On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:29 AM CDT or 8:29 AM Jerusalem time (IDT) is the astronomical new moon. It takes about eighteen hours for the crescent new moon to be visible. Thursday, September 21 at 2:29 AM IDT is night. If the crescent moon is seen, the new year begins on Thursday, September 21 at 6:37 PM IDT or 10:37 AM CDT and ends at twilight on Saturday, September 23. Otherwise, the new year begins on Friday, September 22 at 6:35 PM IDT or 10:35 AM CDT and ends at twilight on Sunday, September 24.

Yom Teruah - The Feast of Trumpet - Rapture

Jewish tradition says that the new month begins after two witnesses see the crescent new moon, testify before the Sanhedrin who declare the beginning of the new month. This usually happens a day after the astronomical new moon. Messengers set beacon fires on hills to signal the new month. Distant communities celebrate Trumpets on two possible days. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the new month and new civil year. Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is the Rapture.

1.  Day of Blowing the Shofar or Ram's Horn

Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri. Four spring feast of redemption were fulfilled on feast days so three fall feast of return will be fulfilled on feast days.

In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. You shall do no work: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord (Leviticus 23:24-25).

2.  Day of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year.

The Feast of Trumpets is on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish civil year which begins on a new moon in the late summer or fall. After the night's prayer service, a special greeting is used: "Ketiva ve-chatima tovah" or "May you be written and sealed for a good year".

Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed [full moon], on our solemn feast [sacrifice] days (Psalm 81:3).

3.  Day of Creation and Birth of Adam

The Feast of Trumpets is the Jewish celebration of the creation of the world and Adam. Genesis is Beresheet but right to left (teeshereB) is the 1st of Tishri. The month of Tishri is the beginning (creation) and the end with Trumpets (Rapture), Atonement (Second Coming) and Tabernacles (Reign of Jesus Christ).

In the beginning [Alpha b'Tishri] God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

4.  Day of the Awakening Blast and Day of Shouting

The Feast of Trumpets is the day of shouting, the resurrection of the dead and the rapture of believers. God rescues those in Christ from imminent danger.

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 [resurrection]: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [rapture] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

5.  Day of the Last Trump

On the Feast of Trumpets, the prayer service includes a hundred blasts of the shofar with four sounds: Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah and Tekiah Gedolah. Paul tells us when the last trump (Tekiah Gedolah) is sounded on the Feast of Trumpets, we will transform from life to eternal life.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump [Tekiah Gedolah]: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1 Corinthians 15:52).

6.  Day That No One Knows

The Feast of Trumpets can occur after the 29th or 30th day of Elul, so no one knows the day or hour until the crescent moon appears in the late afternoon sky. Jesus uses a Jewish figure of speech to tell us the day of the Rapture is the Feast of Trumpets.

But of that day and hour knows no man (Matthew 24:36).

7.  Day of the Marriage Feast of the Lamb

The Feast of Trumpets is the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony. Both Jacob's and Samson's weddings last for one week.

In my Father's house are many [rooms]: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:2-3).

God tells us what is going to happen before it happens. This time He tells us that the Rapture occurs on the Feast of Trumpets which is the Jewish New Year. Since God told us the day of the Rapture but not the year, the four horses, seven trumpets and other events tell us important events that occur before the Tribulation.

Feast of Trumpets is the right day but is this the right year?

Jewish Feast Dates

The sun, moon and stars are not only used to tell time but also for prophetic signs. Those signs are linked to Jewish days. Key days to watch are the 9th of Av (Kadesh Barnea) and high holy days of Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. Below is a list of 2017-2030 Jewish dates. This table follows calculated dates and must be confirmed by observation. See Jewish Calendar, Tishri. 

God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. (Genesis 1:14).