#A62: THE RAPTURE IN THE LORD’S SUPPER

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by Luis B. Vega
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In the same way, after Supper He took the Cup, saying, ‘This cup is the New Covenant in My Blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in Remembrance of Me’. For as often as you Eat this Bread [Wheat] and drink this Cup [New Wine], you proclaim the LORD’s Death until He comes [Rapture]. -1 Corinthians 11:25-26 

Did Jesus leave any Clues as to when He would return for His Bride, i.e., the Body of Christ? The Church Age has been on Earth since 32 AD, based on one’s Calculation of the Crucifixion Year. Does the ‘1 Day = 1000 Year’ Prophetic Axiom apply to his Age or Dispensation? Consider the what occurred at the LORD’s Supper. One will argue that the very Elements of the Supper, the Wheat and the Wine are what are the Rapture Clues. One will argue that indeed, there are 2 Key Signs of the Rapture that Jesus provided as a ‘Guarantee’ of His Betrothal, His Ketubah. 

It is seen in the LORD’s Supper as a Prophetic Typology of When and Where. It is where the Wheat meets the Wine, as in the Bread and the Wine, etc. Before one unpacks this Theory and Correlation, one will touch upon the Jewish Wedding Betrothal Protocols. There are excellent Studies that picture what the Jewish Wedding Betrothal Protocols are. A Main Source is Chabad.org. The Online Link is provided in the End Notes. Here is an Abbreviated Summary of the Jewish Betrothal Protocols. 

According to Research, the Erusin, or Betrothal Ceremony, is the 1st of the 2 major Components of the Jewish Wedding. Have all this in Mind when considering the Event of Jesus with His Disciples in the Upper Room celebrating the Passover the Night before His Crucifixion. Realize that this Early Passover Seder Celebration was allowed for those that needed to depart ‘Early’ back to their Home Destination. The Jewish Customs of the Betrothal, is known as Kiddushin, which involves the Ketubah or the Marriage Contract of Terms. During the Betrothal, the Groom presents the Bride with
 

1. Symbolic Payment.
 

2. Signed Contract known as the Ketubah.
 

The Payment is typically made with a Ring, but in Sefardic Weddings, it can also be made with a Coin. This exchange of Payment symbolizes the Groom’s Commitment and Responsibility towards the Bride. The Ketubah is the Legal Marriage Contract in the Eyes of the Jewish Religious Governing Bodies, or ‘Officiants’. It outlines the Groom’s Obligations to the Bride, such as providing for her and honoring her. It also includes Provisions for Financial Support and the Assets..

Marriage Supper of the Lamb

The Ketubah is signed by Witnesses and is often beautifully decorated and displayed in the Couple’s Home as a reminder of their Commitment to one another. So, the Jewish Betrothal, the Kiddushin. It is when the Groom presents the Bride with the Symbolic Payment, often a ring, and a signed Ketubah. 

The completion of the Wedding, the Ni’usin constitutes the Marriage. During the Betrothal Ceremony, the Bride can refuse the Proposal. If accepted, however, the Cup of Wine that is shared between them is called the Cup of Joy. The following is what occurs at the Betrothal and Wedding.

Betrothal 

1. OFFICIAL GREETING
Although not required, most Ceremonies begin with an Official Greeting and Invocation. The Traditional Welcome that is recited comes from Psalms 118:26 that states, ‘Baruch haba beshem YHVH, barchnuchem mebeit YHVH’. This means, ‘Welcome in the Name of GOD, welcome in this House of GOD’. The Invocation which often follows, a Prayer known as Mi Adir, which praises YHH and asks for Blessings on the Bride and Groom.

2. CUP OF WINE
The Kiddush is when a Glass of Wine is poured, and the Groom and the Bride partake of it together in the presence of their Invited Guests. During this Time and Place, the Traditional Blessing is recited by the Officiant.
 

Wedding (1 Year Later)

3. BETROTHAL BLESSING
Once the Wedding is determined, usually about 1 Year from the Betrothal, the Birkat Erusin then given. It is the Betrothal Blessing and is the recited by the Officiant. This Blessing thanks YHVH for bestowing the Marriage Rites upon the Groom and the Bride that had waited, roughly 1 Year as the Groom prepares the Wedding Chamber and Room in the Father’s House.

4. SANCTIFIED WINE 

The Bride and the Groom drink from the Sanctified Wine. In order to facilitate this, the Bride’s veil is lifted, often by her Mother or Maid of Honor. Because the Wedding is not yet over, the Veil is lowered again after she has drunk. (Some customs hold that the Officiant, or other Members of the Wedding Party, may drink from the Wine as well.)

