Renee,   First I want to say that your articles and studies are very articulate and you are very gifted in your ability to see the spiritual applications behind the feasts. The pieces are all seemingly coming together like a big puzzle.   I believe the Messiah is clearly maniFESTed (root word of festival) through the feasts. There are so many interesting clues and parallels through God's instructions to the Israelites regarding the feasts. I'm wondering what you think about the significance of God's commandment to celebrate the 3 feasts of Firstfruits, Pentecost, and Tabernacles by all males in Jerusalem and how it fits into the end times scenario? If the cycle of 7 feasts has been fulfilled or is in process by both groups, wouldn't the 3 feasts have some meaning and fulfillment as well?:   Exodus 23:14-17 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before Me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, which thou hast gathered in the labors out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.   I'm starting to think that the first group to leave earth will happen in the Spring just as Song of Solomon references. It makes sense that Christ as the "Head" of the church went first, then the barley equivalent, the church would be raptured in Spring fulfilling the 1st of the 3 required feasts--The 3 Spring feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits are all grouped together and fulfilled with the rapture of the church. Then to me, it makes sense that the wHEAT harvest would represent those who are part of the end-time harvest, having to endure at least some tribulation before a 2nd rapture or passing from a martyr's death: (from a post by Calvin Montgomery on this site in 2006):   When you go to separate this (barley), you do it by 'WIND'. When you go to separate this(wheat), there was a board and it's a board that you stand on and you take an animal and you stand on that board and you hook it to the animal and you go over top of the wheat (because wheat is very hard). And that board separates that grain and gets the wheat out is called, in Latin, a 'tribulum' from which we get the word, 'tribulation'. There is NO 'tribulum' used at Passover with the barley. A 'tribulum' is used at this feast (Pentecost) to separate the chaff from the wheat. And then, the grapes are UTTERLY, TOTALLY CRUSHED!!!" (Grapes of wrath ring a bell?)   The equivalent of the wheat group is represented by Pentecost being fulfilled, the 2nd of the 3 feast cycle. I think there's a parallel between the story of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel to Jesus, the church, and the Jewish people as well that will be played out in the end:   First, Jacob agreed to work seven years to be able to marry Laban's daughter Rachel (His first love represented by the Jews), but when the time was completed, Laban pulled a honeymoon-night switch of Leah (represented by the Gentiles who were grafted in to provoke the Jews to jealousy) for Rachel (Genesis 29:16-30). When Jacob protested, Laban offered Rachel also - for another seven years of work, to which Jacob agreed.   And then the Second Coming of Jesus and the establishment of His kingdom on earth would fulfill the 3rd feast, Tabernacles and represent full redemption and salvation and would be remembered and celebrated perpetually:   And I heard a loud voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, even their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Revelation 21:3-4   I hope this Spring is it!   Steve Mullin