In this season of unveiling God's mystery, we as Christians should prepare for a sudden and terrible show of God's vengeance concerning the church, his fasts, and the Lord's Supper. It is interesting to note that today is the Feast of the Trumpets. This is the fifth of the seven feasts of God and on this year among the other feasts the Lord has this one is correctly aligned with the Tishrei for this year. With that I print the important information from my studies.
Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanna
1. All the Spring Feasts were fulfilled at Christ's first coming, and on the exact day of the feast. All the Fall Feasts picture the second advent, and the Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts, picturing the rapture.
2. The Feast of Trumpets is when the “last trump” of the rapture of 1 Cor 15 is blown.
3. The Feast of Trumpets is known as the Wedding of the Messiah. The Church is the Bride of Christ, and the rapture is when the Church is caught up to heaven to be wed with Christ.
4. The Feast of Trumpets happens on the “new moon,” which is 29.5 days after the last one. This means it might occur on the 29th or 30th day, nobody knows for sure. “Of that day or hour no man knows” is an expression referring to this feast and thus the rapture.
5. “Of that day or hour no man knows, but my Father only” is an expression used by a groom when asked when his wedding will be. He says this because it is his Father that will tell him when his preparations for the bridal chamber are completed and it is time. Again, the wedding pictures the rapture.
6. The “Open Door” of the rapture in Matt 25, Rev 3, and Rev 4:1 is a symbol of the Feast of Trumpets. [Ezek 46:1] “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.”
7. We are told that the new moon and the Feasts of the Lord are a shadow of things to come in Col 2:16,17. Since the Feast of Trumpets is the only Feast of the Lord that falls on a new moon, we should take particular note.
8. There are seven days of awe in between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. These picture the seven years of tribulation. Atonement pictures satan being defeated and cast away at the end of tribulation. If you add the two-day Trumpets feast and the day of atonement, the 7 days of awe are “ten days of tribulation” which might be referred to in Rev. 2:10.
9. In the Jewish Wedding, a marriage takes place over a period of time known as the “bridal week.” During the bridal week, the groom and bride have sex in the bridal chamber. At the end of the week, there is a marriage supper. Compare Judges 14, Rev. 19, and Genesis 29:22-28. This bridal week will be the tribulation week on earth, while the bride of Christ is in heaven.
10. In the Jewish Wedding, the groom comes for his bride “like a thief in the night” to take (size / rapture) her away and into the bridal chamber for the bridal week at his father's house.
11. The Feast of Trumpets is also known as the coronation of the Messiah when he will start reigning as king, thus the beginning of the “Day of the Lord,” which includes the tribulation.
12. It is also time for the bema judgment (or the judgement of the works of the righteous), and judgement must begin at the house of the Lord.
[2 Cor. 11:2] “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
Now what is of interest to note is the fast Of Gedalia:
The surviving remnant of Jews was thus dispersed and the land remained desolate. In remembrance of these tribulations, the Jewish sages instituted the 'Fast of the Seventh' (see Zechariah 8:19) on the day of Gedaliah's assassination in the seventh month.
It is suggested that Gedaliah was slain on the first day of Tishrei but the fast was postponed till after Rosh Hashanah, since fasting is prohibited during a festival. Concerning this fast day, the Rabbis have said that its aim is to establish that the death of the righteous is likened to the burning of the house of God. Just as they ordained a fast upon the destruction of the Jewish Temple, likewise they ordained a fast upon the death of Gedaliah. I believe that those who are truly dead in Christ that their bridal week would be from the 13th to the 17th and they will be endowed with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit for their end-time work and thus for one to say speak evil of them in this season will, as I have been stating, constitute death from on high just as Paul walked in that anointing. In this year those who are watching will see that all the feasts this year will be fulfilled according to scripture and next year 2011 a season of disorder will begin the countdown of the Lord's return and those that who cling to that of religious values shall be as dust upon the earth.