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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'.
Hanukkah was originally celebrated as a second Feast of Tabernacles. It was made a second Feast of Tabernacles because, in the three years that the Temple service was halted, it was impossible to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
Waving palm branches and crying Hosanna were associated with the festivals of Tabernacles and Hanukkah, both of which celebrated a ruler riding in to free Jerusalem. Palm branches were waved at the first Hanukkah as the people celebrated the victory of Judah Maccabee. The palm branches of Jesus' final entrance into Jerusalem encapsulated the hope of the people that he, like Judah Maccabee, would lead the people to freedom.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.
Noah and the Ark
We know that we can view Noah as a type or pattern because Jesus Himself has stated as much:
“No one knows about that day or hour, not
even the 
angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days
of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of
Man. For in the days before the
flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came
and took them all away. That is how it will be at
the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the
field; one will be
taken and the other left. Two
women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken
and the other left.” Matthew 24:36-41.
The Bible also likens the end-times to a flood:
“After the sixty two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.” Daniel 9:26.
So, it is worth giving Noah and his Ark a
closer look. "Whatever is has already been, and what will
be has been before; and God will call the past to
account." Ecclesiastes 3:15.
Seven Days in a Tabernacle
In celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, the Jews were directed to build temporary shelters and to live in them for seven days. On the eighth day, they were to hold a sacred assembly before the Lord. See Leviticus 23:33-43. According to Nehemiah 8:14-15, the Israelites used tree branches to build these tabernacles.
The Ark was one big tabernacle – a temporary dwelling place made out of wood. And inside, Noah was told to make rooms in it.
"So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out." Genesis 6:14.
These rooms were for both people and animals. This is significant because the first mention of the word "sukkah" (i.e. tabernacles) is in reference to livestock shelters. "Jacob, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Succoth." Genesis 33:17. So, the Ark itself contained numerous shelters or tabernacles.
"The Lord then said to Noah, 'Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.'" Genesis 7:1-4.
I believe that God was establishing a
pattern – one that seems to resonate with the Feast of
Tabernacles. On the 7th day, God sent the judgment and
Noah and his family were saved.
The Ark, the Tabernacle and the New Jerusalem
There is a similarity in the dimensions between Noah’s Ark and the Tabernacle. Both are rectangles. The court of the Tabernacle was 100 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 5 cubits high. The Ark was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.” Noah’s Ark is recognizably boat shaped, each deck of which was the same height as the tabernacle and three times the area of the tabernacle court. Consequently, Noah and his family entered a type of tabernacle when they sought safety in the Ark.
Likewise, the dimensions of the New
Jerusalem and the Holy of Holies (a room inside of the 
Tabernacle of the Wilderness) are perfect cubes.
The New Jerusalem is 12,000 stadia in length, width, and
height. See Revelation 21:16. And the Holy of Holies in
the Temple was 20 cubits in length, width, and height. See
1 Kings 6:2.
So, we will dwell in the New Jerusalem with God – in an eternal Holy of Holies, in the Tabernacle of God. Like the Ark, it will have rooms prepared for us. (In my Father’s house are many rooms.” John 14:1)
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Revelation 21:3-3.
It is fitting then for us to enter into our heavenly tabernacle on the Feast of Tabernacles.
Psalm 27
"Come,
my people, enter you into your chambers,
and shut your doors about you: HIDE YOURSELF
as it were for a little moment, UNTIL
THE WRATH is over. For, behold,
the LORD comes out of his place TO PUNISH THE INHABITANTS
OF THE EARTH FOR 
THEIR INIQUITY:
the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain" (Isaiah 26:20, 21).
Psalm 27:5 tells us WHERE He hides
us:
"For IN THE TIME OF
TROUBLE HE SHALL HIDE ME IN
HIS TABERNACLE (besukkoh): IN
THE SECRET PLACE of his tabernacle SHALL HE HIDE ME;
he shall set me up UPON
A ROCK". When my father and my mother
forsake me, then the
LORD will TAKE ME UP then shall the Lord GATHER and
REMOVE me" (Psalm 27:10).
