This follows the previous article titled, ‘Yeshua Commissioning the 144,000 to bring in the Harvest’. The timing of things is speculation. We shall see.
Summary
Clearly America and the World is heading to the Abyss, morally, economically & spiritually. Darkness is descending upon our nations, but there is an awakening occurring among a few also. We know that Light comes after darkness, Genesis 1:2-3. Glorification may be very near for a remnant within a remnant. We are heading into a time of war, famine, pestilence & persecution, the hoof beats of the horsemen of the Apocalypse are upon us.
As of this writing we are in the 33rd day of counting the Omer. Why do we count the Omer? There must be a spiritual reason apart from just making a calculation for the arrival of Pentecost. Is the translation (rapture) of the first 144,000 about to begin during this period, just before the birthpangs of the Woman in Revelation 12? The first 144,000 are servants, Revelation 7:3, that are needed in order to bring in the harvest of souls including their mother (Zion) as explained in the previous article titled ‘Yeshua Commissioning the 144,000 to bring in the Harvest’. If so, then when does their rapture occur exactly? I am only guessing, but I suspect it is during the counting of the Omer. Yeshua was raised on first fruits and ascended 40 days later, during the Omer Count. Could the first fruits be taken even before then? I offer some possibilities in this article. But in any case, Isaiah 60 states that gross darkness covers the people while at the very same time His glory is coming upon Israel.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
קוּמִי אוֹרִי כִּי בָא אוֹרֵךְ וּכְבוֹד יְהוָה עָלַיִךְ זָרָֽח׃For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:1-2
כִּֽי־הִנֵּה הַחֹשֶׁךְ יְכַסֶּה־אֶרֶץ וַעֲרָפֶל לְאֻמִּים וְעָלַיִךְ יִזְרַח יְהוָה וּכְבוֹדוֹ עָלַיִךְ יֵרָאֶֽה׃
The glorification of the remnant of Israel begins in stages, first the firstfruits to work the harvest and then the other groups in their time according to the biblical agricultural harvest cycle (Feasts of the Lord). Again, have a look at the previous article for more on this.
As America and the world descend into the darkest madness of totalitarian dictatorship, the Lord will move to raise up his standard against it,
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah 59:19
וְיִֽירְאוּ מִֽמַּעֲרָב אֶת־שֵׁם יְהוָה וּמִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁמֶשׁ אֶת־כְּבוֹדוֹ כִּֽי־יָבוֹא כַנָּהָר צָר רוּחַ יְהוָה נֹסְסָה בֽוֹ׃
This standard is within His Holy Spirit filled people, both the 144,000 and those who still await glorification. See previous article for more on this.
Timing of Darkness
– Dragon Cast out of Heaven
The timing of the resurrections and their relationship to the timing of other events is speculative. I have been wrong in details before and so read with caution. I feel a burden to share these thoughts in case I am correct or partly correct. As we get closer to the time of the birth of the Kingdom we will know more precisely the timing and sequence of events. We see in part, we prophecy in part, we look through a glass darkly. But we should all be in anticipation of our Master’s Return. And we should not be sleeping otherwise when He calls it will be as a thief, Revelation 3:3.
