Hello John and Doves,
Before leaving 2018 as yet 'another year gone by and we are not saved', i.e. not Raptured....some of us are still wondering about the importance of: the 70th anniversary of Israel, Jerusalem declared the capital of Israel, Israel declaring herself a nation state (a Jewish nation with Hebrew as her language), the death of Billy Graham after a 70 year long ministry of evangelizing the world, and this 2017 - 2018 being the 120th Jubilee: I'm still going to look for this as a good year for the Rapture. At least for a little bit longer.
So...if 2018 IS the year of the Rapture, and IF the Tribulation period is 2,520 days long, and IF these three fall feasts are prophetically fulfilled at the end of the Tribulation period, then from Feast of Trumpets 9/23-24/2025 counting backward 2,520 days (7 years) we end on 10/30-31/2018. (http://torahcalendar.com/)
That date appears to be the latest the Rapture can happen in 2018 to land us on the first feast day of 2025, seven years later - on Feast of Trumpets. So, any dates before this date take us to before the Feast of Trumpets - these days are all possible Rapture days. When this letter gets posted on Five Doves, hopefully on October 14, there will be 16 - 17 days left as possible Rapture dates.
For years I believed that the Rapture must occur on a feast day, but just recently I have started questioning that. We are given day counts for several very important happenings given in The Revelation - so why give us a way to count off the days when things start and stop if we can use the feast days? So maybe these feast days aren't used/necessary in the day counts after all.
We are given 5 day counts in the book of The Revelation: two of '1,260 days', two of '42 months' and one of 'time, times, and half a time'.
The two witnesses are to prophecy 1,260 days. The woman flees to a place prepared for her for 1,260 days. The beast if given authority over them for 42 months. Etc.
Anyone living during the Tribulation will be able to see when these things start and can begin the day count...they will know exactly how many days are left for each count.
I see no reason to tie the starting/ending of these day counts in the Tribulation to a feast day - the day counts are very specific in and of themselves.
That said, if the 7 years isn't tied to starting/ending on a feast day, then for 2018 the 7 years will need to start on/before 10/30 - 31/2018. (2,520 days before Feast of Trumpets, 2025, using the Torah Calendar date.) And IF the Rapture is pre-Trib it will need to occur before this time of tribulation starts.
If the last three feast days for 2018 were in September, we've passed those days for this year already. Some are saying the Hebrew calendar is a month off - the last three feasts should be after the fall equinox/or the spring feast started too early - putting these last three feast days in late Sept/October. If that's the case, Feast of Trumpets is October 10-11 - which is passed; Yom Kippur is October 19-20, Sukkot is October 24-25 - ending 7 days later with the great and last day of the feast October 30/31 Hoshana Rabba. (It is customary to stay awake all night on Hoshana Rabba.)
On Hoshana Rabba an alphabetic acrostic prayer is recited; each phrase in this prayer begins and ends with the word hosha-na meaning "Save, please!".
Hashana Rabbah is known as the day of the "final sealing of judgment" - it is the 7th and last day of Sukkot. (Some believe Jesus was born on Sukkot - to tabernacle with us; Jesus was circumcised 8 days later.) Then November 1-2 is Shemini Atzeret - the 8th Day. It literally means 'the 8th assembly'.
This last day of Sukkot would then coincide with the 2,520th day calculation before the Feast of Trumpets, 2025.
Either way, if the correct feast days are in September or October, the 2,520 day count takes us to October 30-31, 2018.
This is just one possibility for dates (season) of the Rapture and this study only applies to this year 2018 - and only if the Tribulation is 2,520 days long, and only if the Torah Calendar is the correct Hebrew calendar, etc. The dates of feast days depend on the Hebrew calendar being used.
Once October passes, I'll be looking more towards the spring feast days and a 3.5 year Tribulation period.
If the Rapture doesn't happen in 2018, then the things I listed above as important mile stones for the Jews, for Israel for 2018 were mile stones but not for 2018.
Maranatha!
Chance