How the rapture is on May 5, 2026 Israel time which is both Resurrection Day and Flood Day:
*If you don’t know what the rapture is, please see note (opens in a new window): The Rapture
The true counting of Hebrew months:
The true start of Hebrew months go by the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon (the modern Hebrew calendar doesn’t do it this way). Hebrew days go from sunset to sunset, rather than midnight to midnight.
Resurrection Day:
The rapture starts with the “resurrection” of those who have died in Christ. So appropriately, the entire event can be called the resurrection/rapture. To understand how the rapture is on Resurrection Day, you must first understand that there are a few different calendars out there, and one of them is the Aries-sun calendar which was in use back in Jesus’ day: In Antiquities of the Jews (Book 3, Chapter 10), the 1st-century (Jesus’ day) historian Flavius Josephus states that the Jewish month of Nisan (which he refers to by the Macedonian name Xanthicus) begins when the sun is in the sign (constellation) of Aries. So, when the sun was in Aries and the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon was spotted, that was the first day of Nisan back in Jesus’ day.
This year of 2026, the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon in Israel should be spotted in the evening of April 18, marking the start of the first Hebrew month of Nisan on the Aries-sun calendar that was in use in Jesus’ day. Resurrection Day is Nisan 17, which makes the evening of May 4 through the evening of May 5, 2026 Resurrection Day.
Flood Day:
Noah’s flood that destroyed the earth was the first flood. The seven year Tribulation that begins with the rapture is known as the “second flood” on the world. Noah’s flood began on the 17th day of the 2nd month. Now as stated above, you must understand that there are multiple calendars. We spoke about the Aries-sun calendar, but now there is also the modern Hebrew calendar that the Jews go by today. However, the Jews don’t mark the first day of their months in the correct way based on the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon. Rather, they go by the dark moon. So there is now another calendar in relation to the modern Hebrew calendar, but that goes by the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon – we’ll call this the “Moon sliver sighting Hebrew calendar”. Based on this calendar, the first Hebrew month of Nisan 1 began at the first sighting of the new moon in the evening of March 20, 2026. That makes the second Hebrew month start in the evening of April 18, and the 17th day begins in the evening of May 4 (the 17th day of the second month), aligning with Resurrection Day on the Aries-sun calendar.
So you can see based on two different calendars that the resurrection/rapture and start of the Tribulation (the second flood) happen on both the anniversaries of Resurrection Day and Noah’s Flood.
Purim:
- The rapture typology: Blood moons are prophetic signs to Israel of judgement. From 2024-2026, there were three consecutive blood moons on Purim. God was telling us through this Purim blood moon triad that judgement (with the rapture and Tribulation) would begin on Purim. And Purim truly does land on Resurrection Day April 3, 2026 as well (which is Nisan 17 Resurrection Day on the modern Hebrew calendar the Jews go by). Here’s how: In Antiquities of the Jews (Book 3, Chapter 10), the 1st-century (Jesus’ day) historian Flavius Josephus states that the Jewish month of Nisan (which he refers to by the Macedonian name Xanthicus) begins when the sun is in the sign (constellation) of Aries. So, when the sun was in Aries and the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon was spotted, that was the first day of Nisan back in Jesus’ day. Using that concept today, that makes the first month of Nisan 1, 2025 at sunset on April 29, 2025. Purim and Shushan Purim are on the 14th and 15th day of the 12th Hebrew month of Adar. So, by the Aries-sun calendar, if the first Hebrew month of Nisan started on April 29, 2025, that means the 12th month of Adar begins on the first sliver of the new moon on the evening of March 20, 2026. The 14th day is sunset April 2 to sunset April 3, which would be Purim, and April 4 would be Shushan Purim. So, the Purim blood moon triad points to judgement and Tribulation beginning on Nisan 17 Resurrection Day. The encryption is that you have to look at the correct Resurrection Day on the correct moon sliver sighting calendar, in which the April 4 Resurrection Day (per the modern Jewish Hebrew calendar) points to Resurrection Day May 5 on the Aries-sun Hebrew calendar.
