The Second Coming in Detail
by Paul Sides
I wanted to clarify further the events that
transpire that fulfill the Fall Feasts over which time The Second Coming is
accomplished per the Word of YHVH. As I said before, The Second Coming is a
series of events, not one single event. The Second Coming occurs during the
7th Sacred Month and begins on the Feast of Trumpets which is when the 7th
Seal is opened and the begins with the first Shofar (trumpet) blast. These
"trumpet blasts" are symbolic.
Identifying the Seventh
Sacred Month
The Sacred Seventh Month is unique in
history as this Sacred Seventh Month must meet a number of specific
prophecies and signs in the sky. It must be "generation" from when
Israel regained Jerusalem and the Temple Mount (Prophecy of the
Fig Tree), it must occur exactly 7-years from a
failed 7-year treaty (Good Times of Joseph) between
Israel and Arabs (OSLO) that results in a 7-year period (Times
of Jacob's Trouble) of "wars and rumors of war" defined by terror
(War on Terror) over the status of Jerusalem... a Holy War between the
sons of Abraham.
This Sacred Seventh Month will be marked by
a partial solar eclipse followed by a new moon, this is the sign of that
specific Seventh Sacred Month:
The Series of Events
that Occur over the Fall Feasts
This "sign" is being fulfilled over the next
few days and we are entering the Sacred Seventh Month that meets every
prophecy and the opening of the 7th Seal, which is when the 7 angels
begin blowing the 7 trumpets:
Revelation 8
1
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for
about half an hour. 2
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were
given seven trumpets.
It is upon opening of the 7th Seal on the
7th Sacred Month in the 7th Year of the 7th Millennium after a partial
eclipse on the New Moon that the 7 Trumpets begin sounding and we enter
the worse period of human history. This period of time of GREAT
TRIBULATION on Earth is specifically given as 10 days, the period of
time known as The 10 Days of Awe:
Revelation 2
8"To
the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
"The First and the Last, the One
who was dead and came to life, says:
9 I know your
tribulation and poverty, yet you are rich. [I know] the slander
of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue
of Satan. 10
Don't be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil
is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and
you will have tribulation for
10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will
give you the crown of life.
11 "Anyone who
has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the
churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.
It is during this period that the wicked
(those not sealed with the Shema) are destroyed from the face of the
Earth and those Sealed Servants seek repentance and live.
Days of Awe
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The ten days starting with
Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) and
ending with
Yom Kippur (Day of
Atonement) are commonly known as the Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim) or
the Days of Repentance. This is a time for
serious introspection, a time to consider the sins of the previous
year and repent before Yom Kippur. One of the ongoing themes of the
Days of Awe is the concept that
G-d
has "books" that he writes our names in (the Book of Life),
writing down who will live and who will die during the 10 days of
Awe
It is during these 10 Days that the Sabbath
of Return takes place and the sons of YHVH return in repentance to YHVH:
Shabbat Shuvah literally means "Sabbath of
Return," but it is also a play on the phrase "Shabbat Teshuvah"
(Sabbath of Repentance). It is the Shabbat that occurs between
Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur and is a
time for reflection leading up to the atonement of Yom Kippur.
Shabbat Shuvah has two special
haftarah readings,
one dealing with the importance of heartfelt repentance (Hosea
14:2-10) and one praising the Creator's mercy (Micah 7:18-20).
It is this Sabbath that represents the
return of the Sons of YHVH to the Creator and are reconciled to Him
through repentance. The special name for this Shabbat, "Shabbat
Shuvah," is taken from the first phrase in the opening section from
Hosea. Hosea begins: "Shuvah Yisrael ad Adonai Elohecha" (Return, O
Israel, unto Adonai your God). Although Hosea was speaking to the
geopolitical and historical realities of his time (e.g., the fall of the
northern kingdom), his existential message of hope for both return and
reconciliation transcends history. Surely, that's the reason it is
assigned to this Shabbat during the 10 Days of Repentance.
During the time between the beginning of The
Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Ingathering, the 7 Trumpets are
sounded:
Revelation 8 and 9
The Trumpets
6Then
the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound
them.
7The
first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed
with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the
earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all
the green grass was burned up.
8The
second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge
mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea
turned into blood, 9a
third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the
ships were destroyed.
10The
third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a
torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs
of water— 11the name of
the star is Wormwood.[a]
A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the
waters that had become bitter.
12The
fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of
them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a
third of the night.
13As
I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a
loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because
of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three
angels!"
Revelation 9
1The
fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen
from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft
of the Abyss. 2When he
opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic
furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
3And out of the smoke
locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of
scorpions of the earth. 4They
were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree,
but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their
foreheads. 5They were not
given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months.
And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion
when it strikes a man. 6During
those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long
to die, but death will elude them.