Psalm 27 is read on
the last day of Sukkot.
BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION
"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify A FAST, call A SOLEMN assembly (clearly,
Yom Kippur):
GATHER the people, sanctify (SET APART)
the congregation (kahal, Church), assemble
the elders, GATHER
the children, and those that suck the breasts:
LET THE
Bridegroom GO FORTH FROM
HIS CHAMBER, AND THE Bride OUT OF HER CLOSET"
(LAST day of Sukkot, known as Hoshanah Rabbah)
(Joel 2:15, 16).
The word used here for
"gather" in Hebrew is asaph. It's the VERY SAME
WORD used in Exodus 23:16; 34:22 to refer to Sukkot as
"the Feast of INGATHERING",
ha asiph.
Joel BEGINS with an unmistakable reference to Yom Kippur,
followed by a reference to Sukkot (the Feast of ha asif, THE GATHERING),
followed by a reference to the final 7th day of Sukkot,
when the Bridegroom and Bride emerge from the wedding
chamber.
The Bridegroom and Bride are unequivocal references
to Christ and His Church (Matthew
25:1-12).
The Feast of Sukkot
lasts 7 days which is PRECISELY the number of days that
biblical weddings were celebrated
(Genesis 29:27; Judges 14:10-12).
ARK BROUGHT TO THE TEMPLE
Sukkot is the day when the Ark was brought into Solomon's Temple and when God's Glory (Shekinah) MANIFESTED IN its Holy of Holies (2 Chronicles 5:14 7:8-18).
"The priests then
withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were
there had consecrated themselves,
regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were
musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and
relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in
fine linen
and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were
accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give
praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets,
cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their
voices in praise to the Lord and sang:“He is good; His
love endures forever.” Then
the temple of the Lord was filled with
the cloud, and the priests could not perform
their service because of the cloud, for the glory of
the Lord filled the temple of God." 2
Chronicles 5:11-14
Presently, there's NO TEMPLE in
Jerusalem. Born-again believers ARE
God's Temple (1 Corinthians
3:17; 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16).
If God's Glory manifested in a temple made of stones on
Sukkot, SHOULD IT NOT MANIFEST in
His Temple made of LIVING STONES ON THAT DAY
making us glorious and immortal? (1
Peter 2:5).
God's Word PROMISES that the Glory of the
latter House (or temple, His Church) SHALL BE GREATER
THAN THE FORMER (Haggai 2:9). He made
this promise to Haggai on the 7th day of the Feast
of Tabernacles.
Pool of Siloam
In
Jesus’ day, the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles 
began at the
Pool of Siloam, with
a joyful musical procession called Simhat Beit
HaShoevah or The Rejoicing of the Water-Drawing.
During the ceremony, a designated priest, surrounded by jubilant worshippers, would draw water from the
Pool of Siloam and carry it in a golden pitcher up the
hill to the Temple altar. A blast of trumpets would
announce his arrival. The high priest
would then pour the Siloam water into one silver basin
while wine was poured into another. To the accompaniment
of flutes, the priests would sing “Hallelujah”
(the Hallel). The celebration was based upon
Isaiah 12: 3, “With joy ye shall draw water out of the
wells of salvation.”
Remember, it is during the Feast of
Tabernacles that 
Jesus, in the
Temple courtyard, spoke of the promise of living water.
Jesus may have pointed to the golden pitcher as he cried
out, “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and
drink." (John 7: 37)
This is the same pool where a man who was blind from birth was told by Jesus to go wash in. “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam,” Jesus said. The man did as he was told, and he was able to see.
We have all been blind from birth, unable to see our precious Lord and Savior with our eyes. But on that day, He shall open our blind eyes and we shall see Him as He is. 1 John 3:2 "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."