Dear Doves,

John 7:11
"Where is He?"  

This is the question that the people were asking during the first 3 and 1/2 days of the 7-day long 'Feast of Tabernacles' that Jesus attended in secret. He was expected to be there at the beginning of the feast, but He did not show Himself (appear) until the 'middle of the seven' day-long feast. The 70th Week of Daniel is 7 years long.

John 7:10
"But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, NOT OPENLY, BUT AS IT WERE IN SECRET."

Why did Jesus not show Himself (appear) during the first-half (3 and 1/2 days) of the seven-day-long feast, but rather in the 'middle of the seven'?

John 7:6
"Then Jesus said to them, MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME, but your time is always ready."
John 7:8
"You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, FOR MY TIME HAS NOT YET FULLY COME."

When His time had "fully come" "in about the middle of the feast", and to everyone's surprise Jesus showed Himself (appeared) and began to teach.

John 7:14
"NOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE FEAST Jesus went up into the temple and taught."

CONCLUSION:

I believe this particular Feast of Tabernacles to be the 'prophetic shadow' of which 'Jesus is the substance' of the 'last seven years' before the '8th Day Millennium' ie. the '70th Week of Daniel' in which people will be watching and asking "Where is He?" while waiting for the rapture to occur before and during the first 3 and 1/2 years, but Jesus' time is not "fully come" until the 'middle of the seven' years.

Notice that John 7:6 says, "OUR TIME IS ALWAYS READY."  

Come Lord Jesus!

Bruce Warner