Hello John and Doves,
I wrote a little bit about the 17th day of the second
month in this letter last week:
And since that day is this coming this 'Tuesday -
Thursday' (depends on the calendar/sighted new moon), I
decided to write a bit more.
This time period covers exactly Allhallowtide -
October 31, November 1 and 2. A very interesting three
day time period in relation to a possible Rapture.
We've come around again to this day - the anniversary
of the start of the Great Flood. As I wrote in last
week's letter, we think the second month corresponds to the
month we are in now, Cheshvan.
The 17th day would be about October 31 - November 1 -
November 2. Depending on if using the new moon
sighting.
October 31 is Halloween or All Hallows' Eve.
November 1 is All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day.
November 2 is All Souls' Day. These were
established back in the 8th century A.D. These have
been celebrated through out Christendom ever since as Holy
Days. And these days are not just 'catholic
days'. Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodist, Protestants,
etc. celebrate these days.
The Hallowed
Eve Rapture - October 31st?:
Dr Barry Awe has updated his 'usual' information on
this day on his youtube channel:
He starts the video off by saying the anniversary
flood date this year is Halloween.
He and his wife had thought since all the dates they
were looking at this year have passed that we'd be looking
forward to next year's dates for the Rapture. But then with
all of the current events and with the way things are going
in the Middle East, with Israel - they said they can't
ignore this - it's not what they thought - something is up
and then they were reminded of the Flood. "And the
anniversary of the day that the Lord first sent sudden
destruction....the prophecy says, 'when they shall say peace
and safety then sudden destruction shall fall upon
them." The 17th day of the 2nd month (or 8th
month) is this Halloween or Hallowed Eve and will be an
exact number of years since the first time.
Dr. Barry's previous videos on this teaching are still
relevant today. He's updated a previous video for today's
teaching. I didn't listen to that part, since I
watched it last year. For me, the pertinent part of
today's video is the first few minutes with Dr. Awe and his
wife. Very encouraging.
run time 1:18:00
Never thought about Halloween being a Rapture day -
but that's certainly a possibility this year.
October 31 is
Halloween or All Hallow's Eve:
"According to some scholars, the
Christian Church absorbed some Celtic practices associated
with Samhain (summers end) and Christianised the celebration
in order to ease the Celts conversion to Christianity, other
scholars maintain that the Christian observance of All
Hallows' Eve arose completely independent of Samhain."
Allhallowtide
- Wikipedia
"They believed the festival was a
time when the dead could walk among the living."
(I had written a Doves letter a while back about a
Prophecy Watchers article about when the dead are raised on
the Rapture day that they may actually walk among the living
for a while before being 'taken'. We are changed in
the twinkling of an eye - not taken to Heaven in a twinkling
of an eye. Is there a bit of a time gap there?
Like when the dead saints were seen walking in Jerusalem
when Christ was crucified - then those people must have been
'raptured' at some time later - but they were seen walking
around after being resurrected from the dead.
Interesting thought for our future Rapture.)
November 1 is
All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day:
"Pope Gregory III established November 1 as All
Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, a day to honor
all saints of the church that have attained heaven.
"The evening before All Saints' Day became a holy, or
hallowed even and thus Halloween," according to
Encyclopedia Brittanica." (Even though these
days
November
2 is "All Souls' Day.
All
three of these days together, All Hallows' Eve, All Saint's
Day and All Souls' Day make up Allhallowtide.
Allhallowtide:
It's
interesting that Allhallowtide has a connection to
the Great Flood. "It has been thought that the
first three days of Allhallowtide may have originated as a
ritualistic remembrance of the deluge (Great Flood) in which
the first night, All Hallow's Eve remembers the wickedness
of the world before the flood. The second night then
celebrates the saved who survived the deluge and the last
night celebrates those who would repopulate the Earth."
Allhallowtide
- Wikipedia
On
Hallow's Eve (Halloween), October 31, "some believed that
the veil between the material world and the afterlife
thinned." The Christian Church
traditionally observed Halloween through a vigil - the Vigil
of All Hallows or the Vigil of All Saints. "After the
service...there was a visit to the graveyard of
cemetery where flowers and candlers are often
places in preparation for All Saint's Day."
All
Saints' Day, November 1, "is a holy day to honour all the
saints and martyrs, both known and
unknown." It is a "universal Christian holy
day." "On All Saints' Day, many Christians
visit graveyards and cemeteries in order to place
flowers and candles on the graves of their loved ones."
All
Souls' Day, November 2, is also called "the Commemoration
of All Faithful Departed" and the "Day of the Dead"
Graves are also visited on this day - and flowers and
lighted candles were placed on the graves of deceased love
ones.
Allhallowtide
- Wikipedia
What an
interesting 'three days' in reference to a possible
Rapture! (And All Souls' Day is the THIRD Day -
"After two days will he revive us, in the third day he will
raise us up", Hosea 6:2)
All Souls' Day
"is for remembering people who have died." "Today, All
Souls' Day is observed around the world by people of various
faiths and cultural backgrounds."
All
Souls' Day—History and Traditions
And there is an
interesting prayer for All Souls' Day:
"O eternal God
and Father,
you are not the
God of the dead but of the living,
and all who put
their trust in you,
who rest in
their chambers under the earth,
live in you.
Be merciful to
us, dear Fther,
do not let us be
afraid of the power and sting of death,
but keep us in
the true faith in your dear Son,
who is the way,
the truth, and the life.
Uphold us with
your Holy Spirit,
and give us a
clear conscience,
that we may live
our Christian lives,
and finally fall
asleep in peace and joy.
When we leave
this valley of tears,
and rest in
peace until you open our graves
and
awaken us with the sound of the last trumpet;
If the Rapture
happened at this time, people would be visiting graveyards
where 'resurrections' had taken place. And IF the
resurrected have a bit of time on Earth before leaving - that
veil between this world and the next would definitely 'be
thinned'. And the 'dead would be seen walking among the
living'.
Interesting time
period for a possible Rapture, for sure. And the Great
Flood connection to these three days is pretty amazing.
Along with the All Souls' Day prayer. Coincidence?
It sure looks like we're moving quickly towards
the start of the Tribulation Period.
All Hallows' Eve is this coming Tuesday. I'm
looking at that day and the next two (using the sighted moon
dates) as high watch dates. As Dr. Awe noted - in
light of what's going on in Israel and the Middle
East...this 17th day of the second month deserves another
look.
A partial lunar eclipse will be visible from Jerusalem
on October 28-29, 2023. Muslims see an eclipse as a
sign of Allah - a reminder of the Day of Judgment and the
approaching of the End of Times. They are expecting
their Mahdi to come and then the world will be ruled by
Islam. Will this eclipse embolden the Muslims in their
fight against Israel and the U.S.? Is this their
'sign' that the time is now to push for the Apocalypse that
will bring back their last Imam, the Mahdi - their Messiah?
Interesting timing for all of this.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance