Hello John and Doves,

 

In the book "Signs in the Heavens:  A Jewish Messianic Perspective of the Last Days & Coming Millennium"  by Avi Ben Mordechai - we find much about Rosh Hashanah and resurrection and rapture.

As we approach this feast day again, I decided to return to this book.

 

Avi Ben Mordechai believes that Rosh Hashanah is without a doubt the day of the resurrection/rapture based on ancient Hebrew custom, the ancient Hebrew language, the writings of famous rabbis, numerous verses in the Tanakh, and the words of Y'shua and Paul in The New Testament, plus much much more evidence he presents in his book.

 

Here are some excerpts from this book:

 

"The rapture and the resurrection are the same except that the resurrection applies to the dead and the rapture to the living.  Regardless of your condition at its 'appointed time (i.e. whether you are alive or dead), both the righteous dead and the righteous living will participate in the same thing at nearly the same time.  This concept is Jewish to the core!"

 

Several examples in the Tanakh:

 

Job 19:26  "And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God."

 

Isaiah 26:19  "But your dead will live; their bodies will rise.  You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy.  Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead."

 

Ezekiel 37/12  "Therefore prophesy and say to them:  "This is what the Sovereign Lord says:  O my people, I am going to open your graves and raise you up from them;"

 

"Because the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), the first day of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar, is linked to the theme of resurrection, it is also referred to as "The Day of Our Concealment."

 

"On the Feast of Trumpets the dead will be resurrected and those alive will be raptured and taken out in a divine wedding carriage or litter and concealed for seven years in the groom's wedding chamber called the Chupah Chatanim.  This follows a marriage practice of ancient Judaism...In the case of the eklesia, the "Church", we too will be swept away and concealed, though not for seven days, but for seven years in the wedding chamber of Y'shua."

 

The prophet Isaiah spoke prophetically about the Day of the Lord:  

 

"As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord.  We were with child, we writhed in pain, bet we gave birth to wind.  We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.  But your dead will live; their bodies will rise.  You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy.  Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.  Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.  See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins."  

 

"In Hebrew this passage is filled with Jewish idioms and teaches us many things concerning the day of our concealment, resurrection,rapture and the tribulation."

 

"In Hebrew, the future seven year period is called Chevlei HaMashiach.  Many ancient Jews called this Ya'acov's Trouble, Christians calls it the tribulation."

 

"Wake up" and "shout for joy" are themes for the Feast of Trumpets  This tells us the resurrection will happen on this festival.  Also "dew" is an ancient Jewish resurrection term."

 

Psalm 81:3 refers to the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar.

 

"Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast...." (not all translations have 'full moon')

 

"This has been mistranslated - there is no full moon with in the Jewish calendar year as no festival incorporates the four elements mentioned in the verse:  a shofar (trumpet), a new moon, a full moon and a feast.  "Full Moon" is not even found in the Hebrew.  Correctly translated it should say "our concealment" from the Hebrew B'Chaseh."

 

"Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, at our concealment, on the day of our Feast..."

 

"Only one day on the Jewish calendar year includes:  A festival, a concealed moon, a shofar or trumpet blast."

 

"That day is the Feast of Trumpets which, has for ages, carried the themes of resurrection, coronation and concealment in the tent (tabernacle) of the Lord."

 

"Christians over the centuries have separated themselves from their Jewish roots causing the misunderstanding of key Jewish biblical idioms.  An idiom is also a figure of speech.  When Y'shua uttered His famous words concerning the Messianic era in Matthew 24:36, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father," He used a common Jewish figure of speech referring to a specific Jewish festival."  Rosh Hashanah

 

"No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" is a Hebrew expression for the holy convocation of Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the seventh month.  We are to watch and pray for that day and hour, anxiously awaiting the resurrection of the dead, the rapture and the completion of our redemption."

 

"...anytime you see an "open door" linked to the End-Times, it is Jewish terminology for Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets."

 

There is much, much more in this book on this feast day.  And much, more more about the Last Days and the Millennium.

 

One prayer said during Rosh Hashanah is the blessing over bread:  "Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth the living bread from heaven."

 

It is interesting, that in this very blessing, the Jewish people are most certainly referring to the Son of God, Jesus.  The living bread who came from Heaven.

 

John 6:32,33:  Jesus said to the Jews, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

 

John 6:51:  I am the living bread which came down from heaven.  If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.

 

John 14:3:  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 

 

Feast of Trumpets- certainly a day to be watching for the Rapture.

 

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem!

 

Maranatha!

 

Chance