I suspect that the timing of Noah’s flood on the 17th day of the 2nd month is mentioned in the bible because it represents a spiritual flood in the last days. A year long period of travail and birth. The spiritual flood is both good and evil. The waters of Noah raised the Ark representing God’s people. But it destroyed the wicked. The waters came from above and below.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:11
I believe that this also represents the fall of Satan’s host,
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:4
The fall of the third of the angels (stars) is followed by Satan Himself.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:9
These two falls, of Satan’s host, and then Satan himself is the context of the time of travail upon Zion as mentioned in Matthew 24, Luke 21 etc. We are also told that,
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah 59:19
I want to comfort my readers with the following words as Isaiah continues…
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
וּבָא לְצִיּוֹן גּוֹאֵל וּלְשָׁבֵי פֶשַׁע בְּיַֽעֲקֹב נְאֻם יְהוָֽה׃As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah 59:20-21
וַאֲנִי זֹאת בְּרִיתִי אוֹתָם אָמַר יְהוָה רוּחִי אֲשֶׁר עָלֶיךָ וּדְבָרַי אֲשֶׁר־שַׂמְתִּי בְּפִיךָ לֹֽא־יָמוּשׁוּ מִפִּיךָ וּמִפִּי זַרְעֲךָ וּמִפִּי זֶרַע זַרְעֲךָ אָמַר יְהוָה מֵעַתָּה וְעַד־עוֹלָֽם׃
So there very time that the Dragon and His Host fall is also the beginning of the Lord putting His Spirit upon us. And He will place His word in our mouth! Isn’t that so precious? Isn’t the Lord Great? Thank you Abba Father. Thank you that you sustain us, that you care for us, that you have not abandoned us in our time of trial. Thank you for Your Word and Your Holy Spirit. May the Spirit and the Word become One in us. We shall rise. So fear not. We may sometimes feel like the tail, but we shall be the head, if we faint not.
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
אַל־תִּֽירְאִי תּוֹלַעַת יַֽעֲקֹב מְתֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲנִי עֲזַרְתִּיךְ נְאֻם־יְהוָה וְגֹאֲלֵךְ קְדוֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Isaiah 41:14-15
הִנֵּה שַׂמְתִּיךְ לְמוֹרַג חָרוּץ חָדָשׁ בַּעַל פִּֽיפִיּוֹת תָּדוּשׁ הָרִים וְתָדֹק וּגְבָעוֹת כַּמֹּץ תָּשִֽׂים׃
God took Gideon and made Him a mighty man. He shall do that to the firstfruits 144,000 and he shall later do it to all of Zion, the mother.
Firstfruits
Yeshua is the Firstfruits of all Firstfruits, he is the Captain of our Salvation. By His stripes we are healed. By His blood we are redeemed. Yeshua arose on Firstfruits and ascended in the clouds 40 days later. We are told in Corinthians 15:23 that the resurrection occurs in stages, Christ, the Firstfruits and then those that remain until His coming.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
I Corinthians 15:23
Many interpret this to mean two groups not three, ‘Christ’ and then those that ‘are Christs at his coming’. But we are told that the 144,000 are firstfruits also, Revelation 14:4. So the firstfruits of the resurrection is not completed until they come in. So there cannot be a resurrection for those ‘that are Christ’s at his coming’, until these firstfruits are raised up. Are we on the brink of a partial rapture, for the first of the firstfruits before His Return?
Even the firstfruits are broken up into smaller groups. Two times 144,000. There is an order to the Resurrection, first to ascend are the Firstfruits of Barley (first 144,000) and then Firstfruits of Wheat (Pentecost, second 144,000). Then the rest of the harvest (Zion, Church of Firstborn) is raised in the 7th month at years end at the ‘feast of ingathering’, Exodus 23:16, after the trumpet sounds and the marriage covenant is ratified at Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). God is going to save His Redeemed.
However, time is up for the World, for the Church & for Jacob. Judgement is here, sifting is about to commence and judgement will be greatly accelerating. What is in us and what we truly are will be revealed. These are birthpangs of the Kingdom. By the 17th day of the 2nd Hebrew month the metaphorical rain shall become a raging storm, by Pentecost it shall become a flood, a Gestapo and Nephilim Holocaust. We will lurch from economic collapse and persecution to World War, famine & pestilence. Add to this a Zombie Apocalypse written in our bibles, Psalm 27:2, Isaiah 9:20.
“Please tell me the good news” I hear you say! Well, the Lord is on His Glorious Throne and the King has his Men. And He has Women of Valour too! We are on the cusp of annihilation, but thankfully we are also on the cusp of salvation and rebirth. Not only do things die in this fallen world but life can come from death bless God. Death is merely temporary for the redeemed. Death cannot stop the resurrection. This is true of Yeshua, and it is true for the Firstfruits also. Firstfruits and Resurrection go together. Do you want to be a man or woman of steel, do you want to fly? Canaan and a Crown awaits. Conquest is for the strong and the brave.
