Didn't catch me by surprise.
I knew about it for a couple of years.
I just can't figure out too much to do with it.
It's 5 months and 26 days, about the space of half a time, half an hour, half a hora*, from the "darkened" sun.
The English girl has been looking at this one for a couple of years or more.
I'm afraid she'll have a breakdown if the rapture doesn't happen when the moon will not give it's light a couple weeks later.
I'm not registered with Youtube, or google, but i emailed the girl to try and explain to her why there were two Passovers on Passion week, but she wouldn't hear about it.
She told me to pray on it and the Holy Spirit would open my eyes.
But i like that girl's style. She sleeps on the couch at her Mum's house. She devotes 100% of her time to this.
I just got a brand new idea this weekend where i think something else is going on. No man can know the hora, not the angels of heaven, not even the Son of Man. Only the Father can know.
The Son of Man is going to come at an unexpected hour.
The signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars have already been given. But we're in a planned on delay that was baked in the cake from before the foundation of the universe.
This is something that only the Father can know. It's predestination. I'm a Calvinist. I was born saved. I was picked by the Father from BEFORE the foundation of the universe to be drawn to a belief in the Son. This is only in the Father's department, only He does this part.
There's another way to look at it.
If the Devil wanted to buy himself a little more time, he could do it by killing as many babies as he could. The slaughter of the innocents. Did i hear the US has aborted around 60 million babies? Then to that number add the rest of the world AND the legalization of the abortion pill. In Canada the abortion pill is legal and FREE to any pregnant girl, as long as she can show that her pregnancy is below a certain time. Some of those babies would have been Saints. If they could have lived, the number of our brothers, our fellow servants, would probably be complete by now.
When the Saints go marching in.
Everybody has a different idea about what happens when Jesus returns. Some say there will be survivors during the tribulation that will populate the millennium. Some think that there will be human people living along side resurrected people here on Earth. But others think that the great city will be split into three parts, split into thirds, not a third to spare as there were during the trumpets. The time will have come for Jesus to destroy the destroyers of the Earth.
So when Jesus returns, there will only be two kinds of people alive, the saints, and the lost. At that point, the dead in Christ are resurrected, then we who remain alive are changed in the twinkling of an eye. Billions of Saints will light up the stratosphere and all the tribes of the Earth remaining will mourn. Then anyone alive will be slain by a command, the sharp sword, that comes from the Riders mouth. This would mean that what ever the number of saved humanity is, that's it. We can't come back and get anymore. The door of the Ark is shut.
So if God is looking for a specific number of humanity to replace the number of angels that the Dragon's tail swept away from Heaven, only the Father would know what that number is. I can't help but be concerned, that's what they might be doing for about the space of a half a hora* in Heaven. I bet when we hit the right number on this counter, there will be time no more, no more delay. The kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our God.
They might be watching a counter in heaven that looks something like this:
www.theworldcounts.com/stories/How-Many-Babies-Are-Born-Each-DayBut only the Father in Heaven can know when we hit the right number.
Here can be another example of where God is looking to fulfill a specific number of people:
KJV:
"And it was said unto them,
that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellowservants also and their brethren,
that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
ESV:
"Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer,
until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete,
who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Time in Bible Times
By Charles Francis Potter
The word "hour" comes from the Greek word "hora." The
"Horae" were the three mythological goddesses of the seasons—
spring, summer and winter. This was before autumn was recognized
as a season. Their names were Eunomia, Dike and Eirene, mean-
ing Good Order, Justice and Peace, guardians of the orderly suc-
cession of the processes of nature.
"Hora" therefore meant "season" in a very general sense, almost
synonymous with "a time." It was simply a measurable lapse of
time with a beginning and an end, but with no uniform length of
duration. That ancient Greek meaning of the word persisted into
New Testament times even after "hora" came to be used also to
mean a division of the day. Consequently, when the translators
came across the word "hora," they found it very difficult to deter-
mine what English word to use.
Several times they translated "hora" as "day" ; several other
times they rendered it "season," and they were correct in so doing.
But in some verses where "hora" should have been translated
"moment" or "instant," they rendered it "hour."
Even in the many places in the New Testament where the word
"hora" is used to indicate a period of time somewhat corresponding
to our modern hour, it should be understood by the Bible reader
that the New Testament hour varied greatly in length.
There were astronomers then, to be sure, who had carefully
worked out the exact length of the day from their observation of
the stars and the equinoxes, and had divided the day into 24 equal
parts or hours, like the ones we use today. These they measured
by a clever mechanical device which they called the clepsydra,
literally the water-stealer, a primitive forerunner of the clock.
But the common people of New Testament times, in their homes
and in business, knew nothing of the day of 24 equal hours. To
them the day was the period between sunrise and sunset, and that
was divided into 12 equal parts called hours. Of course, the hours
were therefore much longer in summer than in winter. In mid-
winter their hour was equal to only three-fourths of one of our hours
and in midsummer was as long as our hour and a quarter. But in
their leisurely method of living, they did not worry about such
small matters.
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166 Charles Francis Potter
Practically, too, Jesus' contemporaries did not even bother very
much with separate hours. They used mostly the third, sixth and
ninth hours, meaning mid-forenoon, noon and mid-afternoon. As a
matter of fact, the first, second, fourth, fifth, eighth and 12th hours
are never mentioned in the New Testament at all. The 11th hour
is referred to twice, but in the same story; and the seventh and
tenth hours are mentioned but once each. And in half the places
where any hour is mentioned, it is prefaced by the word "about."
"About the ninth hour" is a common phrase, and meant evidently
"along some time in the afternoon."
The night was divided into watches. In Old Testament times
there were three—the evening watch, the middle watch and the
morning watch. That usage carried over into the New Testament,
but the Roman four-watch night was also coming into use. There
is an interesting example in Mark 13: 35, where all four watches
are named, "Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master
of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing,
or in the morning."
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