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Here's a tidbit to consider. I woke up at exactly 6:13 AM this morning. At first I didn't think anything about it, but then I remembered that I had asked God to show me what the time and hour would be of Christ's return since He does reveal according to His desire. I prayed that if the Lord desired to put something on my heart, I would accept it and that if He did not desire to tell me anything that it would be fine too. Regardless, my lamp burns brilliantly as I am always looking up, am cognizant of the times and have an intimate relationship with Chrst. Therefore, I am already discerning in my heart that Jesus' return is at the door.

Anyway, my thought was June (6) 13. Immediately I had an urge to look in the Bible at Scriptures that came to mind. The first was Genesis 6:13, which read "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." Okay, I thought hmm, end of age. The second scripture was Exodus 6:13. "And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. Okay, again I thought, hmm, being brought out of a land" (rapture?).

Then came Joshua 6:13, which talked about trumpets blowing: "And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets." Now normally I don't do this but perhaps let my imagination get the best of me, but I did think it was quite interesting. To boot I felt compelled to look at Matthew 6:13. Before I turned to that scripture, I realized that not only would tomorrow be the 13th, but that it would also land on Friday the 13th. Actually, that would be June (6) Friday (6th day - the 1st day of the week is actually Sunday), and the 13th day of the month.

We know that 6 means temptation and evil and 13 means bad luck, but in some cultures in addition to ancient times, it actually meant transformation or transconfiguration, and thus was not looked upon as a bad omen. The Scripture of Matthew 6:13 reads, "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen".

Okay, I thought wow, this is interesting too. The saints of Christ will be protected from temptation as they continue to watch and pray (Holy Spirit led to focus upon Christ), they will be delivered from this evil world and translated into the kingdom of light, and the destination place of such delivery will be our home in the kingdom of glory for ever and ever, which we will also have glorified bodies. I thought of Christ on the mountain when he became gloriously transfigured before His two disciples.

Then I remembered Pastor Riley's article about the darkness coming over the entire earth at the time of the rapture. I heard a sermon by Perry Stone on the rapture that was actually very similar to what Pastor Riley was talking about as well. Anyway, did you know that Friday the 13th is also known as Black Friday or Black day? I just had a humorous thought about this because it would be so like God to do something that we'd least expect. Everyone has come out with or have been hanging onto some sort of calculation pertaining to the time of Christs' arrival, which may be all good. But what if God chose to do something incredibly simple like come on such a day as Friday the 13th? It's considered a day of darkness. The Bible says that the dark clouds are the dust beneath God's feet. As Jesus descends to call up His people into the clouds, could it be that it is then the whole earth will become dark and as Pastor Riley said, and that we will be raptured out of that darkness?

Just a thought. The prophecies for the coming rapture have been fulfilled and the stage is now set. There doesn't need to be any more scripture verification that Christ is coming. He is simply coming and His coming can be at any moment.

I get excited whenever I read someone's idea of when they belive Christ is coming, but more importantly I'm excited because regardless of anyone's ideas including mine our Lord Jesus the Christ is coming!!! Glory to God!!!