One of the people leaving comments on this blog mentioned that the Rapture is set for the Feast of Trumpets, the Jewish feast of Rosh Hashanah, which takes place in the seventh month (Tishrei) which due to the way the Jewish calendar works means sometime in September/October in our (Gregorian) calendar.
This means that some Messianic and evangelical types (especially the people who want to rebuild temples and help God along with getting stuff right for the return) will be looking to the same time as Camping but will see it as the right place on the calendar but with the wrong year attached! Perhaps someone needs to work out when future feasts of Rosh Hashanah fall on a 21st October and encourage those who wish to set the conditions for prophecies regarding the end-times to get their finger out and build (or whatever it is they have to do) to head towards that time (wonder if God has a Gantt Chart on His wall?).
For those who wonder where some get the 'feast of trumpets' date from, it is derived from 1 Thessalonians 4: 13 - 16:
"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first."
Don't see how this relates to Rosh Hashanah but this is the place I was first taught that the rapture (Parousia) will take up the 'dead in Christ' first and then the living in the twinklinh of an eye (i.e. pretty darned quickly!).
We have many more Bible passages to consider and will continue along that path some time later today when life lets me.
Happy Monday - Be ready, He will return - but in His own time, not ours!
Pax
2 comments:
All a bit tenuous the trumpets things isn't it? If we were to base things on just one word then we could have a field day and believe anything we want and justify it as we like.
Oh, wait a minute. . . . . . . . . . . isn't that what the liberals do with their everything is acceptable, live as you want approach to Christianity?
Interesting material though - thanks. I will be cak for more of this.
G
Cak? Assume this is but a typo (back perhaps).
Worried that the 'G; might be you know who, but then again don't suppose he uses the internet (there's a theological challenge for someone).
As for, "Isn't that what liberals do?" I would have to say that this is what 'everyone' does at some time or another!
Thanks for the comments though, always welcome,
V
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