Dear John and Doves -

Yom Teruah - October 7-8 and expectations were sky high.  YouTube and other platforms lit up with hope that the Feast of Trumpets this year, properly calculated as being in early October, would be the fulfillment of Rosh Hashannah and Jesus would gather us to Himself.  Many of our favorite prophecy teachers came to the same conclusion.

Dial back 2,000 years and Jerusalem was buzzing with fervent hope that this was their Messiah, come to boot out the Romans and elevate Israel to its place as the head of all nations.

In both cases, a high hope dashed.  An expectation shattered - a dream ended or, at least, postponed.

Three days later, the Jews found an empty tomb.  All was not lost; not by a longshot!  He is risen.

For us, we need to hold on a bit longer.  Maybe, like back then, just three days.  The rapture is for the church, not for the Jews.  The feasts were kept by the Jews as "dress rehearsals" for ultimate fulfillment in the Jewish future.  The church does not keep Yom Teruah, nor does it have "dress rehearsals" for the rapture.

Just as the first feasts were fulfilled at the end of 62 weeks, we should expect the fall feasts to be fulfilled at the END of the last week, about seven years from now.  So dial back seven years from the possible (and I think HIGHLY likely) fulfillment in 2028, and you land in October 2021.

I still think the Bad Guys are after us.  They want to pollute the gene pool, destroy God's natural order, crush God's people and obliterate God's moral law.  The restrainer is about to be removed and we're going home.  The numbers for the beginning of the final "Great Tribulation" (third in a set of three) and the confirmation of the covenant this month still work.

Just be patient.  Maybe only a few more days.

Best,

Steve