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The Rapture Will Come On A Rosh Hashanah
What is the Rosh Hashanah and how does it relate to the Rapture?
For years now, students of Bible prophecy have looked intently at the Jewish Rosh Hashanah as a possible time for the Rapture of the church. It is a perfect type of Christ and His Bride. As we look closer into how this feast is celebrated, we see a picture of Jesus, His Bride, the Rapture, the resurrection of the dead and the beginning of the Tribulation.
To fully understand what the Rosh Hashanah is, we need to look at what the people of Israel see it as, and how they celebrate it, because all the feast days of Israel tell the complete story of the Messiah’s life.
God made a covenant with Abraham long ago, and He chose Abraham’s descendants to be His people forever. He gave them the blessing of being the people through whom His Messiah would come (Genesis 15). He gave the Jewish people the Feasts of Israel to celebrate, to tell the whole world His story. Each year, the feasts show the story of the Messiah and His life (Leviticus 23), whether the celebrants know and understand it or not!
They are still His chosen people. They always will be. At the cross, He set them aside for what He called a “brief moment” (Isaiah 54:7). He will pick them up again as soon as He comes for His Bride. Then He will concentrate again on Israel, through the “time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7), the time of the great Tribulation (Daniel 12:1). Meanwhile, Israel is telling the Messiah’s story in the celebration of the yearly feasts.
We can see the story of Christ as we look at the feasts. Jesus has fulfilled the Spring feast days, and He will surely fulfill the final three in the order that God has set forth.
We are looking for the Rapture on a coming Rosh Hashanah. This year would be wonderful!
The Feast Days already fulfilled…
• Passover: Jesus’ Death as the Passover Lamb
• Unleavened Bread: Jesus’ Burial
• First Fruits: Jesus’ Resurrection
• Pentecost: Feast of 50 (the Holy Spirit was sent 50 days later)
The three Feast Days on the Jewish calendar yet to be fulfilled…
• Rosh Hashanah / Trumpets: The Rapture
• Atonement: Judgment (2nd Coming 7 years after the Rapture
• Tabernacles: God dwelling among men. (setting up His millennial kingdom on earth)
The name Rosh Hashanah means the (Jewish) New Year. It is also known as the following:
• Tishri 1
• The day no man can know the day or the hour
• The day of the new moon
• The day of the blowing of the Trumpets
• The day of the last trump
• The day of the awakening blast
• The day of the Resurrection
• The beginning of the 10 days of awe
• One long day (lasting 2 days)
• The Day of the King (coronation)
• The day the King takes a bride (wedding)
• The day that all men will pass under the rod
• The day that God divides mankind into 3 categories: The Wholly Righteous, Wholly Wicked, and the Intermediates
We see a perfect picture of what we as Gentile believers have been taught about the Rapture.
Jesus said “no man can know the day or the hour.” This was something the Jewish people would immediately have associated with Rosh Hashanah.
Rosh Hashanah, which is on Tishri 1, could not be declared until the first sighting of the crescent moon in the night sky. When 2 or 3 witnesses would spot it, they went to the priest and declared it. He would then declare the new moon and the New Year. That time would be different for other places on the earth. So Jewish people had different times they declare the New Year. It could be delayed by cloudy nights and other situations. Interestingly, the Rosh Hashanah is always set apart as one long day, though it lasts for 2 days (due to the difficulty of determining the date of the New Moon). You can literally never know the day and by that you also cannot know the exact hour!
Next, look at the Feast of trumpets, which culminates on Rosh Hashanah. 30 days before, on the month of Elul, the trumpets (shofar) are blown, calling people to repent, to remember their sins and to prepare for the judgment. They blow the shofar every evening for 30 days. On Rosh Hashanah it is blown many times (some say a hundred times) and the last blast is a long, loud wail. It is called the last trump.
I Corinthians 15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
That last blast is at a different time in each synagogue. One person tried to find the correct time that they blow the last blast in Jerusalem, but were convinced of one thing: NO man can know that time. The Jewish people don’t even know! They all do it at a different time all around the world.
So, it is literally the only day of the year that no man can know the day or the hour! Do you think Jesus was giving us a clue?
Let’s look at the “10 days of awe”. We have already seen that from Elul 1, for 30 days, they prepare their hearts for the future judgment. Rosh Hashanah begins the 10 days of awe or the Teshuvah.
Starting at Tishri 1, count 10 days until the Feast of Atonement. These are the days of Teshuvah.
Day 1 and 2 for Rosh Hashanah (Rapture) followed by 7 days (symbolic of 7 years of tribulation).
After the 7 years are completed, He Returns on the 8th day (Atonement) or the 10th day of Teshuvah.
It is a picture of the Rapture, followed by 7 years of Tribulation,
and Jesus returning to earth in His 2nd Coming.
We see why it is called the day of the “last trump”, but let’s see why it is called the day of the awakening blast. The Jewish people believe that on a future Rosh Hashanah, the last trump will awaken the dead. The resurrection day we are looking for that coincides with the Rapture is what they believe will happen at a future last trump!
The awakening blast…
1 Thessalonians 4:16: For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Why it is called the Day of the King, His Coronation, and His Wedding Day.
It is known to the Jewish people as the day to remember the Great King over all the earth. They read Psalms 45, and Psalms 47, seven times on Rosh Hashanah.
Look at what Psalm 47 says. It is amazing!! It starts out like a coronation celebration for the King. In verse 4 it says, “He shall choose our inheritance for us, the Excellency of Jacob whom He loved” (Jacob is Israel, God chose Israel). It then mentions in verse 9 the princes of the people (those who voluntarily serve God) are gathered together (collected and removed), and even the people of the God of Abraham (people of faith). Those are the literal interpretations of the Hebrew words used.
Also, look at what is in Psalm 45. This is a royal wedding Psalm, but there is no talk of a wedding. It talks of the Great King and His Coronation. But in verse 9 it changes to the queen, His bride who is now by His side. We can see that on the day of His Coronation, He will take a bride. He will Rapture His Bride up to be with Him, to a place outside of time, to witness His coronation and to participate in the wedding day. 
Let’s look at why it is called the day mankind passes under the rod and God divides mankind into 3 categories. The Jewish people believe that on a future Rosh Hashanah all mankind will pass under God’s rod, like a Shepherd separates his sheep.
Jesus said there would be a last generation. The generation that saw Israel become a nation again would be that last generation till all was fulfilled. Time is short, we are the last generation!
Jesus is Coming soon, if not this year, it will be on a future Rosh Hashanah.
There is a dangerous teaching abroad that everyone who is saved will participate in the Rapture.
The Scriptures, however, teach just the opposite. Read “Will Christians Go Through The Tribulation?”
Christ Warns His Church to take heed, watch, pray, be sober, abide in Him, look for Him, keep their spiritual garments of salvation and righteousness. He is coming for a Bride who has kept themselves from the things of the world, and once the Rapture has taken place, the Lord will shut the door for 7 years.
Luke 21: 36: Watch, and pray always, that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Matthew 20:16 & 22:14: Many are called, but few are Chosen.
Revelation 14:4: These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed (chosen) from among men, being the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
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