Joel 2:31 eclipses before the rapture:
The prophecy of Joel 2:31 tells us that before the rapture, there will be a solar eclipse, and then a lunar eclipse. The prophecy: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD (the rapture and Tribulation).” On February 17 there was an annular “wedding ring” solar eclipse (hinting at the soon wedding of Jesus to His church at the rapture), and then on March 3 there was a blood moon on Purim (the final Purim blood moon in a triad of Purim blood moons from 2024-2026). The annular solar eclipse is also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse, which is also a term used in giving birth, which correlates to Revelation 12:1-2,5 describing the rapture as the birth of the man child that is caught up (raptured) to heaven.
Hosea 6:2 Prophecy – “After two days (2,000 years) He will revive us; On the third day (2,001st year) He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.” This verse tells us that Christ will return for the Jews after 2,000 years from His first coming. Christ was resurrected on April 6, 33 AD to start this 2,000 years, and will return and finally destroy the antichrist, officially putting an end to the 2,000 years in 2033.
A few of the actual encounters, experiences, words, dreams and visions pointing to Resurrection Day:
Amos 3:7 – “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”
Joshua:
A dear brother in Christ named Joshua was visited by the Lord in person back in 2018 and was told that he would be the one to announce the Lord’s coming at the rapture to the world, and that the rapture would be on Feast of Trumpets, September 23 or 24, 2025. This announcement took the rapture watching world by storm, and even those outside were made aware via secular media that picked it up and mocked it. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people of every age and gender from all over the world received many amazing experiences/dreams/visions confirming Joshua’s testimony (many of whom were doubting Joshua’s testimony and seeking confirmation from the Lord – and received it!), including angels marking the date on a calendar. A most dear brother in Christ named Michael (who is mighty in the gospel of Christ), who was deeply saddened when this day had passed, was made by the Lord a type of “signet ring” for Himself – like Zerubbabel – to help Joshua convict the world of his message by proving some math about Joshua’s dates that he had been given from the Lord, as well as testing and proving Joshua as a true man of God with the gospel. While the rapture didn’t happen on this date, it was given to fulfill two prophecies concerning the rapture that it would “tarry” or be “delayed”:
- Habakkuk 2:3 – “For the vision [of the rapture] is yet for an appointed time (a Jewish feast); But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.”
- Jesus told us a parable of how His coming at the rapture would be in Matthew 25:1-13, and that there would be a “tarry” or “delay”. Verses 1-5: “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.”
After this date of September 24, 2025 had passed, Joshua inquired of the Lord why it passed, and on October 13, 2025, the Lord visited him in a dream that night saying, “The 14/15 will pass(over), and on the 16/17 will be the rapture of the church.” Nisan 14 and 15 are Passover and the day of the exodus, and Nisan 17 is Resurrection Day. Christ was resurrected on Nisan 17 between 12 am and 6 am, which would have been Nisan 16/17 anywhere in the world. By telling Joshua the rapture would be on Nisan 16/17, He was simply saying that it would be on “Resurrection Day”. He was also told by the Lord during his visitation back in 2018 that Israel would be 77 years old as a nation at the time of the rapture and that there would be no World Cup in 2026, as the world would be unrecognizable. On the night of April 30, 2026, Joshua was shown in a dream from God the words “Magnum, 4-5 May 2026”. The word “magnum” means “great/big/powerful/etc”, meaning, something big is going to happen on May 4-5, 2026.
