Lessons in the Ladder Days

Candace Long: I'm Candace Long with Lessons in the Latter Days, offering biblical commentary to make sense of the times that we're living in. Today is part three of the mini-series I'm calling "The Final Week of the Church Age." I want to return to the Latter Days graph to show you the multiple layers that comprise these end of days. Individually, each layer may not mean a whole lot, but together, they offer incredible wisdom.

The layer that I want to introduce today is a paradigm shift that birthed inside of me in 2010. That's 14 years ago, and it's taken all these years to see how it fits in. This paradigm shift is a phrase that you can use as a key to unlock how to get from point A, which is what we're going through now, to point B, which is the kingdom.

Now, before I get ahead of myself, let's review the first layer that I introduced in part two, consisting of two seven-year periods back-to-back, one in front of the other rather than the two periods happening simultaneously. Each is a biblical week of years, such as the 70th week in Daniel 9 that is seven years long, one year for each day.

This week is divided into two halves of three and a half years each. The first half is relatively mild compared to the last half, which is more oppressive. Case in point is the seven-year period that Christians call the tribulation. That is the 70th week, and these seven years come at the very beginning of the 1,000-year kingdom, when God pours out His wrath to cleanse the earth before Messiah comes to rule as King for the remaining 993 years.

Now, as we know from the Book of Revelation, Matthew 24, and Daniel 9, the first half of the 70th week will be relatively peaceful for Israel, who welcomes a charismatic leader as their long-awaited Messiah, who will lead the rebuilding efforts of the temple. But midweek, a shift will occur, and this false Messiah will show his true colors and turn against Israel with a vengeance. Christians call this last half the great tribulation.

Now, compared to the 70th week, which we know so much about, the final week of the Church Age is not well-defined. Scripture doesn't give us a play-by-play of what happens as the Church Age comes to a close. This is the period that I'm focused on here.

After sharing the conclusions of years of research over the last 10 episodes, the picture I see playing out is that this final week of the Church Age started during Hanukkah in 2020, when the vaccine rollout began and the bodily temples of billions of people, many of whom love God, became defiled and DNA altered through genetic engineering.

We have all witnessed unbelievable increase in evil, violence, deception, and perversion since 2020. This week will end at Rosh Hashanah in 2026, which is when I believe the rapture of the church will take place. I use the biblical word church, or ecclesia, to refer to the Gentiles and Jews who have accepted Jesus as the Messiah and are waiting for his coming. This is the first resurrection.

So what's happening in 2024? The last episode on the tornadoes showed us the Almighty is violently threshing the grain. That's us, to shake us free from every impure thing that's clinging to us. He's preparing His bride, and that bride has to be pure.

Once the grain has been threshed, winnowed, parched, and sifted, Messiah will call up His bride at the rapture and present her to the Father as His firstfruits. Remember, there are two harvests within this 49-day-long Jewish ritual known as counting the Omer, separated by seven weeks, which equates to seven years.

So let's review. The first harvest is the barley harvest, and that's a picture of the rapture that ends the Church Age some two and a half years from now. Those who refuse to be refined and want to stay connected to this world will not be taken at the rapture. Instead, they will live through the 70th week, which will be far worse than what we are living through now.

And then the wheat harvest comes exactly seven years later at Yom Kippur in the year 6008 after creation, when Messiah comes to Earth with His heavenly army to destroy the nations coming against Israel at the Battle of Armageddon.

Interestingly, it was Jesus who gave us the outline for the 70th week when He appeared in a vision to the apostle John, who wrote what he saw in the Book of Revelation. And this is where we find how the redemption story ends for Israel and the Gentiles who align with her.

But what about the final week of the Church Age? Where do we find an outline for that? I am proposing that in the same way that Jesus outlined the 70th week for the Jews, Jesus also outlined the final week for Christians. That outline is found in the last seven days of His life, which ended with His body suddenly removed from planet Earth.

What I want to teach you now is the phrase that I mentioned at the beginning, and that phrase is something we do. The phrase is "Follow the Body." That's the phrase, "Follow the Body." Scripture teaches us that we are the body, the body of Christ, or the body of Messiah.

So at any given point when you're trying to understand what's happening, what you do is go to your mental graph and follow the body. What did Jesus do, when, and why? That's our outline.

For the rest of our time, we're going to zoom in on what the physical body of Messiah did during His last seven days and apply that to His collective body. First, let's draw a horizontal line and divide it into seven parts, or seven years. And we're going to label each section.

We know our end date, day seven, because that was the day that Jesus physically died and His body was removed from Earth. That date is historically verified as Nisan 14, which is day seven on our graph, which fell on a Thursday that year.

