Dd-33. The REASON for the SEVEN FEAST DAYS! DOWNLOAD to SAVE as a PDF Doc to read OFFLINE. Dd-33. THE REASON FOR THE SEVEN FEAST DAYS! The reason for the ceremonial commandments of the seven feasts of the Lord was to point the children of Israel to the Messiah. The Bible itself teaches us that the Law of Moses contained in ordinances was a SCHOOLMASTER or a TEACHER to the children of Israel UNTIL the Messiah came. In other words, the children of Israel were KEPT by the Law of Moses which could NOT SAVE them. The Law of Moses was ADDED only UNTIL the Messiah came to be the ATONEMENT for the sins of the world. Please read Galatians 3:21-28. “Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given LIFE, verily (Or then truly) righteousness should have been by the law. 22. BUT the Scripture has CONCLUDED ALL under sin, THAT the promise BY FAITH of Jesus Christ might be given to them that BELIEVE. 23. But BEFORE faith CAME, we (Speaking of the natural-born Jews and the Gentiles who converted to the Jewish Law of Moses) were KEPT under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed. 24. Wherefore, (Or for this very REASON) the law was our SCHOOLMASTER to BRING us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25. But AFTER that faith has come, we are NO LONGER UNDER a schoolmaster. (In other words, AFTER a Jew OR a Gentile receives Jesus as their Lord and Savior then they are NO LONGER UNDER the Law of Moses CONTAINED in ORDINANCES. There is a DIFFERENCE between the MORAL laws and the ceremonial laws contained in ordinances. The ceremonial laws contained in ordinances which included all the FEAST days is what Paul is talking about as being the SCHOOLMASTER to the Jews that were under the Law of Moses. So when Paul says that Jesus Christ is the END of the LAW for righteousness he is referring to all the CEREMONIAL laws contained in ORDINANCES that Jesus ABOLISHED according to Ephesians 2:15. “Having ABOLISHED in his flesh the ENMITY (Or the OPPOSITION that was AGAINST the children of Israel as too heavy to BEAR), EVEN the LAW of commandments CONTAINED in ORDINANCES; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;” Please read the study called Dd-5. What Does Contained in ORDINANCES Mean?) 26. For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27. For as many of you as having been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” The seven feasts of the Lord were for signs pointing to events that would take place in the life of the Messiah, Jesus. There were also many other SHADOWS of future things hidden in the ceremonial laws contained in ordinances. Please read Hebrews 10:1,2. “For the law having a SHADOW of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2. For THEN would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.” In other words, if so be that the Law of Moses could have justified the children of Israel then the Law of Moses would not have CEASED. But the Bible itself teaches us that the Law of Moses was WEAK in the FLESH meaning that the flesh is weak. In other words, because of the flesh being weak NONE of the fathers of the Jews or any of the Apostles of Jesus were able to BEAR the Law of Moses contained in ordinances, according to Acts 15:7-24 which you can read on your own and Romans 3:1-8. I will only quote Acts 15:10 which is talking about the Law of Moses contained in ORDINANCES as being a YOKE that was too hard to BEAR. Acts 15:10. “Now, therefore, why TEMPT you God, to put a YOKE upon the neck of the disciples, which NEITHER our fathers NOR we were able to BEAR?” Now, the seven feast days were not too burdensome to bear. BUT according to Romans 8:1-8, the keeping of ANY of the CEREMONIAL Law of Moses contained in ordinances does NOT PLEASE God because it is walking in the FLESH and NOT truly RESTING in Jesus. And the FOURTH commandment IS a CEREMONIAL law and NOT a MORAL law. Keep in mind that the ceremonial commandments THEMSELVES were NOT abolished. But rather, Jesus ONLY abolished the ORDINANCES contained IN the ceremonial commandments, including the ORDINANCES contained in the FOURTH commandment. In other words, Jesus abolished the keeping of DAYS so that we will keep the TRUE MEANING of why those DAY were commanded to be kept in the first place. The MORAL laws of God have always been written in the CONSCIENCE of man from the time that Adam and Eve ate from the tree of KNOWLEDGE of good and evil to KNOW right from wrong. But because of the chosen people of God transgressing the law of God in their CONSCIENCE God ADDED the CEREMONIAL commandments with hidden prophecies and SHADOWS pointing to Jesus. And that is why ONLY the ceremonial commandments were added UNTIL FAITH in Jesus comes. And more precisely, it is only the ORDINANCES contained in the ceremonial commandments that Jesus abolished and nailed to the cross. In other words, Christians ARE keeping all of the feast days AND the FOURTH commandment BY our FAITH in Jesus. Keep reading and you will understand what I mean by this. Please read Romans 8:1-8. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are IN Christ Jesus, who walk NOT after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the LAW of sin and death. 