Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. God, “passed over” the houses of the Israelites. The celebration climaxed with drinking the fourth cup of wine. But Jesus drank the cup of the wine of wrath. This act makes us His body, His bride.
Passover 2022: the Fourth Cup and our Exodus
I DID read your note this time. Because I'm paranoid 2022 is the year. From Passion Week and Ascension Day, all the way until somewhere in September is the middle of the second heptad timeline, (plus 40 days).
Reading that Song of Solomon Script was giving me the goosebumps.
My love calls to me:
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
For now the winter is past;
the rain has ended and gone away.
The blossoms appear in the countryside.
The time of singing has come,
and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.
The fig tree ripens its figs;
the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one. (Song of Solomon 2:10-13)
Song of Solomon chapter 2, verses 8-14, is an amazing picture of Jesus Christ coming to snatch His Bride up and away from off the Earth in the Rapture:
Listen! My love is approaching.
Look! Here he comes,
leaping over the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
My love is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, he is standing behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.
My love calls to me:
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
For now the winter is past;
the rain has ended and gone away.
The blossoms appear in the countryside.
The time of singing[j] has come,
and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.
The fig tree ripens its figs;
the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
From your note:
He does not come down to get the Bride, rather He causes her to “rise up” and “come away” with Him:
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
“After this I looked, and there in heaven was an open door. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” Revelation 4:1 (KJV)
Same thing they said to the two witnesses in Revelation 11.
"Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
That about sums it up.
There's more than one reason why we need to meet the Lord in the air.
