John, and all Doves, I thought this was a really great study by Miriam at our forum,  Come Lord Jesus, and I just wanted to share with you for thought and consideration. Praying for guidance and direction from the Holy Spirit, in all things. Love in Jesus, your sister, Pauleen

1. The 7 Mosaic Feasts are unfold in SET ORDER, and must be fulfilled in set order. Jesus previously fulfilled the first three SPRING feasts IN THE FLESH.....leaving the last three FALL feasts to be fulfilled in order by Y'shua, THE MESSIAH, IN THE FLESH after He returns back to earth !

2. From the SEASONAL clues given in Scripture- both in the O.T. and the N.T.....The WHOLE redemptive plan of God...for 'man's time"...."the 7 days" of the Creation week....(Adamic time) is superimposed upon Israel's AGRICULTURAL SEASONAL CALENDAR! Hosea 6 plainly states that Jesus' coming to earth will CORRESPOND to ONLY two times on that agricultural calendar....at the 'former rain'....the EARLY, fall rains....and at the end of the 'latter rain'...the 'last rain' in the spring. Jesus first came to Israel as their King, in the Fall as a babe in the manger...at the Feast of Tabernacles. He first arrived at the "end of the year" [ Exodus 23:16, Exodus 34:22 ] at the Feast of Tabernacl! es, which "Closed" the Fall Feasts. Thirty years later, He appeared to Israel as 'the Suffering Servant" in the Spring. He "Opened" the Mosaic Feasts at the "beginning of year- the Sacred year." By doing this.. Jesus is self-fulfilling His own O.T. and N. T. prophecies... "I am the first and the last" [ Is 44:6, Rev 22:13 ] Conversely, He is also the last and the first !

Jesus, the King of Israel and Jesus, the Suffering Servant, has ALREADY FULFILLED the O. T. prophecy of ...Hosea 6:3..."Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. "

3. ALL the O.T. and N.T. clues for the START of the Tribulation are framed in the context of SPRING AGRICULTURAL CLUES of the GRAIN HARVESTS...beginning with the Barley, followed by the Wheat....and THEN the Tribulation is portrayed as THE PROCESSING OF THOSE GRAIN HARVESTS ..."gathering", "threshing', "separating out of the chaff', "fanning' , "sifting" and finally, the "gathering" of that grain and fruit "INTO MY BARN"...which are ALL the orderly, unfolding and progressive processing of those harvests throughout the SUMMERTIME!
The term "into My barn" is a symbol for "the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven" which Y'shua will bring with Him to earth at the Second Coming !

Jesus told Israel to 'WATCH FOR THE NEW FIG BRANCHES, AND THE TENDER LEAVES"...and when they immediately saw them...THEN THE JUDGE WAS AT THE DOOR!...meaning JUDGMENT WAS TO BEGIN IN THE SPRING/EARLY SUMMER!

By the Fall feasts...the "little, tender, fig branches and tender leaves" ARE LONG DRIED UP BY THE BLAST OF THE SUMMER HEART ....the leaves are not only dried, brown and curled up...but they are beginning to drop off the trees !

4. The Song of Solomon CLEARLY depicts the SEASON for "COME AWAY WITH ME" as springtime....NOT FALL! It is LITERALLY FILLED WITH SPRING CLUES!
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5. Micah 7 1-2 is clear to say that the "FIRST RIPE (SPRING) FRUIT has DISAPPEARED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH....not a fig or grape is found...ONLY THE WICKED ARE LEFT BEHIND!! This NEVER could refer to a Fall scenario...IT IS OUT OF SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL ORDER! "1: Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. 2: The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net."

The Hebrew word for "perished" is #6...its first meanings are "escape, flee and vanished."

6. James calls the N.T. church "a type of 'first fruits" unto God....
James 5:7: "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.! " James: 1:18: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." Revelation 14:4..says this about the 144,000...."These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." It would be agriculturally inappropriate to refer to the 144,000 in the FALL as "first fruits."

