The Rapture is patterned after a Jewish wedding. There’s Jewish wedding in the New Testament, the “Parable of the Ten Virgins.” Not only does the bride and her bridesmaids know the day of her wedding, they know the hour, because they know the groom is late. The most common time for the groom to snatch his bride away is at sunset. The delayed bridegroom comes at Midnight. In a Jewish wedding at the time of Christ, the bride and groom are betrothed to one another; they are legally married, but the public wedding and consummation doesn’t occur for one to two years. The groom goes and builds an addition onto his father’s house; the father approves the addition, and then the wedding can occur. There is a long period of time when the day of the wedding is unknown to the bride. But at some point, she has to know. Days or weeks in advance, we don’t know. But what we do know is this, in the “Parable of the Ten Virgins,” the bride knows the day and the hour, because she knows the groom is late. Our wedding with Christ begins with the rapture. Christ coming to take his bride away to the wedding chamber in heaven. A Jewish wedding at the time of Christ lasted 7 days, our wedding celebration – 7 years. Since the rapture is patterned after a Jewish wedding, we may know the day and the hour, maybe only just days or weeks prior, just like in the “Parable of the Ten Virgins. “