Ezekiel 38, 2 minutes with JD Hello brothers and sisters. With the world the way it is, we should be gone already in my estimation. It seems like everything is in place. What are we missing? Only Jesus. The eighth day of Tabernacles seemed perfect. Now people are talking Halloween. Jesus did say that people would still be buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage, so it cannot get too much worse, can it? Please excuse the rambling, but it seems that all of the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed, and this world has lost most of its allure. It’s hard to plan anything, especially with the unstable environment on all fronts. Seems like 2024 should be the year. Just my thoughts. Yep. It's Friday in Jerusalem and we're pretty disheartened. There don't appear to be any moedim left this year. @patrician Thanks. I was, of course, hoping to go before the election, and whatever chaos happens around then. @terry I know how you feel Terry, it seems like it has to be this fall. However our departure does not have to be on a feast day, even though we all tend to believe that Jesus's return with us will be. Remember when He ascended to Heaven after being with the disciples for 40 days? that day is now known as ascension day but was not anything special before that. There is one interesting bit of possibility but not being dogmatic about it at all. If Tishri was actually October and Cheshvan is November- then the 10th day of Cheshvan is the day Noah went into the Ark, and 7 days later it started to rain. So I am just hoping that one additional aspect of "as in the days of Noah" may also mean we are raptured that day and perhaps Daniel's 70th week starts a week later mirroring when it started to rain. That day happens to be Nov 11th or 11/11, which strangely I have been seeing a lot of but I don't claim any special knowledge for sure. Either way, at least it is another day to look at while we wait on Hanukkah, lol @terry Remember, Dr Barry only uses the moon for the calendar, and by his reckoning the 8th day of Tabernacles (Shimini Atzeret) is 10-26. That's basically Saturday in Jerusalem. With all of these wonderful Bible scholars that watch with us, it must be near. In years past there weren’t nearly as many as there are now looking for it to happen any minute. We shouldn't forget that following the Last Trump, the dead in Christ rise first. I don't think anyone knows how long that process will take. The mention of twinkling of an eye may just be the process when our body goes from corruptible to incorruptible. When the centurions saw the light in the tomb, that was Jesus' body transforming as the First Fruit of the Harvest. That was in a twinkling of an eye or immediately. How we get from here to the clouds may take a while. One thing is for certain, once we are in an incorruptible body, it doesn't matter what's going on down here on earth. Maranatha!
