Within the context of the Genesis narrative on Jacob’s sons, the bizarre affair between Judah and Tamar appears to some as a footnote, if not a non-sequitur. But the implications of this chapter are not only inextricably connected to the outcome of the grander narrative, but to the outcome of the grandest narrative of all—the protoevangelium—the birth of the promised seed of the woman, Jesus Christ...

At his first coming, Jesus fulfilled the four spring feasts of the Lord over the exact fifty-three days allotted to them—on time and in order. At his second coming, it seems logical at least to me, the fall feasts will be fulfilled in like manner, transpiring over the period in which they are celebrated—in this case, twenty-two days. These three fall feasts are of course, Trumpets (Yom Teruah), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and Tabernacles (Sukkot)...