We are coming into a time of persecution like no other, the beginning of sorrows, (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse). And it is at this time of darkness when the wicked are doing their worst that God shall put on a show. Death shall be defeated. Those that are wise shall shine, Daniel 12:3, Ecclesiastes 8:1. Unless grain falls (Amos 9:9) into the ground it abides alone, John 12:24. Like Stephen (who represents those that are given the crown of life) the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Some of the 144,000 die to be born anew in resurrection form, especially the higher 144,000 of the Pentecostal Wheat harvest. They are not dead long, they are transformed to become unbeatable warriors of the Army of Light.
In this article I would like to explain what Firstfruits of Wheat and Barley are all about in terms of Zion’s ‘new’ race and how birth comes from death. I will present the scriptures and join the dots for you to weigh up for yourself. The 144,000 are the beginning of the Resurrection. And along with Yeshua, this new race of 144,000 are a physically, mentally and spiritually superior form of man that is angelic and heavenly. They are not superior in a proud or condescending manner, this new race is both otherworldly but strangely familiar, heavenly yet down to earth. They are humbler than current humanity and like Yeshua, very normal, the way we were supposed to be in the beginning. They are merciful but also speak with authority, judgement and great power. Like the Angel of the Lord, like Yeshua, provoking or speaking against them will not be forgiven and will bring death because the name of the Lord יהוה is in them, Numbers 6:27. Listening to them will enable God to be an enemy to our enemies. This is the 2nd Exodus. They have their roots in the ancient past, before creation. Messiah Yeshua, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth, Revelation 13:8, is the head of this new race. And all those that truly believe, those he has chosen before the foundation of the world, Ephesians 1:4, are ultimately part of this new race also.
Encoded in the Torah, Prophets and New Covenant is a fantastic and glorious hope soon to be realized by the Firstfruits and then later by the larger body of Messiah which is Zion, the Church of the Firstborn.
Zion’s New Race
There is a resurrection of the just and the unjust, the righteous and the wicked, it appears that this happens at the same time.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Daniel 12:2
So we shall have a demonic zombie dawn of the dead at the same time as a resurrection of the righteous. The resurrection of the righteous occurs in stages. Perhaps the resurrection of the unrighteous also occurs in stages. But if we belong to the Lord we will be raised in glory and we are a whole new order of creation. Very exciting.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
I John 3:2
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Romans 8:19
The 144,000 Firstfruits are the beginning of a transformation of the redeemed portion of humanity from a base thing subject to mortality, death and decay to something noble and eternal. Like a caterpillar looks nothing like a butterfly, so the glory that shall be revealed in God’s people at the resurrection parallels the butterfly’s metamorphoses. Unlike a butterfly, the Firstfruits are men of steel (maybe women also). They are both beautiful and powerful like their Father. Like Yeshua who is above them, these chosen 144,000 sons of God were purposely humbled in this present world in order to perfect them, and very shortly they will be manifested. We are all being humbled in this world if we belong to Yeshua. Soon however is the exaltation of the first part of us, the Firstfruits, these men of steel are the iron that fell into the water and sunk, 2 Kings 6:5. It has been a long wait as we measure time down here in our short, overly busy and fleeting lives, but now 2000 years after the crucifixion, the 144,000 are about to rise, they are the beginning of the manifestation of New Adam, the first of Zion’s sons to be raised. (Of course Yeshua was first!) This is the culmination of 6000 years of the fall of Adam’s race and the subsequent process of redemption by our loving creator God and saviour, Yeshua the Messiah.
