Carl Worline (9
Jul 2023) "The Rapture on Rosh
Hashanah"
Hi John,
I sent you this article a year ago and you posted it. A
lot has changed since then and I have made major edits and
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Carl
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Thanks, Carl.
John
The
Rapture on Rosh Hashanah
By
Carl Worline
Rosh Hashanah, also known as
the Feast of Trumpets (and by many other names as we shall
soon see), is the
fifth of seven Jewish holy days known as moedim (plural
for moed).It
is also the next moed to be fulfilled.
In this article, I will use
the terms Feast of Trumpets and Rosh Hashanah
interchangeably.They
both refer to the same event.
Rosh Hashanah is
unique because there is no explicit
reason given in the Torah for its observance, other than
to “rest” and to
sacrifice.It
was a “mystery” that was
only revealed in the Bible much later when Paul said:
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We
shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in
a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the
trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.1
Corr. 15:51-52.NKJV.
Rosh Hashanah is a
day of rest where no ordinary labor
is to be performed.It
is considered to
be the day to rest in the finished work of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit in
our lives.It
is the day when all of our
earthly struggles are over.
The three main
Jewish themes of Rosh Hashanah suggest the Rapture of the
Church.They
are:
·The
resurrection of the righteous dead.
·The
Kingship of the Lord.
·The
marriage of the King.
All of those who
have placed their faith in the Word
of God are deemed righteous on this day and will not be
judged by God on Yom
Kippur (Day of Atonement).
Rosh Hashanah is the
only Jewish feast where the moon
is hidden.The
moon is an allusion and
represents the Bride of Christ.Additionally, it is the only feast (moed) where the
blowing of trumpets
is a central theme.
Why are Jewish feast
days significant to
Christians?Technically,
the Jews do not
even believe that Jesus is the Messiah.The answer is that God declared the Jews to be His
chosen people for all
eternity.Jesus
was a Jew.Jesus
also told us that He came to the world
for the Jews first and then for the Gentiles.Therefore, Jewish customs and beliefs are very
important as we search
for clues on rapture timing.After all,
Jesus patterned the rapture after the customs and
traditions of a Jewish
wedding.
Rosh Hashanah marks
the beginning of 10 days of
intense spiritual preparation for Yom Kippur, the holiest
day of the year in
Judaism.Jewish
tradition holds that the
Gates of Heaven open on Rosh Hashanah and close on Yom
Kippur so that the “Righteous
Nation” might enter.Could the term
“Righteous Nation” also be a reference to the Church, the
Bride of Christ?
One
of the ways God speaks to us is through signs in the
heavens.
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights
in the
firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the
night, and let them be for signs
and seasons, and for days and
years; Genesis 1:14.NKJV,
The heavens declare the
glory of God, And the firmament shows
His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night
unto night reveals
knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their
voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their
words to the end of
the world. In them, He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is like a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber And rejoices like a strong man
to run its race. Its
rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the
other end; And there
is nothing hidden from its heat. Psalm 19:1-6.NKJV.
On
September 23, 2017, the Revelation 12 Sign took place in
the heavens for all
the world to witness.This alignment of
the stars in relation to the planets, the earth, and other
heavenly bodies, has
never occurred in the past and will never again occur in
the future.Ever.It
happened exactly as the scripture said it would.
Now
a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with
the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve
stars. 2 Then
being with child, she cried out in labor and in
pain to give birth. 3 And
another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great,
fiery red dragon having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his
heads. 4 His
tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and
threw them to the earth.
And the dragon stood before the woman who was
ready to give birth, to
devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 She
bore
a male Child who was to rule all nations with a
rod of iron. And her Child
was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the
woman
fled into the wilderness, where she has a place
prepared by God, that
they should feed her there one thousand two
hundred and sixty days.Revelation 12:1-6.NKJV.
The “child” (whom I am convinced is the
Church or Bride) is
“snatched away” (harpazo – Strong’s 726) at the moment
of birth and flees to heaven
with the dragon (Satan) in hot pursuit.We know that Satan is going to be incredibly
enraged if the Church makes
it safely to God’s Throne in heaven.Likewise, Revelation 12:4 tells us that the
Dragon is so infuriated that
he sweeps up a third of the stars with his tail and
flings them to the earth.
Ten days is a very long time for the Gates
of Heaven to remain
open, especially if it involves getting the child of
Revelation 12 through
safely with an angry Satan and a horde of his demons in
hot pursuit.