Above the horizontal line, we'll label each section by days, such as day one, day two, day three, etc., all the way to day seven. And below the horizontal line, we'll label them by year: 2020, 2021, 2022, and so on until the seventh year, which is 2026.

So we've got a basic graph, and next, we're going to draw a vertical dotted line down the middle of day four, which corresponds to the year 2023. This separates the seven years into the two three-and-a-half-year periods.

The final label we need to add are the dates on the Hebrew calendar, because these dates are found throughout scripture and are loaded with biblical insight. The last thing we're going to add is to write down a header for each section that describes what went on in Jesus' life then.

My goal here is to give you an overview of His final week on Earth. So let me read the headers from my graph, left to right, to give you the gist of where we are. Jesus' day one was Nisan 8, representing our year 2020. He was in Bethany visiting His closest friends, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.

Jesus' day two was Nisan 9, representing 2021. He was still in Bethany enjoying His final Sabbath rest. Jesus' day three was Nisan 10, representing 2022. He entered Jerusalem and presented Himself as Israel's Messiah and was rejected by the nation at large.

Jesus' day four was Nisan 11, 2023, when Jesus confronted the culture, calling out the religious leaders for their sin and hypocrisy. Jesus' day five was Nisan 12, 2024, during which Jesus taught exclusively about the kingdom.

Jesus' day six was Nisan 13, representing 2025. Jesus withdrew from the crowds totally and spent time only with His disciples. And Jesus' day seven was Nisan 14, representing 2026. That day He was arrested, imprisoned, tried, and convicted, tortured, and crucified, and His body was removed from the earth.

That's the overview, the raw outline without observation and application. So what I want to do now is to share a little of what I observed about the first two days only, just to let you see how cool this paradigm can be.

During day one, Jesus was in Bethany visiting Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Everyone in Israel was preparing themselves for Holy Week. The Lord felt totally comfortable having intimate conversations about the kingdom. But there were murmurings of murder and deceit and betrayal in the political atmosphere around Jerusalem.

Lovers of God were waiting for Messiah to enter the city. They would receive Him joyously, following His procession on the donkey all the way to the temple. Others were off in corners discussing ways to get rid of Him. So this day was a mixture of light and dark, of good and evil, of joy and murderous plots.

On day one for us in 2020, everything seemed to be going along as normal, and then we were all hit with a pandemic and people stayed close to home, surrounded by family. Those preparing themselves for Holy Week did so despite the fears and media hype to mask and lay low.

What I want you to notice here is that most people were unprepared for anything bad. In Jesus' day, however, the true disciples knew this week was different. How do we know this? He had been telling them non-stop since the Transfiguration that He would face death when they got to Jerusalem.

They may not have known all the details of how things were going to come about step-by-step, but they knew their master was not going to continue leading the group as He had done for over three years. Everything they knew as to day-to-day interaction with Him was coming to an end.

I want you to consider that the same was true for His followers in 2020. From my perspective, I had countless conversations with ministry friends on how I sensed this was the time of the end. They felt it too. We all knew something horrible was coming.

Remember in John 14 through 16, Jesus tells us that Holy Spirit who lives within us would prepare us for the things to come. His disciples, those who spent time with Him day in and day out, were prepared then, and His close disciples were prepared likewise in 2020.

Now, this is a word of caution to those whose lives were totally upended by the pandemic. Were you caught off guard by how the year unfolded? If so, this is a wake-up call to examine how closely you are walking with the Lord.

During day two, Jesus, as always, honored the Sabbath wherever He was, reading the Torah and spending time with the Father. Regardless of knowing that this was His final day of rest before the worst week of His life, He honored the Sabbath to gain the strength for what lay ahead.

This would equate to our year 2021, when the vaccine mandates were upon us. Most people were pretty much locked in at home, mandated and socially distanced, and easily bought into the narrative that the vaccine was the only hope to stay alive.

I cannot and will not judge others, but my focus was on God's promise in Deuteronomy 7 saying that none of the world's diseases would fall upon those who walk with the Lord and follow His ways. I truly believed that, and I still do.

Because I have walked closely with the Lord for over 50 years, I know that He is not a God who mandates anything. So when the mandates began, we knew immediately this was not God and began to pray Psalms 91 every day.

I was fully prepared to die if this was the way God planned to take me out, but I was not about to put anything foreign into my bloodstream. Interestingly, it was that year, while celebrating Hanukkah in 2021, that the Lord gave me the revelation that has become core to my teaching, warning about the vaccine and its dangers.

