12/09/2025
THE Bible teaches that there is an appointed time for everything (Ecc. 3:1).
While only God knows the timing of the Rapture, there are at least 12 biblical reasons to believe that it could be the Feast of Trumpets.
1. NAME MEANING
The Hebrew name for the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah, means ‘Day of Shouting’ or ‘Day of Trumpeting.’
The Rapture is when Jesus descends with a shout and a trumpet: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout … and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise” (1 Thess. 4:16).
2. HIDDEN MOON
The Feast of Trumpets is observed on the first day of the month, when the moon is in its concealed, or hidden, phase (Lev. 23:24).
The Rapture is when the Church, symbolized by the moon, is hidden: “Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by” (Isa. 26:20).
3. DAY AND HOUR UNKNOWN
The Feast of Trumpets begins at the first sighting of the new-moon crescent (Ps. 81:3). Since weather and other factors make the sighting of the crescent unpredictable, “no one knows the day or hour” that the festival begins (Matt. 24:36).
4. CHRONOLOGICAL CONNOTATION
The Feast of Trumpets is the fifth of the seven festivals (Lev. 23). Since the number five signifies ‘grace’ in Scripture, Trumpets is a fitting time for the Rapture that concludes the Age of Grace.
5. BIRTH SIGN
The Feast of Trumpets, when the Sun is in Virgo, is when the Woman “gives birth” (Rev. 12:1–5).
The Rapture is characterized as a “birth” (Isa. 26:17–19; 66:7, 8; Jer. 30:6, 7).
6. DAYS OF NOAH – PEACE AND SECURITY
The Feast of Trumpets coincides with the annual assembly of the UN, the organization founded on the anniversary of Noah’s Flood for the purpose of maintaining “international peace and security.” This is significant because Scripture says when Jesus returns, it will be “like the days of Noah,” and people will be saying “peace and security” (Matt. 24:37–39; 1 Thess. 5:3).
7. WHEAT GATHERING
The Feast of Trumpets occurs at summer’s end, when wheat is gathered into barns or granaries (Deut. 16:13).
The gathering of wheat into barns signifies the gathering of believers into the Father’s House at the Rapture: “Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him” (2 Thess. 2:1). “He will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn” (Matt. 3:12).
8. GRAPE HARVEST
The Feast of Trumpets coincides with Israel’s grape harvest.
In Song of Songs, tender grapes are the last agricultural sign mentioned before the Gentile maid is ‘raptured’ by her beloved Shepherd-King: “The vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away” (Song 2:13).
9. LEFT BEHIND
Prophetically, summer’s end, around the Feast of Trumpets, is when the godly people disappear, and Israel is left behind: “How miserable I am! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat … The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the earth” (Mic. 7:1, 2). “The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved” (Jer. 8:20).
10. WEDDING REMINDER
The Feast of Trumpets is a “memorial” of the trumpet blast at Sinai, when God descended in a cloud and married Israel—a foreshadowing of the Rapture (Lev. 23:24 KJV; Ex. 19).
11. RUTH AND BOAZ’S WEDDING
Ruth and Boaz’s typological wedding may have occurred around the Feast of Trumpets. Though the couple was betrothed, or legally married, around Pentecost, Scripture records that Ruth continued to dwell with her mother-in-law until the end of the wheat harvest (Ruth 2:23). Some translations specify, “till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns” (DRB). If Ruth began cohabiting with Boaz only after the wheat was stored, the marriage may have been consummated in late summer, around Trumpets.
12. “MIDNIGHT” OF THE YEAR
In the Parable of the Virgins, the bridegroom shows up late, around midnight: “The bridegroom was a long time in coming …. [Then] at midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’” (Matt. 25:6).
The Feast of Trumpets occurs late in the harvest season, at the midpoint, or “midnight,” of the year.
TRUMPETS 2025
Having shown how Trumpets is a plausible time for the Rapture, here are some coincidences that make this year’s festival unique:
• Trumpets 2025 lands on September 23–24, a date that matches the chapter and verse numbers assigned to the festival in Leviticus—23:24.
• Trumpets 2025 lands on 9/23, or ‘923,’ the gematria value of the phrase ‘Feast of Trumpets.’
• Trumpets 2025 occurs 923 months after modern Israel’s first Feast of Trumpets in 1948.
• Trumpets 2025 lands on the third day of the biblical week, a day of weddings and resurrection (Ex. 19:16; 1 Cor. 15:4; Hos. 6:2).
• Trumpets 2025 lands on the date that marks 72.6% of the Gregorian year and has a daylength of 726 minutes. Strong’s #726 is the Greek word harpazó, which means to be “caught up,” or raptured (1 Thess. 4:17).
• Trumpets 2025 marks the opening day of the UN’s 80th General Debate, during which a coalition of nations plans to recognize a Palestinian state to bring about “peace and security” (Joel 3:21; 1 Thess. 5:3).
