Renee M (10 Dec 2012)
"7th day of Hanukkah = 7th day of Tabernacles (December 14/15, 2012 Rapture - Part 1)"


 
7th day of Hanukkah = 7th day of Tabernacles (December 14/15, 2012 Rapture - Part 1)
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The Bible clearly pointed to the 7th day of Tabernacles as the time of the Rapture. However, Haggai 2 and the books of Maccabees shows us that the Lord has established a second Feast of Tabernacles, which today is called Hanukkah, meaning Dedication (because during this Feast they re-dedicated the Temple, just as Solomon had first dedicated the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles). In the story of Queen Esther, we see that King Xerxes called for his bride to come to him on the 7th day of a Feast. This represents the Feast of Tabernacles. She would not come. So he found a new bride, Esther, and married her on the 7th day of Hanukkah. This is a prophetic illustration of Israel rejecting their Messiah and the Laodicean Church being too busy and preoccupied and not willing to come to the Wedding Feast. Jesus told us this parable also, of those who were invited who were unwilling to come. So He told His servants to go out and invite anyone and everyone to come to His Wedding Feast. I believe that the Rapture was to take place on the 7th day of Tabernacles, but Israel (including those of us who 

have been grafted in – the Church) is defiled. I believe the Rapture will most likely take place on the 7th day of Hanukkah, the same day that Esther was crowned Queen in place of Vashti. 



I Maccabees 4:

There was no end to the rejoicing among the people, and the reproach of the pagans was lifted from them. Judas, with his brothers and the whole assembly of Israel, made it a law that the days of the dedication of the altar should be celebrated yearly at the proper season, for eight days beginning on the twenty-fifth of the month Chislev, with rejoicing and gladness.

2 Maccabees 1: 7-9

Then we prayed to the Lord and were heard; we offered a sacrifice with wheat flour, kindled the lamps and set out the loaves. And we now recommend you to keep the feast of Tabernacles of the month of Chislev. In the year one hundred and eighty-eight'.

This is a study on how the Bible pointed to the 7th day of Tabernacles as the Rapture of the Church. All of these things are now transferred to the SECOND Feast of Tabernacles, or Hanukkah, December 9-16, 2012. The 7th day of Hanukkah is December 15, 2012. On the 7th day of Tabernacles, the Israelites would leave their temporary shelters (tents) and go to their permanent homes. This is symbolic of us leaving our temporary bodies (tents) and being given our eternal, immortal bodies when we see Jesus.



Battle of Jericho and the Feast of Tabernacles

On every one of the seven days  of the Feast of Tabernacles, the priests formed in procession, and made the circuit of the altar, singing: “Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success!!” (Psalm 118:25). But on the seventh, 'that great day of the feast,' they made the circuit of the altar seven times, remembering how the walls of Jericho had fallen in similar circumstances, and anticipating how, by the direct interposition of God, the walls of heathenism would fall before Jehovah, and the land lie open for His people to go in and possess it.

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war; and go round about the city once.  Thus shalt thou do SIX DAYS.  And seven priests shall bear before the ark (of the covenant) seven trumpets of ram’s horns: and the SEVENTH DAY ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.  And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and WHEN YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, all the people shall SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ASCEND UP every man straight before him” (Joshua 6:3-5).

And they utterly destroyed ALL that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword … And they BURNT the city with FIRE, and ALL that was therein” (Joshua 6:21-24).

The strange thing is that the events of Jericho happened in the Spring, at the Passover festival. So even the Israelites aren’t sure why the do this reenactment of the Battle of Jericho during the Feast of Tabernacles.

God miraculously SAVED only “one house” of people out of the Jericho before its destruction.  This heralds the “rapturous event of the righteous” of Christ’s house. “Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and ALL that are with her in her HOUSE” (Joshua 6:16).

