Those of you who follow my writings know how fervently I have petitioned the body of Christ to refrain from un-Biblical attempts to date set or timeframe the resurrection/rapture of the church. What we have witnessed this September is one of the saddest and most inexplicable moments I have ever witnessed. And seeing so many trustworthy members of the prophetic community – many of whom I admire and respect – partake in the hype generated by these false prophecies, took me utterly by surprise, staggering the mind and sorrowing the heart.
What we have just witnessed leading up to The Feast of Trumpets [Rosh Hashanah or Yom Ter’uah], specifically the dates of September 23rd and 24th of 2025, has been nothing short of breathtaking. Just when I thought it could not get any worse, it does.
I am sorry, but the rapture will most likely never occur on The Feast of Trumpets [Rosh Hashanah or Yom Ter’uah], or The Feast of Pentecost [Shavuot], or any other Feast of the Lord, or any date that man or angel may predict, for only the Father knows the (literal) day and hour (divinely set timeframe) that He will send His Son to fetch His bride, just as the Jewish/ Galilean wedding typifies, and we can be certain that He will share His glory with no one – so says our Lord and so says His perfect and inerrant Word.
Though I would obviously have never partaken in date setting the rapture – and taking a cue from both Daniel’s and Jeremiah’s intercessory prayers – in this prayer I offer to God, I seek to identify myself with those who have.
My fervent hope and desire is that all, if not most – especially those who succumbed to this dreadful error and lapse of Biblical judgment – will join me in this prayer to the Father. Please, if you feel so inclined, join me in petitioning our God in heartfelt prayer together.
Heavenly Father God, we humbly come before you in prayer and sorrow, acknowledging our fatal error of attempting to predict the resurrection/rapture of the church – something you have never asked us to do and goes against every Word of our Lord and Savior telling us that no man or woman would know the (literal) day or the hour (divinely set timeframe) of His return, that He would come at an hour (divinely set timeframe) we least expect, and that He would come as a thief in the night, along with other declarations to the same effect – by asking Your forgiveness for our individual and collective sin in this matter.
The world, Lord, is laughing at us, and by extension, they are laughing at You, which should never ever occur as we are to be Your ambassadors on Earth, sharing Your love and truth with a world that so desperately needs to know You and Your Son’s free-gift offer of salvation. We have lost our focus and instead have given in to our fleshly pride, believing we can know something You have said in Your Word no one can ever know. The damage we have caused in succumbing to our prideful desires in being the first to successfully predict the time of Your Son’s return for His bride has caused irreparable harm to our witness in the church and to the world. Thankfully, our failings are Your opportunity to show Yourself mighty even in the face of our obvious sins. Your grace and mercy are without measure.
Lord, we have witnessed the absolute destructive repercussions of our fruitless, prideful, and fleshly endeavor, believing and declaring to our brothers and sisters and the world at large that Your Son was coming at a specific time, when He most certainly was not. When we see videos posted on the internet of people who call upon Your glorious Name, selling all their possessions, going to the mountains, and eagerly awaiting Your Son’s return for them, and then finding out that it was all a lie that was perpetrated by Your own people, well, Father, it breaks our hearts, as it rightfully should.
The immense damage we have done will most likely be felt for a lifetime. The world is laughing us to scorn, as it should. Every time we try and predict the rapture with 100% inaccuracy, we are literally fulfilling 2 Peter 3:3-4, causing others within Your church and within the world to mock and scoff us, and, regrettable and ashamedly, You and Your Son. Who would have known that Your own people were the ultimate reason the scoffers and mockers would come out to mock and scoff Your people, Your Son, and You in the last days? Well, Father, You knew; this is why You inspired Peter to write down this end-of-days prophecy.
We should have known better; we have sinned a great sin against You; we have sinned against our brothers and sisters; and we have even sinned against the world in showing them our arrogancy and pride instead of our fervent love and mercy toward them, which we should have rather done because this is our God-ordained mission.
How is it that we could be taken in by such deception, since we are supposed to be the ones who hold to the truth of Your Word? How could we believe those who claimed that Jesus spoke to them about a date He said no one could ever know? How could we not see that these predictions are, and were, given either by man’s own corrupt imaginations or inspired by the Enemy of our souls as he and his demons masquerade as angels of light and even impersonate our Lord and Savior?
Please forgive Your flock, Father, as this is not entirely their fault (though they should know Your Word better than most of them do), but the culpability primarily falls on those who claim to be the shepherds of Your precious flock and have led Your people astray in this matter – Pastors, Bible teachers, and Bible prophecy teachers. For those of us shepherds who truly and honestly humble themselves, publicly repent of their egregious error, and reverentially come to Your throne of grace and ask You for forgiveness, then please forgive us, Father. You are faithful when we are faithless and in error and found outside of your will for our lives.
Father, please forgive us all. Please cleanse our spirits of this shameful deed. May we all come to realize that even though we are saved by grace through faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we still have a sin nature and rebellious pride to contend with while we walk with You and traverse this evil, fallen world. Our flesh and our spirit are constantly at war, just as Your Word declares. Please renew our spirits, and may we remember the errors of our ways as we move forward, never to partake in this dreadful and un-Biblical endeavor ever again.
May we have learned our lesson never to jump on any trend or craze that comes our way but in truth is diametrically opposed to Your revealed Word, of which there are many, and they are increasing in number by the day. May we, instead, fulfill our God-given mission to edify the body of Christ and to witness to, and share the gospel with, the lost who so desperately need Your Son.
Thank You for Your love, Father God. Thank You for Your grace. Thank You for Your peace. Thank You for all You have done, are doing, and will do for us who call upon Your glorious Name. Thank You for our divine calling. Thank you for Your forgiveness, mercy, and endless lovingkindness. Thank You for Your amazing Son!
Thank You, Father, for hearing our prayer and our heart in this sorrowful matter. We give you our all in rendering to You honor, and glory, and majesty, and power, and praise, for You are more than worthy. We pray these things, and so much more that we should be praying on behalf of those who urgently need our prayers and supplications, in Your wonderful Son’s holy Name. Amen.
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May we all keep Answering the Call of The Great Commission, and giving an answer to every man and woman who so desperately needs Jesus and asks us, “Why Am I Here and What Is It All About?”
Love, grace, mercy, and shalom in Messiah Yeshua, and Maranatha!
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