Nov 11th, 2007 Rapture of the Saints Watch - True Feast of Trumpets?

Note that the seventh period of time throughout the Bible is associated with rest, a Sabbath, whether the seventh day, (Gen. 2:2-3, Exo. 16:30, Heb. 4:4, etc.), seventh month, (Gen. 8:4, Lev. 23:24, Lev. 23:39, etc.), seventh year, (Exo. 23:11, Lev. 25:4, etc.), or seventh thousand years, (Rev. 20:2-7).  The Rapture is when the Saints who have been anxiously watching for His return to enter their rest.  The Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashana, begins the Seventh month of each year.

Hypothesis:

Should the Rapture be on Nov 11th, 2007, it will have occurred on the true Feast of Trumpets.

Background:

1.  The Rapture will be on the day and hour known by no man, (Matt. 24:36, Mark 13:32).  This day and hour would be understood by the Jews as a reference to the 1st day of the 7th month each year as this day and hour it is said is not known in advance but must be determined by the observation of the new moon.  Others take the day and hour known by no man in scripture to refer to when Heaven and Earth shall pass away, not the Rapture, as this is what is referred to in the preceding verse of both references.  It is possible that the correct interpretation is that both events will occur on Rosh Hashana.  Regardless, the Rapture being on Rosh Hashana is not based on these two scriptures alone.

2.  The Rapture will be on a day known for trumpets, (I Cor.  5:52, I Thess. 4:16).  This day would is understood by the Jews as a reference to the Feast of Trumpets, the 1st day of the 7th month each year, (Lev. 23:24, Num. 29:1)

3.  The Rapture will be on the first of the Fall Feasts.  As Jesus Christ fulfilled all of the Spring Feasts in order, the belief is that He will next fulfill all the Fall Feasts in order.  The first of the fall feasts is the Feast of Trumpets on the 1st day of the 7th month.
 
Evidence:

1.  Rosh Hashana occurs on a new moon.  November 11th, 2007 is a new moon.

2.  The 1st day of the 7th month as the Feast of Trumpets is based on the beginning of a new calendar given to Moses and Aaron by Almighty God, (Exo. 12:2), (in the land of Egypt right before the Exodus).

3.  This new calendar could be based on the start of the calendar with the constellations at the time of Moses and Aaron at the Exodus determining the start of the New Year.  This alignment of the constellations to determine the start of the New Year, let us call the universe-based calendar, would never change till Heaven and Earth pass away.

Discussion

Each Hebrew calendar month begins at a new moon.  Each new moon on average occurs every 29.530588 days.  Counting 12 months per year the feasts quickly become out of sync with the solar year and the grain and fruit harvests which play a part in the various feasts, (Exo. 23:16).  The proper way to determine the beginning of the New Year has been the subject of much debate.  Should one count from when the barley is full in the head, (abib, i.e. Exo. 23:15)?  Should one count just like the standardized Hebrew calendar based on adjusting to the solar calendar (which is 365.242199 days per year), starting with the spring equinox?  Or should one count adjusted to the stars in the sky as they were when the calendar began, (Exo. 1:14)?

The stars in the sky could be said to be from the perspective of the Universe.  Instead of determining when the sun at noon passes the equator, known as the spring equinox, for the start of the new year as aligned with the next new moon, start the year based on where the constellations are again in the same place in the sky as they were when the calendar began with Moses and Aaron, the two witnesses to the start of the new calendar, in Egypt.

Let us now work backward, (as that is actually how the original hypothesis was developed).  Consider that November 11th, 2007 is the true Rosh Hashana, the 1st day of the 7th month.  That would make the current Hebrew calendar off, which is based on the solar cycle.  How much off?

The universe-based cycle difference with the sun is observed as the phenomena known as the “precession of the equinoxes”.  The 1st day of the 7th month if observed for the present Hebrew calendar should fall on average, as adjusted each year, around the time of the fall equinox, which was September 23rd in 2007.  From this date to November 11th is 49 days.  The “precession of the equinoxes” cycle is 25,765 years.  So how many years did it take for this shift in 49 days to occur?  That would tell us the beginning point.  So taking 49 days divided by 365.242199 days per cycle times 25,765 years per cycle gives 3456.6 years.  Subtracting 3456.6 years from November 11, 2007 brings us to around 1450 BC.  Researching what happened around 1450 BC and many references are found stating this was the time of the Exodus from Egypt.  A direct hit!
 

Shalom,
Ted Porter