6. 2 Samuel 11:1 CLEARLY states that it is in the SPRING TIME "THAT KINGS GO OUT TO WAR".....NOT the Fall !

7. The LAST three fall Feasts ARE RESERVED FOR THE FULFILLING of the Messianic FUNCTIONS...of Y'SHUA TO ISRAEL....as KING, REDEEMER, HIGH PRIEST AND THE SETTING UP OF THEIR PROMISED KINGDOM OF DAVID ON EARTH! The tone of the last three Mosaic feasts IS TOTALLY JEWISH IS SCOPE!

8. The "LORE" that some in the Church have taught over the years with Rosh HaShana being the time o! f 'a wedding/resurrection/the rapture/a day no man knows, the last trumpet, etc, etc, etc IS TAKEN FROM ADD-ON, RABBINICAL AND TALMUDIC LAW! The 'LORE' has NO BASIS IN SCRIPTURE WHATSOEVER! The term 'Rosh HaShana' NEVER appears in Scripture anywhere! It is ONLY a '1 day' feast in the Bible, NOT a '2 day feast'..and is ONLY called "a memorial of blowing trumpets" at the first day of the 7th month...at the New Moon...THAT IS ALL!!

9. Rosh ha Shana IS NOT THE LAST TRUMPET IN ANY WAY! There are many trumpets blown at Atonement, and MANY more trumpets blown at Tabernacles !

10. A careful word study from the GREEK on the words 'last trump' ( last : #2078 meaning "last of all" "of order or number" "the trumpet of the last day" "a trumpet that closes or scene, a dispensation, a day, the latest, not in the process of time but pertaining to the events spoken of.) (trumpet: #4526 salpigx....a silver trumpet, NOT A SHOFAR! )

The TRUE "last" trumpet that is blown in the Scripture narrative of the Tribulation is AT THE END of the Tribulation....in Matthew 24:31....that which is "a trumpet with a GREAT sound" of which the angels blow "...which gathers "the remnant" from the four corners of the earth and brings them into Jerusalem!

11. Rosh ha Shana and the FALL feasts are consider by Judaism to be THE DARK TIME OF THE YEAR! Paul told the N. T. Church we have no part in the darkness or night'...."we
are children OF THE DAY"! The Spring is THE LIGHT TIME of the year!

12. The "new spring shoots" that 'shoot out of the ground' in spring-time are a CLEAR symbol of the "resurrection of growth in the spring." NO NEW SHOOTS come out of the ground in the FALL! Isa 61: 11..." For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." Jesus fulfilled this FIRST by "springing forth' in His resurrection from the dead !

13. Adhering to Israel's AGRICULTURAL CALENDAR ORDER....speaking of the ultimate 'regathering of the remnant of Israel..and their presence as a redeemed nation during the last three fall feasts....look what the Lord said about them...IN ORDER....at the time of "the season of planting".......Jer 24:6 - "For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 1Ch 17:9 - "Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning."

In agricultural order...upon completion of the fall feasts...the ground is plowed, then it begins to be 'planted' and awaits the gentle showers of the former/early rains of the fall upon the new seeds.

God the Father, God ! the Son and God the Holy Spirit, along with the writers of the Holy Bible NEVER get their symbolic inferences nor their nuances confused! They all say what they mean, and mean what they say!

14. The grain harvest and the fruit harvest ONLY BEGIN IN THE SPRING/EARLY SUMMERTIME...NOT IN THE FALL!

The FIRST three Mosaic Feasts are all about "......to take out of them a people for his name" Acts 15:14. (Gentiles and Jews)

The LAST three Mosaic Feasts are all about ...."And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness." Zech 8:8.....and "Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:"Jer 32:37 (Jews and Gentiles)

There are MANY more reasons than these mentioned above WHY the Resurrection/Raptur! e can NEVER occur in the Fall...according to Scripture!

Miriam