I'm presently reading through Exodus. I ran across a few passages this morning that struck a nerve (in a good sense) and I thought I'd share it with you. First, let me put fort a little context. I know there are quite a few folks that believe the following from Song of Solomon alludes to a Spring rapture.: Song of Solomon 2:10-13 So, just at face value, I can see how someone could see that Spring rapture perspective. All of the elements described fit perfectly to Spring. But in Exodus 23 this morning, I saw a reference to a feast that I don't recall seeing anywhere else: Exodus 23:14-16 So what is this end of year feast in Exodus 23:16??? "and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field." I do not recall ever seeing a reference to this end of year feast before. It definitely caught my eye. "In the end of the year" is a bit generic in that it doesn't specify the 12th month or "last day of the year" or anything but just gives us a season...."in the end of the year". If I had hair, it would have stood up in excitement as I was reading Exodus as my thoughts turned immediately to the passages from Song of Solomon. Anyone care to take a shot at this? What say you? the third festival at the end of the year, when attendance is required is sukkot or succoth. aka the feast of booths. it will also be required in the millennium https://www.ariel.org/resources/feasts-of-israel Zechariah 14:16 Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of armies, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of armies, there will be no rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. It could be a reference to Sukkot. After all, there were 3 feasts where it was mandatory to go up to Jerusalem. The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, in Hebrew Shalosh Regalim (שלוש רגלים), are three major festivals in Judaism—Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Weeks or Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles, Tents or Booths)—when the ancient Israelites living in the Kingdom of Judah would make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem, as commanded by the Torah. In Jerusalem, they would participate in festivities and ritual worship in conjunction with the services of the kohanim ("priests") at the Temple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pilgrimage_Festivals However, the new year either starts at Rosh Hashanah or Nisan 1. Sukkot is about two weeks after Rosh Hashanah If the New Year starts on Nisan 1 then this alluded to feast would happen in February/March. Here is an article where some Jewish people discuss this: (Note: This is from an unbelieving Jewish mindset) Ahaba Veahva’s members celebrate Rosh Hashanah in September like other rabbinic Jews. The Seder al-Tahwid, however, is a remnant of an ancient custom of the Jews of the near East (variably referred to as Mustaribun or Shamim) to commemorate the first day of the Jewish month of Nisan as a minor Rosh Hashanah as per Exodus 12:1. On their website, Congregation Ahaba Veahva explains the celebration as follows: The Great Exodus of Egypt: On Rosh Chodesh, the children of Israel heard the miracle that they were going to be redeemed on the night of the 15th, later in that very month. We hold this evening to remember the miracles and the kindness that God does for His nation. “In Nisan we were redeemed in the past, and in Nisan we are destined to be redeemed again” [a midrashic quote from Exodus Rabbah 15:2], asserting that just as the Exodus from Egypt took place in Nisan, so too will the ultimate messianic redemption. We hold this evening to put everyone in the correct spiritual mindset—to realize with all their might that this could be the month of the messianic redemption. https://jewishlink.news/features/23786-the-first-of-nisan-the-forgotten-jewish-new-year 
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
