Ten days after Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—begins with the Neilah (“closing of the gate”) service. This is the final moment for repentance before the books are sealed. Daniel 9:27 (KJV): The Antichrist “shall confirm the covenant with many for one week [7 years]”—a covenant that begins the tribulation. Revelation 6:1: The first seal is broken after the church’s departure (Revelation 4-5), unleashing the rider on the white horse (the Antichrist).

The 10-day gap between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur mirrors the “gap” between the rapture and the tribulation’s formal onset. Just as Israel’s national atonement was sealed on Yom Kippur, the world’s rejection of Christ is sealed when the Antichrist’s covenant is confirmed. The tribulation begins on Yom Kippur, not before or after.

The Bible, taken literally as the infallible standard of truth, describes Daniel’s 70th week (Daniel 9:27) as a final seven-year period focused on Israel (“thy people and thy holy city”—Daniel 9:24), commonly called the tribulation or “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7). This week begins when the prince that shall come (the Antichrist) “shall confirm the covenant with many for one week” (Daniel 9:27) and ends with the cleansing of Israel and the establishment of everlasting righteousness at Christ’s return.

The divine pattern of the seven feasts in Leviticus 23—already perfectly fulfilled in order on the exact days for the first four spring feasts—demands that the final three fall feasts be fulfilled with the same precision. When harmonized with the pre-tribulation rapture on the Feast of Trumpets, the tribulation must begin exactly ten days later on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Here is why this alignment is required by the plain text and the established prophetic framework:

The Ten Literal Days Between Trumpets and Atonement

• The Feast of Trumpets falls on Tishri 1 (Leviticus 23:23-25).
• The Day of Atonement falls on Tishri 10 (Leviticus 23:26-32).
• Scripture therefore places exactly ten days (the traditional “Days of Awe” or “Ten Days of Repentance”) between the two feasts every single year—no exceptions.

If the pre-tribulation rapture occurs on Trumpets (as required by the trumpet imagery, the “no man knoweth the day or hour” character, and the thematic coronation/gathering—see prior discussion), then the next major prophetic event in the fall-feast sequence must begin on the very next appointed feast: the Day of Atonement, exactly ten days later.

The Restrainer Must Be Removed Before the Man of Sin Is Revealed

• The rapture removes the church, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit—the restrainer (2 Thessalonians 2:6-8).
• Immediately after the restrainer is “taken out of the way,” the man of sin is revealed and confirms the covenant (2 Thessalonians 2:3-8; Daniel 9:27).
• The ten-day interval provides the precise biblical window for this transition: the church is gone on Trumpets, and the Antichrist’s covenant is confirmed on (or beginning at) the Day of Atonement, officially starting Daniel’s 70th week.

No other gap fits Scripture—there is no seven-year delay, no random interval. The feasts are consecutive divine appointments.

Thematic Perfection of the Day of Atonement as the Start of Jacob’s Trouble

• Yom Kippur is the most solemn day in Israel’s calendar—the day national sin is confessed and atoned for (Leviticus 16; 23:27-32).
• The tribulation is pre-eminently the time when God deals with Israel’s sin and brings a remnant to national repentance and cleansing (Zechariah 12:10–13:1; Romans 11:26; Daniel 12:1).
• The week that begins the final atonement process for Israel must therefore open on the day God Himself appointed for atonement—Yom Kippur.
• Exactly seven prophetic years later, on another Day of Atonement, Israel looks upon Him whom they pierced, mourns nationally, and is cleansed (Zechariah 12:10–13:1)—providing perfect bookends to Daniel’s 70th week.

Integration with the Hosea 6:2 and 6,000-Year Patterns

• The 2,000 years (“after two days”) from the crucifixion/resurrection in AD 33 end in the early 2030s.
• A Trumpets rapture followed ten days later by the covenant on Yom Kippur 2026 starts the final seven years, ending on Yom Kippur 2033 with Israel’s atonement and the kingdom beginning five days later on Tabernacles 2033—exactly 6,000 years from creation and the millennial Sabbath rest.

Any other starting point would fracture the flawless symmetry God has already demonstrated in the spring feasts and violate the literal ten-day separation He ordained between Trumpets and Atonement.

Therefore, under a consistent literal interpretation of the Bible—requiring exact-day fulfillment of the LORD’s appointed feasts, pre-tribulation removal of the church before wrath, the restrainer sequence, and the established chronological patterns—the seven-year tribulation (Daniel’s 70th week) must begin on a future Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), exactly ten days after the pre-tribulation rapture on the Feast of Trumpets. The percent likelihood is effectively 100%, with the sole uncertainty being the precise year reserved to the Father (Acts 1:7; Matthew 24:36). The divine calendar is perfect; we are to watch and be ready (Matthew 24:42-44; Luke 21:36).

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