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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

BLESSED RAINS

Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

What better pleasure can we desire than a light of approval on the face of our King. To hear His Well done thou good and faithful servant: enter into the joy of thy Lord. These words are life to our spirit and water to our soul.

The clouds of the later rain represent Israel’s spring rains. They are mentioned as opposed to the early rains of fall. The early rains represent the plowing and seeding of the fields while the later rain represent the beginning of the summer harvest until fall. These are also related to the first and second coming of Messiah.

Yeshua was born at or around the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall; at the time of the early rain. He also started His ministry on jubilee year at the time of Yom Kippur, just before the early rains of fall. He did his spiritual plowing of the land for three and half years and started His harvest of resurrected souls at the time of the later rains of Passover. In His rendition of the Gospel, Matthew tells us how at the time Yeshua died, the spirits of departed patriarchs appeared in the city of Jerusalem. According to Scripture, His flesh could not see corruption, so He must have resurrected right away provoking the resurrection of these saints. Peter tells us that until that time when Yeshua was seen again on earth in His resurrected body, He went to preach to the disobedient spirits in hell.

Since then, Yeshua has been gathering his harvest. The final harvest happens in the fall. This is the time Ruth and Boaz committed to each other. Boaz represented Messiah; Ruth, the nations of the world.

Messiah also returns in the fall, at the end of the harvest. There He meets with His Bride made up of all nations who endorse His Torah. He returns on the Day of Trumpets/Yom Kippur when He finally establishes his kingdom on earth, just before the time of the early rain for a new harvest.

May we be in the Favor of His enlightened contenance.

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