21st Century Revelation's premise is that we are living in the End Times right before the Rapture. We see four
horses on the run and hear five
trumpets sounding during the
Church Age. As the
spring feasts predict Jesus Christ's redemption of humanity, the
fall feasts predict His return with key events of the
Rapture,
Tribulation and
Second Coming.
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation is past. For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain (
Isaiah 26:19-20, 21).
Trumpets - Rapture - 1st-2nd of Tishri - Leviticus 23:23-25
The Church Age starts at
Pentecost and ends at the Rapture. Many scholars put the Rapture at
Revelation 4:1-2. However, John was called up to heaven in a vision not the Church.
Revelation 12:5-6 tells the story of a woman, child and dragon. Mary gave birth to Jesus and fled with Joseph into the wilderness. Israel gave birth to the Church which is "caught up" before she flees into the wilderness.
Revelation is not sequential but a
spiral of events that ends with the reigns of Jesus Christ.
Although we all go through tribulation (
John 16:33), God protects His people from the seven years of Tribulation (
Luke 17:26-27, 28-29, Revelation 3:10). At the sound of the trumpet, Jesus Christ calls His children home. The dead in Christ are resurrected to life and all believers meet Jesus Christ in the air (
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). The Rapture occurs on the 1st of
Tishri,
Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets in September-October. Paul used a Hebrew figure of speech "Last Trump" to refer to Trumpets. The hundredth blast of the
shofar is called
Tekiah Gedolah or Last Trump (
1 Corinthians 15:51-52).
The Rapture is
Yom Hakeseh or the Hidden Day. No one knew when the new year began until they saw the crescent new moon. No one saw Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead so we will be resurrected and raptured in hiding. When? God gave us the answer in the first verse of the Bible. On the
Jewish Calendar,
Tishri is the beginning with creation and end with the
return of Jesus Christ.
On
Alpha b'Tishri, God created the heavens and earth (
Genesis 1:1).