I sensed with everything within me the death and tyranny against godly people that was in the atmosphere. All of my close friends felt the same thing, so we were able to encourage one another. But we were shamed by many who said that our faith was reckless and misinformed. So clearly, 2021 was a year of separation and division within religious circles.

Before closing, I want to apply this paradigm to three real-life observations to show you how to follow the body and find wisdom and apply it to what's going on. Observation number one has to do with the concept of transition.

In 2010, I watched as my father was approaching death. He had always been a dyed-in-the-wool Georgia Bulldog fan and never missed a game. But staying with him during his final days, it surprised me to see that he had lost all interest in the games.

He didn't want to talk. He preferred to sleep. The nurses explained that he was in the first stage of dying called transitioning, when a patient has days or even weeks to live. It's when what we thought mattered in this life no longer does, and we begin to transfer allegiance and internal energy to the world to come.

A similar thing happened to Jesus. As He approached Jerusalem for His final Passover, something shifted inside of Him too. He knew His time of active ministry was over. His sole focus was to prepare His disciples for His death and give them hope in the world to come.

Basically, our Lord became dead to this world and transitioned emotionally and spiritually to another realm. I can identify with that because I find myself in a similar state. A lot of things no longer matter. My priority is not this life any longer.

On the contrary, I'm bringing closure to ministry projects to leave behind after I'm gone. Now, I'm in full health, mind you, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, I know I have shifted to the kingdom. I'm in transition. I'm ready for the rapture.

Observation number two crossed the newswire the other day. The headline read, "King and Queen of the Netherlands visit the United States." Now, more specifically, this royal couple came first to Georgia, where I live. They met with our governor to lay the groundwork for more investments in Georgia by Dutch companies, and they visited Savannah, which has become a powerhouse in global trade, ranked number four after New York, LA, and Long Beach.

The reason this article flagged my attention is that the King and Queen of the Netherlands are part of the elite that I've written so much about. They're descended from Nephilim who relocated over 2,000 years ago from the Middle East into Europe, intermarrying with royal families to keep the Nephilim bloodline strong.

I did a deep dive on the royal ancestry of King Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. He is a descendant of King George II with European royalty on all sides of his family.

I found the timing of this trip significant because the Illuminati regards the United States as the capital of the New World Order that we know as Daniel's final kingdom. King Willem-Alexander has been preparing for leadership within the highest echelons all of his life. His interests are in international sports, such as the Olympics, and international water management.

He was once chairman of the Secretary General of the United Nations Advisory Board on water and sanitation and is now Europe's third youngest monarch. Let me read you a quote from Dr. John Coleman from the latest edition of the Committee of 300, which was written in 2006.

"The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of England, the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark, and the royal families of Europe. These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria that in order to gain worldwide control, it would be necessary for its members to go into business with the non-aristocratic but powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale."

This is what arrived on our shores, and photos showed our leaders falling all over themselves to negotiate a piece of the global pie. The royals sense the time for global occupation is coming soon, and they're paving the way for it in royal style.

Observation number three is the rise of Christian nationalism. Now, for a large percentage of believers, their focus is not on the kingdom. They are looking to a man to lead a revolution to take back America. I don't fault them for those feelings; I simply don't share them.

My assignment is to chronicle what I see in these end of days as they unfold. And what I see so clearly is that we have less than three years before Jesus calls us up. And what I also see is a similarity with the revolutionary movement that was happening in Jesus' day.

The people were not looking for Him to leave the Earth. They wanted Him to lead a revolution against the oppression they were suffering under Rome. The fighting spirit of the masses was diametrically opposed to the mindset of Jesus and His disciples, who were preparing for His departure.

I see a different trajectory because I'm following the outline the Lord gave us. And what I see is that we have arrived at day five in 2024, which tells us to teach others about the kingdom. And that's what I'm doing.

Nothing can change things if we are truly at the end of the road. Yes, the election will likely take place, and what you choose to do about all that is up to you. I do know the Lord wants to find us doing what He put us on Earth to do.

So whether you are focused on preparing for the rapture, or fighting to take back America, or investing in companies doing business with European royalty, the Lord has an appointed season to welcome His bride. Whatever you are led to do, I bless you in your journey.

We'll continue to follow the body next time as we transition to the kingdom. I want to thank you so much for being with me today. If you'd like to share this episode with others, it's called "The Final Week of the Church Age, Part 3: Follow the Body." You'll find it on my podcast page at CandaceLong.com. I'm Candace Long, and I hope you join me again next time for Lessons in the Latter Days. God bless.