The Time of Visitation and God's Calendar

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*The Time of Visitation — Luke 19:41–44*

Look at what happened with Passover. The Jewish people were performing the Passover sacrifice for a thousand years — yet when the Lamb of God stood right in front of them, they did not recognize the time of their visitation. Luke 19:41–44 records this:

*"Now as Yeshua drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, 'If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your shalom! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you, and close you in on every side, and level you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another — because you did not know the time of your visitation.'"*

He is sitting there weeping over Jerusalem — and then it turns to judgment. He is speaking of 70 A.D., but also of the ultimate fulfillment under the Antichrist. And the reason is: *you did not know the time of your visitation.* They had been rehearsing Passover for a thousand years and still did not recognize the Passover Lamb when he came. Just as Messiah said, even the elect can be deceived.

This is where the "thief in the night" concept originates. The church is in danger of being caught off guard — like a thief in the night — if we do not understand God's calendar and his feast days. You can study biblical prophecy all you want, but if you do not put God's calendar into it, if you do not factor in the feast days, if you do not align the covenants with them, you may be able to identify the Ten Kings or speculate about the Antichrist — but you will not understand the time of your visitation. You will not know when it occurs.

I say this in total love: it is supremely important to the Lord that we be on his calendar, on his divine appointments. If we are, I promise you — you will not be caught as a thief in the night. You will understand when the resurrection will occur. You will understand when the Antichrist makes the covenant. Before we begin plugging in the players of the end times, we must first understand the kingdoms, understand Israel, understand God's prophetic timeline, the calendar, and the feast days. Then we look at the world through that lens and understand where we are on God's prophetic timeline. Without that foundation, we are simply shooting in the wind.

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Many people have been preoccupied with setting dates, and that is why it is so important to understand that the Feast of Trumpets is the next divine appointment to be fulfilled on God's prophetic calendar. The Feast of Shavuot — the fourth divine appointment — was already fulfilled when He poured out His Holy Spirit. The fifth feast day is the Feast of Trumpets, which carries great symbolism in the Holy Bible connected to the grape harvest.

God is deeply rooted in agricultural imagery throughout the Bible. He relates Passover to the barley harvest, Shavuot to the wheat harvest, and His fall feast days to the grape harvest. That is why you see the symbolism in Scripture of the winepress of the Lord — blood splattered on His garments. He is telling you that His return will be in the fall, at the time of the grape harvest. You can find the great winepress of the wrath of God in Revelation 14, Isaiah 63, Joel 3, and Revelation 19:11–16. All of these passages speak of blood on His garments — the winepress of the Lord — pointing to a fall return on these beautiful divine appointments.

Before getting into the commandment of the Feast of Trumpets and its associated idioms, it is worth explaining God's prophetic seven-day creation plan. As we know, God worked six days and rested on the seventh, establishing a pattern of working six and resting on the seventh. Leviticus 25 extends this same pattern to the land: work it six years, then let it rest on the seventh. This principle of working six and resting on the seventh runs consistently through Scripture.

When we look at 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90, we have two witnesses — Peter and Moses — both declaring that a day is as a thousand years with the Lord, and a thousand years is as a day. This can only be understood in light of God's creation plan. If He worked six days and rested on the seventh, and a day equals a thousand years, then prophetically this world will work six days — or six thousand years — and on the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year, that is the Day of the Lord. That is when Messiah will reign in His Millennial Kingdom.

Most scholars confirm that from Adam to Yeshua was four completed days, or four thousand completed years. From Messiah until now is nearly two completed days, or two thousand years, depending on where you place His crucifixion and resurrection. This is not about setting dates — it is about understanding the season we are in and what God has ordained in His Word. We are nearing the end of six completed days. When that time comes, it will be marked by the Feast of Trumpets, which will serve as the doorway from the sixth day to the seventh day — the twinkling of an eye, so to speak.

Again, this is not date-setting. It is preparation. Looking at the Middle East and North Africa through the correct biblical lens — watching Israel and the surrounding Islamic nations that Yeshua literally comes to fight against when He returns — you can already see things beginning to form. In this new Shemitah cycle, those formations will likely become much more visible.

Even Hosea speaks to this. In Hosea 6:1–2 the prophet says: *"After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight."* Hosea is pointing from Messiah's first coming to His second coming, using two days and a third rather than six and seven. After two thousand years, He will revive us; on the third day — which corresponds to the seventh day of the prophetic calendar, the Millennial Kingdom — He will raise us up and we will live in His sight. This is how the prophets are calculating these timelines, always pointing to the Millennial reign of Messiah.

The psalmist declares in Psalm 89:15–16: *"Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted."* Blessed are those who know the trumpet sound — and I believe that connects to the day of the Awakening Blast, which most people call the Rapture.

Now let us read the commandment itself. Leviticus 23:23–24 says: *"Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.'"*

The seventh month here is Tishri on the biblical calendar, which is also the first month of the Civil calendar — they are speaking of the same date. A holy convocation, as we have discussed, is a dress rehearsal. God is telling you to rehearse blowing the trumpets and to observe a Sabbath rest. When we are blowing trumpets down here, you can be sure they are rehearsing up in heaven as well, because it is a commandment for the angels too — practicing for the arrival of the King. It is a dress rehearsal for the wedding of the Messiah.

He is telling you to get ready, to prepare yourself, to be a wise virgin — to blow trumpets, to shout, to understand the scriptures that show He is going to return on the last trump, which is literal, not symbolic, on the Feast of Trumpets. His wrath will begin for ten days, He will then redeem the nation of Israel on Yom Kippur, and all of these beautiful commandments point forward to that fulfillment.

For those asking how to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets: follow the commandment. There are many beautiful oral traditions, and there is nothing wrong with them, but do not let them become a burden — especially if you are new to the feasts. Follow what is written. For Passover that means eating lamb, bitter herbs, unleavened bread, and taking communion. For the Feast of Trumpets it means a Sabbath rest, blowing a trumpet or shouting, and making an offering to the Lord. If you do not have a shofar, shout, or listen to someone blow one. Spend quiet time in prayer, study the prophetic scriptures surrounding the second coming, and give — whether that is a tithe to a ministry or wherever the Lord leads you. The offering by fire in the text was performed only by the high priest in Israel at the temple, and since we currently have no temple, no high priest, and most of us do not live in Israel, we take that commandment in its proper context.