Also posted at the RITA Forum:
 
Don't discount a Tabernacles rapture yet --- God Himself took on a body and became a human being - thereby he "tabernacled" in the FLESH with us. Of course, most theologians believe he was born in the fall during the time of tabernacles, NOT in December. Feast of Tabernacles is a very GOOD probability for the rapture - here's why - during this feast, the people of Israel build these little tabernacles or "booths" that they dwell in for SEVEN days! (These 7 DAYS could represent the 7 YEARS we are HID with Christ in the heavenlies!)  Psalm 27:5 tells us: "FOR IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE HE SHALL HIDE ME IN HIS PAVILION: IN THE SECRET PLACE OF HIS TABERNACLE SHALL HE HIDE ME; HE SHALL SET ME UPON A ROCK." And again we all know that the Bride of Christ will be HIDDEN in the great day of His wrath. (Jesus is our ROCK!)  Ps 31:20 bears this out:  "THOU SHALT HIDE THEM IN THE SECRET OF THY PRESENCE FROM THE PRIDE OF MAN: THOU SHALT KEEP THEM SECRETLY IN A PAVILION FROM THE STRIFE OF TONGUES." (Everyone knows that the "pride of man" is a veiled reference to the Antichrist! It was PRIDE that caused Lucifer to fall!) Realize too that when Jesus comes back, He "...is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber..." Don't forget that Song of Sol 1:4 tells us that "...the king hath brought me INTO HIS CHAMBERS: we will be glad and rejoice in thee..." Isn't it strange that Jesus told us that when we pray, we are to enter into our "CLOSET"? (Matt: 6:6) But that isn't all! This next verse is even MORE exciting and it's from Joel 2:15-16:  "Blow the TRUMPET in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders" (24 elders around the Throne in Rev?), "gather the children" (the body of Christ?), "and those that suck the breasts;" (the GLEANINGS - all new believers during the tribulation?  All Three groups are suggested here) and then AFTER all this ingathering (which is another name for TABERNACLES), it says -- "and let the bridegroom GO FORTH OF HIS CHAMBER, and the bride out of her CLOSET." An indication that the 2nd coming at the end of the Tribulation is at hand!      A closet is like a little chamber or BOOTH,  or "Pavilion." Now in the book of St. Matthew 17:1 we are told that "And AFTER six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart." Notice it says AFTER SIX DAYS. (Each day = 1000 years) After 6000 years of man, Jesus comes back for His own and takes them UP into a HIGH mountain - and when He says HIGH, he means HIGH!!! It is the mountain of God on the sides of the North in that GREAT EMPTY Place over the NORTH, up beyond all the constellations where we go UP! This is perhaps an indication of a rapture on Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus was REVEALED to them and just as he was revealed to them - guess what! UP shows Moses and Elijah! The 2 Candlesticks before the whole earth that will witness during the Tribulation! (Another indication that we go UP and THEN the GREAT Tribulation comes - represented by Moses & Elijah - Old Testament saints!) In the gospel of John 7:10 - during the Feast of Tabernacles, we are told that Jesus "went...also UP unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in SECRET..." possibly pointing to the secret rapture around the time of Tabernacles when Jesus comes back and then takes us UP.."not openly, but as it were in secret..." (Remember how Jesus revealed His glory to his 3 inner disciples - Peter, James and John - in SECRET on top of that MOUNTAIN!?)  Here is something else that is very ODD! In John 7:37 it says: "In the LAST DAY, that GREAT DAY of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." Why in the world was the Feast of Tabernacles referred to as "the LAST DAY" and "that GREAT DAY..." when Jesus stood and "CRIED..."  ??? (Could this CRY be the one that we hear when The Lord Himself shall descend with a SHOUT - the voice of the Archangel!!??) There is something very secretive and hidden about the Feast of Tabernacles. If Jesus came secretly the FIRST time at this feast to only His own (Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the magi) - his body being His tabernacle among men - who is to say He will not come the 2nd time to get HIS BODY THE CHURCH (His heavenly "tabernacle" on this feast?)  Romans 13:14 tells us: "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." When we are born again, we "put on Christ" like a robe. He is our robe of righteousness. We are one with Him. This is why the Church is His body - HIS TABERNACLE.  See 2 Corin. 5:1 - 5:6 to confirm that God considers our bodies a TABERNACLE----- so none of this is far-fetched! Indeed, there is something very mysterious about the Feast of Tabernacles. Course, the rapture is a "mystery" too!
 
Rene