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by Clive Campbell
09/06/20
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Here are some arguments for the resurrection and rapture in 2023 (by the way, Israel will be 75 in 2023. Abram entered the Promised Land when he was 75. Jewish eyes will be opened as Moses and Elijah preach Jesus as Messiah):

1. One of the best pieces of evidence is the fact that Enoch was raptured to heaven 7 years before the end of the first millennium (after 14 B years, with no macro-evolution), if the 7 days of the Genesis prologue were in fact 7 years as the Book of Jubilees asserts and I also believe.

2. Logic: What sense would it make for the resurrection and rapture to occur at the Second Coming? We all ascend into the clouds to meet Jesus, only to immediately return to earth?

3. True Christians will be kept from the hour of testing:

Revelation 3:10 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

10 Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

"Earth" is one of the many figures for Israel in the Bible, so I think this does refer to Israel's testing in the tribulation of the last 7 years.

4. That brings me to Daniel's 70th heptad. It is this last 7-year tribulation period. The "times of the Gentiles" will be fulfilled in 2023. The "fullness of the Gentiles" will have come in and God will especially focus on the Jews. Will any Gentiles be saved in those 7 years? I don't know.

5. Moses and Elijah are descending with Christ in 2023. Moses was resurrected. Elijah was raptured. Moses will receive the resurrected and Elijah will receive the raptured. Then they will descend to Jerusalem.

6. The Holy Spirit in the invisible Church restrained Satan and the demons and the mystery of lawlessness in Paul's day and He does the same in ours, until He is "taken out of the way" by the rapture:

2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

7. I'll count Israel at 75 as #7.

8. The way I interpret Revelation, I believe the "Come up here" of Revelation 4 refers to the resurrection and rapture:

Revelation 4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Scene in Heaven

4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here

I'm sure that I could come up with others from Revelation if I worked on it. If you are interested how I see Revelation, Google "The Hermeneutical Key to the Book of Revelation" with the quotation marks. Since I wrote it, there is at least one change that I would make. I now believe that Satan and the unbound demons (those not active for the 120 years before Noah's 600th year that Jesus made proclamation to in hell) were bound in hell in 70 AD and released from hell in 1903, 120 years before the resurrection and rapture in 2023, or in 1910, 120 years before the Second Coming in 2030, the 6000th year.

9. Noah and 7 others entered the ark 7 days before his 600th year, the First Day of Wrath. The 7 churches will join Christ in the heavenly "ark," 7 years before the 6000th year, the Second Day of Wrath.

10. I think there is a parallel between the first 7 years of creation and the last 7 years of destruction: at the end of the first 7, Adam and Eve are out of a perfect garden, into a fallen world; at the beginning of the last 7, the second Adam and His bride are out of a fallen world, into a perfect heaven. Of course the vegetation and earth figure of the garden is also a figure for Israel in the last 7 years. I write about many of the parallels in my Revelation paper.

Anyway, 10 is a good number at which to stop.

ADDENDUM (11/20/2022): As God's years begin with the Hebrew month of Nisan, I am expecting the Resurrection/Rapture sometime between Nisan 1 (March 23), 2023 and Nisan 1 (April 9), 2024.

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01 May 2023

Last year during Passover our Lord Jesus gave me understanding about the 1,000 year rule and during that teaching He explained to me that there are three beginnings and three endings. The first being God's creation of the heavens, earth, all living things and salvation. The second being the start of the church age. And the third being the 1,000 year rule for the 12 tribes of Israel. The first ending is the rapture of the church, then the end of the 1,000 year rule, then the final ending of of His creation, as we know it. With this said I believe the beginning and end of the church age would be on the same day (Pentecost) 2,000 years later.

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04 Apr 2023

Did you mean Nisan 1, April 9, 2024 in the purple highlighted section for the Resurrection/Rapture? Because you had been talking about April 2023 earlier in the article. Just clarifying.

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26 Mar 2023

Wow! Yes, amazing connections. We know that the Fig Tree Generation is drawing to a close. So many signs are converging and we are looking up as our Redemption Draweth Nigh!

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05 Mar 2023

Great thought! I’m pondering the Rapture taking place closer to the Feast of Trumpets in Sept. if the 7 yr Tribulation begins close to the catching away of The Church, that would put the end of the Trib in fall of 2030, at the time of the remaining Jewish feasts. This seems a more likely scenario than March or April.

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03 Feb 2023

Amen Brother, we are getting close for sure. With everything going on in this world I pray the rapture is soon. God Bless you and see you in the air!!!
Frank

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