July 28, 2025

Greetings the Name of Jesus,

What is the single meaning of the words Harpazo Rapiemur Rapture?

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18:
¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

What is it that these verses are decrying?

Quoting some of the stanzas from the song “We Believe” by the News Boys are as follows: “In this time of desperation, when all we know is doubt and fear, there is only one foundation, we believe, we believe.”

1. we believe in God the Father
2. we believe in Jesus Christ
3. we believe in the Holy Spirit
4. and He has given us new life
5. we believe in the crucifixion
6. we believe He conquered death
7. we believe in the resurrection
8. and He’s coming back again, we believe

Numbers 1, 2, and 3 represent the Trinity
Number 4 defines a parameter or an event
Number 5 is the death number
Number 6 is the number of man
Number 7 is God’s number of perfection, completion
Number 8 a new beginning

To observe how God put the number of seven in President Trump’s life, go to the blog at binyaminlohman.com posted on July 11, 2019 which predicts his attempted assassination. The September 21, 2020 entry tells how the 7’s anointed President Trump.

Returning back to the three titles and their shared meaning: All their names mean “a snatching away of”.

Three views of the Rapture are as follows:

1. pre-Trib
2. mid-Trib
3. post-Trib         

Number three makes absolutely no sense so I will not waste time discussing it.

Number 2: the mid-Trib can be applied to the two witnesses that were killed by the Antichrist, who were dead on the streets of Jerusalem for three and one-half days. They then came to life and were raptured to heaven. The whole world will view this time thanks to satellite TV. Revelation11:11-13.

Number one will require more explanation. Looking at the old Jewish weddings in Jesus’ time, the groom would approach the bride and her father to offer the dowry. If the young woman and her father accepted, the young man would return to his father’s house to build a house for his bride. When the young man’s father felt his son was ready, he would tell his son, “Go get your bride, Son”. (Rapture?) Is not the Church the Bride of Christ? Do you see the parallel between the ancient Jewish wedding and the Rapture? What generation will see the rapture and when does it occur? On May 14, 1948 a nation is born in one day, it was the nation of Israel. Matthew 24:34: “Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass until all of these things be fulfilled.”

When does the Rapture occur? Matthew 24:36: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

I should have mentioned earlier that the Bride of Christ refers to all believers, dead and living who have accepted Jesus as their Savior.

Let us study some numbers in Joshua chapter 6. Marching before the Arc of the Covenant were 7 priests with 7 trumpets of ram’s horns. They marched for 7 days. The first 6 days the circled Jericho in a clockwise fashion one time each day. On the 7^th day Joshua and his people circle Jericho 7 times. The 7^th time on the 7^th day blowing the ram’s horns and shouting, the walls all fell in except a small section of the north wall where Rahab and her family were.

Note: 5 – 7’s, also 6 + 7 = 13 times around Jericho. Jericho – 13 is the number of implied or actual violence. Note the 5 – 7’s in the destruction of Jericho.

There are 7 feasts of God, also referred to as the 7 Jewish Feasts.

Spring Feasts
            1. Feast of Passover
            2. Feast of Unleavened Bread
            3. Feast of First Fruit
            4. Pentecost

Jesus fulfills these 4 Spring Feasts in 54 days to the day.

Fall Feasts
            5. Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teru’ah) or Feast of Trumpets. Tishrei 1
            6. Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the 10^th of Tishrei
            7. Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

It will take much longer than the 54 days required for Jesus to fulfill the Spring Feasts. It will take over 7 years to fulfill the 3 Fall Feasts.

Let us examine Rosh Hashanah 2025, the eve of September 21, 22, & 23.

Remember Matthew 24:34 where Jesus said “no one knows the day or the hour”. There are two meanings in His statement. Meaning one is “No one knows the day or hour.”

Now for meaning two. To determine the new moon for the month of Tishrei, two or more rabbis had to agree by viewing the new moon in Jerusalem. This feast is approximately 2 ½ days. Why? The new moon might appear on the first evening or maybe the second evening. This new moon signaled the 1^st day of the 7^th month of the ancient Religious Jewish calendar. This feast was known as the “feast when no one knoweth the day or hour”. Jesus was letting it be known He would return some year on the Feast of Trumpets!

Listen to the numbers talk. May 14, 2025 was the 77^th year that Israel became a nation in one day. Rosh Hashanah signals the beginning the 7^th month – Tishri on the ancient Jewish Religious calendar.

From May 14, 2025 to the last day of Rosh Hashanah, September 23, 2025 is 133 days. Dividing 133 by 7 gives the result of 19. From the book “The Other Witness” 19 is defined as a “period of new beginning or a period of decline”. Does not this precisely describe the Rapture?

1. A glorious new beginning with Jesus
2. A typical period of decline for the left behinds

Instantly after the rapture, the 7 years of tribulation begins.

Joshua             5-7^s
2025                5-7^s
The sevens have spoken.

Are You Ready for the Rapture?

Ben