#A21: RAPTURE NEW MOON - ON A JULY 23?

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by Luis B. Vega

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www.PostScripts.org 

One was asked to elaborate more on why one is convinced the Rapture Timing is tied to a July 23 Date and that being ‘True’ Pentecost. And, that if there are any Astronomical Signs that will or could accompany when the Blessed Hope, i.e. the Rapture is to occur. One will address the Location of the New Moon on that Date and then why one postulates that a July 23 Date could very well coincide with the Rapture’s Timing.
 

Then one will elaborate what the Astronomical Depictions looked like on Pentecost, in Babylon on the Last Day of the Jew’s Captivity in comparison to how the Sky appeared, likewise on this same Day, as described in Acts 2. In Summary, there are no Blood Moons or Solar Eclipses that coincide with this Date in the near Future, according to NASA’s Data. However, for 2025, there is the New Moon in Gemini that occurs on this July 23 Date. Since the Year 2000, there have only been 2 occasions where a New Moon repeated in 2 particular Constellations, Leo and Gemini, precisely on a July 23.
 

2006: New Moon in Gemini
2009: New Moon in Leo

2017: New Moon in Cancer

2025: New Moon in Gemini
2028: New Moon in Leo
 

Apparently, there is a Pattern. At the end of this study, there will be Charts presented that depict how the Sky looked the very Morning of the Acts 2 Pentecost New Wine in 32 AD and when the Jews left Babylon in -537 BC, both correlated to a July 23. This is to strongly suggest that the Last Day of the Jews being Captives in Babylon was Pentecost. It has echoes of Sinai that one also has shown is tied, precisely to a July 23 and the Pentecost New Wine Theory. One is surmising a calculated Crucifixion Year of 32 AD, etc. The Sun was in Leo as it rose above the Mount of Olives and in Babylon.
 

It commemorated the Leo Astronomical New Year, an End and Beginning Time Marker. Thus, one argues that the Acts 2 Event, coinciding with the Feast of New Wine is when the Beginning of the Church Age was Initiated. If Prophecy is Pattern, one is just postulating that the End of the Church Age would see its Conclusion with the Rapture Event on this same July 23 Date. It also has to do with the Rapture Rendezvous that one also asserts will occur at the Lions Gate. This has to do also with how the Ancient Egyptians, for example, celebrated July 23 as the Day the Mortal Bodies transformed into ‘Stars’ and ascended to Heaven through the Lions Gate, etc. 

Evidence?
It was also when the Nile River flooded and coincided with the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest. As one has advocated for this Date, July 23, it is one’s Theory and Day Calculation of when the Rapture Event could occur to End the Church Age. And that perhaps, the Anniversary of the Empowering of the Church Age Believers will see its conclusion of their Commission occur on that very same Day Anniversary. 

The Theory is that July 23 also commemorates the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest and it is the Astrological Leo New Year. One will itemize the Reasons for why one is more convinced that the Rapture Event, that closes-out the Church Age corresponds to a July 23. Now one cannot ‘Guarantee’ that the Rapture will occur on a July 23. One is only seeing the Clues in Scripture, and interpreting the possible Prophetic Typologies that one is extracting the Rationale from. Nonetheless, with each passing Year, one’s Highest Rapture Watch Date is a ‘Fixed’ July 23. Here are 13 Reasons to consider.
 

1. LEVITICUS 23:15-16 

One is more convinced that the Leviticus 23:15-16 counting of the Days starts on Nisan 15 and is a Double-Count of 49 Days +1 Day and then a subsequent 50 Day Count. When doing so, the corresponding Day of Tammuz 23 would correlate to a July 23. This was especially True when the Solar Calendar was pegged to the Julian Calendar, etc.
 

2. ACTS 2:13 

What one has postulated, is that the Acts 2 Pentecost occurred on this Day, of a July 23. This is based on the Exodus Day Count and how the Clue given in the Verse alludes to that Day being the Feast of New Wine. Due to the Disciples speaking in Known Languages, the Crowd gathered at the Temple Precinct surmised that they were drunk with New Wine, as a Mockery.
 

