While
the first four Festivals occur in close proximity, an entire season
passes before the Fall Feasts
begin. This long period represents
the dispensation of grace that we now live in. The last three feasts
(Trumpets, Atonement
and Tabernacles) are celebrated in
the Fall season and are yet to be fulfilled so they remain prophetic in
nature.
*** Feast of the Trumpets – pictures the Rapture of the Church
*** Feast of Atonement – pictures the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ
*** Feast of Tabernacles – pictures the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ
The
final three feasts are also known as
Rosh HaShanah (Feast of the Trumpets), Yom Kippur (Feast of Atonement),
and Sukkot (Feast
of Tabernacles).
The Feast of Trumpets may soon find its prophetic fulfillment. Here are some reasons why the Rapture
may occur during this Festival:
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- 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.
- The Feast of Trumpets is when the "last trump"
of the rapture of 1st Corinthians 15 is blown.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- The
"Open
Door" of the rapture in Matthew 25,
and Revelation 3, & Revelation 4:1 is a symbol of the Feast of
Trumpets. [Ezekiel
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”.
- We
are told that the new moon and the Feasts of the Lord are a shadow of
things to come in Colossians 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.
- 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 the Tribulation. 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 Revelation 2:10.
- In
the Jewish Wedding, the groom comes for his bride "like
a thief in the night" to take (sieze
/ rapture) her away and into the bridal chamber for the bridal week at
his father's
house.
- 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.
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