Tim McHyde (19 Nov 2005)
"Rapture: Rosh HaShanah or Day of Trumpets?"


Just a correction on a post today.  Rosh HaShanah is not a prophetic biblical holy day found in Leviticus 23 so we should not expect the rapture on that day any more than we should expect it on Christmas or Chanukah.
 
  Rosh HaShanah is only a holy day in Judaism on their manmade, precalculated Hillel II calendar.  The Day of Trumpets is the actual holy day on the biblical calendar.  Although both days are said to be on Tishrei 1, they do not fall on the same day each year by any means.  This is because the Hillel II calendar deviates from the biblical instructions for how to determine the start of the year off the aviv barley (Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Dt 16:1) as well as the start of each month off the first visible sliver of the new crescent moon. This causes Rosh HaShana to fall usually 1-2 days earlier than the actual holy day (and sometimes as much as a month off like this year).  This fact is not contested, but confirmed in the Talmud that in Jesus' day they properly observed the Biblical calendar off the barley and moon.  The Jews apparently feel they have no authority to change the calendar back to the First Century reckoning (perhaps that will change soon once the Sanhedrin is fully established and accepted.)
 
  Only once you understand how the real Tishrei 1/Day of Trumpets is to be determined off of the testimony of two witnesses of the visible crescent moon (Rev 11:7-12) can you understand what Jesus meant by saying about the timing of the rapture, "of that day and hour knoweth no man" (Mt 24:36). See here for more:
 
  http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/no-man-knows-the-day-or-hour.htm
 Kind Regards,
 

Tim McHyde
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