A unique characteristic of God is that He is the same today as He was yesterday. Based on this truth we can therefore examine what God has done in the past to understand what He will do in the future. The Lord’s seven appointed feasts can give us insight and understanding to end time events as well as the return of Christ. We should not think that “we are in the dark” and have no way of knowing what God is doing. “But you brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day…” (1 Thess 5:4&5 NASB). God says He “does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). By no means am I a prophet, but like Daniel, we too can read God’s prophets to understand God’s secret counsel. Daniel said, “In the first year of Darius’ reign, I observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely seventy years” (Daniel 9:2).

We could say the same, “In these last days, we did observe in the books the number of years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to His prophets namely Daniel and John, for the completion of the ages”. In my book “You Are At the Time for Love”, I explained the significance of the Lord’s feast as they pertain to the wedding of the end time between Christ and His bride. We saw the detail of each feast and how the Messiah, Jesus Christ, fulfilled the first four feasts with precision and detail. We therefore can conclude that He will keep the same pattern of precision in keeping the timeline of observance of the remaining feasts in His second coming.

Without reservation, we should be able to say with confidence that Christ will retrieve His bride on the day of Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, and return to earth with her to judge the world on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The question remains that if Jesus fulfilled the feasts in consecutive order and in a timely manner, then He would do the same in His second coming. I wrote in my book that from the time of the Feast of Trumpets until the Day of Atonement there would be a seven year delay corresponding with the seven year consummation of the bride of Christ in heaven. Nevertheless, there was no delay in Jesus’ fulfillment of the first four feasts which should pattern the same for the last remaining feast to give this theory validity in determining Jesus’ return to be the Day of Atonement. How then can we reconcile this difference? The answer to the question can be found in Scripture observed in the books of the prophets. The Lord gave Daniel a vision of the end time and said “the vision pertains to the time of the end. I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time of the end” (Daniel 8:17&19). The feasts are a major part of Christ return and they are a shadow of things to come (Colossians 2:16-17).

The vision Daniel received gave us a prophetic timetable of the end time events and decreed for Daniel’s people seventy weeks (Dan. 9:1). From the time Daniel received the vision and prophecy about the future of Israel and the death of the Messiah was 69 weeks (Dan. 9:26). The time period between the death of the Messiah and the beginning of the one week covenant with the anti-christ can not be determined but only concluded by observing the signs of the times. Just as the end of the Feast of Weeks and the observance of the Feast of Trumpets were determined by the sign of the appearing of the new moon on the 1st of Tishri, so will this time period be understood through the signs of the times. However, it is understood that God has allotted 7,000 years to complete His perfect work seen in the days of creation and His rest on the seventh day (2 Peter :8). We are in the sixth day of the Lord and at the time of the observance of the sixth feast, Yom Teruah, known as the rapture of the bride. Once the bride is abducted and taken by Christ to His Fathers house for consummation, the prophetic time clock of God will trigger the beginning of the last week of the seventy weeks for Daniel’s people the Jews. This time period is called by the Jews “the time of Jacob’s trouble” or “the birth pangs of the Messiah” and will last seven years. One week is equal to 7 years in the Bible.

If the rapture or abduction of the bride is truly to take place on Yom Teruah (The Feast of Trumpets) and last for seven years, then we should be able to determine Christ return from that point according to the prophets. Daniel gives us the time period during the covenant to be one week. He also says that in the middle of the week the man of lawlessness will stop temple sacrifices and desolate the temple of the Jews (Daniel 9:27). He also gives the number of days up to this point of abomination of desolation to be 1,290 days. John the revelator also gives us the number of days that the lawless one will be given to desecrate the temple and blaspheme God to be 42 months or 1,260 days (Rev. 13:5 & 12:6). This adds up to be 2,550 days, 1,260 + 1,290 = 2,550. If Christ is to return to the earth after seven years with His bride on the Day of Atonement, then it must add up to 2,550 days.

Realizing that the rapture is on the Feast of Trumpets and knowing that this in a New Moon festival we can count the number of moons that would appear during this time. There are 86 moons that will appear during a seven year period seen on any lunar calendar. The moon revolves around the earth every 29.530589 days. Times this by 86 moons will equal to 2,539.63 days and can be rounded up to 2,540 days. This would get us back to the Feast of Trumpets seven years later on the day 1st day of Tishri. We must count 10 days to get us to the Day of Atonement which gives us the 2,550 days allotted by God and revealed to His prophets Daniel and John.