A Typological Case for the Rapture Connection to Hanukkah 2025 - December 14-22
I have said this before and I will repeat it. I am not the arbiter of truth. This is a Biblically based interpretation of the Bible, it is relevant to the topic of the rapture and it is unique to this blog. That is all that is required for me to post this.
However, I disagree with this interpretation but it does provide very good information so I encourage everyone to watch it.
1. Yes, Enoch represents the saints raptured before the tribulation and yes, Hanukah is based on the name of Enoch, it is the root.
However, after the church in Philadelphia is raptured it says that the synagogue will know that Jesus loved them and will confess that Jesus was truly with them. If we call those who are raptured "Enoch" you can see why the left behind tribulation saints would also pattern themselves after Enoch. The name Enoch means "dedicated" or "consecrated" and Hanukah tells the story of a group of saints going through the tribulation with a Antichrist like figure, they rededicate themselves.
The story begins, just like the tribulation saints, with them fleeing to the mountains.
The story describes them going through a famine, where they only have oil for one day but it lasts for eight days, just like the miraculous support that the tribulation saints will get.
Yes, you can therefore see many parallels with the life and experience of those raptured before the tribulation. The big problem for me is that we are told the seven year tribulation is 2,520 days and it is divided precisely in half with the ministry of the two witnesses being 1,260 days and the time that the woman is in the wilderness is also 1,260 days. I believe the mid point will be Passover. When the Jews look on Him whom they pierced and weep it will be immediately after that and then they will celebrate 2nd Passover as described in the OT with Hezekiah. This then concludes with the Feast of Tabernacles (the wedding of the Lord).
The Feast of Tabernacles is September 19th through September 26th of 2032. That would mean that the tribulation would start anywhere from October 26th, to November 2nd. Yes there is a lot of wiggle room, but Hanukah doesn't fit with that. Also, Passover is March 30, 2029 to April 7, 2029 (feast of unleavened bread). Go back 1,260 days and you get October 17th through October 24th. If we use the Julian calendar which is what they used when Jesus was crucified we get October 30th through November 7th on the Gregorian calendar. Again, we have wiggle room, but not enough to include Hanukah.
In my opinion these numbers are useful in checking any dates that are predicted.
Also, it is very reasonable to suggest that the Great tribulation begins on April 13th, 2029 when Apophis has its closest pass to Earth. That would be Passover on the Julian calendar. Go back 1,260 days from that day and you come to October 31st. Since we know that the rapture coincides with the three days of darkness (just like Jesus' crucifixion was followed immediately by a three day tour of Hades), this would mean that Halloween, All Saints Day and the Day of the dead would coincide with the three days of darkness.
Halloween begins at sunset, just as Jesus died right before sunset. This year it is on Friday, just like Jesus was crucified on Friday. Also, just like Jesus cried "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me" that will also be the cry of those Christians who are left behind. Halloween is a harvest festival and that coincides with Jeremiah which says the harvest is past and we are not saved.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
This is a reference to the rapture. It is a play on words in Hebrew.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
This describes the three days of darkness.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
This is a reference to why they are judged and left behind.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
This tells us that the attack on October 7, 2023 was a foretaste of what this day will be like for the left behind saints.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Another very clear reference to the rapture as well as to Jesus' crucifixion.
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
What are "our songs"? What is "our feasts"? Thanksgiving is "our feast" and "Christmas" is our feast as well as all the songs associated with Christmas are "our songs". All Christians know that Jesus was not actually born on December 25th, but they choose to celebrate this anyway, hence this is not a feast of the Lord mentioned in the Bible, it is a Feast of the apostate church. The Christmas songs for the most part are not the Lord's songs, they are the songs of the apostate church. Granted there are a few beautiful hymns of the Lord that are His songs, but they are not the songs that are played on the radio.