So my poor senior aged cat (17 years) suddenly developed seizures, which the vet thinks has been caused by a brain tumor. This is very bad for kitty because she gets severe neurological damage from the seizures. She is on sedatives to control, and after several days, she achieved a good level of recovery from the damage that occurred. Thank you, Jesus.
I was at the grocery store a few weeks back and I thought, "While I am here, why don't I just refill her meds?" At that time I learned it was on the controlled list, so I would have to stick to a strict refill schedule. So I asked the pharmacist to write down the date it would be OK to refill so as not to forget.
Today was refill day, and again I asked the pharmacist to write the refill date on the new bottle. She exclaimed "It's July 26! That's my birthday!" I answered, "Oh really? That's the day some Christians are saying is going to be the rapture!" She seemed quite pleased about that.
So what is so special about 7/26? For one thing, that date this year is the Jewish feast of new wine. Now it just happens that the feast of new wine is the day that the Holy Spirit was given to the disciples:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2&version=AKJV
The disciples, filled with the Holy Spirit, rushed out into the street and began praising God in various languages. The men in the street said, "These men [the disciples] are full of new wine." But Peter answered and said, "Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day."
The third hour would have been 9 am. This was the hour when the high priest would have been pouring out the offering of new wine, which was made from the first grape harvest. No one was allowed to drink this new wine until after this ritual was performed. So the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Church at the same time as the high priest was pouring out the new wine, similarly to how Christ was being sacrificed at the same time the people were slaughtering their Passover lamb. The new wine in connection with the giving of the Holy Spirit is not a well known teaching.
So now we get to 7/26 of 2023. 726 in Strong's Concordance means "rapture." There are prophecy students who are convinced the resurrection/rapture will take place this year, and they are watching July 26.
Now I am not personally completely convinced this date this year will be the appearing of Christ in the clouds, but I do look up quite a bit hoping it will be soon. In fact, some months ago I had a chat with a man at the store register, and we expressed some disappointment that Trump had not yet come to rescue us, and he said, "We'll just have to wait for Jesus in the sky," to which I nodded.
Will the date come and go without drama? We'll just have to wait and see. If Christ does appear, I won't be crying.
"I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom." Matthew 26:29
I wouldn't put any bet on a rapture for July 26th. There likely isn't going to be a rapture. All we know is that there will be the Lord's return and we don't know the day or the hour of that return.
There seems to be some confusion about the rapture. The Bible only calls it "rapture" in the Latin translation. It's not in any English Bible that I know of.
1 Thess. 4 . 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
"caught up" in Greek is harpazo. "We who are still alive and are left" will be "harpazo'ed" (raptured) to meet Christ and the resurrected saints in the clouds all on the same day. That generation of Christians will not experience natural death, because they will receive their glorified bodies instantly.
I'm not counting on a 7/26 return of the Lord. I just thought it was a cute story. Some people say it is just coincidence. Others say everything is "God incidence." Maybe it was sent to cheer some people up. With everything so horrible happening now, we do need something to cheer us up. Of course no one knows the Lord's return, but he did tell us to be watching for him.
Matthew 24
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
I think we are living in the days of Lot with all the LGBTQ craziness. For me, that is a sign we are near the end. Judgment approacheth, and they know it not.
That's what I'm a-doin', I'm gettin' ready.
Jehovah Witnesses are pretty good at predicting the end. kek. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessmom/2018/03/8-times-the-jehovahs-witnesses-were-wrong-about-the-end-of-the-world/
JW's do not believe that Jesus is God.
that is True!
I really don't buy into date stuff and I don't hold to pretrib rapture but whenever the Lord comes for us, I do believe we should be looking for the new moon in Tishrei (7th month but start of the year) and it will start the festivals!!!
https://v2-live.jewsforjesus.org/blog/the-feast-of-trumpets/
https://www.therootedkafe.com/blog/Tishrei
The feast of trumpets is another watch date people are looking at.
I had been watching some videos of people who have rapture fever, and one of their watch dates was 7/26, which correctly is "harpazo," which people call rapture. So I gasped a little when the pharmacist said her birthday was 7/26. I just wanna get outta here asap, whatever the day. I already feel like the world is in the early stages of "a" tribulation.
Give the cat fenbendazole.
I've heard of it. Where/how do you get it?
Here's something to consider:
If YOU know about 7/26, then THEY know about it, too.
If you see Christ in the clouds, it will be a fake. They're planning a fake appearance of Christ to get everyone herded in the direction they want us to go.
Christ's return will not be an external event. That's my firm belief.
Now if you see Christ in your dreams, I would give that far more credence.
Don't forget that satan is prince of the air. He will use airwaves and holograms and anything else to deceive us.
And that satan is all about external things rather than internal. The body rather than the soul.
OK, well recently I had a dream about a door opening in the sky:
In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. Matt 24:33
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes (nations) of the earth will mourn over Him [realizing their sin and guilt, and anticipating the coming wrath]. So it is to be. Amen. Rev. 1:7
Plus, all the living saints will be pulled up into the sky. No way to fake that.
Interesting!