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Posted on 06/08/2010 2:22:05 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
1. All the Spring Feasts were fulfilled at Christ's first coming, and on the exact day of the feast. All the Fall Feasts picture the second advent, and the Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts, picturing the Rapture.
2. The Feast of Trumpets is when the "last trump" of the Rapture of 1 Cor 15 is blown.
3. The Feast of Trumpets is known as the Wedding of the Messiah, and the Church is the Bride of Christ, and the Rapture is when the Church is caught up to heaven to be wed with Christ.
4. The Feast of Trumpets happens on the "new moon", which is 29.5 days after the last one, meaning it might occur on the 29th or 30th day, nobody knows for sure. "Of that day or hour no man knows" is an expression referring to this feast, and thus, the Rapture.
5. "Of that day or hour no man knows, but my Father only" is an expression used by a groom when asked when his wedding will be. He says this because it is his Father that will tell him when his preparations on the bridal chamber are completed and it is time. Again, the wedding pictures the Rapture.
6. The "Open Door" of the Rapture in Matt 25, and Rev 3, & Rev 4:1 is a symbol of the Feast of Trumpets. [Ezek 46:1] "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
7. We are told that the new moon and the Feasts of the Lord are a shadow of things to come in Col 2:16,17. Since the Feast of Trumpets is the only Feast of the Lord that falls on a new moon, we should take particular note.
8. There are seven days of awe in between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. These picture the seven years of tribulation. Atonement pictures Satan being defeated and cast away at the end of tribulaion. If you add the two day Trumpets feast, and the day of atonement, the 7 days of awe are "ten days of tribulation" which might be referred to in Rev. 2:10.
9. In the Jewish Wedding, a marriage takes place over a period of time known as the "bridal week". During the bridal week, the groom and bride have sex in the bridal chamber. At the end of the week, there is a marriage supper. Compare Judges 14, Rev. 19, and Gen. Genesis 29:22-28 This bridal week will be the tribulation week on earth, while the bride of Christ is in heaven.
10. In the Jewish Wedding, the groom comes for his bride "like a thief in the night" to take (seize / Rapture) her away and into the bridal chamber for the bridal week at his father's house.
11. The Feast of Trumpets is also known as the coronation of the Messiah, when he will start reigning as king, thus the beginning of the "Day of the Lord", which includes the tribulation.
12. It is also time for the bema judgment, or the judgement of the works of the righteous, and judgement must begin at the house of the Lord.
[2Cor 11:2]"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ".
Rapture parallels with the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShana)
Feast of Trumpets in Scripture
Rapture Symbols Associated with Feast of Trumpets & Joseph in Egypt in Genesis
Rosh HaShanah: The Season of Teshuvah
Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah, Feast of Trumpets)/By Greg Killian
Originally the New Moon was not fixed by astronomical calculations, but was solemnly proclaimed after witnesses had testified to the reappearance of the crescent of the moon. On the 30th of each month, the members of the High Court assembled in a courtyard in Jerusalem, named Beit Ya'azek, where they waited to receive the testimony of two reliable witnesses; they then sanctified the New Moon. If the moon's crescent was not seen on the 30th day, the New Moon was automatically celebrated on the 31st day.
This, therefore, is a festival that, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father". Yom Teruah
Yom Teruah is the ONLY festival (from the Hebrew 'moed' literally appointment) that we do not know the day or the hour in which to keep it. Therefore, we have to be on the alert, we have to be be awake, and we have to be watching for it. Do you want to be asleep when YAHUSHUA the King returns?
I Thessalonians 5:1-11 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
So, the righteous are not to be surprised by that day. This implies that the righteous may not know the year, but, they will know that he will return on Yom Teruah. They will, therefore, be looking for their Messiah on the 30th and the 31st day of the month of Elul.
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Interesting. It could be that there may be two.
I never thought of that, but it would remove any who became believers since the beginning of the tribulation and any children born during it, to spare them from the judgment of the ungodly, which they shouldn’t be part of.
I’ve always felt there might be more than one . . .
ran onto a guy a year or 3 ago who felt there might be 3 or 4.
Interesting, anyway.
How are you doing?
I’m doing OK. Nothing new but nothing has gotten worse either.
I’m REALLY looking forward to the Rapture, even though my heart breaks for many of the people who I expect will be left behind.
While I don't know about a second Rapture, I do know that children under the age of accountability (which is different for every person) will go up to be with Jesus at the Rapture spoken of in the Rapture Scriptures.
This would also include unborn babies.
I have also been thinking about how ready I am for Jesus to come get us. We can see everything falling into place according to prophetic Scripture and we know that there is nothing that is going to get better.
And I also think about the people who will be left behind and it is heartbreaking. All we can do is tell as many people as possible - yes, many will scoff and reject but some will hear and be saved.
Agreed.
Thx.
Thanks! This is a great post.
THX for your kind reply.
Thanks for the ping!
You are right to say most of what you have said in this summary, the Rapture will happen on the Feast of Trumpets. But you are badly mistaken in your time frame because you break the Biblical pattern.
Indeed Jesus has fulfilled the first 4 feasts literally and in chronological order just as he will the last 3 (or 4). Yet that’s not all he did because he also fulfilled the Spring Feasts IN QUICK SUCCESSION. Quick fulfillment of the feasts is the established Biblical pattern and in like manner so will the Fall Feasts be fulfilled, in just one month NOT SEVEN YEARS.
Be consistent and follow the whole pattern not just the part that harmonizes with a predetermined outline.
The true outline as taught by the Fall feasts is 1st the Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets, just 10 days latter is the 2nd Coming on the Day of Atonement followed by the Wedding Feast on the 8 day Feast of Tabernacles. A 4th feast is the Feast of Hanukkah 75 days after 2nd Advent (cf Dan 12:12).
You will find that the rest of scripture, rightly understood, agrees with this self consistent understanding. It is Satans job to change the set times and seasons, so don’t join him and add great time gaps between events, such as 7 days = 7 years or as some do 8 days = 1000 years. This only promotes false teaching amongst what is otherwise good seed.
In the course of my study I have come to the conclusion there are indeed 2 Raptures “taught” by scripture.
The first is clearly spelled out in 1 thes 4 and is for believers only, just 10 days before the 2nd Advent (see post 74).
The 2nd is strongly implied to occur universally at the end of the millennium, when living believers and unbelievers are taken from the earth to the Great White Throne, before the earth is burned up. God is not going to barbeque all of humanity at the end of the 1000 years but will rescue them, some to reward, some to judgement.
"For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." (Psalm 27:5)
Are you a visitor from the past?
I’m new to this site which I found searching the web for material for a book I’m starting to write called “The Chronological fulfillment of the Feasts and the Late-Trib Feast of Trumpets Rapture”. See post 74. So far the outline has 44 chapters and 12 charts.
I whole heartedly agree with the basic thesis that the Rapture will be on the Feast of Trumpets but almost nobody agrees with me about the timing of 10 days before the 2nd Advent. I find I really have to defend my case because I’m up against the prophecy Gurus and long held church tradition. I see the strict chronology of the 3(4)Fall Feasts as the missing link in Rapturology and Eschatology and the law of Moses in Systematic Theology.
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