MM, you wrote:  "The feasts apply to the Jews, and the rapture has to do with the church."

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I do not believe in replacement theology, but I do believe that the Messianic feasts can apply to all believers (both Jew and Gentile).  We don't replace Israel…we become part of Israel.  And each feast speaks prophetically of the first and second coming of Christ.  If the Feast of Tabernacles (7th and last feast), which represents the millennium (God's rest/reign of Christ), involves all believers, then why not the rapture (Feast of Trumpets)?  We believers (Gentiles and Messianic Jews) are the bride of Christ, we are one. 

 

Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, talks about the Gentiles being grafted into the Good Olive Tree (Jesus). 

 

"But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles…if some of the branches were broken off, and you (Gentiles), being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree…you will say then, branches were broken off so that I (Gentiles) might  be grafted in…I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery---so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in."  Romans 11: 13-25. NASB.

(Derek Prince called Romans 1-11 the "doctrinal heart of the Gospel.")

 

"For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.  For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Gal. 3:26-29.

 

"Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants -- Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant -- Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar.  For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,' The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, 'Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him.'" Isaiah 56:6-8.

YSIC, Sandra Jean