3. EXODUS 32:17
The Feast of New Wine also is postulated to correspond to the 99th Day in which Moses came down Mount Sinai and the Revelry occurred, in the Camp of the Israelites, to include the Golden Calf Incident. It was the occasion where 3000 Israelites perished, but in Acts 2, a parallel 3000 Jews got Saved. Coincidence? No. Prophecy is Pattern.
 

4. RUTH 2:33
Then you have the Prophetic Typology of Ruth marrying Boaz at the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest. One takes this Biblical Picture as a serious Rapture Timing Scenario of when the Rapture is to happen, perhaps. Note that the Egyptians celebrated the Harvest on July 23. 

5. TEMPLE SCROLL 

And that the July 23rd Date, Feast of the New Wine corresponds to the 2nd of the 3 Penta-Feasts that have been corroborated by the Temple Scrolls. The 3 First Fruit Feasts were that of the New Grain, New Wine and New Oil, etc. Those 3000 that got Saved by Peter’s Preaching are as the ‘First Fruits’ of the Church Age. It is the Age of Wine, in one’s Understanding.
 

6. JOHN 2:9
One is more convinced that the Miracle of Cana, where Jesus turned the Water into Wine occurred on the Feast of New Wine. This Speculation of the Timing cannot be proven, other that one correlating the Account with the Prophetic Typology of what the New Wine represents, a Metamorphosis. Truly, at the Time of the Rapture, it will be a similar Miracle.

7. JOHN 4:35
The Parallel Events of Tammuz 23 or July 23 can be seen as the 4th Month of the end of the Wheat Harvest. This is interpreted by how one supposes that Jesus stated that, ‘Are there not 4 Months and then comes the Harvest?’ Granted, a Growing Season is roughly 4 Months. But if Jesus stated this, precisely, say on the Spring Equinox of March 20, then 4 Months’ worth of Days would occur on around July 23, the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest. The Time-Frame is roughly about 18 Weeks or just over 120 Days, which is 33% of the Year. In the Julian Calendar the July 23 Date corresponded to a July 20 Date. 

Using this July 20 as the Astronomical Beginning of the Leo New Year, it would have put the precise Day Count at 120 Days. So, do note that one does realize that in researching the Julian Calendar, there is a 3 Day Discrepancy to consider also. Thus, one is using the Gregorian Conversion but understanding that from July 20, in this case, is what one will be on High Alert, leading-up to the July 23 Date proposed for the Rapture’s Timing.
 

(Julian) March 20 + 4 Months (30 Days/Month x 4 Months) = July 20* (Julian)
*Assuming that each Month is 30 Days in duration and includes End Date.

‘He told them this Parable: Look at the Fig Tree and all the Trees. When they sprout Leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that Summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the Kingdom of God is near. Truly I tell you, this Generation will certainly not Pass Away until all these Things have happened’. -Luke 21:29-33

8. Matthew 9:17
Jesus taught that New Wine is to be put in New Wine Skins. Based on the Typology of that understanding, it is indicative how the Church Age has been that New Wine Skins. And that at the Rapture, the literal New Bodies will be fully capable of containing the New Wine Jesus only put as a ‘Down Payment’, i.e., the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, as a First Fruit. That is what the 3000 Saved in Acts 2 symbolized, etc. The Full Measure will be seen in the Glorified Bodies.
 

9. MATTHEW 13:37-39

Jesus taught that He is the one that is sowing the Seed of Salvation. This is since His Crucifixion and what the Church Age is all about. Notice that the ‘End of the Age’ pertains to the Harvest. And that Harvest is epitomized by the Grain of Wheat that is harvested at the End of the Age, as in the Summer Wheat Season. That Season corresponds to July. 

10. ANCIENT LEO NEW YEAR
When Did The Ancient Egyptian New Year's Festival Occur?
The Wepet-Renpet Festival wasn't in January, but rather in what we now call July. 

https://www.thetravel.com/how-ancient-egyptians-celebrated-new-years 

11. ZODIAC SIGN OF LEO
The Astrological Sign of Leo︎; Ancient Greek: Λέων, Romanized: Léōn, Latin for ‘Lion’ is the 5th Sign of the Zodiac or Mazzaroth. It corresponds to the Constellation Leo that comes after Cancer and before Virgo. The Traditional Western Zodiac associates Leo with the Time Period from July 23 to August 22. The Sign spans the 120th to 150th Degree of Celestial Longitude. Notice that the 120 Numerical Factors matches the 120 Days Jesus alluded to in the Summer Wheat Harvest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(astrology)  

