Jason Hommel has written extensively about Rosh Hashanah (The Feast of Trumpets) and why we should await Christ’s return during that season.  The following is his (Hommel’s) description of the Jewish Wedding and its parallels to Christ’s second coming.

We encourage you to read further on this beautiful subject and investigate it as proof of the pretribulation rapture of the saints at bibleprophecy.org.

A Bible Study of the Marriage of the Bride of Christ (The Jewish Wedding)

“To understand bible prophecy about the return of Jesus Christ, we need to understand the Jewish Weddingas presented in scripture, because Christ spoke of his return with many Wedding Analogies. Matt 22, Matt 25, Rev. 19 & 21, Luke 12:36, “And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding…”

The Holy Bible says the Bride of Christ is the Church.
Eph 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church… “,
2Cor 11:2 “…I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”,
Rom 7:4….”ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead…”

The Wedding Analogy shows the Pre Tribulaiton Rapture because the union of the bride and groom (the rapture) takes place at the startof the Bridal Week, which is a type of the Tribulation Week.  The word for bridal week as used in Genesis 29 & Judges 14  is the same word in Daniel 9:27.  The word “week”, or shavuah in Hebrew, simply means a seven, it means seven days or seven years.  Further, there are two Old Testament examples where a day from a prophetic type turns into a year of judgment.  Num 14:34 & Ezek 4:6.

Here are a few key examples of the significance of the Wedding Parallel. The bride price is paid by the groom for the bride.  Jesus paid for us with his life. The virgin girl shows that she accepts the written covenant agreement of the marriage by drinking a glass of wine, and this has become the communion ritual that Jesus gave to the Church.  The betrothed bride would also have a ritual cleansing bath, and this is like baptism of water and spirit, or the cleansing of the word in Eph 5.

The groom departs to build the bridal chamber where they will live together, and Jesus said John 14:2 “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

When finished, the groom would return at a time unexpected “of that day or hour no man knows” to fetch, or take away (rapture) his bride, like a thief in the night, which is a type of the action of the rapture.  At the end of Judges 21, there is a mass bridal abduction.  In Deut 22:25-29 and Exodus 22:15-17 we see that the penalty for taking a virgin (through force or seduction) is a permanant marriage with no divorce provision.  This is like the “incorruptable immortality” as described in the rapture passage in 1 Cor 15:51-54

Thus, the intimate union between man and wife in the bridal chamber is a picture of being in heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ after the rapture.  At the end of this bridal week, the bride and groom emerge at the wedding feast or marriage supper.  Even the slaughter at the marriage supper, or Armageddon, is pictured in Judges 14 as Samson kills 30 Philistines.

I urge all who read this to study more of these Wedding Parallels, which teach about the pre tribulation rapture, and the type of relationship our Lord Jesus Christ is seeking with us.”

Again, we encourage you to read further on this beautiful subject and investigate it as proof of the pretribulation rapture of the saints at bibleprophecy.org.