Knowing the Time of Visitation and Resurrection

In Luke 19:41-44, Yeshua wept over Jerusalem, saying, "If you had only known, even you, especially in your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you and close you in on every side; and they will throw you down, and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." He chastises those who did not understand the time of their visitation. This applies to both Jews and Christians today.

Many will be caught as a thief in the night for not understanding the times and seasons, as Paul states in 1 Thessalonians 5. The remnant always understands. They recognized Nissan 10 when Yeshua rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, singing "Hosanna," the hymn for the feast days, with Psalm 118 being the crucifixion hymn. It is not about pagan holidays.

The Feast of Trumpets is the next divine appointment Yeshua will fulfill. It occurs during the season of the great harvest, symbolically representing the great winepress of God's wrath. The "day of the Lord" is associated with grapes and the winepress.

The days of creation are prophetic. Peter states that a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. Moses in Psalm 90 also indicates this. The Lord worked for six days and rested on the seventh, creating a pattern: six years of work and a seventh year of rest (Schmita), and a seventh millennium of rest. We will work 6,000 years and rest on the 7,000th year when He returns.

Most scholars agree that from Adam to Yeshua is 4,000 years (four completed days), and approximately 2,000 years have passed since Yeshua (two days). This totals nearly 6,000 completed years. Hosea 6:1-2 prophesies, "After two days, I will revive you; on the third day He will restore us, that we may live in His presence." This refers to 2,000 years after the first coming, and on the third day (3,000 years), we will live in His presence.

Leviticus 23:23-24 commands: "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. It shall be a Sabbath to the Lord. And you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord."'" This is the command for Tishrei 1.

September 11th going into the 12th is a Sabbath rest, a memorial blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. On this divine appointment, God wants us to blow trumpets and fellowship with Him as a dress rehearsal because one day the last trumpet will blast, and we will be resurrected to Him forevermore. This apocalyptic event will defy human reasoning and science.

There are also other events that will occur on the Feast of Trumpets pertaining to Messiah's second coming. These are crucial in understanding the ultimate completion of God's plan of salvation for His set-apart people. As it is written, "the testimony of Yeshua is the spirit of prophecy."

These events are important because they relate to the resurrection, or what some people call the rapture, and they eliminate much misunderstanding. We must understand these events according to the Feast of Trumpets so that we are not deceived and do not think things will happen before they truly do, as He has given us this understanding throughout the Holy Scriptures.