THE "DAY" OF ATONEMENT

I had hoped the Rapture would come on the Feast of Trumpets, because two of the passages which refer to the Rapture of the Church, mention a trumpet (1 Cor. 15:52 and 1 Thes. 4:16).  Well, we are still here, so as disappointed as I am, there are still six days before the Jewish Feast of Atonement, which I believe refers to the Tribulation.  IF the Tribulation will begin on the 23rd of this month, then the Rapture has to occur within a week!  That is because the Feast of Atonement is described as the wrath of God (Num. 16:46; Zeph. 1:15; Rom. 2:5; Rev. 6:17; etc.) and the Church will not be here according to 1 Thes. 5:9)!  Here are some references to the Day of Atonement:

"Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you (Israel); and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD" (Lev. 23:27).

"Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall ye (Israel) make the trumpet sound throughout all your land" (Lev. 25:9).

"And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you . . . And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you (Israel) . . . And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein . . . One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings" (Num. 29:1, 5, 7, 11).

 

"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we (the Church) shall be saved by His life.  And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement" (Rom. 5:8-11).

 

 

No wonder this dispensation is known as the Age of Grace!