We lost track a very long time ago as to
when the Jubilee years
are.Many
believe we are close to a
Jubilee year now and some even believe that 2023 is
a Jubilee
year.Amazingly,
Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur are celebrated on the same day in a Jubilee year.This means
that during a Jubilee year the
Gates of Heaven open and close on the same day.How long do they remain open??Perhaps only for an instant.Or
maybe just long enough for the child of Revelation 12 to
slip through and avoid
being captured and devoured by the pursuing Dragon and
his hordes of demons.
In addition to being a truly unique event
in all of human history, the
Revelation 12 Sign took place on Rosh Hashanah in 2017.Maybe God is
telling us to look for the
Rapture of the Church to take place on some future Rosh
Hashanah.
On Rosh Hashanah in 2023, it will be
precisely 6 years since the
Revelation 12 Sign took place.I believe
God gave us a 6-year warning that the Age of Grace,
which is the dispensation
in which we are now living, is about to end with the
Rapture of the Church.
Numbers
are important in the Bible.The number 6
has several meanings in scripture.
·It represents creation and the
union of earth and heaven, giving
birth to new life.
·It is a symbol of love for
humanity and harmonious
relationships.
·It signifies imperfection,
specifically the imperfection of man
and the sin and weakness he has.
·It is related to man and human
weakness, the evils of the devil
and the manifestation of sin.
·Man was created on day six of
creation week.
We are all familiar with tetrads, which are
groups of blood moon
eclipses.There
have been 8 of them
since the Time of Christ and they always seem to occur
on Jewish holy days
(moedim).Eight
is also an important
number in the Bible.It is the number of
completions.The
last blood moon eclipse
of the eighth tetrad since Christ walked upon the earth
happened on September
28, 2015.I
believe this was an 8-year
warning by God of the Completion of the Age of Grace and
of the Rapture of the
Church on or about Rosh Hashanah on September 16, 2023.
I find it very interesting to note that
2023 marks the 75th
anniversary of Israel becoming a nation once more and
that Abraham was 75 years
old when he entered the Promised Land.Could it be that 2023 AD is the year that the
Bride of Christ will enter
the Promised Land of Heaven?
Many Biblical scholars agree that we are in
a Jubilee year and it
would appear that we are in the 70th Jubilee
year since Israel
entered the Promised Land.I am
profoundly struck by the thought that the 70th
Jubilee year from
Israel entering the Promised Land could be the segway,
or lead-in, for us
entering Daniel’s 70th Week.Seventy, as we all know, is a number with very
special significance in
the Bible.It
signifies the completion
of the natural order and also signifies fullness,
restoration, and an endpoint.
Many Biblical scholars also believe that we
are in the 120th
jubilee since the creation of the earth and that this
jubilee will end in
September 2023 with the arrival of the Feast of
Trumpets.The
number 120 is also an important number in
the Bible.Let
us take a look at Genesis
6:3. Could this be another hint from God as to when the
end of the Age of Grace
shall be and when the Rapture of the Church will take
place?
3 And the Lord said, “My
Spirit shall not strive[a] with man
forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his
days shall be one
hundred and twenty years.”Genesis 6:3.NKJV,
Jewish tradition
holds that Adam and Eve were created
on Rosh Hashanah, which is Tishrei 1 on the Hebrew
calendar.Some
also believe that this was the day on
which Jesus was born.
Rosh Hashanah is
acknowledged as the birthday of the
world since the world was created on this day according to
the Talmud (Talmud,
Rosh Hashanah 11a).The
first words of
the Book of Genesis (Bereishit), “in the beginning,” when
changed around reads,
Aleph b’ Tishrei, or “on the first of Tishrei”.Therefore, Rosh Hashanah is known among the Jews as
the birthday of the
world.
There are 4 “New
Years” on the Jewish calendar:
1– The 1st of
Nisan: New Year for new for Kings and Festivals
2 – The 1st of
Elul: New Year for animal tithes
3 – The
1st of Tishrei: New Year for sabbatical years and
jubilees, for planting and
sowing.Rosh
Hashanah/Feast of Trumpets.
4 – The 1st of
Shevat: New Year of Trees for renewal and redemption.
Rosh Hashanah occurs
on Tishrei 1 and is the New Year for
Years on the civil calendar.This is
also the New Year for Sabbatical Years and Jubilees, as
well as for the sowing
and harvesting of crops. Additionally,
it
is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve.
Rosh Hashanah came
to be known as the Feast Where No
Man Knows the Day or Hour because it commences on a new
moon rather than a full
moon.A new
moon is when the moon is totally
dark, giving off no illumination.With
anything less than an absolutely clear sky it is
impossible to tell when the
moon is at its darkest and it takes at least 2 visual
sightings of the first
thin crescent to confirm the new moon.Therefore, it is difficult to predict when this
actually takes place.
