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In his First Advent, Jesus was hailed on the 10th of Nisan as King when He rode into Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey as prophesied by Zechariah. What is commonly referred to as “Palm Sunday” was the day that the lambs for the Passover were selected and watched over until the 14th at twilight when they were slaughtered.
Yeshua instituted the New Covenant in his own blood at the Passover. He was entombed on the Feast of Unleavened Bread and rose on the day after the Sabbath on the Day of Firstfruits. Fifty days later, on Shavouth (the Feast of Weeks), the Holy Spirit descended in power and the church age began.
All 4 of the Spring Festivals were fulfilled during the same calendar year.
WHY then do theologians insist that in the Second Coming, the Rapture occurs on Rosh HaShannah/Yom Teruah (New Year/Day of Trumpets) and that either 7 years later (pre-trib) or 3 1/2 years later (mid-trib) Jesus comes back to rescue Israel on Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur occurs 10 days after Yom Teruah.
There are then ten days left between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur. Religiously observant Jews know these ten days as the Ten Days of Awe. Between Rosh HaShona and Yom Kippur, Jewish people worldwide wonder, will their names be inscribed in the book of life for the coming year?
What is likely to happen during the Ten Days of Awe framing Christ’s return? –
“I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.” Zechariah 12:10
If the Church is raptured on Rosh HaShona to meet a glorious Christ in the air (not a “secret rapture” as portrayed in popular Christian media), the Jewish people would literally look upon the one their leaders had pierced on the cross through conspiracy with Rome, astonished at their rejection of Messiah to open the days of awe and days of repentance. Christ will rapture His Church away for both judgments as to rewards and to celebrate at the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 11:18; 19:9).
The Lord will pour out His spirit of grace upon the remnant of Israel on those who have survived the tribulation, “Jacob’s trouble.” Jacob is the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. God’s spirit of grace upon the surviving remnant from the twelve tribes indicates that Jacob’s people in the future will be saved both physically and spiritually.
A spirit of supplication will drive Israel to her knees in desperate and fervent prayer during the Ten Days of Awe. She will mourn because the true Messiah of Israel came only for those in the Church, Jews and Gentiles, and now is gone again soon after!
Israel will be on Earth during the pouring out of the last seven plagues. All Israel will be saved, but the promise to redeem corporate, national Israel would not have occurred until the Day of Atonement.
Doesn’t this make a lot more sense than 7 years or 3 1/2 years later after the rapture then Christ returns???
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Shalom Steven
I believe you are right to teach that the Rapture is on Yom Teruah, 10 literal days before the second advent on Yom Kippur, with the 7 bowls between them. I call it the late trib feast of trumpets Rapture. It does make a lot more biblical sense than pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib or pre-wrath.
However I have found several problems with your book, the main one to do with this subject, is that you find no place for the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. Is this not the great celebration of victory by the totally regathered elect after the second advent, which the bible calls the Wedding Supper of the Lamb? Does it not also follow on in quick succession like all the others? How is it you rightly find fulfillment for the feast of Hanukkah but not the feast of Tabernacles?
The truth is that just as all 4 Spring feasts were fulfilled quickly, one straight after the other, so also all 4 Fall feasts as well, following straight after the other. At least this understanding is consistent with the already established biblical pattern of fulfillment.
Blessings, Glen
Dear Glen:
Thank you for taking the time to leave your comments. I cover the Feast of Tabernacles on my website. Please use the following links to read my articles on “Sukkoth” – http://lastdayscalendar.tripod.com/sukkoth.htm and the “Restoration the Garden of Eden” as the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles – http://lastdayscalendar.tripod.com/millennial_blessings.htm
Hi. I appreciate the above article. I came to the same conclusion myself (through the Lord’s guidance, I think).
But I wanted to share with you a detail you may or may not know about. There is a custom in Judaism known as Tashlikh, which takes place during the Days of Awe. (You can learn more about it on wikipedia, as well as other places.) This practice sounds a whole lot like Zech. 13:1. It’s as though the Children of Israel have been practicing for this for centuries.
Peace
Dear Jeff:
Since there is so very little actually written in the scriptures about Rosh HaShanah or even Yom Kippur for that matter, when we look to the Jewish traditions and customs we see a spiritual picture emerging regarding the main theme and principle focus of these 10 days of Awe. By ancient tradition during the afternoon of Rosh HaShanah (or the second day, when Rosh HaShanah falls on a weekly shabbot, Sabbath day) a special ceremony called ‘Tashlich’(‘casting off’) sins is performed beside a body of water of a lake, ocean, or river. Jewish people gather next to the water to empty their pockets and cast out bread crumbs while reciting penitential prayers to ‘symbolically’ rid themselves of sins. This originated from Micah 7:9— “and You (G-d) will cast (tashlich) all their sins into the depths of the sea”. This tradition is symbolic of a self-purification process.
Right. My point was that the custom of Tashlikh sounds exactly like Zech 13:1 – “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.”
The custom of Tashlikh is like a rehearsal of the real thing – which will take place in the time between when Jesus catches His Bride away and when He returns to the Mount of Olives.
Dear Jeff:
Your point also reinforces my understanding that the rapture takes place on the Yom Teruah (The Day of Trumpets). During the 10 Days of Awe, Yehovah pours out a spirit of grace and supplication upon the the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look on Yeshua, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son (Zechariah 12:10). Therefore when He returns on Yom Kippur, all of Israel (the surviving remnant) will be saved (Romans 11:26).