I think that the rapture is going
to happen on Rosh Hoshanah, 2008. It seems to me The Lord’s seal
on 2008 is the presence of the Solar and Lunar eclipses between now and 2015 on
Jewish Feast Days, and the lack there of of these patterns of eclipses
thereafter for the remaining years of the 21st century.
In Leviticus 23, the feasts of
the Lord are clearly enunciated.
Now Jesus said below that he has come to
fulfill the law - not abolish it. Let's presume that also means the feasts of
The Lord, too.
Matthew 5:17 (King James Version)
17Think not
that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy,
but to fulfill.
Well, I think that the Feast of
Trumpets is going to be fulfilled this September 30-October 1, 2008 with the
Rapture - not on Pentecost. Pentecost was fulfilled when we
received the Holy Spirit after Jesus ascended:
Acts 2:1-5
1And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place.
2And suddenly there
came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the
house where they were sitting.
3And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of
every nation under heaven.
I've entered my commentary and
selected confirmatory scripture into the Leviticus 23 passage below.
Leviticus 23
1And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my feasts.
3Six days shall work be done:
but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no
work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5In the fourteenth day of the
first month at even is the LORD's passover.
This was fulfilled by our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth’s Death on the
cross
6And on the
fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD:
seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
This feast was fulfilled by Jesus Christ's crucifixion
process, from his beating to his being nailed to the cross and the cross being
set up into the hole including all the suffering he endured leading up to, yet
excluding only, his death. This was His body broken for us:
Matthew 26:26 (King James Version) “And as they were eating,
Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples,
and said, Take, eat; this is my body.”
7In the first day ye
shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein.
9And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest
thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the
priest:
11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted
for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of
fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet
savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an
hin.
14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green
ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it
shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the
sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
sabbaths shall be complete:
16Even unto the morrow after the
seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat
offering unto the LORD.
17Ye shall bring out of your
habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour;
they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish
of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a
burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink
offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two
lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an
holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a
statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt
thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor,
and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
This
feast was fulfilled by Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead and all of the
believers who believed on him while he was alive, but died before he did.
They were resurrected with him and raptured when he ascended.
23And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh
month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of
blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25Ye shall do no servile work
therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
This is when the rapture will be. Look
at the verses’ subjects: MEMORIAL BLOWING OF TRUMPETS; A HOLY
CONVOCATION. This has to do with Consecration of people and a
TRUMPET FESTIVAL. This is when a trumpet so loud is going to blow
that the world will have never heard before and will never again hear a sound
like this. It is also a Sabbath. A break from all of
the work.
26And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27Also on the tenth day of this
seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation
unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
28And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of
atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that
same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same
day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict
your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye
celebrate your sabbath.
This is the Bema Seat Judgment
where the saints’ works are tested with fire and survive or get burned up.
1 Corinthians 3:11-16
11For other foundation can
no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13Every man's
work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15If any man's
work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as by fire.
16Know ye not that ye are the
temple of
God, and that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in you?
33And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35On the first day shall be an
holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye
shall do no servile work therein.
This feast is
fulfilled by the wedding feast of the bridegroom. Tabernacle seven
days – seven years of the tribulation.
37These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings,
every thing upon his day:
38Beside the sabbaths of the
LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your
freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven
days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a
sabbath.
40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the
year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it
in the seventh month.
42Ye shall dwell in booths seven
days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43That your generations may know that I made the children of
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
feasts of the LORD.