The Rapture Puzzle

ehind or came to Christ during the Great Tribulation period starting on September 24, 2015.The Bible gives us a 1260-day period of judgment that was to have taken placeon the earth. The beast was to have been given 42 months to exercise hisauthority on the earth without restraint (see Revelation 13:5). The woman (Brideof Christ) was to be taken to a place prepared for her by God for 1260 days (seeRevelation 12:6, 14). Daniel speaks of this 1260 days as a ―time, times and half atime‖ (see Daniel 7:25).Daniel 12:12 tells us that those who reach the end ofthe 1335 days are blessed. Haggai 2 tells us that fromthe 24 th day of the 9 th month, the Lord will bless us.This is the start of Hanukkah. The first day of Hanukkah (Kislev 25) is theblessed day, the end of the 1335 day count. If we count from May 1, 2013,to December 25, 2016, the first day of Hanukkah, there are 1335 days.The Jewish calendar was off by one month in theyears of 2012 and 2013. The Jewish people starttheir Biblical year in the month of Aviv. Themeaning of the word ―aviv‖ is the stage in the growth of grain when the seedshave reached full size and are filling with starch, but have not dried yet. TheJewish people are supposed to wait until the grain is ―aviv‖ before they starttheir Biblical New Year. However, in modern times, the Jews have a presetcalendar that has nothing to do with when the grain ripens in the land of Israel.In the Spring of 2012, the grain was not yet ripe in Israel when the Jewishpeople started their calendar, so they should have added a 13 th month in theSpring of 2012 before starting their Biblical New Year. This would have alsopushed back the calendar in the Spring of 2013. There was a 13 th month addedto the calendar in the Spring of 2014, which should not have been added in2014, but rather in 2012, when the grain was not ―aviv‖.What this means is that May 1, 2013, should have been the true 7 th day ofUnleavened Bread. The Jewish people celebrate 3 festivals every year that lastfor 7 or 8 days. These are Unleavened Bread, Tabernacles and Hanukkah (which was a secondTabernacles festival added in 165 BC). The 7 th day of each of these festivals is a Sabbath and isactually the most important day of the festival. It was on the 7 th day of Unleavened Bread that theIsraelites crossed the Red Sea, the walls of Jericho fell and when Peter escaped from prison when hewas rescued by an angel. All three of these events from the Scriptures foreshadow the rapture takingplace on the 7 th day of Unleavened Bread.The Israelites crossed over from Egypt (representing the world)into the Promised Land (representing Heaven). The Lord tells usin Exodus 19:4 that He brought the Israelites out on eagles’wings. “You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, andhow I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you tomyself.‖ This is a clear reference to Revelation 12:14, where theBride of Christ is given wings of an eagle to go to a place38