Here's a Bible reading tip for you. Don't read the Old Testament without first planting your feet firmly in The New - and vice versa. You will miss so much! Like this little treasure that many pass by while reading Exodus.
“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty); 16 and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field." - Exodus 23:14-16
That passage seems rather uninteresting . . . unless you have read the New Testament. Then it becomes truly amazing!
There are seven festivals that God informed Moses of that must be observed - for all time. What's interesting is that each of these festivals has prophetic significance. Of the seven festivals, God has already fulfilled four of them. All of them fulfilled, in order. The first three fulfilled by Jesus, the fourth with the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. There are three festivals which remain unfulfilled - the Feast of Trumpets, The Day of Atonement, The Feast of Tabernacles.
Of those three, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) is up next. This verse from 1 Corinthians gives us a clue as to what happens on that day.
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
The Rapture.
Will we be found ready, doing the Lord's work? It will happen "in the twinkling of an eye."
This year, Rosh Hashanah begins Friday, September 18th and ends on Sunday, September 20th. The world certainly seems in the throws of birth pains, evil is called good and good, evil. It may not happen this year, or the next, but I would be willing to bet that the rapture happens during Rosh Hashanah . . . at the sound . . . of a trumpet.
The other two remaining festivals have End times significance as well. The Day of Atonement is when Jesus judges the world and puts everyone in their rightful place - heaven or hell. And the Feast of Tabernacles is when God FINALLY dwells with His people.
All the answers to life and death are in the Bible. Few study it in comparison to the rest of "the world." Be reading, be ready, for our redemption draws near.
There are seven festivals that God informed Moses of that must be observed - for all time. What's interesting is that each of these festivals has prophetic significance. Of the seven festivals, God has already fulfilled four of them. All of them fulfilled, in order. The first three fulfilled by Jesus, the fourth with the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. There are three festivals which remain unfulfilled - the Feast of Trumpets, The Day of Atonement, The Feast of Tabernacles.
Of those three, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) is up next. This verse from 1 Corinthians gives us a clue as to what happens on that day.
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
The Rapture.
Will we be found ready, doing the Lord's work? It will happen "in the twinkling of an eye."
This year, Rosh Hashanah begins Friday, September 18th and ends on Sunday, September 20th. The world certainly seems in the throws of birth pains, evil is called good and good, evil. It may not happen this year, or the next, but I would be willing to bet that the rapture happens during Rosh Hashanah . . . at the sound . . . of a trumpet.
The other two remaining festivals have End times significance as well. The Day of Atonement is when Jesus judges the world and puts everyone in their rightful place - heaven or hell. And the Feast of Tabernacles is when God FINALLY dwells with His people.
All the answers to life and death are in the Bible. Few study it in comparison to the rest of "the world." Be reading, be ready, for our redemption draws near.
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