RaptureReady.com is a website dedicated to end-time events leading to our blessed rapture. We all would love to know the exact date, and we are thankful and blessed by all the rapture watchers on YouTube and other places who diligently search the scriptures to find clues as to when it could possibly be.

The latest series of many, many videos pointed to the 8th and 9th of Av, July 26-28 on the Jewish calendar as being a high watch time due to it being what they call the wine Pentecost, and even the coincidental date of July 26 as being the numerical date of 7-26 which is the number for Harpazo in Strong’s concordance for the meaning of “rapture.” There is other strong “coincidental” evidence that also points to this time period. But, obviously, it did not occur then.

Jesus tells us that no one can know the exact day and hour. Why? Because Jesus was a Galilean, and they had their own wedding customs that were different from the Arab and other Jewish wedding customs.

We, the church, are the bride of Jesus. Did Jesus ever propose to us? Yes, He did. When you look at the Galilean wedding customs, which Jesus is following to the T, you see that Jesus’ proposal to His bride the church occurred at the Last Supper when Jesus offered His potential bride a cup of wine. Drinking it meant the bride accepts the bridegroom’s proposal according to the Galilean wedding custom. That custom also says the bridegroom says he will not drink from that cup again until in his Father’s house. It also says he will go away to his Father’s house to prepare a place for him and his bride, and she is to wait for him to complete it in order to come get her to take back to her new home.

What makes the Galilean wedding custom different from all other wedding customs is the father of the bridegroom is the “only one” who knew the exact date when his son was to come back for his bride. Once the father told his son to go get his bride, then is when he came back for her and took her to live where with him. She was put on what’s called a “lift,” which is a chair mounted on two poles, and she was lifted up into the air to go to her new home. It was called flying the bride to her new home.

Obviously, it is easy to see that Jesus is following the Galilean wedding customs exactly. We are now waiting for the Father to tell His Son Jesus, ‘Go get your bride, Son,’ and Jesus comes for His bride the church in the AIR, and we are flown to our new eternal home to be with Him in what is called the rapture of the church.

All of this is explained in much more detail in a 2020 movie entitled Before the Wrath. I highly recommend you watch it for all of the amazing details. I’m pretty sure it is available on YouTube, Prime, Netflix, or Tubi. It’s interesting that Jesus says we cannot know the exact day and hour, but He does not say we cannot know the year, month, or even week.

So, what to look for, to narrow things down? We look for signs that the beginning of the 7-year tribulation is near, as described in Daniel 9 when a world leader sets up a 7-year treaty to bring peace to Israel and perhaps to the whole world.

There are many, many videos on YouTube that claim mathematically that Jesus’ 2nd coming should be in the year 2030, which makes logical sense when you examine the evidence for that. When you subtract the 7-year tribulation from 2030, you get 2023, and thus, there is good reason to get more excited about perhaps the soon beginning of the tribulation. And we KNOW that the rapture is in “front” of the beginning of the tribulation.

I do find it interesting that the United Nations has what they call a 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals that began in 2015. It provides a – and I quote – “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.” It ends in 2030. It is now 7 years from their completion date in 2030, and guess when they meet this year? Sep 18-19 on Rosh Hashanah, a very important fall feast date on the Jewish calendar. Many Bible prophecy students watch for the feast of trumpets on “any” Rosh Hashanah, but it appears the signs that the beginning of the tribulation is near is a more important event to look for “timing-wise.”

However, two things have to occur for that event to be the 7 years Daniel 9 is talking about. There “has to be” an antichrist world leader coming onto the scene to be part of it, and the rapture has to have already occurred. The Bible tells us that the antichrist cannot be revealed until the Restrainer, the Holy Spirit-filled church, is removed from the scene – raptured. IF this event is the start of the Daniel 9 covenant, then the rapture must occur in front of it.

When you look at the scriptures, you will see that God always moves His righteous to a “safe place” right before He brings down His wrath, as in the case of Noah, Lot, and Moses’ 10th plague. These involved only 2 families and the Israelites in Egypt in those 3 examples. The 4th example is the HUGE one with God’s righteous being the church located all over the planet, and the only “safe place” for us is in heaven before God brings down His wrath on earth.

