christ and His church; to have us understand the Satanic system being thrust upon us. Sadly for us, this saint passed away in 2010. Note: I watched one of Joan Veon youtubes ... in a nutshell here is what she had to say ... Back in 2009 - “The Art of Framing the World” their goal by 2021 called Agenda 21 ... Under the name Green Projects - the players with the most money control the partnership called Public Private Partnership = socialism set up by World Bank. The public (you and me) take on all the liabilities and concessions and the private(elite) takes all the profits and no concessions or no equal consideration. The creditors (us who actually pay the bills) become the debtors and the real debtors (the elite who cheat/fraud their way to the top) are the creditors. Goal - destroy/bankrupt the structure of governments that represents (we the people) and puts profits and resources in the hands of those private instead. My thoughts as I was reading their sinister plot .... “Oh the love of money is truly the root of all evil”. And Trump was trying to put a stop to this ... by being the modern day Robin-hood and giving we the people our tax money back ... with the Gesara/Nesara program. But it wasn’t to be ... too many swamp rats running around. —————————- Now, what ingenious plan do these engineers have for master-minding Jerusalem for her future? How do the Abraham Accords play into all of this ? Well, because of the foreign investments of Arab money pouring into Israel, she is now destined to become the playground of the Middle East....the gargantuan Revelation 11:8 calls the future Jerusalem Question: Already the UAE United Arab Emirates has given Israel 10 billion dollars toward this effort. The Prosperity accords: " Finally, at last ! One thing we know. This is tenuous at best. For when they shall say, The elitist cabal believes that what good-will could not accomplish (peace in the mideast), the digital dollar will. Yet we all know that blood is thicker than dollars. Now we see that the Abraham Accords are not really Peace Treaties at all. They are Commercial Ventures. The REAL military peace treaties were signed by Egypt on 3-26-79 and by Jordan in 1994. The only one who can confirm those covenants is the originator of the Camp David Peace Accords. - Fair Use - I like this F.M. Riley article http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2021/fmriley321-1.htm 3 days after Passover and Pentecost are my 2 highest watch dates.
Las Vegas of the Mediterranean.
"Sodom and Egypt", connoting its' blatant perverted sex, and garish worldiness.
Is it also called "Sheshach/Sheshak"
of Jeremiah 25:26 and Jeremiah 51:41 ??
Israelis and visitors will feel safe and secure, knowing that their former enemies would not threaten the existence of their own personal investments.
Peace and Safety! "
"Peace and Safety", then sudden destruction shall come upon them."
1 Thessalonians 5:3.