Holly:
A dear sister in Christ named Holly, well over a decade ago before she was even saved, received a dream/vision from the Lord of “April 6”. Resurrection Day 2026 on the Hebrew moon sliver sighting calendar was April 6. Later after becoming saved, she received a dream from the Lord during Easter (Resurrection Day) back in 2019 where Jesus was solving what looked like a Rubik’s cube and He said, “Time is off by 4, 5, 6” and was told at that time that “an egg was a clue”. God’s wisdom is manifold, meaning one thing has many layers of wisdom to it, such as this dream:
- The egg being a clue was meaning an “Easter egg”, where Easter is the celebration of Resurrection Day. So the egg = Resurrection Day, specifically 2026.
- The first meaning is simply 4/5-6 (April 5-6). 4/5-6 is Nisan 16/17 Resurrection Day on the Hebrew moon sliver sighting calendar. April 5 is Easter which is the celebration of Resurrection Day. It was pointing to true Resurrection Day April 6, which in turn is pointing to the final Resurrection Day on the Aries-sun calendar on May 5.
- For the second meaning, a dear sister in Christ named Kate prayed for the interpretation of the dream and received this: from Joshua’s original rapture date of Feast of Trumpets, September 23, 2025, there will be 4 months, 5 weeks and 6 days to the rapture. That date lands on March 4, 2026, which is Shushan Purim. But as stated in the section above about the Purim eclipses, we have to find Shushan Purim on the correct calendar: Shushan Purim on the Hebrew calendar the Jews go by (March 4) points to Shushan Purim on the Aries-sun calendar used in Jesus’ day (April 4), which is Resurrection Day on the Hebrew calendar the Jews go by, which points to Resurrection Day on the Aries-sun calendar that lands on May 5, 2026.
About a week or less before Easter and Resurrection Day on April 5-6, 2026, Holly received these three things in a flash vision in the middle of the night: Liturgy, Twin, Egg. All three of these things have to do with Resurrection Day:
- Liturgy – Resurrection Day is the most important day of liturgy in the year.
- Twin – The apostle Thomas is known as “the twin”, and is the one who doubted the “Resurrection” of Christ until He saw Him face to face.
- Egg – The egg meaning an “Easter egg”, where Easter is the celebration of Resurrection Day. So the egg = Resurrection Day.
F.Emmanuel:
Back in October, 2025 when the watchmen community was looking at all the different calendars for Joshua’s September 23/24 dates after Gregorian September 23/24 had passed, a brother in Christ named F.Emmanuel.G was putting together a calendar, and as he was receiving it and documenting it, he felt the Holy Spirit all over his entire body, like fire, but not painfully, and this was in his calendar to begin the year 2026, which aligns with the Aries-sun calendar, which would be the calendar all of these Resurrection Day signs point to:
2026
1st month: April 18 – 1st day of the month | May 1 – 14th | May 17 – 30th (30 days)
Kate:
(This is the Kate who prayed for the interpretation of Holly’s 4-5-6 dream above) Kate lives in the United States and received a Nisan 16 rapture sign (where if the rapture were Nisan 17 Resurrection Day early a.m. Israel time, it would probably be Nisan 16 in the USA). April 18 was Nisan 17 Resurrection Day on the Creator’s Calendar, where the months begin on the full moon instead of the first sliver of the new moon. A few weeks before April 18, an unknown word to Kate called “chantilly” kept popping into her head from the Lord. She looked up the meaning and it’s a vanilla cream used in cakes. She didn’t think much of it at the time and eventually forgot about the word. Then on April 17 (Nisan 16 on the Creator’s Calendar) she was baking a cake for her young daughter Gwen’s upcoming birthday and was making chantilly for it, and completely forgot about her previous experience until the word popped into her head again from the Lord as she was making it. She forgot the meaning so she looked it up again and sure enough it was what she was making that day. The Nisan 16/17 USA/Israel time zone connection points to Nisan 16/17 on the Aries-sun calendar (May 5) which translates to Iyar 5 (on a hybrid Hebrew-Gregorian calendar where May = 2nd Hebrew month of Iyar, and the 5th is the Gregorian day), which points to April 22-23 on the Hebrew moon sliver sighting calendar. Not only this, but her daughter’s birthday is April 22 (the one she was making the chantilly for).
