Re: Bruce
Kessler (7 May 2023) Pentecostal Rapture
Challenge
Bruce:
Thank you for your insightful commentary. I
attach the following as another possibility.
Sincerely, Greg Wilson
PENTECOSTAL
RAPTURE CHALLENGE
Fact:
Nobody is certain of the date of Pentecost. There
are always 4-5 dates.
Fact:
All of God’s Festivals (Leviticus 23) speak to salvation
and redemption process.
Fact:
The Spring festivals are all about salvation and
redemption of “Christ’s Own” following His first
Advent.
They are underlined below:
The symbolism represents “types” as stated in Colossians
2:16-17. These “festivals of the Lord” or “holydays”
are shadows of things to come. God invites us to
search and study the Scriptures of truth. God has
not spoken in a dark place. (Isaiah 45:19) He has not
hidden His word. (Proverbs 25:2) But, He does expect
you to desire His truth and prophetic challenges which
require diligent study and prayer.(2 Tim 2:15)
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Festival Name
Holydays
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Symbolism
Shadows
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Jesus
Fulfillment
Things to
come
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Passover
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Unblemished
Lamb Sacrificed (Leviticus 23:5)
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Lamb of God
self-sacrificed as a sin offering once for all
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Unleavened
Bread
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Bread
without leaven-leaven representing sin (Leviticus
23:6)
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Jesus buried
during unleavened bread as sinless Son of Man
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First
Fruits
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Wave grain
sheaf offering up to God (Leviticus 23:10-11) in
thanks for the coming harvest
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Jesus
represented the grain seed which had to die/fall
to the ground to produce much fruit. (John 12:24)
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Pentecost- Two stages
(read Ephesians 1:14 to confirm!)
(1) earnest
deposit of Spirit; (Acts 2:4; 2 Cor. 5:2-5)
(2) redemption
of body. Romans 8:23) and (1 Cor.
15:52; 1 Thess. 4:17)
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Two-loaf
wave offering raised up to God in thanks for the
harvest (Leviticus 23:15-17)
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The
resurrection/rapture event is represented by the
two loaves: (1) the dead in
Christ resurrected and (2) living in Christ
translated (raptured).
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Now, doesn’t make sense, that we can
know that Pentecost is the pilgrimage feast (Exodus
23:14-17) based on the symbolism or shadows of things to
come, that the Church’s resurrection and rapture is played
out in the Pentecostal symbolism. The Church
is the harvest that Jesus referred to and we are the
loaves the fruitfulness of His redemptive work.
Paul teases and challenges you to
notice that the First Resurrection has three stages or as
he says “orders”. Count them! Christ, the first fruit. (1
Cor. 15:20). Afterward, Christ’s own at His coming.
(1 Cor. 15:23,52). Then the end, when He shall have
delivered the Kingdom of God and rules with authority. (1
Cor. 15:24, Revelation 20:5) Notice that this
“first resurrection” comprising three orders is completed
at the Second
Advent.
Then, Jesus rules for 1,000 years, then the second
resurrection occurs, the resurrection of condemnation.
(John 5:29)