Tanak Foundations-Concepts on the Natzal (Rapture)-Part 28

We are going to continue with a summary of the Birth-pains (Tribulation) and we know that Gog and Magog will attack Israel at the end of the third year of the Birth-pains around Rosh Ha Shanah, Tishri 1 (to start the fourth year) and they will devastate Israel. On Yom Kippur, Yehovah defeats the armies of Gog and Magog. Israel has become believers in Yeshua as the Messiah and as a nation they have turned back to Yehovah (Ezek 39.22).

The seven shepherds and eight princely men of Micah 5.5 are the False Messiah and his other rulers. He attacks and defeats the land of Gog and Magog (Russia) making himself the most powerful ruler in the world. His conquest of Gog and Magog takes six months. Now we are at the exact halfway point of the Birth-pains (Nisan 10) and the False Messiah will then enter Jerusalem, right before Passover (Nisan 14) of the fourth year.

The idea of Europe invading Russia has happened before. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia and got caught in the Russian winter and was defeated. Hitler also invaded Russia and got caught in the Russian winter and was defeated. Yehovah will defeat Gog and Magog by Yom Kippur (Tishri 10) and the False Messiah and Europe will invade Russia during the winter (between Tishri and Nisan) and be successful. That’s when he enters Jerusalem on Nisan 10, the same day Yeshua entered Jerusalem in what is called the “Triumphal Entry.” The False Messiah will do the same thing, declaring himself God, but he is a counterfeit.

We also know that the Birth-pains will be 2520 days. It has already been established that Yeshua will arrive in Jerusalem at the end of the Birth-pains on a Yom Kippur. The earth today has a solar cycle of 365 1/4 days a year. A Jewish lunar and solar year is 354 days with an extra month interpolated every third year. When Babylon is destroyed during the first ten days of the Day of the Lord, right before the Birth-pains begin, the earth will move out of its present orbit because it will be a cataclysm, creating a 360 day year again (Isa 13.13, 24.18-20-notice these passages are in chapters dealing with the destruction of Babylon).

From the time the False Messiah signs the military treaty with Israel till the halfway point of the Birth-pains, it is 1260 days, 42 months or a time, times and half a time (three and half years-from Yom Kippur to Nisan 10). From Nisan 10 till the Messiah comes on a Yom Kippur three and a half years later on a Tishri 10, it will be 1260 days, 42 months or a time, times and a half a time. The total number of days will be 2520 days (7 x 360). If we know that the Messiah will be in Jerusalem on a Yom Kippur according to Matt 24.29-31, and the “great trumpet” (Shofar Ha Gadol is only sounded on Yom Kippur), then we can count back 2520 days and we know that the Birth-pains will begin on the day after Yom Kippur (Tishri 11). From there the exact halfway point is Nisan 10, four days before Passover. This is the day Yeshua entered Jerusalem and the Temple and declared the Messiah. The False Messiah is going to do the same thing.

Now, just as Yeshua had a prophet named Yochanon Ha Matvil (John the Immerser) to prepare the way, the False Messiah has a counterpart known as the False Prophet. He arrived in Jerusalem during the month of Adar, one month before Nisan. He commands that an image of the False Messiah be placed in the Temple, and this is what is called the Abomination of Desolation (Dan 9.27).

The False Messiah will kill the Two Witnesses who have come in the spirit and power of Moses and Elijah. They will lie in the streets of Jerusalem after they are killed for three and a half days, which will bring us to mid-day on Passover. Yehovah will resurrect them and they will ascend to heaven. When they are killed and the False Messiah declares himself God, the Jewish people, who are now believers in Yeshua, will flee into the wilderness to be protected by God for the last three and a half years of the Birth-pains (Rev 12.14).

The first three and a half years of the Birth-pains was directed towards the Jewish people. The last three and half years will be directed towards the non-Jews. The False Messiah will have authority for the last three and a half years to persecute those who have come to believe in Yeshua during the Birth-pains (Rev 11.2, 13.5; Dan 7.25, 12.7). He is now the most powerful ruler in the world and nobody can touch him for awhile. However, he will be attacked at the end of the Birth-pains (Dan 11.44).

As we have said, Israel will flee into the Jordanian/Moabite wilderness when the Two Witnesses are killed (Rev 11.7, 12.6, 13-17). Israel believes in Yeshua and is persecuted by the False Messiah and they will flee into the wilderness for the last half of the Birth-pains. You will also note that these believers in Yeshua are Torah observant (Rev 12.17). Apparently, the Torah was not done away with as some teach and believe.

One of the concepts that is never taught is that Yeshua will literally come back to the earth on a Rosh Ha Shanah. Yom Kippur is when he literally comes to Jerusalem. He will return from heaven to Mount Sinai with the “clouds of heaven” (believers) and march to Jerusalem on a Yom Kippur. To some, this is shocking concept, but it can be found in Scripture, so where are we coming from on this? We will present the Scriptures for you to research and follow up on.

The Lord is seen progressing north from Mount Sinai. Look up the names of the places and where they are and plot them out on a map and you will see something very interesting. Around Rosh Ha Shanah he is at Mount Sinai in Deut 33.2, and in the wilderness in Isa 40.3, and near Teman, near Sinai, in Hab 3.4. He is in Midian in Hab 3.7-9. On Rosh Ha Shanah he is in Sela (Petra) in Isa 16.1-5 and Isa 42.10-13. He is marching from Seir (Edom) in Judges 5.4-5 and in the south in Zech 9.14. In Isa 63.1-6 he is in Edom and Bozrah. He will come on a Rosh Ha Shanah in Prov 7.20 (he is the husband that has gone away and will come back at the “hidden moon”). He meets the fugitives with bread in Arabia (Isa 21.13-15). He is at the sheepfolds of Bozrah in Mic 2.12-13.

On Yom Kippur he has arrived in Jerusalem in Isa 27.12-13; Zech 14.3-5 and Matt 24.27-31. The great trumpet is blown and the bridegroom and bride have come out of their wedding chamber and are coming back in Joel 2.15-16. In Song 8.5 they are coming to Jerusalem from the wilderness.

So, what happens? Rev 19.19-21 says he makes war with the False Messiah and the nations, and their followers are killed and their bodies put into Tophet in Isa 66.24; Jer 19.1-15 and Rev 19.20-21. Yeshua arrives in Jerusalem, at the Mount of Olives. The Great Shofar blows and the angels are dispatched to gather the unbelievers first, then the believers (Matt 24.29-31; Luke 17.33; Matt 25.31-46. There is an earthquake to Azal (12 miles) and the people flee. The False Messiah and False Prophet are captured and they are cast into the lake of fire (Dead Sea was called the Lake of Fire), resulting in the judgment of Matt 25. Yeshua is taking the same path Moses took coming north to the land of Israel. He will gather the exiles together, and if you have marked on a map all the places mentioned, you will see how he is moving north.

So, what do we have so far? We have the Natzal (Rapture) on Rosh Ha Shanah (Yom Ha Din), year 6001 from creation. We are in heaven for a coronation and wedding of the Messiah and spend seven years there called the “Shavuah L’ Chuppah.” On Rosh Ha Shanah, year 6008, Yeshua the Messiah returns to Mount Sinai with the clouds of heaven (believers) and on Yom Kippur, year 6008, Yeshua returns to Jerusalem as the Shofar Ha Gadol (great trumpet) is blown. The in-gathering of the righteous from among the nations begins, along with the unrighteous. They are judged as Yeshua sits on the Mount of Olives.

We will pick up with what happens in the first three and a half years of the Birth-pains in Part 29, as we look into Jewish Eschatology and the Natzal (Rapture).

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