Ascension Day works for me and seems appropriate for obvious reasons. I do not understand why a Jewish Feast day is somehow significant for the Bride of Christ since we are not Jewish. For me I hold to the "Any day works for me" theory :yes: Indeed by far the Church is mostly gentile! Let the Jewish calendar speak to Jews, and the Christian calendar speak to Christians! TR I'll go on a limb and speculate due to dual fulfillment so far (Moses and Jesus), these are God's special dates for all His people. Whether the Rapture follows suit, I guess we'll just have to wait and see! Any day now... I think where the Jewish feast days, hold a little more weight perhaps is because of the misunderstanding that they are not actually “Jewish” days. They were certainly given to Israel, yes, but it is a misunderstanding to believe that this is purely a “Jewish” calendar. Leviticus 23, the origin of these days, clearly calls them “The Feasts of the Lord”. Not the Feasts of the Jews, nor the Feasts of Israel. They are God’s feasts. His special appointed days that He ordained for Himself and revealed for Israel. It seems that He has a proclivity for doing special things on these days since we saw many big time events like the crucifixion, the Resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit on these days in the first advent. No wonder since in the Hebrew, the term means “appointed times” I once had a conversation with Messianic Jew, Sid Roth, who can admittedly be a bit controversial, and I will admit I do not hold to all of his beliefs, but he said something once that made a lot of sense. Regarding Christians keeping the feasts or not, here is what he said to me: ”These feasts are God’s appointed times, you are free to keep them or not to show up and keep them, you are free to do that. But suppose your doctor made an appointment with you - you are free not to show up for that right? But if your doctor makes an appointment with you, it would be pretty silly if you didn’t show up for it. These are just days when God has promised He would show up for them, now if you don’t want to keep them that’s fine, but it’s pretty silly when God promised He would show up.” I thought that was an interesting take. While I think the rapture could be any day, I think this is the fascination behind the feast days - God does seem to like to show up on these feast days, and they are not for just the Jew - we get that misconception because they come from the Old Testament / Old Covenant / Torah but it is one book - and as already mentioned, clearly they are His feasts, revealed to Israel, but if they were just for Israel exclusively I ask myself why was the church born on Pentecost? Shall we say, it was ok for God to use that Feast back then because the church was predominantly Jewish, but now that it is predominantly Gentile he will no longer use His appointed times? I cannot say for sure one way or the other. Again my position is that any day that ends with “Y” is a good day for the rapture, but I will admit, I am always on a little higher alert on the “appointed times/feasts” because I know God has used them in the past. I feel pretty confident that He will return to using these appointed times for the Second Advent/Coming but the real wild card is one of these appointed feasts also appointed for the rapture? Awwww c’mon Abba, please let us have just a little peeky peeky in your appointment book? Pretty please? Point well made brother! It truly pleases His heart to see us so anxious to be in His presence! Pethaphs our hearts cries can have some sway! Hoping so as well! TR
