Rapture Watch 2025-Its Not Over

 In contrast the the rapture "confirmation" crowd that was 100% wrong this year (and has been wrong 100% of the time in the past), we look to the Word of God alone for guidance and we are watching continually.  Those who mock the idea of always watching and being ready continually, mock the Lord God whose Word tells us to do so.  This servant who writes to you today had zero "confirmation" of the Lord arriving on Feast of Trumpets 2025 and yet was watching anyway (along with you) as a matter of faith and obedience.

If we do exactly what the Lord God told us to do, we cannot mess it up.  If we are watching and ready every day, we cannot miss the day of the Lord's unexpected arrival.  Which brings us to today and the "ordinary" days ahead.  This servant's sense over Feast of Trumpets 2025 was that this year's moed or appointed time was not the end of something but the beginning.  Today, at o'dark hundred in the morning this servant was awake thinking about the return of the Lord when the idea of Hannukah and its association with the anti-Christ came into view. 

What is this idea?

From AI:

In Christian eschatology and prophetic interpretations, Hanukkah is associated with the Antichrist primarily through the historical figure of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid Greek king who serves as a biblical "type" or foreshadowing of the end-times Antichrist described in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 and Revelation 13). Antiochus, who ruled from 175–164 BCE, sought to eradicate Jewish religious practice by banning Torah study, circumcision, and Sabbath observance; he desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem by erecting an altar to Zeus (with his own image) and sacrificing pigs on it, an event known as the "abomination of desolation" prophesied in Daniel 11:31 and echoed in Jesus' end-times discourse in Matthew 24:15. This oppression sparked the Maccabean Revolt, leading to the Temple's rededication in 164 BCE— the miracle commemorated by Hanukkah's eight days of lights, symbolizing divine victory of light over darkness.

The Antichrist, conversely, is prophesied to similarly desecrate a future Temple, proclaim himself divine, impose global worship of a false god (the "image of the beast" in Revelation 13:14-15), and persecute believers and Israel during a seven-year tribulation period (Daniel 9:27). Just as Antiochus embodied an "antichrist spirit" of lawlessness and anti-Semitism (1 John 2:18), forcing assimilation into a one-world Hellenistic culture, the future Antichrist will unite nations against God's people, culminating in the Battle of Armageddon where Christ defeats him (Revelation 19:11-21). Hanukkah's theme of rededication and triumph thus foreshadows this ultimate deliverance, inspiring believers to persevere amid persecution, as the Maccabees did through faith and resistance.

Jesus himself observed Hanukkah, called the "Feast of Dedication" in John 10:22-23, linking it directly to Messianic themes of divine protection and light (John 8:12). From a traditional Jewish perspective, however, Hanukkah focuses solely on historical liberation and miracles without reference to Christian end-times figures like the Antichrist, as that concept originates in New Testament theology rather than the Hebrew Bible. Modern Messianic Jewish and evangelical sources often blend these views to encourage observance of Hanukkah as a prophetic sign of hope.

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The reasons we should have been watching and ready over the Feast of Trumpets 2025 remain today.  The talk of "eternal peace" in the middle east really should have our ears standing at attention.  The impression on this servants spirit today is understanding the Feast of Trumpets being the beginning of something and not the end.  It makes sense in the context of opening a door to a season.  The idea is we are now in a season that began on Feast of Trumpets and ends on Hannukah where the Lord could show up at any time.  Hannukah and the arrival of the anti-Christ takes place immediately after the removal of the Restrainer, which is the Holy Spirit filled and empowered Church.

Matt 16

1The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

2He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. ^a 4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

We have already been given the sign of Jonah during the great American eclipse of 2024.  Jonah was sent to warn Nineveh "repent or face Judgement."  We had the celestial witness of the sun tracing over 11 or so Nineveh's in the United States during that eclipse.  Now we find ourselves in a season between Feast of Trumpets 2025 and Hannukah 2025 where this servant believes there is a heightened possibility the Lord returns for us on some "ordinary" day.

The enemy's method of attack is to cloud, obscure, and or wear out the saints so they will not do what they were told to do.  The enemy would love for "rapture fatigue" to set in where everyone just throws their hands up in the air and says "why bother watching" because some group of people who have historically been wrong 100% of the time continue to be wrong.  We need to focus on the fact that the Lord will be right and has been right 100% of the time.  We just need to do what He told us to do.  This particular season is absolutely saturated with prophetic implication.  This servant was impressed by the Lord that shortly after Trump took office we could see the anti-Christ arise, now here we are and a look at the world stage suggests its more likely now than it was then.

Peace in the middle east, the red heifer has already been sacrificed, wars and rumors of wars, neuralink, starlink, "operation stargate" and the list goes on of reasons we should be watching and ready to meet the Lord Jesus Christ any day.  We need to be prepared to meet the Lord in the clouds any day now while at the same time we need to be ready to wait for years.  We can do this.  We know that because we have been doing it now for decades with our faith and expectation growing stronger from year to year.

This servant believes we would be wise to keep our lamps burning bright over this end of year, Feast of Trumpets through Hannukah season.

Postscript-one of the purposes of reminding ourselves of the unexpected return of the Lord is to accelerate our action taking in the time we have left.  The Lord said it would be like a Master going away on a long journey and putting His servants in charge while He is gone.  It will be well with those servants who are found doing the Master's Will when He returns unexpectedly for them.  We want to be about our Lord's work in this short amount of time we have remaining.  

Hannukah 2025 begins in about 2 months.  What if the Lord does return sometime over the next 60 days on some random, nobody predicted it day-just like He said it would happen?

Matthew 24:36-39: "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."

Matthew 24:42-44: "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Matthew 24:48-51: "But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Matthew 25:13 (conclusion of the Parable of the Ten Virgins): "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour."

Mark 13:32-33: "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come."

Mark 13:35-37: "Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'"

Luke 12:35-40 (Parable of the Faithful Servant): "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet... The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of."

Luke 12:46: "The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers."

Luke 17:26-30: "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all... It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed."

Luke 21:34-35: "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth."

Acts 1:7: "He said to them: 'It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.'"

Revelation 3:3: "If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you."

Revelation 16:15: "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.

Those who continue to predict the day and hour will continue to be wrong and the Lord alone will be proven correct.  

Romans 3:4

Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”

Glory to God

grace and peace