Feast of Trumpets Rapture on September 23rd, 2025?

“Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.” 

I Cor. 15:51-52

Social media is overflowing at this moment with posts and videos from Christians who are convinced the rapture will occur on September 23rd of 2025, which is the second day of the Feast of Trumpets this year.  The new moon occurs on the night of September 22nd and the 23rd is the first observable waxing crescent of the moon afterwards.   Is this the actual day of Jesus’ return for us as so many have said?  Supporters claim to have had dreams or visions where Jesus revealed this date to them specifically.  They point to the rapture being tied to the blowing of a trumpet blast and that clearly relating to the Feast of Trumpets, one of the appointed Feasts of the Lord.

“...In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts ​— ​a sacred assembly.  You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the LORD.”  Lev. 23:24-25

"You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of trumpet blasts for you.  Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old ​-- ​all unblemished ​-- ​  with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram, and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs.  Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.  These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.”  Numbers 29:1-6

In the month of Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish calendar, the Fall Feasts are celebrated.  On the 1st day of the month is the Day of Trumpets.  This is also designated as the start of the Jewish New Year for their religious calendar and is known as Rosh Hashanah.  On this day begins the blowing of trumpets, or ram horns known as the shofar, announcing to all the coming Day of Atonement.  

The word for "Feast" in Hebrew is Mo'ed and means appointed time.  The word for "convocations" is Mik'raw and means an assembly, but also is used for a “rehearsal”.  The Feasts are a REHEARSAL for things to come!  The Passover Feast was a rehearsal for the coming Messiah.  The Passover Lamb is slain, the Unleavened Bread is eaten and all leaven removed from the house, and the harvest of First Fruits is celebrated.  Jesus was our Passover lamb (I Cor. 5:7), Jesus is the Bread of Life without any sin (leaven) who removed all the sin from our earthly house (John. 6:35), and Jesus is the First Fruits risen of all of us who will follow Him in resurrection (I Cor. 15:20).

"And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts."   Leviticus 23:1-2

The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost/Shavuot) was a rehearsal of what would be revealed to be the "Mystery" of the church age...Jews and Gentiles in the same Body of Christ.  The wave offering of the two loaves of bread symbolized a barley loaf for the Jews, and wheat loaf for the gentiles, together in one body.  The church age begins at Pentecost with the giving of the Holy Spirit, and will end at the rapture when the Church and the Holy Spirit are removed from this world. In my opinion, both of these events may actually occur on the Feast of Weeks.

Also important to note about the Feasts is that not only did the first two Feasts (Passover and Weeks) come about as prophesied, but they also occurred on the exact days and periods of the Feast days.  We can only surmise from this fact that the same will hold true for the last Feast (Booths) to come about as prophesied, on the exact days and time period of those Feast days.

In the same way, the Feast of Booths is a rehearsal for the Day of the Lord, the end times period which follows the rapture and includes the tribulation period of seven years and the millennial kingdom period of one thousand years.  The Day of Trumpets foretells an event which calls the Jews to assemble, most likely a battle.  The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) foretells a day when atonement begins for the Jewish people, and the Year of Jubilee begins which initiates the opening of the 7 sealed scroll by the Messiah and the start of the Tribulation period.  The Feast of Tabernacles foretells that 7 year tribulation period where God dwells with His people once again and teaches them to trust and follow Him.  The 8th Day Sabbath of Booths foretells the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom, a period of rest and restoration.

The Feast of Trumpets is peculiar in that there is no real background or purpose given to explain the feast day.  It is a day of commemoration and remembrance, but the Bible never makes it clear what is being remembered.  Much of what the Jews currently do during the holiday actually came about during the Babylonian captivity and were customs "borrowed" from the Babylonians.  The name of the month, "Tishrei" is even a Babylonian word meaning "beginning" referring to the start of the Jewish new year. The Jewish people are simply told to make it a Sabbath, have trumpet blasts during it, and offer up various burnt offerings to the Lord.  

The Day of Trumpets in my opinion applies directly to the Jews and not the Church.  As mentioned, I believe that Christians will be removed during the rapture, which may occur on the Feast of Weeks.  With the start of the Fall Feasts, and particularly the Day of Trumpets, the focus will then turn back to the Jews.  This feast day involves a call to battle, a cry to assemble, and a call to worship and present offerings to the Lord.  It symbolizes I believe an event that brings the Jewish Nation to a unified place where God can once again begin working with them.  

The Rapture of the Church (true followers of Christ) could occur at any time.  There is nothing required to occur first according to the Bible.  It is a sign-less event.  Christians have been told since our Lord’s ascension into heaven to be watching and ready for His return.

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.  As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.  They didn't know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be.”  Matthew 24:36-39

This verse is quoted often when there is discussion regarding when Jesus will return to rapture (from the Greek harpazo “to be caught up”) His Bride, the Church, to be where He is.  But, as previously discussed, the rapture is a sign-less event that could take place at any moment.  The above verse is not in reference to the day and hour of the  rapture, but instead is speaking of the Lord’s second coming at the end of the tribulation period at the end of the age.  

In Matthew 24 (and Mark 13 and Luke 21 as well), Jesus is speaking to His disciples alone.  He is addressing their question “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? ”  In answer to these two questions, Jesus first gives the signs people should be watching for to determine when His second coming is at the end of the tribulation period.  Next, He answers their initial question of “when?” by stating “only the Father knows.”

Jesus says that His second coming at the end of the tribulation period will be like the days of Noah.  The flood caught the people at the time of Noah off guard…they were unprepared.  But, the Bible also tells us that Noah preached to them about the coming destruction for 120 years prior to its start.  There was warning, they could have been prepared and ready had the only heeded Noah’s words of warning.  The generation of people during the tribulation period will not have ears to hear…they will ignore the warnings of the coming destruction. 

One of the signs Jesus gives His disciples for people to be watching for during the tribulation is the abomination of desolation.  This is also mentioned in the Book of Daniel, and both Daniel and the Book of Revelation provide a timeline of this event occurring at the midpoint of the tribulation period.  Anyone alive during the tribulation should be able to discern when they see the abomination of desolation occur that the end is 1260 days away, or three and a half years.

“I don't want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”  Romans 11:25

We as Christ Followers are told to watch for His coming back for us, at the time of the rapture, and to remain awake and ready, watching for the signs of His soon return.  But, only God knows when the rapture will occur.  It is tied to the "fullness of the Gentiles", that time when the last person whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life enters into the Kingdom of the Lord.  At that point, the fullness of the Gentiles will be completed and the Church age will end.  The rapture will occur and Christ the Lord will return to escort His Bride to His Father’s house.

"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.”  John 14:1-3

“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.”  I Thessalonians 4:15-18

Maranatha - even so, come quickly Lord!