Edom represents the old fallen man, physically strong and intellectual but godless, rapacious, morally bankrupt, lost and doomed. Edom is about ‘your best life now’, Jacob is about the ‘world to come’. Esau sold his birthright and lost his firstborn blessing and became Edom. We have been given the same test with the steely point of a needle, do we sell our heavenly firstborn birthright for food and a weekly wage? Esau can be religious. Esau’s Christianity is a cheap imitation of the real, it’s not just Easter bunnies and mistletoe, it’s essentially ‘follow your dreams’, it’s really just about you. Jacob is about carrying his cross and follow the Lamb that was slain. And so there can be an aspect of Esau and Jacob in all of us, but we must die to self and get our heads out of the things of this world. Real heartfelt repentance is required. Don’t leave it any longer. Don’t leave it too late to seek God or you will join Esau in the pit of hell. There came a point where Esau could not change what he had given away, there was no repentance even though he sought with tears. This is now!!!
Now sunset comes upon Esau the strong, he goes down while dawn lifts his younger brother Jacob from weakness to become Israel the mighty man of war. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb, or is it all for show? You cannot be Yeshua’s disciple without self denial. The Esau’s of this world are going down, Jacob must now take the hairy mantle of leadership. The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. Of a new heavenly temple.
Esau and Jacob struggled together and came out of the womb crying. Jacob the younger grasped the foot of Esau, and hence his name. The old Edom is supplanted by the New Adam. Jacob prised what Esau despised. Jacob hunted the hunter to become the new firstborn. These past 2000 years the church has been in formation in the womb, in pagan darkness. Now birthpangs come to the womb of this world. Two races of people shall be manifest, the first is beast like, the second is the God like, the New Adam. Like Childbirth much pain and blood is involved. There is sacrifice, even death. But there is also victory, and that victory comes swiftly for the Firstfruits. Death loses it’s sting, and then death is swallowed up in victory. The Lamb that was slain and the seed that is killed by Edom, the old man, takes dominion from Edom and over Edom and the bad guys. And there is nothing that they can do about it. Hallelujah!
Those that reject the gospel of Yeshua are driven to darkness, Isaiah 8:22, and become an increasingly beastial and demonic, vampiristic post human dead end. The end result of the pride of man is a transhumanist nightmare, a modified and bastardised old, broken and nonredeemable humanity, a husk of it’s former fallen but potentially redeemable self.
2nd Exodus from the North Country
(Babylon North America)
So before we leave the North Country of Babylon America we shall have the raising of two sets of the 144,000, barley and wheat along with the simultaneous persecutions and rise of the Antichrist, who is not yet the beast of Revelation 13. He has not got his mortal wound yet. For it is the Lord that slays him (but it is midway through what is called the tribulation!). So this is all just before the beast system of Revelation 13.
We are thus awaiting the Firstfruits manifestation of the sons of God and the revelation of the Antichrist and the destruction of Babylon America. It is on the doorstep, this initiates the 2nd Exodus. This occurs by Revelation 12. Zion is safely out of the North Country called the Daughter of Babylon, that is Babylon America.
In Jeremiah 46:10 we are told that the North country is by the Euphrates River, this is by the land of Shinar in Iraq, where Ancient Babylon resided. I had thought that that was the only Babylon there is because America does not have a Euphrates river. However the Chaldeans moved their empire to America, so it is the new land of the Chaldeans. So this is the American North Country that Israel escapes from, Jeremiah 3:18, 23:8, 31:8. This is the American Babylon the flee from. America is the land of the Chaldeans until it is destroyed!
But the Chaldeans are not done yet! They rise from the pit and have another try for the last 3.5 years (while Zion is safe in the wilderness), They form the final mystery Babylon which is waiting in the wings, coming down from the sky. How can I prove that? The Chaldeans recreate mystery Babylon by the Euphrates River in Iraq. Zechariah 5:5-11 says so, it’s close encounters of the 3rd kind, where the ‘mothership’ comes down to initiate her rapid rebuilding after world war 3. The Woman is called wickedness and is mystery Babylon. It’s a poor imitation of the Heavenly Jerusalem coming down from the sky. And the Antichrist rises as the beast instead of Messiah rising as the New Adam. If you read Zechariah 5 this is after the curse goes into all the earth. Is this the 4 horsemen, is this the destruction of the first 3.5 years? Yes it is.
