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NASB | Revelation 1:11 saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 1:11 saying, "Write on a scroll what you see [in this revelation], and send it to the seven churches--to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." |
Subject: REV 11 The Temple stands yet destroyed |
Bible Note: I do not believe we can set the date. While Rosh HaShanna is celebrated on a particular date, only the creator knows when the real Rosh HaShanna or Yom Teruah or Feast of Trumpets is (all different names for the same thing). I believe that the rapture will take place during the fall moedim or fall feast days before the tribulation. The literal translation of "moedim" which we call "feast days" is "appointed times". This is the same word used in Genesis when g-d says that he gives us the sun, moon etc. for signs and times and seasons. He gave them to us as signs of what "season" or "appointed times" we are in. He gave us the feast days to indicate what season in time we are in. Yeshua/Jesus told the people that they look at the clouds to tell wht the weather will be like yet you do not know what season it is. He said that no man knows the day or the hour, but he did not say we do not know the season. "No man knows the day and the hour..." is a common Jewish idiom for Rosh HaShanna. Rosh HaShanna time was determined by the report of two witnesses who slept in the field. They were looking for the first sign of the new year to report to the sanhedrin. Now only g-d can see the very first sliver of the new moon. Even NASA can not see the very fraction of a second or the very twinkling of an eye in which the new moon appears. So, a person would say to his neighbor, "Do you think Yom Teruah ("day of the awakening blast" named so for the trumpets blown at Rosh HaShana) will be here soon?" The common response was "No man knows the day or the hour." It is also known as the unknown day, the day of coronation because traditionally this is the day were kings who had been chosen were actually coronated. It is also called "the day of the awakening blast." There are poems that are read during Rosh HaShanna that have been read for a long time by the Jewish community about the awakening of the dead. Whether it is by the blast of a shofar or the force of a supernatural shout, God’s goal is to awaken us. “...Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” – Ephesians 5:14. On Rosh HaShanah, a shofar delivers the first blast, a silver trumpet the second, and then a shofar the third. he terms "great trump" and "last trump" are associated with the rams horns of Avrahams journey to sacrifice Yitchak/Isaac. These two trumps are names for two different feast days. The last trump is an idiom for Rosh Hashana and the Great trump is an idiom for Yom Kippur or the day of atonement. These are rams horns or shofars while the others blown during this season (over 100) are silver trumpets. So, when you see "the last trumpet" out of seven in Revelation, this is not the same thing as the "last trump" which is a shofar and not a silver trumpet. There is so much more to reveal about this season called teshuvah which means "to return" and that return is a call to return to god. So, I would say the rapture happens before the tribulation. So it is that Isaiah says that the lord says of his bride "come into the chamber for a little while until the indignation has passed....." he is telling her to come into his room or under his chuppah for a little while until all of the stuff had passed. It was tradition that there was a wedding week. We see this in the story of Jacob choosing two sisters, in the story of Samson, etc. After the end of the wedding week the bride and groom would come out of their chamber and be called king and queen for a day. Just as we will emerge from our chamber in heaven as the bride of King Yeshua. We are in a betrothal stage--which in Jewish eyes is a stage of marriage that is not yet consecrated. Just as Miryam and Yosef were betrothed but he had not yet known her. When Yeshua says "don't worry I go to prepare a place for you so that where I am you may be there also...if it were not so I would have told you" this was no new saying. It is what the groom would say to his betrothed to comfort her before he left her and returned to his father's home to work on the area they would occupy in the home. It could be a long time, and he wanted to reassure her that he really meant what he was saying. If you are single you should visit www.messianicshidduchim.org and click on "shadchan inquiry" in the left hand column |