Rapture 2025

Letter to the Church in Reference to the Rapture: 

 Points to Ponder: 

 1. We are spirit filled people who are led by the Holy Spirit of God, and He will lead us into the knowledge of all truth. 

 2. As such, we must use the Scriptures, and expect affirmations/revelations from God in accordance with the Scriptures. 

 3. Therefore, in reference to the rapture we find in the Scriptures, specifically from Jesus, the parable of the 10 bridesmaids referencing the rapture. In a nutshell, He gave these facts: There were 10 bridesmaids, of which 5 were ready, and 5 were unprepared. Lastly, He was delayed, but He finally came at midnight. The other places in the Scriptures that reference the rapture are mainly words by which to comfort one another. Thus, we can concentrate on the Parable. 

 4. We can deduce, from other points of Scripture, that the evening and morning were considered the normal day; and so, in the Scriptures, traditionally in Israel, the time around 6pm was the first hour, and therefore midnight was approximately 6 hours later. 

 5. In a 24-hour day, 6 hours constitutes approximately ¼ of the day. Thus, the Groom was delayed by approximately 6 hours or a ¼ of a day. If this were a season, broken into a year, then ¼ of the year would mean 3 months. Since no man can know the day or the hour, but we have been commanded to know the season, it must be that we can know the month or at least the year. So, if we can figure out the year, we can know the month. And, the delay would be by approximately 3 months. 

 6. Since the Jewish Nation, the Catholic Church, and the Essene and Enochian calendars have all agreed that 2025 is a Jubilee year, we can reasonably assume that Jesus may come back to rapture the church this Jubilee year. The Jubilee was the 50th year after 49 years of Sabbaths. 

 7. As the Jewish Festivals seem to be the pattern in the Scriptures that Jesus has acted upon in fulfilling prophecies, we can reasonably assume that He will continue with this pattern. Thus, the Day of Atonement for His return, to rapture the church, is entirely plausible. 

 8. However, He did state in the parable that the Groom was delayed. We can assume that He may have been prophesying that delay, though as the Son of God, He did not know the exact day or hour because only the Father knew the exact day and hour, so He wasn’t giving us an exact time; just a reasonable time period representing His delay. 

 9. If we calculate the time period of His delay as prophesied in the parable, we can conclude that He might come 3 months or so after after the Day of Atonement, in the Jubilee year beginning in 2025. That would make his return for the rapture of the church in or around December of 2025. 

 10. Conclusions: Why the Jubilee year beginning in 2025? Why the delay? What to do? What not to do? 

     God set up a system for His people whereby He redeemed them every 50 years during the year of Jubilee. There are articles in which the Catholic Church and the Jewish Religious communities have declared 2025 to be a jubilee year. See backtojerusalem.com, 2025 Has Been Called the Year of Jubilee, by Eugene, dated January 1, 2025, and see the advertisement of the Roman Catholic Church on the website, iubilaeum2025.va, which is an announcement to schedule Jubilee Holy tours in Rome in 2025. While the Catholic Church celebrated the Jubilee year from January to December, Scripture observes the Jubilee year as beginning on the Day of Atonement. 

     The Jewish religious establishment has not celebrated a Jubilee for the past 2000 years because all of the 12 tribes of Israel were not yet represented in Israel. However, with the return of many after the October 7, 2023 massacre and the resultant anti-Jewish sentiment worldwide, many more Jewish people have returned to Israel. These events have thus inspired the return to observing the Jubilee in the calendar this year, 2025 beginning on the Day of Atonement. 

     Incredibly, the Scripture read by Jesus in Isaiah supports that the beginning of His ministry was a Jubilee year, as was indicated by the description of the “the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God,” which Jesus read from Isaiah and fulfilled that day. That year was 25 AD, when He came to the people He intended to redeem, as their Kinsman Redeemer, (FYI: If He died in 32 AD, then His ministry was actually 7 years, not 3 and ½ years, because 25 AD, the Jubilee year, is 7 years from 32 AD!). I say this because it seems unreasonable to assume that either He read this during the year of Jubilee, but then delayed his ministry for 3 and ½ years, or that He read this 3 and ½ years past the Jubilee year, and then without explaining that He was referring to the past Jubilee year, and also not bothering to explain why He was starting 3 and ½ years late, he then began His ministry of Redemption for the Jewish nation late! Nevertheless, more than 20 Jubilees later, the rapture is immanent.

