Second Coming during Feast of Tabernacles?

Q. Can we expect Jesus’ Second coming to occur on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles?

A. I believe that the prophetic scenario will play out this way. We are approaching the 6000^th year from creation. When the year 6001 occurs, it begins the last 1000 years of history, of time as we know it. This time period is called “the Day of the Lord”, “the Last day”, “the Sabbath of God” “the Millennium” and other terms. This last 1000 years begins on Yom Teruah or as it is known today as Rosh Ha Shannah which means “the head of the year”. Yom Teruah is the biblical name for this day (Num 29). It is also known as “the day no man knows” because this is the only festival that occurs on a new moon and you can’t start a month without sighting the new moon first so “no man knows” when a month starts until the new moon is sighted.

This festival has many themes attached to it but the four main ones are resurrection, the coronation of the Messiah, judgment and the wedding of the Messiah. This is the day the Yeshua will resurrect the bodies of the departed believers and those who are alive physically at the time will be caught up with them, called the Natzal (1 Thes 4.13-18) and be taken to Heaven for 7 years, or wedding week called a “shavuah.” 10 days later is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. This is the day the Birth-pains of the Messiah will begin, or the Tribulation period. The countdown of 2,520 days, a time, begins on this Yom Kippur, year 6001 from creation. The exact halfway point of the tribulation will be Nisan 10. This is the day Yeshua rode into Jerusalem and presented Himself as Messiah. This will also be the day the false Messiah will go into the Temple of God and declare Himself “Jesus” the Messiah as well. This will begin the last 1260 days, or a “time, times and half a time” leading up to another Yom Kippur. So the Tribulation will begin on a Yom Kippur.

The halfway point of the Tribulation will be Nisan 10 and the last day will be a Yom Kippur. It is this Yom Kippur (Matt 24.29-31) that ends the 7 year Tribulation that I believe Yeshua will return to Jerusalem and destroy the False Messiah, the false Prophet and their followers (Rev 19). In the Temple service there were two goats on Yom Kippur. One was sacrificed “to the Lord” but the other was called “Azazel” which means “to the wilderness” and it is killed and it is this goat that is symbolic of the False Messiah. Yeshua will return to the city on Yom Kippur. For the next 5 days there will a judgment of those who survived the Tribulation. Some will be believers and some will not. This judgment is discussed in many places in the Scripture but Matt. 25 is a good start. After these 5 days we come up to the Feast of Sukkot, or Tabernacles, and by this time there are no unbelievers who have survived the Tribulation and the judgment of the sheep and goats.

These believers along, with those who returned from Heaven with Yeshua, will enter the Messianic Kingdom for the balance of the 1000 years (Rev 20). At the end of the 1000 years Satan will be released from his bonds and instigate another rebellion with many of those born from the Tribulation survivors and their descendants. This will quickly be put out and then there is another resurrection. Those that have died as believers after year 6001 will be resurrected as a part of the first resurrection. The first resurrection has already started, beginning with Yeshua (first phase) and the second phase will bethose resurrected after Him in the first century (Matt 27.52-53). The third phase happened on Yom Teruah year 6001 with the Natzal or catching away of the believers before the Tribulation began and the final phase will be these believers. The second resurrection will involve all unbelievers of all time.

These unbelievers will stand before the Great white Throne of God and be condemned forever in the Lake of Fire. After this we enter what is called “the Olam Haba” or the world to come and there isn’t a lot of Scripture about this age but whatever it is the Scripture says we can’t even imagine what it will be like, so I won’t speculate. Understanding the biblical festivals is a must if you are going to understand biblical prophecy. The spring festivals are Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and Shavuot. The literal fulfillment of these festivals were accomplished on the very day they were celebrated by Yeshua in His first coming. The fall festivals are Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot and there is no reason to believe that Yeshua will not fulfill these literally, on the day they are celebrated as well. Of course these are my observations, beliefs and opinions and I submit them for you to consider. Thanks for the question.