This would seem to be saying that “if” the September 18 UNSDG event is the Daniel 9 event, the rapture needs to occur between now and then. Is it possible that a world leader could come onto the scene in such a short time frame? I would say “maybe” when you consider how devastating and quickly an event like the rapture will change the whole world.

Notice how this article is focused on the beginning of the tribulation vs the date of the rapture. 2023 being 7 years before a possible 2030 2nd return of Jesus brings a new level of anticipation that we’ve never had before as we head into the fall. Will this occur this year? We hope and pray it will. We’ll soon know.

Maranatha, Lord Jesus

David Cogburn

davidcogburn80@gmail.com

 

As I am writing this now, there is a Congressional hearing in the United States called by the White House into UFOs which are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). This hearing is chaired by a Mr. Grothman.

I was quite impressed with the number in attendance and the high profile this has, and on Day 1, the highlight was three persons of seemingly good credibility who testified as to their own experiences. One was a former navy pilot (Ryan Graves); one was associated with the aircraft carrier Nimez, a retired Navy Commander named David Fravor; and the third one was a whistleblower from within a government department that has been investigating these UFO sightings, and he is David Grusch. One man who had been working in intelligence into UFOs said quite categorically in answer to a question that the Government or a government agency actually has remains from crashed vehicles (space vehicles) that are not human.

I am not here to decide on anything but have two ears, though one is not as it should be, and I listen and think about it all.

This, of course, may be a dilemma for some Christians, while others will dismiss all this as a hoax.

I suppose all this raises the possibility of life on other planets, certainly not in our galaxy but in others, and the speculation will not go away but will increase. How is a Christian meant to understand all this? Of course, there will be many different opinions, and some people will be very adamant about their position. It is always amazing how some are so adamant with so little information, and that applies to any topic where evidence is circumstantial.

When we try to put all this together, I have come up with five possibilities to explain what many have put on record. These are the five possibilities (not counting hoaxes, of which there could be many).

1. Delusions, or unexplained data. Optical illusions play a part, and so can imagination. Sometimes the brain wants to interpret what it can’t readily explain or identify.
2. Human interventions from an unknown source. This could be either Government or private individuals or even from certain nations, though the latter possibility is quite remote because people testifying to all these sightings mention aspects that no human intervention has so far mastered.
3. Aliens, or something visiting from space. I recently saw a science fiction movie from the early 1950s called “Cosmic Man,” the earlier term for what we would now call Aliens. In that decade, many Sci-fi movies were produced, and some of them featured aliens coming to Earth to explain the great danger to the universe of atomic testing. This was the “flying saucer age.” Hundreds upon hundreds of space movies and cataclysmic and apocalyptic subjects are everywhere.
4. Unexplainable phenomena from nature. We do not understand some of our natural world and must not jump to conclusions if there is something that defies explanation.
5. Demonic activity and signs in the atmosphere. Satan is the Prince of the air, and demons are powerful beings. They reside in the world’s atmosphere.

Many questions arise from each of those possibilities, and it is not my purpose at this time to try to explain them in detail. Of those five possibilities, the one that I would dismiss is number three because I do not think myself that God has placed life, certainly intelligent life, in any other place in the universe. The heavens show the glory of God and his magnificent handiwork, and I think He allows us to see that from the earthly perspective. I do not believe there is intelligent life on other planets, for then, in the definition of God’s creation, we must attribute souls and possibly spirits to that creation. I know that people like to speculate; even those in churches do that, but I feel sure that Earth is the only place where God has placed created life.

The explanation that I would favor, if all the recorded data is genuine, would be that of demonic activity. I am not being fanciful in saying that, but we are right at the end of the Church age, and many evil things are afoot. The demonic activity in my own nation is now like a skyrocket and getting worse by the day. This nation is adopting the spiritism and Satanism of the Aborigines at an intense pace, all promoted by the Federal and State governments. Satan’s power is increasing rapidly because people are pursuing wickedness, satanic activities, occult practices, and a denial of and hatred toward God.