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After the Betrothal, the Marriage is completed in a Ceremony known as Ni’usin. This is where the couple officially becomes Husband and Wife. The Ni’usin Ceremony usually takes place under a Wedding Canopy or Chuppah, which symbolizes the Couple’s New Home together. 

During the Ni’usin Ceremony, the Groom places the Wedding Ring on the Bride’s Finger and recites a Blessing and a Declaration of his Commitment to her. The Bride may also recite a Blessing or make a Declaration of her own. This Exchange of Vows and Rings represents the Couple’s Mutual Acceptance and Commitment to one another. 

Return at the Rapture
One will next then make the Parallel Inferences of how this was what occurred at the Last Supper. Jesus gathered with His Disciples in the Upper Room and ‘proposed’ the Kiddushin. The Disciples said, ‘Yes’. Then the Cups were shared but notice that the Cup of Joy was not taken by Jesus. As to the Rapture’s Timing? Most End Times Students of the Bibi\le presume that the Fig Tree Generation Year Count is from 1948.

As it is one’s only Rapture High Watch Day in any given Year, in based on this ‘Wheat meeting the Wine’ Time-Frame’. However, if 32 AD turns-out not to be the correct Year for the Crucifixion then as the Years have been clocking to the point, that past 2025, one’s Fall 2025 to Fall 2032 Tribulation Period Timeline will no longer ‘Work’. If 2025 comes-and-goes, it is because although the 32 AD Crucifixion Year is likely the correct Year, one will have to deal with the 2022-29 Sabbath Cycle or Shemitah that converges in 2029.
 

That is what one would then have to address or research a lot more and disappointingly as one subscribes to a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Scenario. It means that perhaps 2029 could be the Start of the Tribulation Period instead. It will remain to be seen. However, there is a lot that is right about the Fig Tree Generation and Sir Anderson’s 32 AD Work. It just needed or needs a fine-tuning as one has written about it. It is that the Start Year was not or is not 1948 but rather 1952, in one’s Estimation.
 

One has tried to provide a Clear Outline and Rationale for the New Understanding of the New Wine Acts 2 Theory or Proposal. Even though one has now written 4 Books about it, it has been based on one’s Learning Curve. Realize that one is going against ~2000 Years of Church History and Teaching Tradition. If Jesus is to come to ‘Rescue’ and Rapture His Bride from Pending Danger, then the 7-Year Factor of Daniel’s Last Sabbath owed by Israel has to be factored-out.
 

1948 Israel Reborn + 4 Years (Law of Trees) = 1952 + 80 Years (If by Strength) = 2032

If 32 AD is the Crucifixion Year, and there is a 2 Day Prophetic Time-Frame in place, then that would mean that in 2025, the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest that dovetails with the New Wine one will be the Highest Rapture Watch Year, Month, Week and Day in one’s Estimation. The Pentecost New Wine Theory is one’s attempt at determining the Rapture Window or Season, etc. It is the Conclusion of the Passover Betrothal that Jesus has given those 2 Elements as Clues to when the Rapture is to occur, at His Return, as promised.

2032 = 2 Days (2000 Years) from 32 AD Crucifixion – 7 Year Tribulation = 2025

Perhaps, 1 Day, the Theory of the Pentecost converging with the New Wine will become ‘Common Knowledge’, as is now for example the Revelation 12 Sign. When one 1st introduced it, beginning with the Google Sky Cover-Up of the ‘Patch’ in Virgo. But in doing so, one was accused of being an ‘Astrologer’ and to introducing ‘Astrology’ to the Body of Christ, etc. Yet, it took on a Life of its own because of its ‘Harpazo’ word and Rapture Typology. Now, the ‘Revelation 12 Sign’ is ‘Common Knowledge’. 

Preparing the Wedding Chamber
‘Ah yes, everyone knows that’…So, we will see what comes of the Rapture Wheat meeting the Wine on a July 23 Theory. But then note that it is pegged to Jerusalem, ‘Zero’ Time. If the Rapture occurs at the1st Hours of the Day, being at Sunrise, Local Time, then one has to then consider the Time Zones across the World, accordingly. That is to say that for the Western Hemisphere, it would be July 22, etc. But see, here? There is a Traditional Discrepancy in how it has always been presented, and rightly so, that when the Groom would call, it would be a Midnight Call, not a Morning one.

