The Ascending of the Bride Draws Near

This current Passover Season is the only one in this century to have all the signs in the heavens that point to a resurrection and ascending of the First-Resurrection Believers. The signs are definitely showing the proper time frame (See Bride and Bridegroom Signs in the Heavens). The signs are there in the heavens, for all to see. What has been lacking are the details in-between.

It Must Be Scriptural

In Scripture there are three “Scriptural” ascension dates mentioned. To be a “Scriptural” ascension date, the date must correspond to either an ascension, or its prophetic “type,” which can be seen Scripture. For instance, a “pouring out” of the Holy Spirit is not a Scriptural event showing an ascension, whereas the ascending of Enoch and Elijah, the vomiting of Jonah, and the “going up” from the Wilderness into the Promised Land are all Scriptural ascension events. However, only a few of these are given dates in Scripture.

First-Month Date

At first we saw and understood only the first-month ascension, the first one listed in Scripture known to have occurred in the First Month. This first-month Ascension date is seen in Joshua 4:19, where Israel came up (”ascended”) into the Promised land on the tenth day of the first month, Abib 10. This is a prophetic type of Israel ascending, and is the first date we first thought the ascension would be possible in our generation, in the year 2008 according to the signs.

However, when we saw that the “Master Delayed His Coming,” we had to go back to Scripture. We understand the season is right, and the 7-year countdown clock has surely begun ticking on the 10th day of the first month, as the heavenly signs show — yet we saw no ascension on that date! So we are looking further into the Scriptures, and now we see more!

Second-Month Date

The second-month “Scriptural” date for ascending is listed in Gen 7:11,17, where we see the ark “bare up” and “lifted up,” as a type or prophetic picture of resurrection, on the seventeenth day of the second month. Even Yahshua reminded us that “as the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (See Matthew 24:37, 38; Luke 17:26). This second-month date is still a possibility as of this writing, but when the third-month date came into view, it seemed to be a more likely fit to Scripture!

Third-Month Date

The last, third-month “Scriptural” date for ascending is listed in Acts 1:3,9, and is a description of several things. First, the day mentioned is the 40th day after Yahshua’s resurrection, the very day on which He ascended. Second, it is the 40th day of the counting of the Omer. When Yahshua was resurrected on the Day of Early firstfruits, He fulfilled this Feast, and in doing so, Yahshua became the “firstfruits of them that slept” (1Co 15:20). This Feast day also marked “Day 1″ of the “Omer Count” of 50 days, the countdown to Shavuot, which is also variously called “Pentecost,” or the “Feast of Weeks,” or “Latter Firstfruits.”

This year, the 40th day of the Omer, called “Ascension Day” by many, happens to fall on the 1st day of the third month according to the Biblical calendar. The term “Biblical calendar” is highlighted, because it is not the same as the “Traditional” Jewish or Hebrew calculated calendar that most use; thus many will be confounded as to all the proper dates. Instead, it is the Biblically-correct calendar referred to, based on the sighting of the new moon, and also based on the “Abib” condition of the Barley to confirm the beginning of months, both from the perspective of Jerusalem. For a simple overview of the Biblical Calendar, see ABC’s of the Biblical Calendar.

Which Date? Scriptures Reveal

So in summary, there are three “Scriptural” Ascension dates — the first-month date, the second-month date, and the third-month date. Which one is the correct one? There is in Scripture an observed Scriptural principle, seen in many events, in which the first and second in a given series is rejected by Yahweh, but the third in the series is accepted. This year, there are three “Scriptural” ascension dates — in the first month, the second month, and the third month. Could this observed Scriptural principle apply also to ascension dates?

The “third day” in Scripture is associated with resurrection. Perhaps this term “third day” also refers to the first and second dates as unacceptable to Yahweh, and points to the third of three choices in a series of “ascension dates” as being the acceptable date. If so, then the third one of the known Scriptural dates may be the day of the Bride’s ascending — the 40th day of the Omer count — which happens to occur this year on the first day of the third month on the Biblical calendar!

Most Evangelical Believers Not Yet Ready!

Beloved, it is time to get Ready — If you were not able to keep the First Month Passover, keep the Second: The Passover Cup is our “Covenant Cup” of acceptance of the Bridegroom’s offer of Betrothal! This partaking of the Passover Cup “is” the New Covenant in His Passover Blood!! (See Mt 26:28; Mk 14:24; Lk 22:20; 1Co 11:25).

These are not Jewish Feasts, they are Yahweh’s Feasts for His Bride — His Passover-Protected First-Born!! (See Lev 23:2).

The Second Passover, the 14th day of the Second Month, occurs in 2008 on Tuesday May 20.

Beloved, it is time for you to become “Betrothed” to the Master on that Day — by observing the Passover — and then Watch and Pray!!!

(To see the GREAT importance Scripture reveals for NT Believers keeping Passover, see The New Covenant Passover.)

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