Greetings,
I'm brand new here and I was just wondering if anyone else thinks that Jesus Christ will return this Feast of Trumpets.
I have studied Bible Prophecy for decades, mostly by typing out the verses, and even though the events have not happened the way Bible experts insist they must, every prophecy has been fulfilled except Jerusalem being taken. And perhaps the Sun and the Moon.
But I can't imagine in my wildest imagination that this is all true and out of all the people on Earth I am the only person to notice all of this.
Not sure if one can place this Rosh Hashanah coming up in September as being the one of the removal of the righteous, but I have generally held for quite some time that God has been a real stickler for fulfilling feast days right down to the day, and in order of their presentation in Leviticus 23, and Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) is the next one on the hit parade.
it does seem to fit. Rosh Hashanah is called the "day that no man knows". That is because it is the only feast that falls on the first of a month without being relative to a previous feast day, so when it starts can only be determined when the new moon (beginning of the month) has been certified by two or more witnesses. It includes a initial trumpet blast or Yom Teruah that is the awakening blast that has its roots in resurrection of the dead doctrine.
Yeshua said that no man can know the day or the hour, and that would apply to Rosh Hashanah. No one can know when it officially starts, and being a two day Moed, one would not be able to know the day or the hour.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:52 that our gathering to Messiah would be at the last trump and twinkling of an eye. The Last trump of Rosh Hashanah is blown when the twinkling of an eye, or last sliver of the sun before totally setting, happens on the 2nd day of the feast. Again, even if the feast was going on, no one would know the hour of that last trump till it happened. Just in that context, and being that Paul was a major student of one of the most venerated Jewish theology schools, Gamliel, it seems more than a realistic idea that Paul was referencing a future Rosh Hashanah.
I know, I know... some will say that the last trump referenced by Paul is the 7th trumpet of Revelation. Not possible. God revealed that information to Yeshua later (Revelation 1:1), who gave it to John to disseminate among the believers, and John did not write the Revelation till roughly 90AD. So Paul was out of the loop, since Paul had died previous to John getting this information and forwarding it to us. It is quite a stretch that God would have revealed it to Paul before He revealed it to His own Son.
Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) is laced with all sorts of allusion to resurrection, removal of the righteous, union of the bride to the Messiah, etc in Jewish eschatology. And Messiah fulfilled Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Shavuot (Pentacost) at His first coming. It is more than realistic that the end times events will be centered around the fall feasts that have yet to be fulfilled. Leviticus 23 outlines that the feasts are Moed (appointed times) and Miqra (rehearsals). Since Yeshua said the scripture testifies of Him, John 5:39, it is reasonable to hold that the feasts are appointments with fulfillment by Yeshua.
And we are to know the times and seasons. Even Yeshua held those accountable at His first coming to know the time of His arrival and revealing (Luke 19:44).