The new moon was
sanctified when two witnesses saw the
first sliver of the new moon and attested to it before the
Sanhedrin in the
Temple.This
sanctification could happen
during either of two days, depending on when the witnesses
came to the Temple.HHH
Rosh
Hashanah is observed over the two days
of Tishrei 1 and Tishrei 2 due to uncertainty about
celebrating it on the
correct day.These
two days are regarded
as Yoma Arikhta (one long day).
Because Rosh Hashanah
is observed over a two-day period it is sometimes referred
as the Hidden Day
(Yom Hakeseh).It
was ‘hidden’ because
they did not know the exact day it would begin due to the
fact that it is the
only moed that starts on a new moon. Thus, it was a
two-day feast because they
did not want to celebrate it on the wrong day.
If you were to say
to any good American “Come on over
on Turkey Day and we will watch the game together on TV,”
he would immediately know
you were referring to Thanksgiving.Mention the Day that Nobody Knows the Day or Hour
of to any good Jew and
he would instinctively know what day you were referring to
as well.That
day would be Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of
Trumpets.
Jesus referred to
the day that no man knows the day or
hour of 4 times during the Olivet Discourse about His
return:
·Matthew
24:36
·Matthew
24:42-44
·Matthew
24:50
·Matthew
25:13-15
Since Jesus
repeatedly used variations of the phrase
that no man knows the day or hour in connection with His
return, many believe
that the rapture will occur on Rosh Hashanah of some year.
Jesus also
repeatedly used the analogy of the Jewish
wedding to the Rapture of the Church.In
Jewish wedding tradition, it is customary to respond to a
question of when the
wedding will occur with “I do not know the day or the
hour. Only my
father knows.”This
is because the groom’s father sets the
date of the wedding when he is satisfied that all things
are ready.When
the wedding day approaches the father
gives the all-clear and the groom comes with a shout
and a trumpet
blast to claim his bride.Then the
groom takes his bride away to their new home for 7 days of
rejoicing.This
7-day period of rejoicing parallels the
7 years we will spend in heaven between the rapture and
our return with Jesus
to the earth for the final Battle of Armageddon.
In Jewish tradition,
the groom comes for his bride at
or around midnight when all are sleeping and do not expect
his arrival.In
the Bible, Jesus tells us that He will
return at a time when we are not expecting Him.I plan to be outside looking toward the East when
it is midnight in
Jerusalem (5 PM EDT in the United States) on both nights
of Rosh Hashanah this
year.
Rosh Hashanah is the
only Jewish feast (moed) where
the moon is hidden.The
moon is an
allusion and represents the Bride of Christ.The moon does not give off any light of its own.It only reflects
the light of the sun.The Bride of Christ will not give any light
of her own.She
will only reflect the
light of the Son of God.
As I mentioned
earlier, God speaks to us through signs
in the heavens.Over
the past several
months the 5 planets that we can see without the use of a
telescope have moved
through the stars, which are fixed in their position, in a
manner that warns of
the imminent start of the 7-year Time of Jacob’s Trouble
and of the Rapture of
the Church, which I fully believe occurs before it.I also believe
this was God’s final warning
to mankind.The
Bible tells us that God
does nothing without first revealing it to His servants,
the prophets.
Surely the Lord God does nothingunless He reveals
His secret to His servants the prophets.Amos 3:7.NKJV.
The masterfully
choreographed movement of these
heavenly bodies reminds me in many ways of a Broadway
Play.When
the presentation ended during the second
half of June 2022, all 5 of the planets formed an
exceedingly rare alignment in
a straight line (and also in order) across the sky, just
like actors do when
they come out on stage at the end of the play to take a
bow.Likewise,
the moon, which represented the
Bride of Christ and was the “star” of the play, visited
each one of the planets
(in order) while they were lined up across the sky and
taking their bow for the
audience on the earth.
Rosh Hashana is the
only feast where the blowing of
trumpets is a central theme.During Rosh
Hashanah, trumpets are blown for 30 days leading up to the
feast, and finish
with the blowing of the “Last Trumpet.”On each of these 30 days, the shofar is blown 99
times (3 distinct
sounds blown in sets of 9 and repeated 11 times, for a
total of 99).This
30-day-long ritual ends on Rosh Hashanah
with one long blast (the 100th blast of the
shofar). This final long
blast only occurs on Rosh Hashanah and is always referred
to as the “Last
Trumpet.”
Paul told us very
clearly in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
that the rapture will occur “at the Last Trumpet.”In the Bible,
Pentecost is known as the First
Trumpet.Yom
Kippur is known as the Great
Trumpet.Rosh
Hashanah is known as the Last
Trumpet.
