Another High Watch Date Scenario
It seems that so many in these days are speculating about the Rapture and the end times. What is remarkable is that there are many different types of things people are using to “calculate” the end of the things that the Bible speaks about. They are using astrological tables, constellation charts, various calendars from ancient civilizations, prophecies, and calculators. What is amazing is that all these various methods of trying to understand the Bible in regards to last things, end up with nearly the same general dates, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2029, and 2030. While none of these dates (so far) have been correct, one thing is certain: Jesus is coming soon and there are a multitude of events in our days which seem to have some sort of significance. Jesus said to me in 1979, “...I am coming soon”. While I do not know when, I know we are near the last days, not just because we may want it to be true, but because God seems to be releasing indications that the time is near. I recently heard a brother say he was wrong to “guarantee” a certain rapture date as from God. He said he should have called it a High Watch Date.
God has reserved date, times, and seasons within His own power (Acts 1:7). Yet, I believe He wants us to diligently search the scriptures and try to gain some understanding of the things which He has “hidden” (in plain sight many times). So, with that as an introduction, please allow another possible way to see the revealed yet hidden scriptures.
Peter, the Apostle, tells us that a sign of the last days will be the appearance of mockers, particularly with regard to the coming of the Lord Jesus.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, ...And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (2Pet 3:3-4 )
They have heard this rapture stuff so much, they are sick of it. Say, old Pete was right on the money. These scoffers are not atheists. They are familiar with basic Biblical themes. They say, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. They are not talking about the Second Coming because that will be after unparalleled events will leave the planet in ruins. No one will say that just before the Second Coming of Christ. They say this while things are still relatively routine.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: (2Pet 3:5-6).
No cataclysmic event has ever happened to the earth since creation? Nothing odd or unusual has ever occurred on the planet since it was created? If Peter is referring to Noah's flood, we might find something interesting in Genesis 7.
God said to Noah, For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. (v, 4)
God gave Noah seven days notice that something tremendous was coming. When “days” are used prophetically, they mean literal years.* Do we have any warning from God that something is coming in seven years?
In Revelation 12 were see a sign in the heavens. A woman is ready to give birth. A great red dragon appears in heaven ready to devour her male child as soon as he is born. As soon as she gave birth, but before her child could be devoured, he was caught up to God.
Astronomers and constellation watchers tells us that this exact scenario played out in the heavens on September 29, 2017. If that is so, and if this is referring to the body of Christ, the church, and if the book of Revelation is not written in a strict chronology, and if there is such as thing as a catching away of the Church before the Second Coming, we come to an amazing conclusion.
The seventh year from the Revelation 12 warning sign is:
September 29, 2023 to September, 2024.
It will be real easy to know if this speculation is so. It will not be long.
In any case, there is a special reward given to all those who love His appearing (2Tim 4:8). I also suspect that there is something “special” in store for those who are mockers and scoffers. We should not be harsh critics of those who may come to a different conclusion than we may. Jesus wants us to watch for His appearing, no matter how one may interpret prophecies. He is watching for those who love His appearing.
If this speculation is accurate, I will see you all real soon. If it is incorrect, this article will be removed in about a year. Also, if this conclusion is not correct, I will still see you all in less that a hundred years.
Oct 4, 2023
*Except where the scriptures laboriously make the point that it is to be understood as literal.