So to recap, we leave North America Babylon in the 2nd exodus. The Antichrist is revealed and then killed, he is the Assyrian. At most he has 1 year to make war. We should be exiting Babylon America once the judgements start and safely make our way to the wilderness of the people, in the mean time there will be places of protection for some depending on obedience.
The Antichrist is killed at Messiah’s coming for Israel at the 7th trumpet mid way through the 7 year period. The Antichrist is killed before he really gets going too far (He receives a deadly wound), he later is raised in Revelation 13 as the ‘beast’ as a punishment to the nations! After this is the Beast System is headquartered in Babylon Iraq, the land of Shinar. Wickedness has a house built for her there after the previous Babylon of America in that other ‘North Country’ is destroyed, Zechariah 5:5. So there are two Babylons and two North Countries. We come out of the American Babylon and the North Country (and the rest of the nations where Israel is scattered). God uses the 144,000 and the Chariots of God and earthly transportation to accomplish this once his people are following Him properly. Currently Zion is only ready in part. Zion is pictured as a ‘careless woman’ in Isaiah as will be explained later. This is a process that takes just over a year in total, Noah’s Ark is also a picture of this stormy period and the dates are included in the bible for a reason. It’s just about to start. I wrote about this in the previous article titled ‘Yeshua Commissioning the 144,000 to bring in the Harvest’. I believe they are already marked and will soon be taken and changed. I will talk about this more later. It seems it takes a year in total to get Zion out of America and all the other little Babylon’s and into the Wilderness of the People, Revelation 12. The last 3.5 years of the tribulation events in Revelation 13 onward is not for Zion if she is obedient, it is a punishment to the wicked nations. So meanwhile Zion is in the wilderness for these 3.5 years. There are some that go through the harrowing time of Revelation 13, the remnant of her seed, Revelation 12:17, that are not ready for rapture or exodus just yet.
But as of this writing before Revelation 13, we are just about to go into a period of persecution leading to the 2nd Exodus of the Woman Zion. This is during the seal judgements of the four horsemen and 6th Seal and 7 trumpet judgements. We are bout to go through the events in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 etc.
So to recap, the first 144,000 help get the 2nd 144,000 and they both assist their mother, Zion. So the Sons of Zion assist their mother, Zion in her education and rescue that leads ultimately to her glorification by her King and groom, Yeshua. God loves all of His children. All of God’s children shall be manifested in time, but the focus of this article is the Firstfruits, the time is almost upon us for their glorification and manifestation. It’s the darkest and scariest of times but also the most thrilling and glorious.
Last days Persecution just before the Woman flees
Let’s now look at the gospels for clues concerning the Firstfruit harvests. We shall resolve some apparent contradictions. God is so amazing!
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24:6-8 & 9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
(this last verse, v9, seems to contradict Luke 21:12)
OK seems simple, we have a similar account in Luke 21 with wars and rumours of wars etc but in Luke the persecution comes before all these things.
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
Luke 21:12
How can these two contradictory accounts of ‘before’ and ‘after’ ‘all these things’ be reconciled? The only conclusion I can find is that there are two groups that are being persecuted, some before the main church feels the heat and the rest during the main persecution. So does Luke 21 refer to the first 144,000 amongst others? Food for thought. Again my timing for the rapture of the first 144,000 barley harvest is speculative. I may or may not be in the “Ball Park”, I may be wrong in some details or totally wrong. In time everything will be clearer.
It could be that my calculations are missing something. It could be that darkness comes but no raptures just yet, we will then have much to endure before the first translation of the first 144,000. Let us seek the Lord and be humble.
The Luke 21 account seems milder but still significant persecution before the main persecution of Matthew 24. So Luke seems to be talking about the period of the first Passover/Omer Barley 144,000 while Matthew 24 is the Pentecost Wheat 144,000.