7The
locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they
wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human
faces. 8Their hair was
like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9They had breastplates
like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the
thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10They had tails and
stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment
people for five months. 11They
had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew
is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.[a]
12The
first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
At this time, the First Woe (first 5
Trumpets) has passed. And the Second Woe begins:
Revelation 9
13The
sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from
the horns[b]
of the golden altar that is before God.
14It said to the
sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who
are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15And the four angels
who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and
year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16The number of the
mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17The
horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their
breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The
heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their
mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18A third of mankind was
killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out
of their mouths. 19The
power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for
their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict
injury.
20The
rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not
repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping
demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that
cannot see or hear or walk. 21Nor
did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual
immorality or their thefts.
And the Second Woe passes and we enter the
Third and final Woe when Yahshua blows the 7th and final trumpet, and
this is when Yahshua returns:
Revelation 10
14The
second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.
The Seventh Trumpet
15The
seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in
heaven, which said:
"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ,
and he will reign for ever and ever."
16And the twenty-four
elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on
their faces and worshiped God,
17saying:
"We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18The nations were
angry; and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your saints and those who reverence your name,
both small and great—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth."
19Then
God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen
the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
The prophetic symbolic
meaning of the "Trumpet" blasts
I have long believed that this prophecy is a
depiction of a future nuclear war. Even though it was written some 2000
years ago, it accurately describes each major phase of a global nuclear
holocaust:
Trumpet 1. The
half hour of "silence in heaven" during which ICBM's would traverse
their orbits before striking targets after being launched.
Trumpet 2. The
thunderous reports, bright flashes, and earthquake associated with
nuclear detonations.
Trumpet 3. The
nuclear blasts of "hail and fire, mixed with blood" followed by raging
fires that would consume much of the earth.
Trumpet 4. The
nuclear explosions, "like a great mountain, burning with fire", all over
the world's seas as ports, ships, and submarines are attacked.
Trumpet 5. The
lethal contamination of water supplies by radioactive fallout
("Wormwood") for weeks after a nuclear war.
Trumpet 6. The
blanketing of the sky by vast dust clouds after a nuclear war such that
sunlight, moonlight, and starlight is obscured thereby causing a
"nuclear winter".
The Day of Atonement
This is THE DAY long awaited where the curse
of Adam is lifted, creation liberated, and the sons of YHVH established
as a Kingdom... the day we and all of creation have longed for...
Romans 8
20 For the creation was subjected to
futility (when Adam fell), not
willingly, but because of YHWH who subjected it in hope (of
a coming Messiah); 21 because
the creation itself also will
be delivered (in the coming Fall
Feasts) from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of God (on
the DAY OF ATONEMENT).
22 For we know that the whole creation
groans and labors (for 6,000 years per the
Sabbath Covenant) with birth pangs together until now (the
7th Millennium, the Sabbath). 23
Not only that, but we also who have the Firstfruits (The
Passover Lamb/Feast of First Fruits/Spring Feasts) of the
Spirit (Given on the Feast of Weeks, the
guarantee/Spring Feasts), even we ourselves groan
within ourselves (along with
creation because we have not yet been resurrected and delivered),
eagerly waiting for the adoption (as
elohim, into the Family of YHWH), the redemption
of our body (deliverance on the
Feast of Trumpets, the Rapture/Resurrection/Fall Feasts).
24 For we were saved
(during the Spring Feasts by the Passover Lamb) in
this hope (that He
will return again and fulfill the Fall Feasts, resurrected our
bodies and liberate creation), but hope that is seen is not
hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees (we
have not yet witness the fulfillment of the Fall Feasts, so Hope for
our deliverance endures)? 25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it
(our deliverance during the Fall Feasts)
with perseverance (those who persevere until
the end, shall be delivered).
The Feast of Tabernacles
This feast represents the beginning of the
Millennial Kingdom on Earth. This is the wedding feast. A week long
celebration that begins the Millennial Kingdom in Jerusalem. The sons
of YHVH are gathered (the harvest) from the 4 corners of Earth to meet
their King. The Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long autumn harvest
festival. Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of the Ingathering,
Feast of the Booths, Sukkoth, Succoth, or Sukkot (variations in
spellings occur because these words are transliterations of the Hebrew
word pronounced “Sue-coat”). The two days following the festival are
separate holidays, Shemini Atzeret and Simkhat Torah, but are commonly
thought of as part of the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Tabernacles was the final and most
important holiday of the year. The importance of this festival is
indicated by the statement, “This is to be a lasting ordinance.” The
divine pronouncement, “I am the Lord your God,” concludes this section
on the holidays of the seventh month. The Feast of Tabernacles begins
five days after Yom Kippur on the fifteenth of Tishri (September or
October). It is a drastic change from one of the most solemn holidays in
our year to one of the most joyous. The word Sukkoth means “booths,” and
refers to the temporary dwellings that Jews are commanded to live in
during this holiday, just as the Jews did in the wilderness. The Feast
of Tabernacles lasts for seven days and ends on the twenty-first day
(3x7) of the Hebrew month of Tishri, which is Israel’s seventh month.
