Rapture @ Pentecost

I didn't write the below myself, but I believe God spoke to me to pass it on to you:

We have always felt that Pentecost is the one most likely time for the Lord to remove those who are looking and longing to be with Him. Below is an excerpt from my book: Don't Be Left Behind, which was written in 2007 when we re-started our ministry:

Chapter 7 – Feast of Pentecost

As discussed in the last Chapter, the Feast of Pentecost is the most likely day for the Rapture of Firstfruit Believers. Firstfruit Believers are those Christians also characterized by the “5 wise virgins” who are found looking and ready when the Bridegroom returns. They are described in the book of Revelation as the Church of Philadelphia who are given the wonderful promise of escaping the Tribulation period:

“(8) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name…. (10) Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:8 & 10)

The Firstfruit Believer is obedient to the word of God and found doing what the Word says to do and not merely listening to it:

“¶ (21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. (22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” (James 1:21-22)

Also, the Firstfruit Believers are those Christians who have demonstrated that they have died to their old life by allowing the Holy Spirit to control their lives so they become what the word of God describes as overcomers:

“(21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Revelation 3:21-22)

The Firstfruit Believers are those wise and faithful Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit (empowered and directed by) which enables them to be overcomers. As a result, these Christians will rule and reign with Christ when He returns. In our book: The Coming Spiritual Earthquake we go into greater detail and describe the requirements for being among the Firstfruit Believers and how to prepare to meet the Bridegroom (see: www.ProphecyCountdown.com).

Pentecost = Rapture Feast ?

The Holy Spirit came 50 days after the resurrection to empower and anoint Believers for the ministry of the Church. We believe the Lord could remove those anointed Firstfruit Believers who are “filled with the Holy Spirit” on this same Feast Day.

As we approach the time of the Rapture, it would be beneficial to remember the story of Noah. In this story, God told Noah the exact day of his deliverance 7 days in advance:

“Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” (Genesis 7:4 – NIV)

Jesus told us in Matthew 24:27: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” Remember from Chapter 2, the wise and faithful followers of Jesus are to know the time of their deliverance. As Noah knew the time of the Great Flood, we believe that we can and should know the time of the Lord’s return. Since Jesus said His coming will be the same as it was as in Noah’s day it would be advantageous to look into this time a little closer.

The days of Noah also include the time of Noah’s great grandfather Enoch:

“Enoch walked with God; then he was no more because God took him away.” (Genesis 5:24)

Enoch was the first person to ever be Raptured from the earth. Because Enoch walked with God, God removed him from the earth prior to when the Great Flood arrived. While the word of God does not indicate when this event occurred, there is a book entitled: The Secrets of Enoch which records that Enoch was Raptured on his birthday, the sixth of Sivan. The sixth of Sivan just happens to be the Feast of Pentecost. Enoch was born and Raptured on the Feast of Pentecost! (Note: In 2012, Pentecost falls on the 6th of Sivan!)

Another name for Pentecost is the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of Harvest. Notice that there are three annual festivals:

“(14) ¶ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

(15) Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

(16) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.” (Exodus 23:14-16)

Notice that the 2^nd of the three annual festivals is known as the Feast of Harvest and also known as the Feast of Weeks:

“(22) Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest…” (Exodus 34:22 – NIV)

The Feast of Weeks was the harvest festival celebrated with the Firstfruits of the wheat harvest (Matthew 3:12 and 13:30). The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost is the time of celebration for the Firstfruits of the wheat crop. Pentecost is actually called the day of Firstfruits:

“(26) On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the Feast of Weeks,…” (Numbers 28:26 – NIV)

The day of Firstfruits is Pentecost. Enoch was Raptured on Pentecost as a type picture of the Firstfruit Believer. Because Enoch pleased God by walking with Him, God Raptured Enoch as a type picture on the day of Firstfruits or Pentecost.

Based upon this beautiful similitude, the Feast of Pentecost could very well be the time for God to Rapture His Firstfruit Believers from the earth. It is the day of Firstfruits and a Feast of Harvest. For those Firstfruit Believers walking with God, the Rapture could take them home to be with Him on this same day, the anniversary of the Rapture of Enoch, the day of Firstfruits.

Enoch was born and Raptured on his Birthday. Enoch is a type of Firstfruit Believer since he is described as one who walked with God and he pleased God. The Holy Spirit came 50 days after the resurrection to empower and “anoint” Believers for the ministry of the Church. On this same Feast Day, the Lord could remove those “anointed” Firstfruit Believers who are found pleasing in the sight of God because they are walking with God by being “filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Since Enoch was born and Raptured on the Feast of Pentecost, and Pentecost is the actual day of Firstfruits in celebration of the harvest of the Firstfruits wheat crop, God could harvest His Firstfruit Believers on this day: the Feast of Pentecost. It would be prior to the general harvest at the Feast of Ingathering (Exodus 23:16) which will take place at the end of the Tribulation. God removes the Firstfruits in the Spring at Pentecost, followed by the Main Harvest after the hot summer sun in the Fall on the Feast of Trumpets. As God removed Enoch prior to the time of the Great Flood, God should also remove Enoch’s protégés (the Firstfruit Believers) prior to the Great Tribulation.

The Firstfruit Believer is obedient to the word of God and is a member of the Church of Philadelphia. They are the “5 Wise Virgins” who have done what the word of God says to do and they are “filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18) which is evidenced by the extra measure of oil that they carried in their jars. They are actively waiting and watching for their Bridegroom to return for their wedding day and they are constantly praying the prayer Jesus told them to pray:

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:34-36)

 

Ron