Rosh Hashanah and the Rapture
> > Richard Vizzutti wrote in message
> > > I believe the Rapture will be this fall based on my endless research and what is going on in the world at the moment. I am 95% sure. The horror of Tribulation is just around the corner now. Up up and away!
> >
Response:
> > Then you need to do some more research and use the Bible this time. There is no rapture period. How come there is no rapture time told in the bible? ? ?
Hi BM,
Oh but there is. Jesus speaking to the Jews said "...No man knows the day nor hour" which is a Jewish idiom for the feast of Rosh Hashanah which is a picture of the Rapture. If you were Jewish you would know EXACTLY what He was saying. If I say to you do not know when I come because I will come when there is not a creature stirring, not even a mouse. You would clearly understand that I am coming on Christmas because it is an idiom. Jesus was not talking to the Gentiles. He was talking to the Jews. And when He says that only His father knows, that is referring to the wedding feast that by tradition only the Father knows when the time has come for the son to go get his bride. No where in scripture do you ever find things happening on non-appointed times.
Eccl 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
(KJV)
Also the phrase that Jesus comes like a thief is an idiom for Rosh Hashanah. It is called the Unknown day, the Shout, a Thief in the Night, the Awakening blast, the Open Door, the Last Trump. This is a day that you do not know when it begins within a time period of two days. I feel that the two days are symbolic of the Gentiles and the Jews in Christ that will be taken, why is because the two separate days are considered to be one single day.
What I am say here is that we will be Raptured on Rosh Hashanah and the Messiah will come back for His people 7 years later on Rosh Hashanah according to the usage of the Jewish idioms. When Christ came in to Jerusalem as a King, it was on Rosh Hashanah.
About the Jewish feasts, the Bible says that they are a tutor.
Col 2:16-17
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
(KJV)
Everything God has done or will do is expressed in the Jewish Feasts. Notice how it says "new moon." The new moon is when Rosh Hashanah begins. Also look at this passage,
1Thes 5:3-4
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
(KJV)
Here again Paul uses the idiom word "thief" to tell us when Jesus comes to snatch us away. Notice too it says "that" day meaning an appointed time of Rosh Hashanah.
1Thes 5:1-4
"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you."
Why is this?
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (Rosh Hashanah)
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (Rosh Hashanah)
(KJV)
The Jewish feasts come at particular "times and seasons." What he is telling his brothers is, "Why ask me when the Day of the Lord comes? Do you not know that the Jewish feasts teach us about Christ? For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (Rosh Hashanah)
Now we know that Rosh Hashanah comes every year, but what we do not know is what year. Most saved Jews believe that it will be this year. And the way things are going in the middle east, I would say this year too. Rosh Hashanah comes this year in September. I think it is the 28th and 29th.
At the appointed time the Door of Rosh Hashanah will be open, and only those that are in the light will enter in. Then once that door is shut, the people locked out will have to enter into the Day of the Lord known as the time of Israel's trouble and the Tribulation.
For more information on Rosh Hashanah, go to my site and click on the green book icon. Sad to say the corporate churches have stripped all Jewishness from the Bible. I would like to suggest that you also go to my site and click on the David Hocking icon. There you will find lot's of his radio sermons. He is Jewish and preaches the Bible from it's true Jewish roots and is not a spiritual racist. The Bible was written by Jews, is for Jews, is all about Jews, and reveals a Jewish God.
-Rick-
Rapture Apologetics
http://www.geocities.com/raptureapologetics/
For great reference material on PreTrib Rapture
Foot notes:
Rosh Hashanah is called the Last Trump (Shofar).
1 Cor 15:52-53
"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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
(KJV)
1Thes 4:16-18
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the (Singular) trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
(KJV)
The Time of Rosh Hashanah begins with the sound of the great Shofar Trumpet. It is also refered to as the Awaking Blast. Interesting how we see here that the awakening blast brings thoses that are asleep in the Lord up to heaven, Rosh Hashanah is known as a time when the gate of heaven is open wide to all mankind. The door closes then 10 days later Yom Kippur begins. This is a time of the God's trumpet judgements against mankind according to the feasts. The book of Revelation clearly reflects the trumpet judgements.
With the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, Jesus has reflected the first 3 of the 7 feasts. The feasts of Passover, Unleavened bread, and the First Fruits from the Dead.
Here is some further information from Ed Chumney a Jewish believer who is linked at my site.
There are idioms or phrases that help us identify the days in the season
of Teshuvah (repentance). Just as unfamiliar foreigners may be confused when
they hear Americans call Thanksgiving Day, "Turkey Day" or "Pilgrims' Day,"
non-Jewish believers in Yeshua can be confused by the different terms for the
major feasts of the L-rd.
Rosh HaShanah: Names, Themes, and Idioms
Teshuvah (repentance)
Rosh HaShanah (Head of the Year, Birthday of the World)
Yom Teruah (the Day of the Awakening Blast [Feast of Trumpets)
Yom HaDin (the Day of Judgment)
HaMelech (the Coronation of the Messiah)
Yom HaZikkaron (the Day of Remembrance or memorial)
The time of Jacob's (Ya'akov) trouble (the birthpangs of the
Messiah, Chevlai
shel Mashiach)
The opening of the gates
Kiddushin/Nesu'in (the wedding ceremony)
The resurrection of the dead (rapture, natza1)
The last trump (shofar)
Yom Hakeseh (the hidden day)