The Title: Rapture “Party”
The title at a surface level meaning is simple: Heaven celebrates every single time a sinner repents. Heaven celebrated with a triumphal parade when Yeshua won the victory over sin, hell, the devil, and death. Just imagine how great the parade and celebration will be when Yeshua raptures His entire Bride and brings them home to His Father’s house in Heaven!!
In the same way that PaRDeS is an acronym for Pashat, Remez, Drash, and Sod,
ParTy is an acronym for: Parallels, Patterns, Pictures, and Types.
The Structure and Goals . . .
This blog encourages you to read scripture and notice the many Parallels, Patterns, Pictures, and Types that inundate the Biblical narrative, especially those which correspond to the Witnessed Resurrections and Raptures.
Biblical and historical parallels, patterns, pictures, and types have much to teach us about the world as we experience it today. Think of the blog articles as a study guide pointing you in the right direction to find the answers you seek, then do your homework.
You are encouraged to discuss your findings with others, encouraged to read other views, to listen to audio studies about the scriptures and to heartily study and become knowledgeable about the subjects being discussed in the blogs.
Ultimately, the blog goal is to bring you to a closer relationship with the one that Hebrew names Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, and to make your understanding of the scriptures a blessed, joyous, heartwarming, looked for, and expected daily, hourly, and constant occurrence.
The Source Materials . . .
Multiple sources for the material on this website are used, including a minimum of six translations, one or more paraphrases, and the meanings of Hebrew or Greek words. Once a clear image of the sense of the verse or paragraph is defined, the analysis is put into modern American-English sixth grade level wording, but the Hebrew words for names and often places as well is retained. As needed, the Hebrew or Greek words and definitions for the translated English words are used.
On those rare occasions when a direct quote is used every attempt to provide a link or footnote to the source is listed, but when the material has been compiled from numerous sources, it is done in the same manner as the writer of Hebrews 4:4, who says: “For he has said somewhere concerning the seventh day” with no attempt to quote the source. Likewise, there is no reference to a particular version of the Bible; just the book, chapter, and verse.
The Style of Writing . . .
The articles are written primarily at a sixth grade level. Both youth and adult groups have short attention spans. Both groups tend to be Biblically illiterate. Both groups listen and learn at about a sixth grade level of understanding. Both groups show as much comprehension of the material being taught as did the apostles to Yeshua’s teaching. Both groups need lots of preparation, buckets of explaining, and as many visual and auditory aids as humanly possible (slides, photos, movies, charts, hand-outs, music, songs, speeches, taped recordings, news clips, etc). Just as Glenn Holland (Mr. Holland’s Opus, 1995) used any and all material that helped get the point across, so do the blog articles.
Rapture Party 