Kate also received a vivid dream on the night of August 23-24, 2025 that was a confirmation to Joshua’s September 23, 2025 rapture prophecy, as well as how the Hebrew months begin at the sighting of the first sliver of the crescent moon: her dream started with her telling her Aunt Sheryl about the rapture. Then she went to the woods and the woods were very brown and there was an owl close to her in the tree (Why an owl? Kate prays that she sees an owl – one of her favorite animals – within 24 hours of the rapture as a sign). She knew it was her rapture owl. She had a book in her hands and looked up in the book what kind of owl it was. It said it was a “crescent owl”. When she woke up, it was the middle of the night and she grabbed her phone and looked up “crescent owl” and there is no such thing. So then she looked up when the next crescent moon was and it was that day, and then next one was September 23, 2025.
Kate also received a vision that points to an April 22, 2026 rapture USA time as well: a while back Kate received a vision where she saw one of those toy sticky hands. She didn’t understand what it meant until on April 21, 2026 around 7-8 pm Eastern time, her daughter Gwen was opening one of her birthday presents early and it was a red sticky hand. Gwen’s birthday is April 22, and this vision clearly points to a May 4/5, 2026 rapture as the sticky hand was for Gwen’s birthday which noted above with the chantilly sign connects to a Nisan 16/17 Resurrection Day rapture.
Kate has another baby daughter that was born in October 2025 who was born with a rare genetic disorder. Around May 30, 2026, they discovered that her gene variant is the number 672, which is 726 scrambled, which is the Strong’s number for the rapture. The other number in her genetic report was 224, where 224 days from Joshua’s September 23, 2025 rapture announcement is May 4/5, 2026.
John:
John had a dream where there were a whole bunch of Christians that were eating in a restaurant that was very fancy. The floor was thick, clear crystal tiles with designs underneath. The restaurant had multiple levels where you could walk up and down and sit anywhere. It had trees and nature and foliage inside and outside the restaurant. It could only have been a place in Heaven so he was taking it – this was the Marriage Supper of the Lamb at the rapture. All of the colors were Purim and Easter (Resurrection Day) colors: purple, yellow, green.
Kim:
A few years ago, a dear sister in Christ named Kim received a word from the Lord: “Susa”. (See the Purim section at the beginning of this note) Susa relates to Shushan (for Shushan Purim), as Susa is the city which was historically Shushan in bible times. How does Shushan Purim point to May 5?: Shushan Purim 2026 (March 4) points to Shushan Purim on the Aries-sun calendar (April 4), which is Resurrection Day on the modern Hebrew calendar the Jews go by, which points to Resurrection Day on the Aries-sun calendar (May 5).
Daniel
A dear brother in Christ named Daniel, who has been diligently watching for the rapture since Joshua’s September 23/24, 2025 dates, who takes such a beating from the “wolves” (the mockers and scoffers) unlike any I have ever seen, yet he remains faithful to the prophecies that Joshua was given, and is very bold to declare and share each high watch he comes across despite the beatings he takes every time, is also looking at and declaring the rapture on May 4/5. Daniel had this to say on May 1, 2026: “I am graduating from college in Florida on May 2. Afterwards, I will fly back to my mom’s apartment in Texas on May 3. And then, I will be raptured from sunset of May 3 to sunset of May 5. It is just perfect timing from God that I will be back at my mom’s apartment on May 3, just in time for the rapture. This is because:
- I saw that I was at my mom’s apartment during my rapture dream from God on April 22.
- I had a physical rapture experience around July 2025, and I was at my mom’s apartment at that time.”
Me:
I’ve personally received over 50 confirmations of a Passover (specifically Resurrection Day) and Purim (specifically Shushan Purim) rapture within the following calendars: Modern Hebrew calendar, Hebrew moon sliver sighting calendar, Aries-sun calendar and the Essene calendar, all pointing to the year 2026.
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