12. LEO NEW YEAR
The Constellation of Leo is the 1st Original Decan. Its Position is due to the Precession in Ancient Times that started at 0° of Cancer. It is when the Heliacal Rising of Sirius (Egyptian Sepdet; Greco-Egyptian: Sothis), before Sunrise marked the Egyptian New Year. It fell at 0° of Leo on July 20 in the Julian Calendar, that is July 22/23 on the Gregorian Calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decan 

13. END OF THE JEWISH BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
Thus, one postulates that the Leo Astrological New Year was and is a Prophetic Time Marker of a Beginning and an End. In terms of Israel, for example, the End of the Babylonian Captivity coincides with this Time Marker. And that was ‘True’ Pentecost as it was in Acts 2. And one then just is extrapolating the Typology and Timing as a possible Parallel of the End of the Church Age, as a Picture of a ‘Babylonian Captivity’, i.e., the Body of Christ.
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Likewise, the Body of Christ has been Subjected and will be ‘Liberated’ at the Rapture. And that will be an ‘End’ and a Beginning’ of a Time Marker and Delineated by the Leo Astrological New Year, etc. See the following Excerpt from Pastor Allen Nolan that cites at the 11:55 Time Marker of his Video Teaching, the Prophetic Significance of a July 23.

The Antichrist: Jesus and the End Times Bible Study 6 

Pastor Allen Nolan 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIaVp4BS03s
 

‘Messiah is cut-off but not for Himself. The City of Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed and it happened in 70 A.D. It was 38 Years after the Messiah appeared and was cut-off. So, as you can see, there is an Interval between 69 Weeks and the 70 Weeks. And how long is that Interval? How long was that Gap of Time? Well, we know that it is least at least 2 000 Years because when the Babylonian Captivity ended on 

July 23, -537 BC. 

The Jews still owed GOD 2,520 Years of Servitude according to Ezekiel in Prophetic Years, it is 2,483 Years 9 Months and 21 Days. And we know that the 70th Week would not begin until Israel's Servitude was over. Let me say that again. We know that the 70th Week would not begin until Israel's Servitude was over. So, when was it over? May 14, 1948’.
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Consider what the Sky looked like when the Jews crossed that Threshold of the Ishtar Gates of Babylon, heading back to Jerusalem. As they saw the Sun rise toward the East, it was a New Beginning. And this New Time occurred on July 23, -537 BC. This was when the Sun was in Leo. It signified the Astrological New Year and the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest, Pentecost. Leo rose over the Horizon against the Esagila.
 

This was the Temple of Marduk located South of the Ziggurat called the Etemenanki. It measured ~666 feet (200+ m) on its longest Side. It was Nebuchadnezzar who in successive Waves deported the Jews, starting in ~-606 BC. But it was not until the Medo-Persian, under Cyrus that in -539 BC decreed all Subjected Peoples could return and rebuild their City and Temple, in -538 BC. The 70th Year ended in -537 BC then.

Liberation and Commissions
It took about 1 Year for the 1st Wave of Jews to start the Migration back to Jerusalem. The Astrological Leo New Year was thus the Time Marker that initiated New Beginnings. This Time Delineation is the Opposite as to the sequence of the Mazzaroth. From Earth’s Perspective, the Storyline of the Mazzaroth starts with Virgo and ends with Leo. What was befitting of the Motif is that the Last Tribe of Israel was and is Judah, etc.

Thus, on that July 23 Date, the Sons of Judah, the Lion happen to experience, Astronomically on this Day, the Sun in the King Sign of Leo. It was in Conjunction with the King Star, Regulus, as the King Planet approached the Sign as well. The Reason for the Expulsion of the Last Tribe, that of Judah from the Promised Land was due to their Insubordination and Unfaithfulness towards the Creator, YHVH. The Years Judah spent in the Babylonian Captivity was only to last 70 Years, as revealed to Jeremiah.

