Hi John and 5 Doves!
I read here regularly, but have only posted on here a couple of times. Something has occurred to me that I want to bounce off of everyone. I am jumping into the deep with this, and I hope you can follow my train of thought.
I have done much study on the prophetic meaning of the Feasts and am intrigued by the 10 Days of Awe in the Fall Feast line-up. There is also a 10 day period between Jesus ascension at day 40 of the 50-day count to Shavuot/Pentecost. Why did Jesus ascend at day 40 and leave 10 days unfinished, and told his disciples to wait the 10 days for the Promise of the Spirit? Also there are 10 days in Rev. 2:10 to the Smyrna Church, promising 10 days of Tribulation. An interesting puzzle.
I consider the Feasts of the Jews to be a Prophetic timeline, with the Spring Feasts perfectly fulfilled with Jesus 1st Coming, and the Church carrying out the summer months of harvest ever since. I believe the Fall Feasts will be fulfilled also, with the timeline laid out to show Jesus 2nd Coming. Rosh Hashana shows the Rapture of the Church and beginning of the Tribulation in some year, Yom Kippur shows the return of Christ to earth, and the Millennium Period (Succot). But WHEN does the Fall Feast time period kick in prophetically?
In an aside, the Blood moon tetrads…8 of them, over this 2,000 period of the Church and the “Gentiles coming in”…have marked significant things for Israel and the Jews, including their return to the Land and the obtaining of Jerusalem.
OK, so here is my thinking. The tetrads are a marker for something again this time. The solar eclipse on Nisan 1 of this year marked THIS YEAR as special. The partial solar eclipse at Elul 29/Tishrei 1 marked THIS Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the Fall Feasts….marking the beginning of the FALL FEASTS THIS YEAR as special.
What if….we have completed the Church’s summer 4 months and are now prophetically in the Fall Feasts? It has begun! Think now about the line-up: 2 days for Rosh Hashana begins the 10 DAYS OF AWE. We are now in that 10 Days of Awe! What if days = years (based on 1 week/shavua for the 7 year Tribulation in Daniel). If the Rapture of the Church is to occur as shown in Rosh Hashana, then over the next 2-3 years in could happen any time, as no man knows the day or the hour, but we know the SEASON/mo’ed. We are right now IN THE DAYS OF ROSH HASHANA for the next 2-3 years! And then there are 7 days/years for the Tribulation period, completed by Jesus return on Yom Kippur.
And that is why Jesus ascended 10 days before Shavu’ot/Pentecost while leaving his disciples to wait for the promise…the 10 days left unfinished…or with Jesus no longer on earth with his disciples while they wait for a promise, reflects the Fall Feast line-up….makes you look ahead to another 10 day period that was yet to be fulfilled.
So, while the blood moons may mean other things….a sign for Israel to have war shortly and even gain the Temple Mount possibly, or a sign for the beginning of inspection, sifting and judgment for the nations….and of course the Fall Feasts anyways are a time of calling to repentance, perhaps it also signals to the Church just how near our redemption is!
Sorry to ramble here, but I also just read an interesting article here: http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2012/12/rabbi-judah-ben-samuels-jubilee-prophecy-gives-the-year-of-the-messiah.html about a Rabbi’s calculations of Jubilees and various events that would line up with Jubilees, and his calculations point to the next Jubilee being in 2017 (I do NOT believe it is THIS year as Cahn and Biltz and others say…it is an error)and he expected that to mark the Day of the Lord….aka Jacob’s Trouble/Tribulation. It seems to fit perfectly with the Feast timeline map.
Tetrads -God’s signal for change for Israel, nations
Solar Eclipse Nisan 1 this year -highlights this year -Jewish religious year
Partial solar eclipse Elul 29/Tishrei 1 this year -highlights this year -Jewish civil year, begins Fall
FeastsConclusion: within the tetrad blood moons marker, THIS YEAR and the Fall Feasts are marked as special. It begins the Fall Feasts: 10 days of Awe:
2-3* days/years 7 days/years Jesus returns on
Rosh Hashana Tribulation Period Yom KippurChurch Rapture
at any time 5 days later
Succot/MillenniumI______ ______ ______I ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______I __
*Note I add Rosh Hashana as over 2-3 days because according to Biblical days, the 1st day begins the
evening before so in our days the 2 days of the Feast actually covers 3 dates.
I hope my figurings made some sense.
Shalom b’Yeshua HaMashiach!
Ayelet