• Trumpets 2025 lands on the day that an asteroid named ‘6000 United Nations’ passes between the horns of Ta**us, the Bull constellation that pictures Jesus judging the nations at the Day of the Lord.
• Trumpets 2025 lands on the equinox that marks the end of the summer harvest season (Matt. 24:32; Mic. 7:1, 2; Jer. 8:20).
• Trumpets 2025 occurs during Israel’s 77th year, matching the age of Jacob (Israel) when he began his seven years of labor to marry Rachel, a picture of the time of “Jacob’s Trouble” (Gen. 29:18; Jer. 30:7).
• Trumpets 2025 occurs during a Jubilee year per three different reckonings—biblical, Catholic, and Essene—marking a first-time synchronization of Jubilee calendars.
• Trumpets 2025 occurs exactly 490 years, or “70 weeks,” after King Suleiman’s command to rebuild Jerusalem’s wall in AD 1535 (Dan. 9:24, 25).
• Trumpets 2025 occurs on the eighth anniversary of an astronomical ‘birth,’ via the Revelation 12 Sign in Virgo. The eight-year interval is significant because the 8th day is when a baby is circumcised, a “putting off of the flesh” that foreshadows the Rapture (Luke 2:21; 1 Cor. 15:50).
• Trumpets 2025 is preceded two weeks by a blood moon eclipse in Aquarius, the constellation that pictures the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that began the Church Age (Acts 2). What’s more, the eclipse marked the last harvest blood moon visible in Israel until 2032 (Joel 2:31).
• Trumpets 2025 is the focus of unprecedented excitement in the watching community, as many report coincidences or confirmations around the 9/23 date. Here is mine: https://tinyurl.com/28387t2ulink
While only time will tell if the coincidences are indeed confirmations, their ubiquity is suggestive of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:17).
• Trumpets 2025 lands on a date that appears inordinately in TV shows and movies with apocalyptic themes. (See a remarkable summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enw_cdRyvdY). A possible explanation for this phenomenon is that the spiritual realm that influences the entertainment industry expects something to occur around 9/23 and has been broadcasting the date to mock or lay the groundwork for some type of deception.
• Trumpets 2025 occurs the day before ‘See You at the Pole Day,’ an international student-led prayer event held on the fourth Wednesday of September, during which students worldwide gather at flagpoles and churches to pray for their communities. Is it a coincidence that this year’s potentially pivotal Feast of Trumpets lands on the day before an annual global prayer event?
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
The Feast of Trumpets is when:
• Shouts and trumpet blasts are heard.
• The moon is hidden.
• No one knows the day or hour.
• The birth sign occurs in Virgo.
• The nations are saying, “peace and security.”
• Wheat is gathered into barns.
• Grapes are harvested.
• The godly people disappear.
• The wedding at Sinai is remembered.
Trumpets 2025 is unique as it occurs:
• On a date that matches the chapter and verse numbers assigned to the festival—23:24.
• On a date that matches the gematria value of the phrase ‘Feast of Trumpets’—923.
• 923 months after modern Israel’s first Feast of Trumpets.
• On the third day of the biblical week.
• On the day that marks 72.6% of the Gregorian year and has a daylength of 726 minutes.
• On the opening day of the UN’s 80th General Debate.
• On the equinox that marks summer’s end.
• During Israel’s 77th year.
• During a Jubilee, per three different reckonings.
• 70 weeks after a command to rebuild Jerusalem’s wall.
• On the eighth anniversary of the ‘birth’ sign in Virgo.
• On the heels of Israel’s last harvest blood moon until 2032.
• On a date that appears inordinately in TV shows and movies with apocalyptic themes.
• At a time of unprecedented excitement and accord in the watching community.
• The day before a global prayer event.
Could Jesus be coming around this year’s Feast of Trumpets?
A convergence like no other has many looking up.
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NOTES:
For further study:
Feast of Trumpets: Rapture and Judgment Signs
https://tinyurl.com/4sjckbhc
Blood Moon Rising: Is the Day of the Lord at Hand?
https://tinyurl.com/vph7bbwf
Trumpet Signs: Personal Confirmations
https://tinyurl.com/28387t2u
Trumpet Signs
https://tinyurl.com/ynb449m3
9/23 Correlations – Coincidence or Confirmation?
https://tinyurl.com/3xz6cyzy
While They Are Saying, “Peace and Security”
https://tinyurl.com/msdfmcjs
Jubilee: Is 2025 the Year of the Lord’s Favor?
https://tinyurl.com/yjmvym46
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE: No one knows the day or hour of Jesus’ return (Matt. 24:36). However, a convergence of biblical signs and timelines suggests that it is near. To escape the judgment reserved for a God-rejecting world, one must know Jesus as Lord and Savior. If you have not yet done so, call on His name and believe that He is the Son of God who died for your sins and was raised from the dead, and you will be saved (Rom. 10:13).