Satan is the prince and power of the air, and the atmosphere is his realm, so it is not surprising that here at the very end before the Rapture – and we know that in the Tribulation, there are going to be such lying wonders and delusions with the greatest display of Satanism this world has ever known – that we might be seeing some of these lying wonders even in our own age to deceive further an unrepentant earth. It is little wonder that we might now be seeing strange things happening and an increasing account of what the world is now calling Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

I think it is interesting that when the Rapture occurs, there will be three audible sounds for the ears of the Christians, not for the world, for the world will hear none of them. We are told the Lord descends with a shout, and I think that shout will be the words of Revelation chapter 4 verse one – “Come up here!” Then we have the sound of the trumpet, and that is the rallying call for all the believers since the time of Adam to rise to receive their new bodies. Then the third sound we read of is the voice of the Archangel, and we do not know what it is that Michael will say. However, this is just my thought that Michael’s voice will silence into impotence the demonic hordes that inhabit the atmosphere of this world as the saints rise and pass through Satan’s realm to the very presence of their blessed Saviour.

It will not surprise me at all if we get more and more reports of signs in the atmosphere around the world. I have searched quite thoroughly for science fiction movies that are available on YouTube, and I am surprised at how many there are stretching right back to the 1940s and coming out with increasing rapidity in these last few years. Many of them feature Alien invasion from spaceships and apocalyptic events such as meteorites hitting the earth, causing great destruction and the sun heating up. I happened to watch one of these recently, and it was putting me right in the middle of Revelation 16. The writers of these stories I doubt had any idea of the events in Revelation. What’s more, so many of them are churning this stuff out as if the world is being prepared for what is ahead.

This Congressional hearing in the United States is going to reveal some very surprising facts and events. I don’t dismiss them, that is, not all of them, and as I have said, I put them down to possible demonic signs and activity or maybe unknown signs in nature. At one stage, I would have dismissed any notion of UFOs (flying saucers), but something is happening, and I am not sure what.

There are things we cannot explain and must not jump to conclusions. Some years ago, I had left home about 5 o’clock in the morning in my boat that had no lights on, heading out to the Great Barrier Reef to do some reef fishing. I was a few miles offshore with just enough light to see, and on my left, about a half mile away, I saw a green light, a lovely glowing green. It had nothing to do with my boat or any light onshore, but this light traveled in a straight line, probably no more than 100 yards above the ocean, at a very rapid speed that I would estimate was somewhere around 100 meters a second. It went straight along parallel to the water, took a turn almost fully vertical, and quickly disappeared from view. I am not a looney, and I don’t know what it was I saw, but I am certain it was not alien and that it was not demonic. Some things we just can’t explain.

Just to finish on this – Some weeks back, I did watch one of these 1950 Sci-fi movies called “The 27th Day” (1957). Here is the story briefly I took from an Internet site:

An alien from a dying planet brings five average people from England, Germany, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States onto its spacecraft. Each person is given a case containing vials that can destroy all life within a 3,000-mile radius. They’re told that the earth will be spared complete destruction if all five can keep their respective governments from using the capsules for 27 days, but escalating Cold War tensions between the Americans and the Russians make that a difficult promise.

Well, the 5 of them did succeed, and the moral that ended the movie was that the world can cooperate (through the UN) to map out a bright future for mankind. They were the days when the UN was considered to be a body for world peace and advancement.

Today, Christians recognize the UN, especially the WHO, as one of the greatest forces of evil in the world.

There is a hymn/song that I can’t say I know, but it looks really good, written by Thomas Nelson and called “Glories of Christ.” Here is one stanza from it:

I’m worn with constant warring,

Where fiery darts still fly;

My weary soul is longing

To soar to realms on high.

For I long to see Christ come

And take all his ransomed home

To the house of many mansions,

There to rest in peace at home.

Yes, it will be very soon that WE WILL SOAR TO REALMS ON HIGH through Satan’s domain.

COME, LORD JESUS, COME.

ronaldf@aapt.net.au