This generation..

[visionary]

In his letter to the believers at Colossians, Paul states that all of the Biblical Festivals are "shadows of things to come, the substance of Christ."[1] From the above list, it is obvious that the fall feasts are about the things to come. The list of remembrances reads like a synopsis of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic expectations in their proper order. The warning of impending judgment by the two witnesses must be with all power and glory from above. The call to repentance, the fear of the Day of the LORD, the Ingathering of Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple, the final judgment and all the consequences from unrepentant sin, the resurrection of the dead and the coronation of the King are all familiar prophetic themes which both Jewish and Christian communities associate with the coming of Yeshua the Messiah. It is clear that the Festival is ripe with end-times implications and the two witnesses will elaborate this with terrifying awesome delivery.

In view of Paul's statement that the festivals are "shadows of things to come," and in view of the ways in which the Spring Festivals of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost received a Messianic fulfillment within the events of the first coming of the Messiah Yeshua, one can hardly be surprised to find that the Fall Festivals speak to Yeshua's return. Yeshua himself invokes Feast of Trumpets imagery when he says, “They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”[2]


[1] Colossians 2:16,17
[2] Matthew 24:30,31