Carl Worline (9
Aug 2020) "A Logical Date for
the Rapture"
A Logical Date for
the Rapture
God told us
that he does nothing on this
earth without first revealing it to His servants, the
prophets (Amos 3:7). How
could He possibly allow the greatest event since the
crucifixion to occur
without first telling us when it will happen??
Doesn’t the
Bible tell us that we can even know
the very hour if we watch?
Remember
therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and
repent. Therefore, if
you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and
you will not know what
hour I will come upon you.Revelation
3:3 NKJV
Taking a step back in
order to see the “big picture,” it
would seem to me that God will tell us in a way that is
very straight forward,
simple, and easy to understand by everybody when the
rapture will take place.
The Revelation 12 Sign
was all about the Rapture of the Church.It was a unique
event in all of history.It was also a signpost.A point to
measure from.A
warning to get ready.A warning to repent.
I am convinced that
the Rapture of the Church will occur
40 sidereal months after the Revelation 12 Sign.Precisely 40
sidereal months after the
Revelation 12 Sign is Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of
Trumpets, on September 18th
thru September 20th, 2020.
How did I
come up with the number 40??
Numbers in
the Bible are very important.Forty is the
number for testing.For
example, Jesus fasted for 40 days before
starting His ministry.Moses and Elijah
also fasted for 40 days in the desert.The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years
before entering the
Promised Land.The
Bible tells us the
Ezekiel laid on his right side for 40 days to bear the
iniquity of Judah’s
sins.Three
of Israel’s most famous
kings each ruled for 40 years – Solomon, David, and Saul.Goliath taunted
the armies of Israel for 40
days before being killed by young David.God killed every living thing by raining on the
earth for 40 days and 40
nights during the Great Flood.When God
proclaimed judgment against Egypt, He said that Egypt
would be desolate for 40
years.God
gave Nineveh 40 days to
repent or be destroyed.Israel was in
captivity to the Philistines for 40 years.The spies that Moses sent to check on the Promised
Land were there for 40
days.Speaking
about Moses, he was on
Mount Sinai for 40 days the first time he went up to get
the ten commandments
from God and again for 40 days the second time he went up
the mountain.There
are many other examples.In fact, the number 40 appears 159 times in
the Bible.Perhaps
God is trying to tell
us something.
Why do I
count sidereal months??
The moon
has always been symbolic of the
Bride of Christ.The
moon does not give
off any light of its own.Rather, it
reflects the light of the sun (Son).It
is also a heavenly body of incredible beauty.
After a
period of precisely 40 sidereal
months, the moon once again returns to a place beneath the
feet of the woman,
depicted by the constellation Virgo.It
does so on Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, in 2020,
just as it did on September
23, 2017, when the Revelation 12 Sign was fulfilled.
For those
who are unfamiliar, a sidereal
month is 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, and 12 seconds
long.It is
the amount of time needed for the moon
to return to the same place against the background of
stars as seen from the earth.A sidereal month
is not to be confused with a
synodic month, which is a little over two days longer.
Sidereal
months are the appropriate unit to
use when counting forward from the Revelation 12 Sign
because they involve the
perceived position of the moon against the background of
stars, as seen from
the earth.
The beauty
of the Revelation 12 Sign as a
signpost and a point to measure forward from is that it is
in the heavens for
the entire population of the earth to observe.Likewise, it can also be understood by all of
mankind regardless of what
language each person may speak.This
entire concept is beautifully simplistic.
The
Revelation 12 Sign was also a warning to
get ready and to repent.
Didn’t God
tell us in the very first chapter
of the very first book of the Bible that He put lights in
the heavens to be for
signs and for seasons as well as for counting days and
years??
And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and
years.Genesis
1:14 KJV