Here, it is good to keep Leviticus 23:42-43 in mind. In other words: The Scriptures state that the seven days of the Feast of booths symbolized the forty desert years after the Exodus. But, it is easy to see that the end of that feast’s seventh and last day, the “great” one, obviously symbolized the time when the Israelites’ desert-sojourn came to its end – the time when they crossed over the river Jordan and entered the Promised Land.

So, the seven days of the Feast of booths in themselves pictured the desert years, but the end of the seventh and last day pictured the event in the days of Joshua when the Israelites finally entered the Promised Land. This was also echoed in the temple rituals. It was because of those rituals, and what they symbolized, that the seventh and last day came to be called “the great one of the feast”.

Did that “last great day” have a forward-looking symbolism of some kind? Literally, it pictured the event in the days of Joshua when the Israelites finally entered the Promised Land. But, let us not forget that in New Testament times, the saints are on our way to a better Land, the one of Hebrews 11:16 – “Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.”


The Scrolls are Opened

The last day of the Feast of Tabernacles is the only time of year on which the Torah scrolls are taken out of the Ark and read at night.  When the ark is opened, all the worshipers leave their seats to dance and sing with all the Torah scrolls in a joyous celebration that often lasts for several hours and more.

The ark being opened refers both to Noah's "Ark" as well as the Ark of the Covenant being opened on that day. An angel asks in Revelation 5:2, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” Jesus is worthy to open the scrolls taken out of the Ark  and begin the Tribulation, and Revelation 6, with the seals opening.


Haggai 2 and Hebrews 12

Haggai 2 and Hebrews 12: On the LAST DAY (7th day) of the Feast of Tabernacles, the Lord spoke these words to Haggai: “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS WILL COME, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” 

 Hebrews 12:18: You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. 25 See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

The Lord is pointing us to the LAST DAY of Tabernacles as the fulfillment of these verses as that was the day He spoke the words to Haggai, whose name actually means "Feasts of the Lord". Since that is the meaning of his name, we can see that the Lord is teaching us what the fulfillment of these Feasts will be through Haggai. The Lord chose to speak these words to Haggai on the LAST DAY of Tabernacles, which Haggai thought was significant and recorded for us exactly when these words were spoken to him by the Lord. The verses in Haggai point to the Lord shaking the heavens and the earth, that the desired of all the nations will come to this new tabernacle and the glory will be great. Paul expounds on these verses by adding the mention of a trumpet blast, the heavenly Jerusalem, joyful assembly (the last day of Tabernacles is the most joyous of assemblies of all the Feasts), he mentions the word escape, and the shaking of the heavens (the fallen angels/UFO deception at the time of the Rapture), and consuming fire.

Nuclear War and the Feast of Tabernacles

Fire offerings were presented to the Lord on everyday of the Feast of Tabernacles. Zechariah prophesied about a “fire offering” and described it as a nuclear missile in the book of Zechariah 5:1-9: I, Zechariah, looked up and saw a flying scroll in the sky.  2 And the angel that was showing me these things said, "What do you see?"  I answered, "I see a flying scroll; 34.3 feet long, and 5.5 feet in diameter." 3 Then he said, "This is the curse that will afflict the entire land of Israel.  Every one that steals and every one that swears falsely by my name will be destroyed by it.  4And I will bring it forth, says YHWH T'zavaot.  This flying scroll that you see, will completely consume the timbers and stones of the house of the thief, and he that swears falsely by my name.“ 5 Then the angel said, "Look up and see what this flying scroll is."  6 And I responded, "What is it?" And he said,

"This is a container that flies." He said, "Furthermore, this is their appearance throughout the whole earth."  7 Then I saw a mass of lead and a fire offering, as it was lifted up and secured in the container.  8 And he said, "The fire that you see being put in the container, is an evil fire offering." Then he secured the fire offering in the container and put the

lead mass in the opening. 9 Then I looked up and saw as two fires came out of the container, and the fires caused the wind to lift the container by its 'stork like' wings, from the earth into the sky.