From: Marilyn Agee
Re: MJ Martin's "Feast Of Trumpets/Rapture of the Church":
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2005/mjm23-12.htm
also: http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2005/mjm23-13.htm

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> > The Feast of Trumpets is when the "last trump" of the rapture of 1 Cor 15 is blown.

That's correct. Now figure out when the FIRST TRUMP will be blown. I don't think it will sound on the same day as the "last trump." Tip: what Feast is associated with the sounding of the first trumpet of the Bible?

> > 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 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.

Since Elijah must come before t! he Day of the Lord (Mal. 4:5), I think the Day of the Lord will not come until the Day of Christ's Coronation.

> > It is also time for the bema judgment, or the judgement of the works of the righteous, and judgement must begin at the house of the Lord.
> > [2Cor 11:2] For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
> > Rapture parallels with the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShana)

I agree, but that Rapture is the Pre-Wrath Rapture, not the Pre-Trib Rapture. I think the Feast of Trumpets is the "last trump", the day of the Rapture of the 144,000 Israelites that are to be added to the Bride group that were caught up to Heaven at the first trump. At that "last trump", the 144,000 Israelites plus the "great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations" will be raptured "out of great tribulation" (Rev. 7:9,14).

If the "last trump" is dur! ing the "great tribulation", when is the FIRST TRUMP?

I believe that the "last trump" will sound on the same Feast of Trumpets on which will be the Coronation of Christ, the Judgment Seat of Christ and the pouring out of the Wrath of God on the Earth (Rev. 11:15-18). I also think the Marriage of the Lamb will take place in Heaven that same day.

That will be the day that both those caught up to Heaven at the FIRST TRUMP and those caught up to Heaven at the "last trump" will be called to "the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven" (Heb. 12:23).

Mt. 24:31 tells us about the Bride saints that are ALREADY IN HEAVEN being called to the general assembly in Heaven at the time the "last trump" calls up the Tribulation saints It says, "he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of HEAVEN to the other."

When this call goes out to all the Bride saints already in Heaven, a call also goes out to catch up t! he 144,000 that are to be added to the Bride group at the time of the "last trump." Along with the 144,000, the great multitude that can't be numbered will also be called from Earth to the general assembly in Heaven.

Mark 13:27 tells us about this call. It says, "And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the EARTH (it's the last trump, the Pre-Wrath Rapture) to the uttermost part of HEAVEN" (those previously caught up in the Pre-Trib Rapture at the first trump).

> > The shofar blown on Rosh HaShanah is known as the last trump, which the apostle Paul mentioned in First Thessalonians 4:16-17. At this time, the believers in Christ will escape the tribulation on earth and will be taken to Heaven in the rapture along with the righteous who had died before this time.

I Thess. 4:16,17 doesn't say it is at the time of the last trump. It is the time of the FIRST TRUMP. The last tr! ump is in I Cor. 15:51,52.

> > In Judaism, there are thre e trumpets that have a name. They are the first trump, the last trump, and the great trump. Each one of these trumpets indicates a specific day in the Jewish year. THE FIRST TRUMP IS BLOWN ON THE FEAST OF PENTECOST (Exodus 19:19). It proclaimed that God had betrothed Himself to Israel. THE LAST TRUMP IS SYNONYMOUS WITH ROSH HASHANAH".

That's right. "THE FIRST TRUMP IS BLOWN ON THE FEAST OF PENTECOST." That's the Pre-Trib Rapture. The Pre-Wrath Rapture is "THE LAST TRUMP", It's blown on Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of Trumpets.
 
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