When Rapture Predictions Go Wrong (Sept 23, 2025) — don't miss the elephant in the room

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This year there's been a lot of confident prophetic declarations that the Rapture will occur on 23rd September 2025.
Speaker B:He says to me, on the 23rd and 24th September 2025, I will come to take my church. There's a date, There is a date on the 23rd and 24th September, 2025. 2025. So what happens 2026 now we are 100% confident. 100% does not do it for me. I'm a billion percent sure.
Speaker A:This date also aligns with the Biblical Feast of Trumpets and this all boosted it to become some sort of an Internet sensation, which you may have seen on social media. This spread so far, in fact, that even the New York Times picked up on it and published an article. Most of us know by now that date setting the Second Coming is not a good idea, and so I won't be spending much time telling you that, but rather I believe this whole situation exposed an elephant in the room that I haven't seen mentioned. It's strange that Christianity enters these moments of obsession with the biblical feast days when it comes to predicting the end of the world. Until the novelty wears off, until the date comes and goes. And yes, we should be careful about believing these date setting prophecies, but at the same time we should also recognize God used biblical feast days to the very day in the first coming of Christ, predicting the moments of the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was crucified on the Feast of Passover, buried on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, raised on first fruits, and 50 days later, the Holy Spirit is poured out on Shavuot, as you may know it as Pentecost. And as the first coming of Christ was so wonderfully placed on God's prophetic calendar, we see now the second coming of Christ has three feast days left that have not been fulfilled yet. Those feasts being the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Sukkot. We read in our New Testament that Jesus will arrive with the blowing of Trump, beckoning to the Feast of Trumpets, and that after his arrival that he will have the judgment, the separation of the sheep and the goats, referring to that Day of Atonement, seeing who is going to be saved. And of course we see that he marries his bride on Sukkot, also known as the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. Keeping the biblical feast days every year as they were intended by God means that they're not this momentary high, loaded with speculations, they're much better studied by us and understood by us, and not just considered because it's trendy today on the Internet, but because they are biblical forever. And it's important to note that in contrast to this date prediction prophet that we saw in the beginning of this video, the biblical feast days are less about date prediction and more about preparation of the body of Christ. Keeping the Feast of Trumpets, a day of Atonement or Sukkot annually will teach you about the signs of his coming. But more importantly, prepare your heart for it. Since the Feast of Trumpets is significant today and has not been fulfilled by the Messiah yet, let the recognition of its importance move you to actually start setting the day apart as God instructed, because then you'll be much better prepared for his return. The wise man that we read about who accompanied the coming of Christ at his birth, they came to bring gifts to the Messiah. And they didn't do so because they heard of this year's trendy apocalyptic fad, but because for years and years they were studying, observing and understanding the signs that God was to one day bring together to announce the arrival the King. And this all begins for us by returning to obeying God in keeping the biblical feast days, just as Jesus and his disciples kept them all. That's what they were doing during Passover at the Last Supper, after all. And notice that it was once they gathered for the biblical feast of Shavuot, also known as Pentecost, that the Holy Spirit was poured out and that there was revival whereby 3,000 were baptized. And most Christians think that the outpouring of the spirit in Acts 2 is where we get the name Pentecost. But in reality, the Holy Spirit fulfilled the word of God, that word which gave us and proclaimed to us the biblical feast. And the disciples were simply keeping one such feast called Shavuot, given in the Torah when the Spirit fell on them. And when Jesus was telling his disciples to wait in Jerusalem for this mystery that will arrive to them, he was hinting towards the counting of the Omer and another biblical commandment to count seven weeks from Passover to Shavuot or Pentecost. Because remember, the disciples were in the moment right between Passover where Jesus was crucified and Shavuot. It's the day where the Holy Spirit would be poured out. And that day, which was already recorded on God's calendar and was already to be kept as a feast by all of Jerusalem, the disciples were already instructed by the word of God to count the days to Pentecost and Jesus telling them to wait in Jerusalem was a reminder of where they should spend their time keeping the biblical commandment to count towards the feast. Now this all should not surprise us because that's what they've been doing with Jesus every year of his ministry. He was obedient to his Father, yet we've stopped, we've ignored it. And then we hear a trendy whisper and recognize a hunger inside of us that there's something missing. We want to know more about his return, but. But the best we've got is an Internet prophecy setting a date without Biblical support. And so we latch onto that and then it passes as a fad and we don't dig deeper to see what's actually biblical, what's actually meaningful and left by our God for us to have true prophetic direction and hope. We've spent so much time on our worldly holidays every year, and Halloween is coming up as I speak. But this is your call to discover the biblical feast days which have actual meaning and teach you more about Jesus and His second coming. So what does the Scriptures tell us about His Second coming and how we should perceive it? The Scriptures warn that we should not mock the day of his return, for it is written, many will say, where is the promise of his coming? We should also not despise prophecy as it is written in 1 Thessalonians 5. Do not despise prophecy, but test everything and hold fast to what is good. And the Scripture warns us to not predict the day or the hour, as Christ said concerning the day or the hour, no one knows, not even the Son of but the Father. Only today many people are either mocking his return or trying to predict the day or the hour. The narrow path is patiently watching for the signs, observing God's law and gospel with fruits of the Spirit in our lives, and holding fast to the testimony of Christ. That's not as trendy in this world, but that's biblical. Psalm 81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon and at the full moon on our feast day. If you miss keeping the Feast of Trumpets this year, which just passed, you can still keep the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Sukkot, which is coming up soon. We have teachings of each of these on our playlist on YouTube titled the Father's Festivals. Also subscribe because we'll be talking more about these feasts next week. And if you're wondering about the Rapture and where that takes place on the Biblical timeline, see our teaching titled Testing the Pre Tribulation rapture. Guys, I hope you're having an amazing biblical fall feast season. Thank you for joining me. And I can't wait to see you in the next feast video. Many blessings to you and Shalom.
Bold predictions accompanied this year's Feast of Trumpets, with 'prophets' declaring 23 September as the day of the rapture. Even the NY Times reported on it. But does this momentary fascination with the Feast of Trumpets reveal a hidden hunger in Christianity?
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