Sukkot, High Rapture Watch

Rosh Hashana is the highest Rapture watch festival, but Yom Kippur and Sukkot can't be ruled out. Rosh Hashana lines up very nicely since it's the trumpet feast and is the feast of which no man knew the day or hour in Biblical times. It has an additional small list of other alignments that I won't go into now. It came and went with no Rapture this year as did Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur and Sukkot don't line up as neatly, though each day has commonalities with the Rapture. I'll skip Yom Kippur since it's over.

Sukkot(or Succot) is called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths in Christianity. In Judaism it's celebrated for seven days by living in a booth and has associated ritual observances. That doesn't seem very Rapturish, but one of the minor names for Sukkot is the Feast of Ingathering and was a time to celebrate the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and the ingathering of the harvest at the end of summer. The Rapture is the ingathering of the saints at the end of the church age. Since Sukkot lasts seven days, the Rapture could fall on any day, and no man would know the day or hour.

As noted in this blog, if Matthew 24:32-34 and Psalm 90:10 are consistent with each other and with other scriptures, the Tribulation will begin on or during the week of November 9, 2020. Having the Rapture this late would seem to be cutting it close, but there's still plenty of time left to get a covenant in place to confirm. Apparently, the Abraham Accords is that covenant, so maybe it's already in place and only needs to be signed by the many and then confirmed.

The Rapture doesn't have to fall on a feast day. It could be any time. However, the spring feasts are already fulfilled. The fall ones have yet to be fulfilled. If the Rapture falls on a fall feast, it would be a logical way of fulfilling one. If it's Sukkot, it would fulfill the ingathering part for sure, if not the whole feast.

So, what if the Tribulation doesn't begin this year? At the least it would mean the New Testament and the Old Testament are not consistent with each other and open the possibility of two messiahs, a suffering servant and a conquering king. It could also mean there's a translation error at play. It could also mean every gospel that mentions the prophecy of the fig tree is corrupted. I could also mean, gulp, that Christianity is false. Pagans would have a field day. The inconsistency in scripture would extend beyond the two passages mentioned above. It would go into the parables in the gospels, into the book of Revelation, etc. If the Tribulation doesn't begin this year, we would have a huge, theological mess on our hands. It's easier to believe that scripture is as consistent as it's always been and that the appearance of the Antichrist is very close at hand.

Have a great weekend.