Fall festivals:
Notice that God has prophetically followed a perfect order for the first four festivals. It stands to reason that He will fulfill the three remaining fall festivals in the very order they were revealed to Moses. These would be Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. We are currently living at Pentecost (or the church age) which won’t end until 2033 according to Hosea 6:2. The next festival on the prophetic calendar is the Feast of Trumpets which begins on the seventh month of the Jewish calendar (Tishrei) and four months after Pentecost. This would be September or October on our calendar. God established this festival as a period of rest, a sabbath, for the Hebrews. God decreed Trumpets as a holy convocation memorialized by the blowing of trumpets. This is the only festival where God didn’t give a specific reason for having it. I think God was keeping the rapture of the saints during this festival a mystery until the end times.
Leviticus 23:23-25 – Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.’ “
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:52 – In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
As indicated in Scripture, one of the central features of Christ’s return will be the blowing of trumpets. The Feast of Trumpets is a clear picture of the trumpet of God that sounds and brings God’s family into a season of sabbath-rest. In Hebrews 4:9-10, the Greek word for rest is “sabbatismos” which is different from “rest” when used anywhere else in the Bible and it means believers entering into their rest when they arrive in heaven on trumpets.
Hebrews 4:9-10 – There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has also ceased from his works as God did from His.
This is a picture of the rapture of the church when Jesus comes in the air to gather the saints and take them to heaven. God is precise with his timing so the rapture will occur in 2033 during the Feast of Trumpets because the church age will have reached its appointed time four months prior, fulfilling the prophecy in Hosea 6:2. The Feast of Trumpets is the only feast without a set time to start because it’s based on the cycle of a new moon which is always changing. That’s why Scripture says no man knows the day or hour of his coming. But God has left us clues in His Word that pinpoint the year of His coming and which festival the Lord will come for His saints. It’s not a sin to try to guess when the Lord is coming. We’re told to pray and watch for the coming of the Lord and guessing is part of that.
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