While I am aware that the rapture does not have to take place on a Jewish holiday, many are looking for a Pentecost rapture (because the church was given the Holy Spirit on Pentecost) or Feast of Trumpets rapture. I am wondering about a tabernacles rapture--IF the rapture does happen on a Jewish feast day?  If you look at the following verses:

 

Psalm 27:5

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

 

and Psalm 31:20:

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

 

Song of Sol, 2:9:

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. (The entire Song of Sol is a picture of Jesus speaking to the Church and the Church, the bride of Christ, speaking to him.) Is he not looking through the "roof" or lattice ---looking down at the bride at the moment he is going to call her up!?

 

In the first verse, this is a good description of the rapture followed by the Great Tribulation. Also, this feast day lasts for SEVEN DAYS. Could this typify our SEVEN years in heaven during the Great Tribulation?  When Christians pray, we are told to go into our chambers (or closet!)  Christ, of course, is the ROCK!

 

See this verse in Isaiah 26:20: 

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

 

A chamber is like a small tabernacle. When the Bridegroom comes out when it is time to call us ---the Bride out of her chamber - it's time to "come away my love..." (Song of Sol). If the people of God are told to "hide thyself as it were for a little moment..." (7 years is a "little moment" in comparison to the entire history of man on this earth), then it says UNTIL the indignation be overpast! Well this "indignation" is a reference to the Great Tribulation when God's wrath is poured out on the earth.   This goes along with the verse in Revelation where the Philadelphia church is promised:

 

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth (Rev. 3:10) This HOUR of temptation goes along with the "little moment" in Isa 26:20 above --  Is a "little moment" and an "hour" the same time frame in God's clock?

 

Ever notice that if you sit in an actual booth or sukkot that the Israelis construct during the feast and look UP - you are looking through a "ceiling" or "roof" of  palms & branches that are laid criss-cross - like a LATTICE! Well, look at Song of Sol 2:9:  (the 3rd verse above) how Jesus (the bridegroom) "is shewing  himself through the LATTICE". Another clue?

Here is a video of a man who built his entire sukkot out of LATTICE. For the roof, you can see him laying palm fronds across the boards (in a lattice-like pattern) because you have to be able to see the stars through the ROOF and you have to use natural substances:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MrWmAEEAow

 

 

We are also told in psalm 27:5 (above) that "in the secret of his TABERNACLE shall he hide me!!! Well, this could be a big CLUE that he is going to hide us in HIS dwelling place, HIS TABERNACLE - when? During the Feast of Tabernacles!

 

Also, in the 2nd verse, we are hidden from the "pride of man," a veiled reference to the antichrist who will be indwelt by Satan himself, the one who fell through PRIDE! He is the KING of the children of pride. 

 

Another thing, notice in the 2nd verse that - "thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues."  Remember that it is the antichrist and his FOLLOWERS who blaspheme God and blaspheme THOSE IN HEAVEN!  A very good description of keeping us from the "strife of tongues," and all the hateful accusations that he and his followers will bring against the Christians who disappeared!  He's had 6000 years of practice!

 

And I can't help but notice how many times the word secret or secretly is used in these verses! Paul spoke of the rapture as being a great mystery and we know that Jesus is coming like a thief in the night. Thieves are VERY secretive and sneaky! While it is true that all born-again Christians have a tabernacle that houses the Holy Spirit, it seems like it would make sense to take all those many "tabernacles" up to heaven during the Feast of Tabernacles." Our own Savior tabernacled in the flesh.

 

WHAT IF---???

I will leave you to examine the rest of the evidence...

 

Rene

P.S.

 

Something to add. the ARK that Noah built was a TYPE OF TABERNACLE. They came OUT of the world and into the ARK. We all know that the ARK is a type of JESUS. We can only be saved by being in the ARK. Noah had a home before he built the ARK. The ARK was outside his earthly home.  Notice that God SHUT the door of the ark, but Noah and his family KNEW that God was shutting them in. God told Noah SEVEN DAYS before the flood would hit. The flood is a type of the Great Tribulation. The BELIEVERS (Noah & his family) KNEW SEVEN days before the flood was going to hit (the judgment of God). WE BELIEVERS KNOW that once Jesus calls us up and SHUTS THE DOOR, there will be SEVEN YEARS of judgment down here. And boy does it get DARK right before the DOOR is shut. That is the darkness that we are now in - the darkness that covers the world right before the rapture. The ARK was a "rescue mission," but only EIGHT people were saved. The ARK is coming back. The rapture is a "rescue mission," and only the Church will be saved, those who have followed God's instructions on how to be saved. Rahab, a gentile and a sinner (prostitute), who was in the lineage of David, followed Joshua's (a type of Jesus) instructions on how to be saved. She had to tie the SCARLET cord on the window. Joshua promised to save her and her HOUSEHOLD as long as everyone stayed in the HOUSE!  We have to stay in the ARK and trust in the BLOOD! Noah followed God's instructions on how to be saved, the rest of the world drowned. Noah floated ABOVE THE FLOOD WATERS. We will be safe in the pavilion of the Lord way up ABOVE the world, while upon the world the flood of God's judgment will be poured out. God knows that as believers we are concerned about our loved ones. Paul told the Phillippian jailor, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house. Noah, his wife, his sons and his son's wives were all saved. Don't give up praying for your loved ones.  Also, just look around at all the new Messianic Jewish congregations springing up. God is saving a lot of Jews! The CHURCH began with Jews and it will end with Jews. This is another sign to us that the rapture is near! Jesus came to bring the Good News FIRST to the Jews, then to the gentiles. When the apostles dragged the net of fish to the shore, notice that there were 153 fish. The number 153 is connected to the elect --- the believers saved in the church age. Only the fish IN THE NET were "saved", or dragged to SHORE.  When they first yanked the net out of the water, there were undoubtedly some fish that flopped out of the net and back into the water. The apostles were FISHING. Jesus came to fish for us. He called several FISHERMEN to be his apostles. During this Church age, we are to be FISHING. We are waiting to be pulled to the SHORE of the City of God, the New Jerusalem....

 

TODAY is the day of salvation. Time is growing close for the DOOR to be shut. When God opens a door, no one can shut it, and when he closes a door, no one can open it.

 

Rene