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Jeremy Smith's avatar

Great article, Greg!

Yesterday, I watched the first “Left Behind” movie, and the opening scene is Buck Williams (played by Kirk Cameron) broadcasting from a wheat field in the Israeli desert, talking about the worst food shortage in history, the early stages of which could be happening now due to Russia/Ukraine and their wheat exports. Then the movie pivots to the AntiChrist-in-waiting, a Romanian named “Nicolae Carpathia”. I’m not suggesting the AntiChrist is from Russia or Eastern Europe, but it felt a little eerie given everything happening in the world now with the AntiChrist-like Putin.

As I have mentioned before, wheat is a picture of the Tribulation (just as wheat requires tribulation to separate the grain from the chaff). Compare this to barley, which can simply be waved to separate the grain from the chaff. Barley is waved on the Feast of Firstfruits, so it’s a picture of both Jesus’ resurrection on Firstfruits as well as of the Rapture of the Church. Also, in Hebrew, the numerical value of wheat (חִטָה) is 22, so maybe 2022 is our year for the Rapture :-)

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Margaret's avatar

Hello from Canada! Amen! Come, Lord Jesus. This world is not my home. And I thank the good Lord that it’s not. Eagerly waiting to go home.

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