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Jesus' Birthday's Coming......Will He Show Up?
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Jesus' First Coming was his Birth day during the Feast Of Tabernacles some 2,000 yrs. ago....Will His 2nd Coming Be On His Birthday this year?
We'll see....Feast of Tabernacles starts Oct.1st and lasts for 7 days.
Hopefully he'll show up during one of those days next week -then we're out of here for the party in the mansion.(John 14:1-2)
This is part of an article explaining it in detail from Matt Leasher - www.raptureready.org
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link for full article:
[link to www.raptureready.com]
...... It is during this Feast that Jesus may very well have been born. While we can’t be dogmatic about it there are some clues that relate to His birth and the harvest, which is what this joyous Feasts celebrates.
For one thing the Gospel of John says, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,” (John 1:14). The Greek text translates the word “dwelt” as “tabernacle”. The Greek word skenoo literally means, “to pitch a tent”. So that verse literally reads “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us”. In context John is speaking of the birth of Christ. Another hint that Christ may very well have been born on the Feast of Tabernacles is in Isaiah 9:1-7. This prophetic section of Scripture is foretelling the coming of the Messiah unto Israel and in verse 2-3 it mentions that it would be during the “joy of the harvest” which is precisely what the Feast of Tabernacles is. It should also be noted that when Elizabeth heard of Mary’s pregnancy she said to Mary, “Blessed is the fruit of your womb”.
The seven Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23 are exactly what they are called, “Feasts of the Lord”. They are His Feasts, (see Leviticus 23:2), meaning they all relate to Him and point to His coming. It would only seem fitting that Jesus would be born on a Feast day. It would also seem fitting that Jesus would come again on a Feast day, perhaps the same day He came the first time? Perhaps the Rapture or the 2nd Coming will be during the Feast of Tabernacles? Perhaps both? While we can’t positively answer these questions we can find a clue in the 7th chapter of the Gospel of John that pertains to Jesus “secretly” attending the Feast of Tabernacles during His first advent that could be a foreshadow of the Rapture.
In John 7:2 it says that the Feast of Tabernacles was at hand and His brothers being in disbelief of Him were coaxing Him to go to the Feast and show Himself but Jesus said: You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come. Then in verse 10 it says this: But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. Could this be a prophetic clue to the timing of the Rapture when He comes secretly for His faithful followers at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles?
In Numbers 10:10 the Lord commands that trumpets are to be blown on Feast days. The return of Christ, both the Rapture and 2nd Coming are described with trumpets being blown. In 1 Corinthians 15:52 it says: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. The Feast of Tabernacles is the last Feast of the Lord on the Hebrew calendar and the Lord commanded that trumpets be blown on all Feast days. Could this be the last trump that the Holy Spirit led Paul to write about in his description of the coming Rapture? The seven days that make up the Feast of Tabernacles could also represent the seven years that we will be under God’s protection during the 7 year Tribulation dwelling in the rooms that Jesus has prepared for us, (John 14:1-4). See also Isaiah 26:19-21.
The sound of a trumpet is also associated with Christ’s physical return at the end of the Tribulation as described in Matthew 24:31. Could it be possible that the Feast of Tabernacles is the timing of Christ’s first advent, (birth at Christmas), Rapture and His 2nd Coming? Tabernacles is a 7 day Feast so we still wouldn’t know the day or the hour of His return but we are commanded to be watching and to be discerners of the times. (Matthew 16:3)
It is also interesting that the Feast of Tabernacles will also be celebrated during the millennial reign of Christ, (Zechariah 14:16 & Ezekiel 45:25). Surely Tabernacles is a Feast of high stature in the eyes of God if it will be celebrated forever and He wants us to know it. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 it says: “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; A time to be born and a time to die.” God has pre-appointed times for everything under heaven and Jesus was “foreordained before the foundation of the world”, (1 Peter 1:20). If Jesus’ first advent fulfilled and coincided with the first 4 Feast of the Lord then it seems only logical that we look at the last 3 Feasts of the Lord for signs of His second coming. The Lord always provides signs of His coming before He comes.
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14)
O’ Come, O’ Come Emmanuel!
Merry Christmas to all.
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