Dear Tony,

I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed reading your thoughts about the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast has been a favorite candidate of mine for the Rapture. I just wanted to add another point to your study.

Take a look at Psalm 81:3-4: "Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast; this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob." (NIV). Here, we have a verse that talks about sounding a trumpet on 2 different occasions – like bookends. Perhaps we have been given a clue to the timing of "the last trump." According to my study Bible, this verse is referring to the Feast of Trumpets, which is a new moon festival, and the Feast of Tabernacles which is a full moon festival. Throughout the Bible, the Feast of Tabernacles is referred to as the feast or festival. (See 1 Kings 8:2, 65 and 12:32; 2 Chronicles 5:3 and 7:8; Nehemiah 8:14, 18; and Ezekiel 45:25.) Tabernacles is the last in a series of Levitical feast days that span over a period of 7 months. So, chronologically speaking, it makes sense that the blowing of the last trump will occur on Tabernacles as opposed to the Feast of Trumpets which is celebrated earlier. More importantly, the passage in Psalms states that the blowing of the ram’s horn on these two feasts are a decree and an ordinance of God. This is important. This is something that God wants to be observed. The Feast of Tabernacles also signals the end of the harvest. See Deuteronomy 16:13-15. Thus, it would be fitting for the Rapture of the Church to occur at the end of the harvest season because it had its start at Pentecost, which occurs at the beginning of the harvest season. See Exodus 23:16. There is a period of 4 months between Pentecost and Tabernacles. "Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together." John 4:35-36. Spiritually speaking, the Church is currently existing between these two feasts. So maybe the Rapture, which is a type of harvest, will occur during the harvest celebration of Tabernacles. Sure would be nice!

Maranatha!

– Lisa Taylor