The Day of the Lord – Festival Seasons.
During the Day of the LORD God will fulfill His festival seasons. We will look at two Festivals that have dates to help us with God`s Appointed Time of the Rapture.
The Festival of Lights, (Hanukkah).
The Jews celebrate the expulsion of their enemies and were to light a new candle for each of eight days. However, at the time they only had one day`s worth of consecrated oil but it burnt for eight full days, the time required to consecrate more oil. Thus, Israel commemorates the miracle of the Temple`s holy candelabrum.
It is celebrated on the 25th of Kislev through to the 2nd of Tevet, 8 days. It was at this Feast that the Jews wanted to know if Jesus was the Messiah. (John 10: 22 – 24)
When Jesus returns to deliver Israel, it will be at this time, for He is the Light of the world, the One represented by the center of the holy candelabrum.
Israel`s National Deliverance Celebration. (Purim)
This Feast celebrates the failure of Haman`s plot to destroy the Jews. It is a time of feasting and joy when the people celebrate the deliverance of the Jews from death through the bravery of the Jewish Queen Esther.
`And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar….
When Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur, (to cast a lot). (Esther 9: 20 & 21, 25 & 26)
This Feast of Purim is celebrated in Jerusalem on Adar the 15th each year, commemorating their National Deliverance.
The fulfillment of this Feast will be after the Lord has delivered Israel from their enemies. Jews from all over the world will be brought back to Israel and there they will celebrate this wonderful fulfillment of the Feast of Purim. (Isa. 66: 20)
The day and hour of the rapture is completely unknown to everyone but the Trinity.
The critical aspect of this feature is that Satan and his host do not nor ever can know.
It is one of God's trump cards so to speak.
And of course it matches the precept of the Jewish wedding ritual, the midnight cry, where the Bride does not know the extract time that the Groom will show up to "snatch" her to the Fathers house. But she knows it will happen soon and inevitably, and that she needs to be pure and holy and......prepared.
Furthermore, Jesus is speaking about THE DAY OF THE LORD (SPECIFIALLY APPOINTED TO ISRAEL and its national repentance) in Matt 24......NOT the rapture.
Therefore, the last 3 fall feasts, which have yet to take place, are specific to the Nation Israel, the FEAST OF TRUMPETS = the start of DOTL, and the tribulation appointed to Israel. And THEN their national repentance which correlates to THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. And THEN of course the Millennial reign which correlates to the FEAST OF TABERNACLES, where God is tabernacling with men.
We, the Church have been raptured BEFORE the DOTL ever begins.
Lev 23
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.”
"Yes, Jesus did more than hint. He used the phrase the Jews associated with the Feast of Trumpets, " But of that day and hour knoweth no man"
(Matt. 24:36). When they heard those words the disciples would
immediately have made the association with the Feast of Trumpets.
"Because the first day of the month had to be validated by the two (or three) witnesses, it affected the time for attending the holy convocation for the Day of Trumpets. The Hebrews could not know exactly on which day it would be held as they were waiting for the appearance of the new moon. "
And of the 7 appointed times, the Moedim, the feasts of Moses, ONLY THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS occurs on the FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH.
So IMO the DOTL coincides with the Feast of Trumpets.....that is prophetic for ISRAEL and not the Church.