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THE RAPTURE OF                           THE RETURN OF                                 113
   THE CHURCH BY CHRIST                                   CHRIST
                                                                                   THE REIGN OF
         WILL TAKE PLACE                         WILL TAKE PLACE                         CHRIST
ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS                ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
                                                                             WILL TAKE PLACE ON
                      5                                        6        THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

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 “FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND            “AND I WILL POUR ON…                  “AND THE LORD SHALL BE
        FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT,       THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM              KING OVER ALL THE EARTH…

   WITH THE VOICE OF AN ARCHANGEL,              THE SPIRIT OF GRACE…                      ALL THE NATIONS…
      AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD.                            THEN                 SHALL GO UP YEAR TO YEAR
        AND THE DEAD WILL RISE FIRST.
                                              THEY SHALL LOOK ON ME                    TO WORSHIP THE KING,
 THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN           WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED;                      THE LORD OF HOSTS,
   WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH        THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM…                                    AND
                                          IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE                               TO KEEP
THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD
IN THE AIR. AND THUS WE SHALL ALWAYS              A GREAT MOURNING               THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES…”
                                                     IN JERUSALEM…”                             Zech. 14: 9,16
                 BE WITH THE LORD.”                     Zech. 12:10-11
                      1 Thess. 4:16-17

The above Scriptures are but a minute portion of the over-whelming
evidence that the Scriptures present of Jesus Christ fulfilling these last
three prophetic events (the Rapture, the Second Coming and the Millennial
Reign) on the specified days of the remaining three feasts depicted in
Leviticus 23. I dealt with this subject in-depth in this recent book I wrote on
the significance of the Feasts of the Lord.

What I would like to present to you in the remainder

of this newsletter is to elaborate on

this third and final dispensation:      We have seen how the first three feasts of Leviticus 23

FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD:                                  (Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits) depict a

                                        harmonious message with the contents of the four gospels.

      “...FOR ALL                                Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection were on the very
        SHALL                                    appointed days of the first three feasts in Leviticus 23.

      KNOW ME,                                     We saw that Paul not only called these three events
      FROM THE                                   “the gospel” (1 Cor. 15:1-4), but then proceeded to teach
      LEAST OF                          Gentile believers how Christ fulfilled these feasts one-by-one

        THEM                                                                                       (1 Cor. 5:6-8, 1 Cor. 15:20-23).
       TO THE
                                           We also established that the fourth feast (Pentecost-Feast
3 GREATEST
            OF
         THEM.”

CHRIST’S SECOND COMING:                       of Weeks) was fulfilled by the giving of the Holy Spirit
                                        specifically, “…when the Day of Pentecost had fully come”
  RAPTURE RETURN REIGN

                                                                                 (Acts 2:1).

            BOOK OF                         We saw also that the “long interval” between the timing of
          REVELATION                           the fourth and fifth feast (3 months) depicts this present
                                                  church age. Twenty-one epistles were written by five
        GLORIFICATION
                                        apostles giving instruction to the church as how to live in this
     (“TO DIGNIFY,HONOR,GLORIFY”)                                                                 present evil age.

     “OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN…               Now we come to the fourth and final book of the New
  WE EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE SAVIOR…          Testament, the Book of Revelation. This prophetic book is

              WHO WILL TRANSFORM                  the last book of the New Testament and contains the
    OUR LOWLY BODY THAT IT MAY BE       fulfillment of the last three feasts from Leviticus 23, the Feast
CONFORMED TO HIS GLORIOUS BODY…”
                                                  of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of
                    Phil. 3:20-21         Tabernacles. The events they typify are the Rapture (Feast
                                          of Trumpets), the Second Coming (Day of Atonement), and

                                                  the Millennial Reign of Christ (Feast of Tabernacles).
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