‘This is what the YHVH says: When 70 Years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill My Good Promise to bring you back to this Place’. -Jeremiah 29:10

Israel had and has a Marriage Covenant with YHVH that goes back to Mount Sinai. The Babylonian Captivity would not be the last Diaspora of the Jews. There was the Roman Exile to come. That one was for rejecting the Messiah, Jesus whom Daniel had foretold of the Details down to the Day also from Babylon of all places. If Prophecy is Pattern, perhaps as the July 23 Date was the Time Marker that initiated the Release of the Babylonian Captives, to the Day and what one calculates was the Acts 2 Pentecost New Time, an ‘End’ and New Beginning for Israel, will occur also for the Body of Christ.
 

It is that as the Church Age Started on July 23, according to one’s Interpretation, will it thus End on its Anniversary? That is one’s Working Theory. One thus correlates this Leo New Year with the Summer Wheat Harvest that one sees is emblematic of when the Rapture Event is to conclude the Church Age with. It is likened to a Wheat Harvest, which ends on a July 23 Leo Astrological New Year. So, will the Concluding Marker, also to the Day, be when the Rapture Event is to close-out the Church Age as it began? 

If so, it will parallel when the Captives of Judea came out of Babylon, as the Bride of Christ Treks to the True Promised Land with Jesus whom Daniel had revealed, as it was revealed to him. So, how did the Sky look like when the Church started in Acts 2, as it was empowered to fulfill its Commission for the Duration of the Church Age? Sunrise Morning, at the 1st Watch of the Day is when the Accounts teach the Acts 2 Pentecost descent of the Holy Spirit occurred. This Date was on July 23, 32 AD, to the best of one’s Year Calculations. It is the same Year of the Crucifixion Scenario. 

Based on the Theory of a Double Count Interpretation of Leviticus 23:15-16, the 49 Days + 50 Days, not the 50th Day, will take one to the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest in Mid-July. Thus, if one looked towards the East, over the Horizon of the Mount of Olives, on July 23, 32 AD, the Sun rose in Leo like in Babylon. It is how one calculates that the July 23 Date was the Astrological New Year in Ancient Times. It was celebrated as the Day of the Translations of the Kings of Egypt to the Stars. It is how and when their Souls traveled to Heaven through the Lions Gate, etc. 

The Groom and the Bride
Thus, one is of the belief that the Acts 2 Pentecost was on the Feast of the First Fruits of the New Wine. It was the 2nd Shavuot of 3 of them as mentioned. So, when Peter stood-up to address the 3000+ Throng of People at the Temple Mount, it was the 1st Watch of the Day, from 6am to 9am. This was the occasion that they started speaking in Tongues or known and understood Languages. Because of this Divine and Endowed Ability, the People presumed and mocked the Spectacle.

The Disciples were accused of being ‘Drunk’ on the New Wine. Contrary to Popular Church Teaching and Tradition, it has been accepted that when Pentecost occurred, it happened at the Upper Room and that it corresponds to the 1st Jewish Feast of Shavuot in early June. This is all incorrect, based on one’s Research. The Upper Room was where the Disciples observed the Passover Meal with Jesus, known as the Last Supper. It was also where they hid from the Jewish Religious Leaders. The initial Stages of the Disciple’s Gatherings there was a Time when they were in fear of their Lives.

However, after Jesus appeared to them on several occasions, they were emboldened to meet publicly and at the ‘House’, i.e., the House of YHVH on the Temple Precinct. They gathered there,  most likely as other groups of Disciples and Teachers did at the Portico of Solomon, etc. So, to the Questions? Where will the Moon be on July 23, 2025? On that Day, the Sun comes up just over the Mount of Olives toward the Eastern Horizon. The Constellation of Gemini rises from 6 AM. Here is what the Constellation of Gemini signifies, according to E.W. Bullinger’s Witness of the Stars. Note that it was a Couple in Ancient Times, a Man and a Woman. It will be noted how the Dendera Zodiac precisely depicts this Couple Motif, as being the True Depiction of Gemini, etc.
 

Chapter II. The Sign GEMINI (The Twins)

All the Pictures of this Sign are confusing. The Greeks claimed to have invented them, and they called them Apollo and Hercules. They are given in our illustration. The Latins called the Castor and Pollux; and the Name of a Vessel in which Paul sailed is so called in Acts xxviii. 11, Διοσκούροι.