     In that time, He took 7 years, though some say 3 and ½ years, to gather His flock, but His return for the church, He warned, would be done in an instant; however, it would or could be delayed. Why shouldn’t we cut Jesus some slack and allow for a delay? He is after all, the Good Shepherd who came to save the lost, and doesn’t want any who have gone astray to perish. Consider for the moment that it might be your mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, or child that has gone astray, or even yourself that might be left behind, but for a slight delay.

     It is therefore reasonable to assume that the rapture will be anytime within the year of this Jubilee. If the time table holds true as described above, then Jesus will most likely return sometime in December three months after the Day of Atonement, or ¼ of the year later than anticipated because of the delay. Nevertheless, unless there is a further delay, it will be within the year of Jubilee; thus, from the Day of Atonement 2025, to the following year, 2026, the day before the next Day of Atonement will bring the rapture. Unless there is a prophesy, we know nothing about, which places the rapture further down the road, then rest assured, He comes quickly. (Some have the Jubilee year beginning in the Spring; however, the Bible says, "Then shalt though cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the 10th of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the 50th year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.")

     Jonah was given a word from God to go preach to the Ninevites, but, instead, Jonah ran away from God. He knew that God would forgive them and relent, and Jonah was having none of it. When Jonah was finally “persuaded” to obey, he stayed to watch what the Lord would do. He camped outside in the heat, and God sent him a nice tree for shade, but then God took it away. Jonah mourned for that tree. God then pointed out to Jonah how he had cared for the tree, but had little compassion upon the people of Ninevah. In the Scriptures, God took responsibility for the delay in carrying out His word. Eventually, He did punish the people of Ninevah, for though they repented, they soon returned to their sinful ways. God delayed to give them a chance, though He knew the end of it, because He is a merciful God, and it may be that some individuals were saved out of Ninevah. So, though God may have given dates to people in reference to the rapture, He also took responsibility for a potential delay in the Parable of the Bridesmaids. And just as Jonah is not considered a false prophet in Scriptures, the ones of today, that may have had a word from the Lord, are not false prophets either, but rather it is that God has delayed the rapture as stated 2000 years ago by Jesus in the Scriptures. 

     I say this because it seems that many have forgotten that it is wrong to air our dirty laundry before the unrighteous. It is better to be wronged than to be critical of one another before the world. To condemn someone as a false prophet, and to laugh or deride that fellow Christian, before the world, is contemptible. Jesus Himself declared plainly that there may be a delay. Our actions when accusing and deriding, bring shame and criticism upon God, and harms the little ones in the flock; the weaker Christians may lose hope and go astray based upon such behaviors. 

     We must look to the Scriptures for reasons when our collective hearts tell us this is indeed the season. There has been no other time in the 2000-year history of the church where the return of Jesus for the rapture of the church could be possible. The prophecies all point to this as the season. Something as important as the season of the rapture of the church will be made known by God for the simplest and weakest of His flock. Figuring it out will not be some complicated math problem by which only the most intelligent will be able to garner and understand. Rather it will be hidden in Scripture in such a way that anyone seeking it with a true heart will find it because that is the way of our Good Shepherd, our Lord Jesus Christ. Will there be affirmations using numbers and signs and whatnot that the most skilled will be able to look for and find? Of course, that will be the case, but that will not be the main way. That will only be the way of affirmations. Affirmations from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Prophecies from the Essenes, Testimonies from the Forefathers, etc., will be used by God to light the way, but in the end, we have the Holy Spirit and the Holy Word of God as the lamp to our feet and the light to our path. If anyone knows anything different, and is keeping it for future deals and/or profits, then shame be upon you. You have been given clues as the watchmen upon the gates were given warnings by God. If the little ones and/or the weak ones are harmed because you kept the information to yourself, then those harms are upon your head. 

     Lastly, complain not little sheep. God knows what He is doing. Remember that the children of Israel were forced to wait forty years to enter the promised land because their complaints only allowed them to see the size of the giants and not the might of their God. Do not run around complaining about the delay, and end up being left behind to go through the tribulation rather than to be with our Lord at the wedding feast for lack of faith, or by some other effect of your grievance against God’s delay. 

     I am convinced that He will rapture His church during the year of Jubilee sometime between October 2025 and October 2026.  However, I could be wrong; perhaps it will be in 2029.  Who knows? The rapture can be at any time. He has let us know the season, but the day and the hour are not known. God is sovereign and He ultimately will decide when He will rapture His church!