Agree w/many posts that the rapture will take place on Rosh HaShannah for the Bible is very clear that the rapture takes place "at the last trump."  Last trump = Rosh HaShannah = rapture.  (Tend to be a Biblical literalist, that way there's less confusion.)

• I Corinthians 15:51-52.  "Behold, I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at THE LAST TRUMP: for the TRUMPET (shofar) shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed."
  
• LAST TRUMP is associated and blown on Rosh HaShannah.  In the book, Festivals of the Jewish Year in the chapter on Rosh HaShannah, the Orthodox Jewish author will tell you that an IDIOM for Rosh HaShannah is the LAST TRUMP.  "Therefore because the LAST TRUMP is a Jewish idiom for ROSH HASHANNAH, the Apostle Paul (Rav Sha'ul) when referring to the resurrection of the dead happening at the 'last trump' was using a Jewish idiom for the feast of Rosh HaShannah and indicating by doing so that the resurrection of the dead will take place on Rosh HaShannah."
  

• Rosh Hashanah will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:

  • Jewish Year 5767 : sunset September 22, 2006 - nightfall September 24, 2006 (3 days)
  • Jewish Year 5768 : sunset September 12, 2007 - nightfall September 14, 2007 (3 days)

However, disagree w/those that believe the rapture will take place after the tribulation. (We go up and then immediately come back down?  No, doesn't make sense.)  The "great trump" referenced in Matthew 24:31 is only blown on Yom Kippur...which is after Rosh HaShannah, after the Rapture, after the 10 days of repentence or "awe."  Here's what God's Word (the Bible) says "And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (NKJV)  Or "...and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other." (NAS)    To me, this then leads to Revelation 19:11-14 which says:  "And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True...and the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses."

• From the Book The Seven Festivals of the Messiah by Eddie Chumney:   "The third significant shofar in the redemptive plan of God is called the GREAT TRUMP. The GREAT TRUMP is associated with and is blown on YOM KIPPUR.   In Matthew 24:29-31 it is written: "Immediately AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days ... and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven ... and he shall send his angels with a GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET (this is the GREAT TRUMP or the Shofar HaGadol) ..." Therefore, the literal second coming of Messiah AFTER the tribulation is idiomatically shown to us by Yeshua/Jesus to be associated with YOM KIPPUR.

The one festival where we're all in agreement is the Feast of Tabernacles, the last of the "seven festivals of the Messiah"  AKA as The Season of Our Joy, The Festival of Ingathering, The Feast of the Nations, The Festival of Dedication, The Festival of Lights, when Jesus sets up His Kingdom on earth for 1,000 years (the Millennium).  Some Biblical scholars believe this is when Jesus was born.  Anyway, a study of the Festivals is fascinating because they all point to Jesus (Yeshua ha Mashiach), past, present, and future!

 

Thank you, John, for posting this.  YSIC, Sandra Jean!