"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". Numbers 10: Verse
10
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:
From
here we
get a deeper insight into Shmini
Atzeret:
"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. 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.
"Behold,
I shew 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 trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and
the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be
changed." 1 Corinthians
15:51-52, KJV
A
Shmini Atzeret Rapture would be
October 17, 2022.
All
the Best,
Mike
P