Dear friends:

There is a corrected Jewish calendar that purports to be more biblical, supposedly showing the true feast dates.  It is at http://www.truthofyahweh.org/calendar.html. I am not a calendar person and cannot vouch for its accuracy, but you can judge their methodology described at http://www.truthofyahweh.org/cal_vari.html.

It shows the Feast of Trumpets beginning at sundown with the new moon on October 12, 2007.

That appears to be shaping up as an eventful day.  Tony Ellsworth points out that October 12 is the very day Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.  Christopher means "Christ-bearer," and Columbus is from the word for dove (Holy Spirit).  Columbus was driven to take Christ to undiscovered lands, and hundreds of years later the land of America would produce the largest missionary outreach in history, covering the world with missionaries and radio and TV gospel broadcasts.  It is a historic day in the history of Christianity, the Great Commission, and the gospel to the Gentiles.  See my essay at http://choicesforliving.com/spirit/part4/america1.htm.

Tony also astutely points out that October 12 is "Al Quds Day" -- but not the celebration of Jerusalem ("Al Quds") that it is presented as by the press. In reality, it is a coordinated political display of anti-Western and anti-American propaganda, according to http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1186-Iranian-Nukes-Posturing-on-Al-Quds-Day.html

This could be ominous.  An Islamic spokesman "warned that Washington's insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result but further political disgrace for itself."  Referring to the approaching World Qods Day, the spokesman stressed, "Supporters of the Zionist regime (that's us) will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day."

“Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Quds Day's rallies,” Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said at a weekly press conference Wednesday.

IsraelNN.com says "Iran has promised a devastating 'final response' to supporters of the Jewish State on October 12, the Islamic Republic’s Quds (Jerusalem) Day."

For more about this threat and "final response" see http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123724. 

Get that?  Final response?  Devastating? 

A 2007 Trumpets rapture, and even the simultaneous beginning of the Tribulation, is still not out of the question.  A reader reported that this coming weekend Pastor Hagee is celebrating Rosh Hashanah as he does every year, with 'A Night to Honor Israel,' and special speakers.... "  Also, Hagee said yesterday, 'Be sure everyone comes next weekend; it will be televised, but also, we may go home and I want everyone to go home from Cornerstone' (his church)." 

Always hoping,

Jim