1788. Timing of the rapture: December 18th 2020
Figure 1. Valley
of Armageddon in Israel: where a final battle will take place between the
returning Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all the nations who come
against Israel at this time. This occurs at the time that the 7 year
tribulation period ends. This event is tied to when the rapture takes place.
As can be seen from many of my
previous articles on this subject, I have been searching for understanding on
the timing of the rapture for quite some time [Playlist: Timing of the
rapture]. In my last article on this subject, I came to the conclusion that May
18th 2020 was the first day on which the rapture could have occurred
since this day was 1260 days from the end of the tribulation. However, it has
become clear that Israel will continue to be fed in the place God has prepared
for her after the end of the tribulation, so that those 1260 days will not end
until Israel is taken from the nations where they are now living in, to the
land of Israel. This means that the rapture will be postponed beyond May 18th
2020 by as many days as Israel remains in those nations, after the end of the
tribulation [Article 1780: Timing of the rapture: Christians arrested and
exterminated].
Figure 2. Timing
of events during the 7 year tribulation period which began 49 years after the
command to restore Jerusalem was issued on June 28th 1967, according
to Dan. 9:24-27. The 1290 and 1335 day counts in Dan. 12:11-12, to the stopping
of the sacrifice of praise, and from the abomination of desolation event,
determine the length of both halves; the 45 day difference is due to a time lag
in effect due to the length of a day being shortened. The tribulation ends 1335
days after the abomination of desolation event on March 4th 2020.
The woman Israel is fed for 1260 days after her child, the body of Christ is
born, an event in Rev. 12 which describes the rapture as her child is caught up
to God’s throne.
47 Then
he brought me back to the door of the [a]temple; and
there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the
east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under
the right side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He
brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to
the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the
right side. …7 When I returned, there, along the bank of
the river, were very
many trees on one side and the other. 8 Then
he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into
the [b]valley,
and enters the sea. When it reaches
the sea, its waters
are healed. 9 And it shall be that every living thing that
moves, wherever [c]the
rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because
these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live
wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it
from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the
same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. 11 But
its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to
salt. 12 Along the bank of the river, on this side
and that, will grow all kinds of trees
used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not
fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the
sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”[d](Ezek.
47:1-2,7-11)
The river in the Heavenly Jerusalem is
described in Rev. 22:
22 And he showed me a [a]pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street,
and on either side of the river, was the
tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the
tree were for the
healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1-2)
Now at the time that Jesus
returns, many nations come against Israel and Jesus destroys them so that there
are dead bodies all over the land, so many that it takes the people living in
the land of Israel, 7 months to bury them.
11 “It will come to pass in that day that I
will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by
east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury
Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley
of [g]Hamon Gog. 12 For
seven months the house of Israel
will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. 13Indeed
all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for
it on the day that I am glorified,” says the Lord God. 14“They
will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of [h]a search party, to pass through
the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to
cleanse it. At the end of seven months
they will make a search. 15 The search party will pass
through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall [i]set up a marker by it, till the
buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 The name
of the city will also be [j]Hamonah. Thus they
shall cleanse the land.” ’ (Ezek. 39:11-16)
This great number of people that come against the land of
Israel right at the end of the 7 year tribulation period is described as the 6th
of the 7 last plagues in Rev. 16:
12 Then
the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and
its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might
be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like
frogs coming out of
the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the
mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of
demons, performing signs, which go
out to the kings [g]of
the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty. 16 And they gathered them together to the
place called in Hebrew, [h]Armageddon. (Rev. 16:12-14, 16)
So Israel will be burying the
dead, the result of the battle of Armageddon, when all nations come against
Israel, for 7 months. It is only after this period of 7 months that Jesus calls
for the rest of Israel that are still living in the nations to which they have
been scattered, back to the land of Israel.
25 “Therefore
thus says the Lord God: ‘Now
I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house
of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— 26 after
they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were
unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. 27 When
I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their
enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many
nations, 28 then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the
nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them [k]captive any longer. 29 And
I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My
Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.” (Ezek. 39:25-29)
He will not leave a single one of
them behind. Jesus knows who belongs to
Israel and will make sure that every single one of them is returned to the land
of Israel at that time. This would then be the time when the 1260 days that
Israel is fed in a place prepared by God ends, which suggests that the rapture
will therefore occur at least 7 months after May 18th 2020.
5 She
bore a male Child who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron.
And her Child was caught up to God
and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the
wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her
there one thousand two hundred and
sixty days. (Rev. 12: 5-6)
Figure 3. The end
of the tribulation is 1335 days after the abomination of desolation event which
occurred on March 4th 2020 [Article 1761: The abomination of
desolation and the desolate in Daniel 9] and May 18th 2020 is 1260
days from the end. The rapture cannot happen until 7 months later, which takes
us to December 18th 2020.
Since Jesus is likely to take a
few more days to weeks, after the land is cleansed, to gather all of Israel out
of the different nations around the world, the rapture is not likely to happen until
after December 18th 2020. It may thus happen some days to a few
weeks after but most likely not long after and therefore likely to happen by the
end of December of 2020, or very soon after that. Since the opening of the first
seal, which then allowed the Antichrist to ride the white horse and to use his
crown, i.e. the 666 virus epidemic lie to conquer, at the end of December of
2019, this suggests that the rapture will happen a year after the opening of
the first seal, and some 10 months, after the abomination of desolation event.
In conclusion, Israel remains in
the place prepared for her by God, for 7 months, after the end of the
tribulation, according to Ezek. 39, which suggests that the rapture cannot take
place until 7 months after May 18th 2020 and thus not until December
18th 2020, but is likely to happen soon after and thus most likely
by the end of December of 2020.
References:
[1] Albers, C. (2020). Playlist:
Timing of the rapture
[2] Albers, C. (2020). Article
1780: Timing of the rapture: Christians arrested and exterminated
[3] Albers, C. (2020). Article
1761: The abomination of desolation and the desolate in Daniel 9
