So I haven’t written here for 18 months…and now it’s July 2023. I’ve simply got to share some things that I’ve been learning over the past few days, which have filled me with a sense of awe and joy and anticipation when looking at God’s word and the world around me. Let’s just say that 2023 might be very significant indeed. Disclaimer: this is a summary only, as there is wayyy too much to say to be able to write it all out! Lots of this information is taken from teachings by Generation2434 and Dr Barry on YouTube. Links to sources below.

Now, I have a quick confession to make. I struggled with intense disappointment after September and October 2021 came and went without the Rapture; initially I was fine, telling myself and everyone who knew I had been waiting for it, that it was fine, my faith wasn’t shaken, and it would still happen. And it’s true, I have never lost the faith that this WILL happen soon, within my lifetime, and before I get old(!), but as my Mum kept finding new possible dates and getting hyped for those, which also came and went, I got more and more disillusioned with the idea that we can ever know the date or time and I found it intensely stressful. I accepted that we might know the season (autumn feasts maybe?), but I gave up and went back to the “no-one knows the day or the hour” scripture to comfort myself. I refused to even entertain the ideas of new dates, and just forged on with life and work and trying to share the gospel with people; nothing wrong with that, but it was only a temporary solution for a watcher…when you’re awake to these things, you can’t help but feel compelled to look. However, over the last few weeks I experienced slipping into a depression where God felt far and silent; I felt distinctly that what I was doing with my time had no real eternal value, and that I should be seeking more focused gospel proclamation ministries and perhaps seeking a ministry vision that I had received back in 2017. I couldn’t seem to get anywhere in prayer over it, but I did feel God gently prompting me to go back to the idea of looking deeper in the Bible; the feasts, the prophecies, and the typology to see His purposes. I initially resisted, but after coming to a breaking point last Sunday (today is Tuesday 25th July), I gave in and watched some video teachings that my Mum had put on our family iMessage chat. Mind. Blown. Immediately I knew that I had been set free from the depression and the uncertainty; God’s word is so complete, so perfect, and so deep, full of beautiful mysteries, simply waiting to be unlocked! Joy flooded my heart, and along with it, the urgency to share this with you all, as it directly impacts all of us one way or the other. Here goes. This might take several posts, but I’m going to start with why 2023 is so significant.

When I first started talking about the Rapture in 2020 or 2021, many things looked like they were falling into place, but looking back now, it was only just beginning. Bear with me, those of you who already put up with this once; it’s much more conclusive now. Back then, we were still struggling to break free of the c0vid curse and get our lives back; not exactly life as normal, which Jesus describes so clearly in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 especially. The international scene was one of uncertainty, but nowhere near the level we’re experiencing now. Still no idea where Gog and Magog fit in, but it will happen! Tech, AI, digital currencies and the state of the world’s economies, international alliances, supranational bodies pontificating over how we’re allowed to live and the massive push of veganism and the “sustainable development” agenda, the falling apart of liberal western societies…all have RAMPED up over the past 18 months or so.

…we are within the 4-year high-alert watch zone, if you like, for the start of the Tribulation. What happens right before the Tribulation, in one sense precipitating it? Yup. The Rapture.

But to begin we’re going to look backwards in time:

30AD – or thereabouts. A Galilean carpenter-rabbi is brutalised and hung on a wooden cross to die a naked, shameful death between two criminals. He hangs there for 6 agonising hours, nailed up at the time of the morning sacrificial lamb in the temple for that Passover, and finally giving up His spirit at the time of the evening sacrifice – crying “It is finished.”. At the same time, the sun had already been darkened for 3 hours, the earth shook, the graves were split open, and the veil to the Holy of Holies in the temple was dramatically rent in two by God. “Truly this was the Son of God!” exclaims the centurion guarding the execution site. Then, on the day after the Sabbath following Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits of the Barley Harvest, the tomb where Jesus was lain is opened by an angel, and He is risen from the dead, and appears to select women and disciples. One week later, after his consecration as our Great High Priest in heaven (Leviticus 8:33), He appears to the whole gathered group of the 12, and Thomas finally believes. After that He is with them and others, teaching “infallible proofs” over a 40 day period, which when you take into account the days either side, makes the final Ascension Day to be Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, otherwise known as the Firstfruits of the Wheat Harvest – that harvest representing the harvest of souls that the church is tasked with gathering in so many of Jesus’ parables (John 4:35, Romans 8:29).

Fast-foward 2,000 years. Where do you get to? 2030, right? Why is that significant? Biblical typology teaches that with the Lord 1,000 years is as 1 day, and a day as a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8), and days as a idiom for years is a commonly accepted part of the understanding of Hebrew prophecy. Hosea 6: 2 says “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight.” Jonah, used as a symbol of Himself by Jesus, was in the belly of the great fish for 3 days, being spat up on the 3rd day, and Jesus said He would be in the heart of the earth for 3 days, rising on the third day (Matt.12:40). So there’s something quite significant about reaching the end of two prophetic “days” of millennia by 2030; the third “day” immediately following will be the Messianic reign, made possible by the resurrection! Most scholars agree that the crucifixion was sometime between 30 and 33 AD, so going forward 2,000 years to 2030 and taking off 7 years for the Tribulation, that brings us to….2023 as the first possible year. So we are within the 4-year high-alert watch zone, if you like, for the start of the Tribulation. What happens right before the Tribulation, in one sense precipitating it? Yup. The Rapture.

We are also very LATE on in the Fig Tree Generation: the generation that was born at the time of the founding of the modern state of Israel, foretold by Jesus. He said that when you see the fig tree blooming (in other words national Israel coming back into their land and becoming a flourishing nation), that that generation would by no means pass away until all things had been fulfilled – Matthew 24:32-35; Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33. Depending whether you count that from the actual day, May 14th, 1948, or whether you feel that Israel really bloomed by c.1950, that means that we are anywhere from 73 to 75 years into that generation of c.80-85 years (as an average generational lifespan), which Jesus promised would see the fulfilment of all end times prophecy.

Now we jump forward back to the actual year we’re living in…read on in the next post.

Sources for all these things include, Dr Barry, Generation2434 – check out their channels!