I feel a little like comedian Jim Gaffigan.

Every time I’ve watched him, he does a string of jokes on a single topic. Somewhere along the way he mimics the audience, saying something like, “How many horse jokes does this guy have?”

Our weekly Prophecy Update has been dominated by what is going on in Israel and the war with Hamas. Our focus has been odd, or so it seems. We’ve not been talking about the conflict.

We’ve been talking about red cows.

We are going to do it again. Feel free to turn to the person next to you and say, “How many red heifer updates does this guy have?”

While Western news outlets have at least mentioned the red heifers, foreign outlets put it center stage.

Real quick: “What is the red heifer?” A perfect, all-red, red heifer is incredibly rare. In Judaism the ashes of a sacrificed red heifer are necessary to perform a ritual cleansing. The purification is through a mixture of ashes – of a sacrificed red heifer, red yarn, cedar wood and hyssop – with fresh spring water collected by ritually pure children who were born and raised under certain conditions. This ash mixture is believed to remain effective for up to 100 years and can be mixed with spring water as needed.

Without these ashes, the Jews cannot build a Temple. Period… End of discussion.

Lo & behold, a rancher in Texas USA sent 5 ‘perfect’ red heifers to Israel. ALJAZEERA reported it this way:

They have come from halfway across the world and are kept under tight security and raised according to the strictest rules.

They are five pure red heifers without blemish who have never worked, given birth, been milked or worn a yoke.

These red heifers and the archaic ritual they were brought to Israel for stand at the heart of a convoluted effort by a segment of ultranationalist Jews to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam that has stood on a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem for more than 1,000 years, and replace it with a “Third Temple.”^[1]

I didn’t know until a few days ago that Hamas calls the attack and the subsequent conflict, Al Aqsa Flood.

Al Aqsa is the name of the compound of Islamic religious buildings that sit atop the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock, many mosques and prayer halls, and other domes and religious structures, as well as the four encircling minarets.

What’s the Flood. Former Israeli Defense Forces official Col. (Ret.) Miri Eisin decodes the real motive behind Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif’s ‘Al Aqsa Flood’ call. She says that Hamas is trying to draw in the entire Muslim population across the world into the war with this call. They wish to ‘flood’ Israel with warriors & flood the land with Israeli blood.

Futurists like ourselves have been pointing-out the literal fulfillment of building a Tribulation Temple for decades. Whether it happens sooner or later, it’s going to happen.

We know what is going on…And we know that we are going up.

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.

Ready or not Jesus is coming!