From 9/23/2017 to 4/1/2023 is 2017 days. That's kind of an interesting sign isn't it? numbers and dates kind of confuse me and i tend to mostly steer clear of them in relation to the Rapture anymore....but clearly numbers & dates are important to God as we see in His Word and that is interesting i admit, although i had to look up the first date to find its significance... https://earthsky.org/human-world/biblical-signs-in-the-sky-september-23-2017/ for educational and comment purposes only i'm guessing this is why you start with that date? i honestly never understood all that astronomy type stuff, but there was the star the wise men followed... i would be thrilled to fly super soon! April feels too long away at this point to me...but i trust whatever God's timing is & i don't have to know it ahead of time or understand it ever (even though i think it will be awesome to get to hear all about His reasons etc. in person someday- i'm sure i couldn't comprehend it without a glorified brain anyway!) thanks for the post, Rick well, i tried to edit and it timed me out...sooo, that link was what came up when i searched that date and saw the first one mentioning something about the Bible....saw it's about that sign in the sky thing i've seen in passing on here and other places in the past...i didn't know that article was going to be critical of the correlation between that and Rev. 12...i don't know enough to be sharing anything that dismisses that, so i'm sorry- lesson learned never post a link w/o for certain what you are linking to... anyway, i shoulda stuck with short & sweet... "Hi, Rick, thanks for the post- does sound interesting even though i'm pretty clueless about all that!" Hi Greatful, the 9/23/2017 date was the date that an astronomical event did occur in the heavens. Many people believed that it was the Revelation 12:1 sign. It did have all the attributes of the sign but God's Church never seems to be unanimous about any event. Probably why we are referred to in 1 Peter 2:9 as a peculiar people. I’m really staying upbeat for the rapture this spring … based on patterns … Israel will be 75 in 2023 and Abram entered the Promised Land when he was 75 so perhaps this is the timeframe when the church enters the heavenly Sweet Beulah Land? :whistle: 