1 Year for Careless Daughters of Zion (Church) at Ease
There appears to be just over a year period for the Lost tribes / Church to get their act together before the Lord. This is most likely the year of the redeemed.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah 63:4
כִּי יוֹם נָקָם בְּלִבִּי וּשְׁנַת גְּאוּלַי בָּֽאָה׃
Isaiah talks about this period of time where the careless daughters have to repent. This text was mentioned by Timothy Foster’s YouTube channel. And I think there is a lot of merit to this idea. Again timothy places this period before the seal judgements in Revelation while I think it occurs during it.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
נָשִׁים שַֽׁאֲנַנּוֹת קֹמְנָה שְׁמַעְנָה קוֹלִי בָּנוֹת בֹּֽטחוֹת הַאְזֵנָּה אִמְרָתִֽי׃Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Isaiah 32:9-10
יָמִים עַל־ שָׁנָה תִּרְגַּזְנָה בֹּֽטְחוֹת כִּי כָּלָה בָצִיר אֹסֶף בְּלִי יָבֽוֹא׃
It does not say “many days and years” in Hebrew it says “days and a year”, ימים על שנה. So just over a year. Noah and his family were in the Ark just over a year. Good things take time.
It takes time to bring in the harvest, and it takes time for hearts to be made ready to meet the bridegroom when there is sin in the camp, complacency and a Laodicean blindness and lukewarmness. While the first 144,000 (Barley crop harvested during the Omer count) are harvesting the earth, bringing in the sheaves, Zion, their mother is waking up and returning to the Lord in full repentance.
It takes just over a year for Zion to be ready to enter the wilderness of the people, Revelation 12:14 , Ezekiel 20:35. I believe the 1 year on the Ark is the same time as Revelation 12 and the fall of Satan and His host and the woman fleeing. It is also the same period of time spoken of in Isaiah concerning the careless daughters of Zion. Zion may experience Tribulation, but she is not appointed to wrath!
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
I Thessalonians 5:9
Darkness During 33 Day of Counting the Omer?
Another clue as to when the darkness comes is also in Isaiah, chapter 50 to be precise. This is a very obscure verse, but I believe it refers to our time, and a practice of Orthodox Jews, it is called Lag b’Omer. This kabbalistic Holiday is celebrated on the 33rd day of the Omer count and consists of lighting bonfires at night and family picnics during the day. On the 34th day there is not supposed to be the usual mourning that occurs during the Omer count. Could this be about the time when the 144,000 servants are taken? And could this feast where you are celebrating a great deal of kabbalistic wisdom, a time when you are not supposed to mourning, become a time for mourning? Is this a judgement from God because of sin in the House of Judah? Could this be when a great deal of death occurs, during a time of darkness? In that case, then the darkness is a demonic darkness that causes death and great mourning. We shall see.
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
מִי בָכֶם יְרֵא יְהוָה שֹׁמֵעַ בְּקוֹל עַבְדּוֹ אֲשֶׁר הָלַךְ חֲשֵׁכִים וְאֵין נֹגַהּ לוֹ יִבְטַח בְּשֵׁם יְהוָה וְיִשָּׁעֵן בֵּאלֹהָֽיו׃Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 50:10-11
הֵן כֻּלְּכֶם קֹדְחֵי אֵשׁ מְאַזְּרֵי זִיקוֹת לְכוּ בְּאוּר אֶשְׁכֶם וּבְזִיקוֹת בִּֽעַרְתֶּם מִיָּדִי הָיְתָה־ זֹּאת לָכֶם לְמַעֲצֵבָה תִּשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃
Parting thoughts
In conclusion there are a number of raptures or resurrections and a physical journey amidst a time of chaos and persecution and death. God will regather His people, but fury will be poured out (Ezekiel 20:33-34, 22:22). The Lord is merciful and just but He will not let us go unpunished if we have unrepented sins.
Let us yield ourselves now and obtain mercy and grace. The enemy goes about like a roaring lion.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
I Peter 5:8-9
None of us are perfect. Let us look to our God the Rock, our Saviour, Yeshua HaMashiach.
Fast, seek His Face.
Love in Yeshua HaMashiach
Rory
