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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 528
proclaiming peace and safety before Christ's return and then sudden destruction would come
upon them as a thief in the night. But in contrast, he instructed, the followers of Christ would be
watching and would see the time was at hand. He writes: “But of the times and the seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore
let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6)
According to Michael John Rood, a Messianic Rabbi, the Jewish feast days are prophetic
pictures of Bible prophecy. There are both spring feasts and fall feasts. The spring feasts were a
rehearsal of Christs first coming and his crucifixion and the fall feasts are a prophetic picture of
the second coming of Jesus Christ. For example, Passover provided a reminder of when the
judgment of God passed over God's people. In order for judgment to pass over they had to be
obedient. They had to sacrificed the lamb and put the blood on their door posts. This act was a
prophetic picture of when Jesus would be sacrificed as our Passover lamb. The Gospels tell us
that Jesus was crucified on the passover at the very time of the Passover sacrifice.
An example of a prophetic picture of the second coming of Jesus Christ can be found in
the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) which occurs on Tishri 1 of the Jewish calendar each
year. Rood says that major prophetic events occur on feast days. Rood says that the Feast of
Trumpets symbolizes the day that Christ will turn to the earth and his return will actually occur
on this feast. But the day of the Feast of Trumpets is a day which no man knoweth the day or the
hour. Tishri is the seven month in the Jewish calender; it occurs in September or October of our
calender. The beginning of the first month of the Jewish calender is determined when the barley
is abiv (ready for harvest). No one knows what day this will be. Therefore, the actual day of the
Feast of Trumpets can not be predicted years in advance but we know the season and as events
unfold, we'll eventually know the year.
The Seven Day Millennial Week
The seven day week points to God as the creator. All cycles other than the week are
based on natural observations. A day is the cycle in which the earth rotates. The month originates
from the lunar cycle. The year is the cycle in which the earth rotates around the sun. The weekly
cycle is used the world over but has no relevance whatsoever to any cycle except the weekly
cycle God ordained as creator. God created the earth and everything in it in six days and on the
seventh day He finished his work and rested (Genesis 1 and 2:1-2).
The seven day week has prophetic significance as well. Each day of the seven day week
represents 1,000 years. Near the beginning of the seventh day week God will finish His work
here on earth and then Jesus will return. The redeemed will rest with Jesus for 1,000 years during
the millennium (Revelation 20:6). Right now we are living in the beginning of the seventh day.
God will soon finish His work and Jesus will soon return.
These truths are revealed in scripture; some are very plain when one reads scripture and
others become clear once they are explained. Peter told us that we should not be ignorant that
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