Behold, I tell you
a mystery; we shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the
last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the
dead will be raised
imperishable, and we shall be changed (1 Corinthians
15:51-52).
Because the Last
Trumpet is only blown on Rosh
Hashanah and because the apostle Paul specifically
mentions that the rapture of
the believers in Christ will take place at the Last
Trumpet, Paul was giving a
clear understanding (I believe) that the Rapture of the
Believers will happen some
year on Rosh Hashanah.
Another name for
Rosh Hashanah is “The Day of the
Awakening Blast” which awakens the righteous dead.In other words,
the Rapture.Here,
the word “blast” is referring to (I
believe) the blast of the “Trumpet of God.”
16 For the Lord
Himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the
trumpet of God. And
the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are
alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air, and
so we will also be with the Lord. Therefore encourage
one another with these
words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.NKJV.
In addition to
blowing trumpets on this day and each
day leading up to this day, Jewish beliefs, customs, and
traditions also include
shouting on Rosh Hashanah.Rosh Hashanah
is also known as Yom Teruah, The Day of Shouting.Many Jews
believe that the resurrection of
the righteous dead will occur on some future Rosh
Hashanah.Notice
in the verses above from 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18 that the Lord will descend from
heaven with a shout and
with the voice of an archangel.
As I mentioned
above, Rosh Hashanah is known by many
names.One of
these traditional names is
“The Day of the Resurrection of the Righteous Dead.”I find the idea
of the Jews believing in a
day for the resurrection of the righteous dead to be very
interesting.They
know that this day will come.They just do not
realize that it will also be
that of the Rapture of the Church.
Another traditional
name for Rosh Hashanah is The
Hidden Day, The Day of Concealment, or The Day of Hiding
(as in hiding the
bride from the tribulation).
Your dead will
live; their corpses will rise.You who lie in
the dust, awake and shout for
joy, for your dew is the dew of dawn, and the earth will
give birth to the
departed spirits.Come,
my people,
enter into your rooms, and close your doors behind
you; Hide for a little
while, until indignation runs its course.For behold, the Lord is about to come out from
His place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; and the
earth will reveal her
bloodshed, and will no longer cover her slain(Isaiah
26:19-21).
Rosh Hashanah is
sometimes referred to as The Day of
Remembrance (Yom Zikaron), The Day of the Opening of
Books, and The Day of
Judgement (Yom Hadin).All of these
Jewish beliefs and customs fit perfectly with the
Christian idea of a yet
future Rapture of the Church.
Lastly, there is one
more aspect of Rosh Hashanah that
strongly implies a rapture on this Jewish holy day (moed).Rosh Hashanah is
known among Jews as The Day
of the Wedding of the Messiah (Ha Kiddushin/Nesuin) and
The Day of the
Coronation (Yom Hamelech), and/or the Crowning of the
Messiah (Ha Melech).Likewise, Jesus and Paul both likened the Rapture
of the Church to a Jewish Wedding.
So, why is it that
we are only now beginning to put
all of the pieces of the puzzle together?Why are we only now beginning to understand this
End Times mystery?It
would seem that nobody before us was
clever enough.Even
the prophets who
were the first to record them did not fully understand.For example, the
prophet Daniel complained about
this to the angel Gabriel, who was the one who revealed
them to Daniel:
As for me, I heard
but could not understand; so, I
said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these
events?”And
he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these
words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.Many will be
purged, purified and refined;
but the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the wicked
will understand, but
those who have insight will understand.” (Daniel
12:8-12).
Daniel’s words (and
I believe the words of many
others) were concealed and sealed up until the End Time.We are now in
the End Time.
I believe that Jesus
and Paul told us both directly
and indirectly, to look for the Rapture of the Church, the
Blessed Hope, to
occur on Rosh Hashanah of some year.Will it be this year?I dearly
hope so.There
are so many signs of an
imminent rapture in front of us at this very moment that
it has become
practically impossible to see the road ahead of us.Every indication
says we are in the very Last
Days of the End Times.
The most
prominent sign that we are in the very Last Days of the
End Times is the
convergence of all of the other signs.The deepening and darkening grip of End Time
insanity and delusion has
reached a crescendo never before seen by humanity.Matthew 23:36
tells us that the Last Days of
the End Times have an expiration date and we are now
there.
Rosh Hashanah for
2023 begins at sundown in Jerusalem
on September 15th and ends at sundown in
Jerusalem on September 17th.
Are you ready??
Therefore
if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a
thief, and you will not
know what hour I will come upon you.Revelation 3:3.NKJV.