Feast of Trumpets 2012

This year the Feast of Trumpets is on September 17th.  That may be important because God has fulfilled in the New Testament the foreshadowings He placed in the Old Testament holidays - except for one.

Jesus came and "tabernacled" with us putting on a dirt body and living here with us. Jesus died as the lamb at Passover.  The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost.  Jesus was the firstfuits from the dead.  One could even argue for Purim and Hanukkah, holidays not specifically given in the Torah.  Jesus' clothes were divided by the casting of lots (Purim) and Jesus is the Servant candle on the Hanukkah lamp which is used to light all the other candles.

The only unfulfilled holiday is the Feast of Trumpets.  I tie that to 1 Thess. 4:16-17, which states that the Lord will come with the trumpet call of God and believers living and dead will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. 

If...if the Pretribulation rapture people are correct, pick the Feast of Trumpets, the Mayan calendar, whatever - but I can see where prophecy shows that the Christians will be out of here before next March.  We'll see. 

"When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." Luke 21:28.

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi

Feast of Trumpets

While I know that Jesus can come back any time, any day, any year, and it's not mine to say when, I also know that there is only one unfulfilled Jewish feast.

The Feast of Tabernacles was fulfilled when Jesus put on a dirt body and "tabernacled" with us.  Jesus fulfilled the Feasts of Passover and Atonement when He died, and the Feast of Firstfruits when He rose.  The Holy Spirit showed up on Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks.

What's left?  Only the Feast of Trumpets.  When Jesus comes back, He will appear with a trumpet call. 

"For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And so we will be with the Lord forever.  Therefore encourage each other with these words."  1 Thess. 4:16-18 NIV

Therefore, each year, while the news announces to me more loudly each day that the stage is being set, I watch for my Redemption to show up.  I especially pay attention during the Feast of Trumpets.  This year it will be on September 29th. 

I am NOT proclaiming a certain date for Christ's return!  I am saying that God is a God of order.  If He fulfilled each of the other feasts on the appropriate day, why would He change the pattern now?  But I am willing for Him to show up today if He wants to.  I'm in no hurry to wait another month and a half, or another year, if He has a different date in mind.

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi