Leviticus 23:
Verses 33 - 36
And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto
the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth
day of this seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
On the first day shall be an holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein. Seven days ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the Lord: on
the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto
you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly;
and ye shall do no servile work therein.
Numbers 10:
Verse 10
Also
in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn
days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye
shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace
offerings; that they may be to you for a
memorial before your God: I am the Lord
your God.
Nisan 1 begins
the ecclesiastical year and Tishri 1 begins the
civil. But the correspondence doesn't end
there. On Nisan 10 The Lamb was inspected and
on Tishri 10 the second set of tablets was given to
the children of Israel (Yom Kippur). Nisan 15
- 21 Passover is celebrated and Tishri 15 - 21
Sukkot is celebrated, both commencing on the full
moon.
The spring
feasts are a time of expansion and growth
culminating seven weeks later on Shavuot, Sivan
6. It was on Shavuot that the first set of
tablets was given to the children of Israel.
These were smashed by Moses though on Tammuz 17
because of worshipping the golden calf.
But the fall
feasts herald a period of contraction known as the
rainy season. So instead of a feast 7 weeks
and a day after Sukkot the feast is 7 days and a day
after Sukkot. Read what the Rabbis have to say
about this day:
The
name "Atzeret" is actually used most in the
Talmud to refer to the holiday of Shavuot.
Shavuot can be seen as the "completion" of
Pesach - for Pesach, commemorating the Exodus,
represents our "physical" birth as a nation,
while Shavuot, commemorating our receiving of
the Torah, represents our "spiritual" birth...
Shmini
Atzeret should really have been placed seven
weeks after Sukkot as Shavuot, the "closure" of
Pesach, follows it by seven weeks, but,
according to the Midrash, Hashem had mercy on
the Jewish People. For Pesach is in the
Spring and Shavuot is in the Summer, both
pleasant times for travel (these holidays are
all "Regalim," Pilgrim Festivals, on which
Jewish males are obligated to travel to the
Temple in Yerushalayim), but seven weeks after
Sukkot would already be into the rainy season in
Israel, and travel would not be pleasant
then. Therefore, Hashem allowed the
closure of Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, to be
celebrated right after Sukkot.
Shmini Atzeret
is to Tabernacles as Pentecost is to Passover.
As you know the Christianized Pentecost is the
birthday of the Church. A Shmini Atzeret
Rapture (October
21, 2019) would certainly put closure on the
Church Age and would mirror the fulfillment of
Pentecost.
Sivan 6 is
neither a full moon nor a new moon and so the same
for Tishri 22. The Leviticus verses quoted
above indicate that Shmini Atzeret is a holy day in
its own right and the quote from Numbers indicates
that trumps are blown on all the holy days. So
since Shmini Atzeret is the last holy day till
spring the last trump is blown on that day.
Pineman