Prophecy Update: Feast of Trumpets and the Rapture.
The Feast of Trumpets is very important to prophecy. All seven feasts have a fulfillment to them and the first four were fulfilled literally to the day and in some cases to the hour. The next important feast for prophecy happens this week. God will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets both through the rapture of the church and the second coming of Jesus. It is the only feast to begin on the first day of the month. The biblical calendar follows the moon, called a lunar calendar. Feast of trumpets can start only on the day when two witnesses see the new moon. No one knows the day or hour because if it is a cloudy night, you’re not seeing the new moon!
The Feast of Trumpets is called ‘Rosh Hashanah’ and literally means the first of the year, or the head of the beginning of the year. Some say that this is the day that God created and relate it to Genesis 1:1. The first word of the Bible is ‘beresheet’ and means ‘in the beginning.’ Many teachers use the word as an anagram. You can rearrange the letters to spell “aleph b’ Tishrei” which means the first of Tishrei. The Feast of Trumpets comes on the first day of the month called Tishrei.
“Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.” Numbers 29:1
In this passage, you can see that the Feast of Trumpets starts on the first day of the seventh month. Some people call Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah, it literally means ‘day of blowing trumpets.’ It is also called a ‘day of remembrance because of Lev.23:24.
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.”
Lev.23:24
There is some confusion about when is the “New Year” for Jews. They seem to have two beginnings of the year. One happening around Passover and one happening at Feast of Trumpets. Our new year begins on Jan.1, but my new year also begins in August when school starts. This is an example of what is happening with the Feast of Trumpets.
“Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.”
Exodus 12:1-2
“In the Torah, the beginning of the year was clearly set in the spring. So what happened? The two possibilities were Nisan, the month of Passover, and Tishrei, the month of what is now known as the festival of Rosh Hashanah. In the Torah , the beginning of the year was clearly set at the first of Nisan, in the context of a description of the first Passover. (Exodus 12:1-2) This New Year celebrated the creation of the Jewish nation through the redemption of the Israelites from Egypt. Nisan, as the first of the months, coincided with the beginning of Jewish national history. Sometime between the Torah and the codification of the Mishnah, the autumn New Year gained ascendance, now transformed into a major celebration, and the Nisan new year was left as a marker of the months and festivals in the calendar year.” myjewishlearning.com
The reason why the Jews look at two beginnings is because of the seven feasts. Three feasts are in the spring called Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. 50 days after First Fruits Pentecost is celebrated. The fall feasts consist of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles. The fall feasts act as a new beginning spiritually because the day after Feast of Trumpets are the Days of Awe. Just as August is the start of a new school year, so Feast of Tabernacles is the start of a new spiritual year. Notice that there is a gap of time between the first four feasts and the last three.
Christians believe that the time between the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and Feast of Trumpets, represents the church age. The final three feasts will find their fulfillment in the final seven years called the Tribulation. In Lev.23:24 the command is to remember (a reminder by blowing of trumpets). It reminds us of something important. The Atonement:
“On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD.”
Lev. 23:27
The believers in the Lord were to take the ten days between Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement as a time of remembering the Atonement, confessing sin, and pledging to walk with God. We remember both the Day of Atonement and Passover because Jesus is our Passover lamb who paid the price for us in the Atonement! This is where we need to see the Feast of Trumpets in the book of First Thessalonians. The problem in Thessalonica confronting the believers was the death of their Christian friends and relatives. Paul did not want them to worry as if they missed Jesus return. This is the occasion of teaching us about the Rapture of the Church.
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.” For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.”
1 Thess.4:13-15
The believers were concerned about those who fell asleep, a euphemism for death. God is telling them that you do not need to grieve. Those who are dead are going to be raised first! Then we who are still alive will be raised to meet the Lord in the air in our new bodies. The rapture of the church is a resurrection. All Christians are required to believe in this resurrection. Where Christians differ is in the timing of this resurrection.
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”
1 Thess.4:16-17
Notice how the Lord will come with the trumpet of God. When that trumpet blows, we will be raised to our new bodies. The word ‘caught up’ means to violently snatch us up!
The rapture of the church is very close. We know this because of the signs of the times. One big sign that stares us in the face is the Great Reset. The elites of the world want to install a one-world government that will eventually be ruled by antichrist. This is a sign coming about as the elites introduce catastrophe after catastrophe to gain more and more control of our lives. But God has His own plans for the world. What the Great Reset will bring is the judgment of God; The wrath of the Lamb; The Tribulation; The Second Coming!!
The Last Days also is a time of antisemitism. Joe Biden is cursing Israel on a daily basis, pushing them to divide the land of Israel, bribing them to give Palestinians more land. What happens when you curse Israel? You get cursed!
“On August 27th, Joe Biden and new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met to discuss relations between our two nations. Going into the meeting, we knew that the Biden administration was passionately committed to a “two state solution”, and we knew that Bennett wanted the Biden administration to end nuclear talks with Iran. Apparently, the meeting did not go well and less than two hours after the meeting Ida strengthened into a hurricane. The following timeline comes from William Koenig’s website…
· Biden-Bennett’s meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 26 at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Rescheduled to next day
· Advisory #1 on Tropical Depression 9, Thursday, August 26 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
· Tropical Storm Ida formed Thursday, August 26 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
· Biden and Bennett met Friday, August 27 at 11:30 a.m. EDT
· Ida strengthened into a hurricane Friday, August 27 at 1:15 p.m. EDT
· Ida came ashore as a category 4 hurricane at 150 mph at Port Fourchon oil hub, Sunday, August 29 at 11:55 a.m. CDT
· Ida came ashore on August 29, the 16th anniversary of Katrina in the same general area.” prophecynewswatch.com
I think that this is very significant and is a harbinger of things to come.
God is beginning to send more and more judgments as He brings the day of the rapture closer. One judgment just came on Mexico as they passed a law protecting the abortion industry.
“Mexico’s top court decriminalizes abortion in ‘watershed moment’– Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women’s health and human rights, just as parts of the United States enact tougher laws against the practice.” reuters.com
Just hours after this horrific decision, a 7.4 earthquake hit Mexico.
“A powerful earthquake struck the southwest of Mexico late Tuesday, causing widespread shaking as far away as Mexico City and killing at least one person. Around 1.6 million customers were estimated to be without electricity in Mexico City and throughout four states, the country’s state-owned utility service, Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) said in a statement.” cnn.com
With God sending more and more judgments in the spirit and prophetic announcements of Matt.24:1-14, the birth pangs will get more intense as time goes on. The return of more terrorism in the USA will spur out country to follow the path that leads to Antichrist government. The New World Order, desired by so many politicians will come to fruition in God’s own timing. The signs are all here, we need to watch and pray.
“The return of global jihad? The humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan is likely to provide impetus to terror organizations in the Middle East, but the Taliban isn’t expected to give them the infrastructure they need to execute mega-attacks as they did the previous time they were in power. Unlike Al-Qaida, ISIS didn’t run a centralized mechanism for carrying out terrorist attacks, instead opting for decentralization. It called on its believers, wherever they may be, to carry out attacks in whatever fashion they could – so long as the assailants – be they in California, Paris, Berlin, or London – declare that the attacks were carried out in the name of the organization.” israelhayom.com
Jihadi terrorism is about to break out in the USA. The Islamic world is announcing more terrorism for Israel and the USA. In the midst of this bad news, God assures us that He will raise up His kingdom on the earth. Thy Kingdom Come is the prayer of all Christians.
“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old.” Amos 9:11
“There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.” Isaiah 9:7
These two verses remind us that Jesus kingdom will come and He will make everything right in the end. Praise the Lord.
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