RAPTURE
WATCH


Cyber-friend Arnie Stanton has considered my interpertations of bible codes, imperfect as they are, to be worthy of mention on his popular website. I found these, as with most of my "readings," through use of the Torah Codes Software created by Torah Educational Software. The following thoughts are from my work on the words and surface text suggested by the work of Peter Hader. Though I am supportive of his work, I question the use of the codes to "predict" future dates -- even those we are sure WILL come to pass.

As I have shown in a previous page(the prophecy of the coming Anti-Christ), the Torah codes can verify prophecies of the New Testament. I have shown the verification of the Revelation to John, at least of chapters 1 and 13.

Genesis 40:17 - 41:18

As you can see, I have included a bit of Chapter 40 to show the extention of pertenent codes, though most of the information is in Chapter 41. See again Peter Hader's work to see the foundations for this study. The fact that the main words were stretched so far and were "backwards" bothered me at first, but my study of the passage has verified much of his work. The date, however, still "bothered" me and I did a search for the month "Tishri" -- seventh on the sacred, but first on the civil, calendar. As a civil holiday, Rosh Hashanna is much like our New Year's Day -- the first day of the year.

But as a religious holiday, it is the day of calling out -- in preparation for Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, on the tenth of Tishri. My search produced many readings of "Tishri" -- all in the backward mode -- but I chose to go with one near the beginning of the chapter. Much to my surpise, the aleph (1) came both at the beginning and the end of the Tishri of choice (so you could read "1 Tishri," in the European fashion, or "Tishri 1," in the form most of us are accustomed to) ! Traditional interpreters put the trumpets of the fall holidays, including Rosh Hashanna, as types of the LAST Trumpet. The Biblical establishment of the religious holiday is found in Leviticus 23:23-32. New Testament references to the trumpets, first by the Lord Jesus Himself in Matthew 24:29-31 (My favorite, for it "supports" post-trib rapture), and Revelation 11:15-19 which depicts the "last" trumpet, indicate further importance of the trumpets to the "rapture" and "resurrection" of the saints.
Much more "important" to many, though I still tend to be wary of the "predictive" nature of the codes, is the YEAR!! While many can agree to the concept of the Lord's return to fulfill a typological holiday, when a year is deduced -- Well, that is "date setting" of the worst kind!! Never mind that our Lord only admonished that the "day or hour" was not known!
Well, the year "2000" has been deduced by many to be significant, and as we have seen, Agee and Hader deduce "1998"!! ** But why in the codes, where the Hebrew calendar must be followed, does the unlikely "5758" show up? And what of other near-by years? Well, the corresponding "year" to "AD 2000" is the Hebrew "5760" (or the alphabetic aquivalent: HTShS). Of course, Tishri 1, 5760 falls in September (10 ?) of 1999. This stretches the time to "get ready" to about eighteen months!! Of course, I can only verify that Tishri, 5759, is not in the text. That date, of course, came in 1997 for 5758. Other years may yet be dicovered in this particular passage so even this "clear" passage is not to be taken as a sure prophecy.

As can be seen in the grid, 1 Tishri [ELS=18] crosses the year 5760 [ELS=156] almost as a Heading for the numerous ELS's to come. And right in the middle of that is the coincidental backward ELS of Shilhuv ("Rapture" *)!! This particular ELS is "hidden" in 15 occurences of the phrase "on the third day" (the orange-shaded Hebrew) in the Torah (two of them "sandwiching the 'Joseph Chapter' that Peter Hader has found). Here, Moses even sets the stage -- On the third day Pharoah had a FEAST!! Granted, it was a birthday bash; but he did "lift up" his butler and baker! (compare Genesis 22:4 - "on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes")

Although this date is more in align with the prophetic significance of the Hebrew holiday, I have found another date that falls in a significant verse and is quite close to an occurence of "5760" (itself being only at ELS=25 !). Here is the grid of the second page (of 4) that I scanned for this study.

Genesis 41:17-37

I have continued to work only on backward ELS's to follow Mr. Hader's previous findings. However, I do not come with a prediction to confirm, and thus feel free to check out the possibilities. The verses here, 41:25-26, read:

25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

The RED words are the ones that intersect the year "5760" (ELS=25) and string together to make a message (forwards) : "Joseph .. has shown .. kine .. good .. one"
A possible interpretation: "Joseph (ie. Jesus) has shown the cattle (years?) to be good and the Same (one) for all."
Does the date of the year intersect with more information? Yes, it seems so. That string is simply: "Good .. Seven .. Years"
An open mind would take this to literally indicate that the years will indeed be good for those that are provided for, in whatever way God sees to provide. If the type of the seven years in Egypt is followed too closely, of course, the provision will be within the system during the famine. But we don't have to follow it that far, do we? Again, we must remember that the Biblical evidence is in favor of the presence of the faithful IN THE TRIBULATION.
Interestingly, though, both terms chosen to indicate the "rapture" begin their ELS's within these verses. "Shiluv" (rapture) begins in verse 26, while "HaNatsal" (The Rapture) begins in verse 25 (marked in green below).
And finally, the yellow shading indicates that Christians (probably, = "Nazarene" in modern Hebrew), or Christ (The Nazarene) will be involved in a "Harvest" at this time (Matthew 24:29-31). Notice also the closest encounter in the main verse under consideration. There, the ELS "Christian" crosses the word "dream," perhaps identifying the type even further
The date I have found this way, with no significance in the calendar, is 6 Shevat, 5760. This is equal to January 12, or thereabouts, in the year AD 2000. If, however, we care to mix forward dates with backward years, an interesting thing is seen in the grid that happens to be 25 columns wide (See red box below): The phrase "the good" is the same as "5 Tevet" (December 12 in 1999) and interects the "5000" (He) while it is adjacent with the "400" (Tau) that form part of the year "5760"!
I have recently done some other work concerning the Anti-Christ and the accompanying Christ ELS's

Genesis 41:25-26

RESOURCES

Slate online magazine article on Bible codes.

Torah Codes Software.

The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary
* This sourse verifies that "Shiluv" is "rapture."

** Further work on a new passage !!

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