We all agree that Christ has fulfilled the Jewish spring festivals. (Passover, Unleavened bread, First fruits, and Pentecost) However differences of opinion arise when it comes to the fall/autumn festivals of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles.
Some say the fall festivals prefigure the resurrection at the last trump and are yet to be fulfilled. Others, in particular those of Preterist persuasion, say they were fulfilled in AD 70.
I'm not sure how amil Christians view this. (Im not sure myself) So, how did Christ fulfil the Jewish fall festivals, and if they haven’t yet, when?
You addressed Amil, and I'm not sure if you *only* want the Amil view? But I will nevertheless add my view. I've looked at the festivals from the typical Pentecostal view for years, which tends to view these things as a prescription for a prophetic sequence.
However, many years ago I abandoned Pretrib Teaching, and the notion that the Day of Trumpets, on the 1st day of the 7th month, represents a Pretrib Rapture. I don't believe these things were designed to suggest a particular chronological order for events typified by the Day of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
So my current view is that yes, these things are symbolic of Christ--all aspects of the 7th month gathering of Jews in Jerusalem. All of God's people gather to Christ in the NT, whenever they are "born again." They spiritually gather to Christ, who died in Jerusalem for our sins. When we repent and enter into his Spirit, we are regenerated and live only by his spiritual guidance. We die to the flesh, or when we fall into sin, we repent and return to living by the Spirit.
The Feast of Passover in the 1st month certainly prefigured the death of Christ for our sins, as even the Gospels indicate. The Feast of Passover represents what follows when we accept the redemption and atonement of Christ for our sins. We begin to produce good fruit through Christ.
And then, in the 7th month the harvest season of Israel prefigures the entire NT harvest of Christian salvation. Jesus said the fields are already ripe for the harvest. That isn't just endtime fulfillment, but includes the entire age. We live in the world just as Israel lived in booths in the wilderness. This world is not our home--we're just passing through.
The feast of trumpets likely represents the call of God to come to Christ for salvation. When Christ rose from the dead and empowered his apostles to bring the Gospel to the world, this was like a trumpet call to the world, to call in those who were willing to embrace Christ as their salvation.
That being said, the 7th month may also allude to the endtimes and to the final blowing of the trumpet of God at the coming of Christ. It does precede the gathering of the marriage feast, which begins the Millennial Age.
