ROSH
HASHANAH 2006
To
the Five Doves, throughout the entire world today...the Spirit-filled believers...
This
Feast Day has so many unusual points surrounding it I would like to take
the time, utilizing as well excerpts from Signs
of the End by Daniel Matson (www.jesus2006.org), to go over the revelation
we have.
1
Thessalonians 5:
But
concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I
should write to you. For you
yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord so comes as a thief in
the night. For when they say,
Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains
upon a pregnant woman. And
they shall not escape. But
you, bretheren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you
as a thief.
Those
who follow the light of the Word of God can see the Day coming, according
to Paul.
Let’s
look at what Jesus would have to say:
Revelation
3:3
Remember
therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent.
Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief
and you will not know what hour (Greek: ‘Fixed Schedule’) I will come upon
you.
Turn
that around with reverse logic and Jesus is saying, “You will know the Fixed
Schedule of the return if you watch!”
I
read a book years ago by Jesse Duplantis.
He took a trip to heaven and asked the Lord when He would return.
Jesus responded and said look in My Word. Apparently
the answer is RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.
When
the disciples questioned Jesus in Matthew 24:36 he said “of that day and
hour knows no man.” He was
speaking on several levels. First,
the Greek word oida, which
is different from the word ginosko
was used. The word ginosko
is knowledge by learning, whereas oida
is intuitive knowledge. Therefore
Jesus’ answer was “No one can intuitively know” which would therefore leave
the door open to gaining the knowledge by learning.&n!
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Secondly,
Jesus utilized the phrase “of that day and hour knows no man.”
To the Jew of his day, that day is Rosh Hashanah.
It could only occur once the Sanhedrin received word from two witnesses,
since only they could make the legal call as to when to begin the New Year.
Jesus was speaking a message hidden in plain sight.
Paul
first wrote of the Rapture (the term Rapture is found in the Latin Bible)
in 1 Corinthians 15:51. He
uses the term “the last trump.” To
Gentiles it is of little significance, but to the first century Jew it pinpoints
a specific day. That day is
Rosh Hashanah. The first trump
represents the giving of the Law in the wilderness on Pentecost; the second
or last trump gives the announcement of the New Year.
Paul is saying the Rapture happens on Rosh Hashanah.
Paul singles out a day (2-day frame of time) that is knowable.
In
his book Dan also says it is quite interesting that the same issue was debated
before the birth of Christ. The
Rabbis did not want the people looking.
However, Simeon, Anna and the ‘wise men’ (the Magi) figured it out.
They walked it out on faith and knew it.
This though, as Dan wisely states, is another subject.
Also
Jesus stated in Luke 12:37 that “Blessed are those servants whom the master,
when he comes, will find watching.
Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit
down to eat, and will come and serve them.”
Strange that Jesus would command us to watch if we couldn’t know,
isn’t it?
It’s
also interesting to note that the holy days set up in the Old Testament
are Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement
& Tabernacles. When Jesus
came the first time the first four of these were fulfilled on the very
day they occurred.
Utilizing
360-day years the Hosea prophecy of 2 thousand years comes into light.
HOSEA 6:2: “After two days he will revive us, On the third day he
will raise us, so that we may live in his presence.”
From
AD 32, 2,000 360-day years ended in 2003.
The Hosea prophecy stated it was ‘after the 2 days (2 thousand years)’
that Jesus would return to deal with the Jewish people and the world for
the seven-year Tribulation period.
How much after?
Since
Jesus said ‘not one jot or tittle’ would pass of the Word, we can be sure
the Rapture could not have happened before the year 2003, being the fulfillment
of the 2 days. But it could
happen from that point forward – the next question is how to triangulate.
Watch and you’ll see how God
has done this for us. The day
is knowable (the Feast Day being a 2-day period, so we might say the nomenclature
of the day is knowable – during Rosh Hashanah), but the major question still
facing us is the year.
There
were several periods of 40 year and day judgment levied on the world according
to the Bible, and this same 40 years is the equivalent of a generation spoken
by Jesus. The first was in
the days of Israel’s wandering – the second
was the 40 days and nights of rain that began in the time of Noah, which
Jesus likened to His return.
The
measurement should begin when Jerusalem
was captured on June 7, 1967. 40
times 360 divided by 365.2422 will equal 39 solar years and 155 days.
That counts to November 8, 2006.
That would end the maximum lifetime of the generation of believers
that witnessed all these things, according to Jesus.
To study all of the mathematical detail, buy Dan’s book – it’s the
best single book I’ve read on the subject. You can get the detail there.
Let’s
continue…
THE
CASE FOR 2006
Rosh
Hashanah in 2006 is on a Sabbath.
The importance of the Sabbath is throughout the Scriptures.
A major hidden clue is in the Parable of the Ten Virgins.
The ten virgins of the parable await the bridegroom (Jesus) with
their lamps (the Word of God). But
half of them have no light for they are out of oil (the Holy Spirit).
The oil lamp was utilized on the Sabbath for festivals.
Five virgins were unprepared for the Sabbath because they must now
go out and buy oil on the Sabbath, which is not to be done.
These fiv! e virgins are unbelievers.
Rosh
Hashanah is just prior to the pivotal time of November 8, 2006 as well –
the end of our Bible generation. Jesus
said that ‘this generation would not pass’ until the related prophecies
were fulfilled for us. He stated
a maximum length.
September
23, 2006 is also the autumnal equinox.
This is the start of autumn and precisely where Rosh Hashanah should
fall. The last occurrence was
1922 and the next is 2074. This
indeed has to be part of the plan of God.
What’s
happening in Israel and the Middle East now is leading up to (as soon as
we’re gone) a Peace Treaty which will be signed (after we’re out of here)
with a man whom you don’t want to know (and you won’t know his identity
even though he’s right there right now, because he is restrained as long
as we’re here, for about nine weeks more), and after it’s signed that’s
when World War III begins shortly thereafter, and seven years of Tribulation.
Aren’t you glad you’re going to miss all that?
I
end this with a recommendation to buy Dan’s book at the web site above (personal
recommendation from 20 plus years of study in the area).
And
I end with a Scripture from Brother Paul:
BEHOLD,
I TELL YOU A MYSTERY: WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL BE CHANGED –
IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET.
FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE,
AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED.
I
CORINTHIANS 15:51-52