Geri, I agree with you, every day, every minute is a probability for rapture, imminent! I have often read that we are going by the incorrect calendar and are off by about 30 days. So it speaks to many more option possibilities :unsure: :prayer-hands: ready in season and out :good: How about putting our hands in the hands of the man from Gailee! TR Also, the Feast days are for the Jews, not the Church so ANY day is a very viable Rapture day. Ditto! Consider, if that day can’t be calculated, and Feast Days are appointed for the Jews! And we take our cues from the worlds landscape. What options are left?! To hear from the Lord alone! TR Loz: All the feasts point to Jesus Christ and were fullfilled in Him. The feast days appear to have had several occasions throughout history that echoed their meaning. In my view, it would be a mistake to assume that there is nothing more remaining that could happen on Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, or even Hanukkah. In no way am I discounting that there are connections with those dates that were (at least) partial fulfillments. The issue would be stating definitively that nothing future remains to be done on those dates. That is where I find my greatest point of disagreement. It seems just as much narrow thinking to insist that the rapture must NOT occur during the fall season, as to insist that it must. We watch unceasingly because we are told to do so. Well said brother! Hoping to wake up one day and be so totally detached and convinced that today I will be going home! Having no doubts whatsoever! Knowing in my heart it is finished! And as much as I desire this, I know it can only come from the Spirit of the Lord! Again, so reassuring to be with so many of like minds and hearts! The joy we share here with each other is truly an oasis, for each of you is a river of spiritual life! This is not hyperbolic sentiment, but truly heartfelt! TR I'm thinking there must be a double fulfillment, then, since Paul wrote to the Colossians (2): 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. Paul is indicating that God's Feasts (holydays) are yet a shadow of what is to come and they are all about Christ. Hmm, and even in that vein, it could be that there is yet another type of fulfillment for the "spring" feasts, given Paul's language here. Very interesting...... I’m thinking there must be a double fulfillment, then, since Paul wrote to the Colossians (2): 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. Paul is indicating that God’s Feasts (holydays) are yet a shadow of what is to come and they are all about Christ. Hmm, and even in that vein, it could be that there is yet another type of fulfillment for the “spring” feasts, given Paul’s language here. Very interesting…… I believe that the rapture will trigger the Ezekiel 38 invasion of Israel which won't last too long with God's intervention however when it's over someone must rise up to broker a peace agreement between Israel and what's left of the nations AND lesser entities (Hezbullah, Hamas and the Houthi). Calling for delegates and their travel to (Jerusalem or Ryad) from all of the participants will take some time. I believe that all of the Islamic nations will participate not only those who were part of the invaders. At the negotiating table Israel's representative will start off with, "The Temple mount is ours, NO negotiating. Next point of business?" With the mosque of Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock totally destroyed in the Great Earthquake, the rapid rebuilding of the Third Temple can begin the very day that "He confirms the covenant with many for one week" With the church in heaven the scroll can now be opened by Our Lord and the tribulation begins. I am thinking as soon as the rapture happens, the Holy Spirit leaves with us, thus ending the age of grace. If that be the case, then all who are left would be on their own going into the tribulation and not able to be saved by grace. Meaning now is the day of salvation, not 5 minutes or one second after the rapture.
