October 8, 2014;
April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.
These are the dates of the three remaining blood moons in the tetrad that began on April 15th this year during
Passover.
Sukkot begins on October 8th 2014.
Passover begins April 3rd and ends on April 11th 2015.
Sukkot begins at sunset September 27th and ends at nightfall on October
4th 2015.
Let’s take a look at
Passover and Sukkot. Source quoted: Chabad.org.
(Passover)
“At the stroke of midnight
of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the
last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians,
killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of
Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday.
Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former
slaves out of the land.
The Israelites left in such a hurry,
in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not
have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more
women and children, left
Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as
G‑d’s chosen people.”
(Sukkot)
“For forty years, as our ancestors traversed the Sinai Desert, following the Exodus from Egypt, miraculous
"clouds of glory"
surrounded and hovered over them, shielding them from the dangers and
discomforts of the desert. Ever since, we remember G-d's kindness and
reaffirm our trust in His providence
by
dwelling in a sukkah--a hut of temporary construction with a roof covering of branches--for the duration of the
Sukkot festival (on the
Jewish calendar
Tishrei 15-21). For seven days and nights, we eat all our
meals in the sukkah
and otherwise regard it as our home.”
I see
little parallels whenever I look into the Jewish festivals. In some
festivals I see the brides dancing, or events taking place at midnight,
or going someplace for 7 days/years. At Chanukah
I see the seven branched candlestick change into nine branches and
connect that to the two witnesses who stand on either side of the
lampstand in Revelation. There are many other little elements which can be viewed as parallels to
the rapture. I don’t think I imagine all of the associations with the rapture. I believe God purposely
planted parallels in virtually all of the festivals.
Afterall (you know this already), Colossians 2: 16-17 says “…regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.” The festivals are shadows of things to come…future events which should
include the rapture. Naturally we should be seeing the intended
parallels. With that said, I have to conclude that while every day
leading up to the final blood moon of the tetrad holds the potential for
being the rapture, it is the festivals that
I watch most closely.
YBIC
Bruce Baber