The Name in the Ancient Dendera Zodiac is Clusus, or Claustrum Hori, which means the ‘Place of Him who Cometh’. It is represented by 2 Human Figures walking or coming. The 2nd appears to be a Woman. The other appears to be a Man. It is a Tailed Figure, the Tail signifying ‘He Cometh’. The Hebrew Name is Thaumim, which means ‘United’.

Star Α in the Head of the one at our Right Hand is called Apollo, which means Ruler, or Judge;

Star Β in the Head of the other is called Hercules, who cometh to Labor, or Suffer.

Star Γ, in his Left Foot, is called Al Henah, which means Hurt, Wounded, or Afflicted. 

Star Ε, in the center of his Body, is called Waset, which means ‘Set’, and tells of Him who ‘Set His face like a Flint’ to accomplish this Mighty Herculean Work; 

Star Ε in the Knee of the other, ‘Apollo’ is called Mebsuta, which means ‘Treading under Feet’.

The Names of other Stars, which are not identified, have come down to us with the same Testimony. One is called Propus (Hebrew), the Branch, Spreading; another is called Al Giauzâ (Arabic), the Palm Branch; another is named Al Dirâ (Arabic), the Seed, or Branch.

This is what we see in this Sign—Messiah's Peaceful Reign. All is Rest and Repose. We see ‘His Days’, in which the ‘Righteous shall Flourish’; and ‘Abundance of Peace’, so long as the moon endures (Ps. lxxii.). But, for this Blessed Time to come, there must be no Enemy! All enemies must be subdued.
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As the New Testament describes, the Fire came down upon the Disciples on that True Pentecost of Acts 2. This Fire has been the Power, Enabling of the Brethren since that Day, the Day of the New Wine. And how the same Element, Fire is used to Empower but also to Purge and Judge. It has purged the Bride but will burn the Beast. 

‘The Axe lies ready at the Root of the Trees, and every Tree that does not produce Good Fruit will be cut down and thrown into the Fire. I baptize you with Water for Repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose Sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire. His Winnowing Fork is in His Hand to clear His Threshing Floor and to gather His Wheat into the Barn; but He will burn up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire’. -Matthew 3:10-12

In terms of some Astronomical Observations on that Day, the Sun is in Cancer that is interpreted to be the Sheep Pen, and the Beehive as in a Rendezvous Place. It is about the End-Gathering. The Moon will be a New Moon, so it will be ‘Invisible’ and right in the Heart of the Constellation of Gemini. As noted, the Constellation in Ancient Times was that of a Couple, a Man and a Woman, signifying the Marriage Union of Christ and His Bride, etc. 

Then the Planet of the Messiah, the King Planet is also there in Gemini. So, if one was a Jew, especially of the Type that does know about the Signs in the Sun, Moon and the Stars, one would take note of this New Moon seriously on the Last Day of the Summer What Harvest and Beginning of the Leo Astrological New Year, etc.

One could interpret it as the Messiah coming for the Bride, invisibly to take her, who has ‘Disappeared’ like the Moon. Then, as the Sun, takes her to the ‘Cancer’ Beehive or Sheep Pen Rapture Rendezvous Place. This is the occasion where the Staging Ground will take place at the Moment of the Rapture, in the Air, amongst the Clouds before being ushered into the Father’s House through the Golden Gates of the New Jerusalem, in Heaven.
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Charts
 

PENTECOST NEW MOON IN GEMINI
July 23, 2025
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ST9BMg45fo8NA5lpERI0-U_JEmQ4jw15/view?usp=drive_link 

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https://www.zazzle.com/pentecost_moon_gemini_july_23_2025_poster-256319815124100223
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PENTECOST ACTS 2 IN LEO
July 23, 32 AD
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iROocUbmYHmrvOivB8pHhuDkuuj4YVF1/view?usp=drive_link
 

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https://www.zazzle.com/pentecost_acts_2_july_23_32ad_poster-256310392983112191 

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PENTECOST BABYLON IN LEO
July 23, -537 BC
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17V0CJNA0QtboLnZPcGB4PotkiVnYcegm/view?usp=drive_link
 

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https://www.zazzle.com/pentecost_babylon_july_23_537bc_poster-256755549965380108 

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