Hoshana Rabbah – the Seventh Day!
Today is the
SEVENTH day of Sukkot, also called ‘Hoshana Rabbah’. The Jewish phrase Hoshana Rabbah means “
great deliverance” or “
great rescue.” Jews traditionally consider Hoshana Rabbah the
final day of judgment, when the heavenly verdict decreed on the Feast of Trumpets and sealed on the Day of Atonement is actually delivered. The rapture-judgment could thus be delivered on Hoshana Rabbah.
It is NOT a no-work day, so two would be together in the field or at the mill… So yes, it *IS* a potential rapture date! 
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The events of John 7:37-40 took place as Yeshua was celebrating the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles. On that day, a chosen priest would lead a procession of people to the Pool of Siloam where they collected water in a golden vessel. They would then proceed back to the Temple for a water pouring ceremony. This ceremony had three major aspects:
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1. It recalled the water that God provided during Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness.
2. It served as a call for the Lord to send the much-needed winter rains.
3. It was a prophetic call for the Messiah to come and pour out the Holy Spirit on the people (Isa.12:3, Joel 2:28-29).
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As the priest and the procession arrived back at the Temple, silver trumpets were blasted to celebrate while members of the priesthood sang. With flutes playing, the crowd would chant the Hallel (Ps.113-118). The large crowd of people would wave their lulav’s towards the altar with Messianic fervor and cry out, “Hosanna, save us,” as the water was being poured out into the base of the altar.
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The water-pouring ceremony was considered a petition to God to send the latter/autumn rains vital for the coming year’s crops. Scripture says that Messiah will come again like the latter/autumn rains (Hos. 6:2, 3).
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It was likely then, with the people crying out for the Messiah to come and pour out the Spirit, that Yeshua said: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.“ John 7:37-38
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By making this declaration, Yeshua was saying that He was the One that this ceremony was pointing to. He was the Great Hosanna! He was the source of living water. He is the one who brings the latter rains. He was the One who will pour the Holy Spirit out upon mankind. Yeshua is the Great Hosanna!
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During each of the first six days of Tabernacles, the Temple priests would ceremoniously make one circuit around the altar with the lulav, as we do when we make fire each night of Sukkot. On the seventh day, however, Hoshana Rabbah, the priests would make seven circuits around the altar, while the people recited the messianic psalm, “Save us now, Lord!” (Ps. 118:25).
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The seven circuits around the altar recall the seven circuits around Jericho, when a trumpet blast and a shout announced the collapse of the walls, and the people went “straight up” into the city: a picture of the Rapture (Josh. 6).
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Hoshana Rabba is the 21rst day since the creation of Man. Here again we see the number 21 which corresponds to the name of Hashem: Aleph Hey Yud Hey. Hoshanah Rabba being the culmination of Succos, makes it also a totality of all the days that preceded it. Therefore once again we arrive at the formula 21 times 21 which brings out the middah of emes. … The only difference between the emes of Yom Kippur and Hoshanah Rabba is that on Yom Kippur the emes reveals our inward and hidden essence while on Hoshana Rabba it reveals our essence of our physical bodies that it is also pure and a vessel for to receive Hashem’s presence within.
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