So, lots of Unknowns or Certainty. An Element of Surprise is good though, one would accept. So, back to the LORD’s Supper Typology. By having the Bride to be agree to the Terms of the Marriage, she legally became spoken for. This is what Jesus is offering every Human before His Wrath is to come upon Earth, as in the Days of Noah and Lot. In the Eyes of the Jewish Law, they were practically Married. And that is precisely what a Believer and Follower of Jesus is.

It was the 2nd Half that still needed to be accomplished, the Wedding Ceremony. It usually took place, as noted, about 1 Year from the Engagement, etc. It was about the right Time needed for the Groom to make a Room the Father’s House. That is exactly what is said in the Jewish Betrothal Ceremony. Thus, the Terms of the Ketubah is presented to every Human. Humanity has the Will to not accept. But for those that do, Jesus has outlined His Responsibilities and Commitment. It is called the Bible. All the Details can be read there. And the Payment?
 

It was with His own Blood that was shed at the Cross of Calvary. The Price paid for His Bride was His own Life. It was a Redemption, a Rescue from what Eve had wrought Humanity in Eden. This is why Marriage is 1 of the Main causes of why the Wrath of the Lamb is coming upon Humanity. Since Eden, pertaining to the creation of Humanity, the Covenant of Marriage was given to Mankind. It was and is and will be a Divine Reflection of what and who YHVH is. 

And the Protocols and Purpose of Marriage is ultimately fulfilled and accomplished in Jesus and the Church. This is why Lucifer, since Eden and then in Noah’s Day and now in as in the Days of Noah and Lot have tried to pervert this Protocol. Jesus came to ‘Reverse the Curse’ in how Lucifer has convinced Women to want to be Men and Men to become Women, etc. And Jesus provided the Tokens of this Pledge, as a ‘Ring’. In this case, it would be in the Form of the Holy Spirit, made as a ‘Down Payment’ of all the Assets that Jesus has, etc.
 

Herein, is the Evidence then for the Rapture, established by Jesus in how He promised to return for His Bride. Jesus went away as the Groom to prepare that Wedding Chamber in Heaven, in the Father’s House. And once that is done, He will return. This is the Rapture Event. Not only will the Time and Place coincide with that Chamber being completed, but also the Bride having been made ready, in tandem. And what have those Tokens been of the Time and the Place of Jesus’ possible or perhaps probably return? One is more convinced that the Clues are the very Elements of the Engagement.

These 2 Elements are what are taken and observed every Time one partakes of the LORD’s Supper, the Bread and the Wine. It is where and when the Wheat meets the Wine. And that is what one argues is the End of the Summer Wheat Harvest when the New Wine Harvest begins. This was the Occasion of Acts 2 and when that Deposit of the Payment was made and ‘Sealed’ as a Ring upon the Disciples of Jesus. 

What is left is the 2nd Part of the Divine Marriage of the Lamb, that is the Weeding. That Concluding Ceremony will be completed in the Father’s House. So, one’s Point is that as one observes and participates in the LORD’s Supper, the 2 Elements the Bread and the Wine are beaconing the Rapture. 

These are the 2 Clues and Tokens of how the Pledge and Promise of Jesus is True and will be fulfilled. This is why, concerning the Countdown to the Summer July Wheat Harvest in any given Year, it is one’s highest Rapture Watch Date. It is when the Wheat meets the Wine, that are the precise Tokens of Jesus’ Promise and Proclamation of His Return, i.e., the Rapture’s Timing.

‘This is My Blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the Forgiveness of Sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this Fruit of the Vine from now on until that Day when I drink it anew [New Wine] with you in My Father’s Kingdom’. -Matthew 26:28-29
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Resources
 

THE BETROTHAL

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/477335/jewish/The-Betrothal.htm

PSALMS 118
Hebrew Interlinear
https://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/interlinear/wlc-kjv/psa/118/1-29
 

GALILEAN WEDDING
https://www.seriousfaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Gallilean-Wedding-Comparison-Handout.pdf
 

ANCIENT GALILEAN WEDDING 

Foreshadows the BIBLICAL rapture and Marriage Feast of The Lamb

https://www.anchoredinword.com/ancient-galilean-wedding
 

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Luis B. Vega is a Political Scientist, a Citizen Journalist, Independent Reporter, Graphic Artist, Amateur Astronomer and Writer who believes in the Free Expression of Ideas and Critical Thinking. He has worked in Education for over 30 Years. As an Instructor, he taught UNIV 102 at Sonoma State and AgEd 102 at Cal Poly, SLO. Lu has Traveled to over 18 Nations on Service Projects.

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