3. For what the LAW could not do, in that it was WEAK through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (In other words, Jesus FULFILLED all the Law of Moses CONTAINED in ORDINANCES and NAILED them to the cross) 4. THAT (Or so THAT) the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk NOT after the flesh, (Speaking of trying to keep all the Law of Moses to be MORE PLEASING to God) but after the Spirit. (Speaking of resting in Jesus as our TRUE Sabbath REST to CEASE from the works of keeping the Law of Moses CONTAINED in ORDINANCES) 5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7. Because the carnal mind is ENMITY (Or OPPOSITION) against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, (Speaking of the law of faith or the law of the Spirit of LIFE and PEACE resting in Jesus FULFILLING the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the law of God) neither indeed can be. 8. So then they that are in the flesh CANNOT PLEASE God.” The point that the Bible ITSELF is making over and over, again and again, is that under the New Covenant written in the New Testament there is NO law, NO ordinance, and NO commandments to keep the Law of Moses contained in ORDINANCES because they were all SHADOWS pointing to Jesus as being the Messiah. And it is DISPLEASING to God if a Christian keeps the feast days for the purpose of being PLEASING to God. You cannot get any more pleasing to God than TRUSTING in his Son Jesus as your Lord and Savior. The ONLY LAW of God we are to keep under the New Covenant is the MORAL commandments of God. Please read the study Dd-57. WHAT DOES ROMANS 3:31 TRULY MEAN? But for now, let us take a look at each feast day to see what event each feast day points to in the LIFE of our Messiah, Jesus. #1. The first feast day, the feast of PASSOVER. The feast of Passover is found in Leviticus 23:4-8 and Exodus 21:1-14, 21-27. This first annual feast is celebrated by the Jews in remembrance of the last plague passing over the children of Israel while they were in bondage in the land of Egypt. The BLOOD on the lintels and the doorposts was a sign or a token that the Lord would PASSOVER the children of Israel to deliver them. And the ordinance of preparing the lamb during the Passover feast was a SHADOW of Jesus as being the TRUE Passover Lamb that God Himself provided. Abraham brought NO lamb to sacrifice. But because Abraham BELIEVED God to obey God to offer his own son, God saw his FAITH and provided His OWN lamb for Abraham to offer. These are all TYPES, FIGURES, and SHADOWS pointing to the TRUE LAMB of God slain BEFORE the foundation of the world. The feast of Passover is one of the FOUR annual feast days that was celebrated in the SPRING of the solar year. Passover is celebrated by the Jews in the first month of the Jewish lunar calendar on Nisan 14 which is that day Jesus suffered and died on the cross for the sins of the world. #2. The feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD. The feast of unleavened bread is a seven-day feast that starts on the day after Passover. And in the year that Jesus was crucified on Nisan 14 was on a Wednesday and the next day was a high Sabbath day because the first day of the feast of unleavened bread is always the next day after the feast of Passover. You can read about the feast of unleavened bread in Leviticus 23:6-8 and Exodus 12:15-20, Exodus 13:1-16. The word “bread” in the Bible is used as a figurative language that means TEACHING. And LEAVEN bread speaks of FALSE teaching. So then, the symbolism of eating “UNLEAVENED” bread for seven days points to eating or obeying the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ for seven 1000 year long days from Adam to the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus. This is a study in and of itself that I have already covered in several other studies. But briefly, I will try and summarize what I mean in one paragraph without providing the Scriptures. When Jesus descended into the heart of the earth for three days and three nights he PREACHED the Gospel to the Old Testament patriarchs. And when Jesus was raised from the dead, Paradise in Abraham's bosom was MOVED to heaven under the Altar. And then for the next three days or the next three thousand years, the Gospel will be preached. The first two 1000 year-long days are this PRESENT world and the THIRD day is the Millennial reign of Jesus. #3. The feast of FIRSTFRUITS. The feast of firstfruits was celebrated AFTER the THIRD day of the feast of unleavened bread. Leviticus says on the morrow AFTER the Sabbath. Leviticus 23:9-11. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11. And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow AFTER the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.” The Hebrew word “shabbath” that is translated as Sabbath also means INTERMISSION. And the word “intermission” is an interval of time BETWEEN two things. In other words, verse 11 is speaking of the interval of time AFTER the THIRD day which is WHEN God raised Jesus from the dead to become the FIRSTFRUITS unto God. Here is how E-Sword defines this Hebrew word. H7676 שַׁבָּת shabbâth shab-bawth' Intensive from H7673; intermission, that is, (specifically) the Sabbath: - (+ every) sabbath. The Passover is on Nisan 14. The feast of unleavened bread starts on Nisan 14 and ends on Nisan 21. And the feast of FIRSTFRUIT is in the MIDDLE of the week AFTER the THIRD day on the next day AFTER the INTERMISSION between the Nisan 17 and Nisan 18. In other words, Jesus was raised for the dead AFTER the THIRD day sometime during the INTERMISSION between the evening of Nisan 17 and the morning of Nisan 18. And the women disciples of Jesus CELEBRATED the resurrection of Jesus early that morning on Nisan 18 AFTER the INTERMISSION which I believe is incorrectly translated as the Sabbath in Leviticus 23:11. For you see, there is NO mention of a SABBATH day in the middle of the seven days of the feast of unleavened bread. Nisan 15 is a Sabbath day and Nisan 21 is a Sabbath day. And even if Nisan 17 is also a high Sabbath day, Leviticus 23:11 says that the feast of firstfruits is one day AFTER Nisan 17 which is WHEN God raised Jesus from the dead. For you see, Jesus said that he would be raised from the dead AFTER THREE DAYS. Please read Matthew 27:63 “Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, AFTER three days I will rise again.” Also, read Mark 8:31. Mark 8:31. “And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and AFTER three days rise again.” And many more Scriptures clearly teach us that Jesus was raised from the dead AFTER the Sabbath which would have been the weekly Sabbath in the year Jesus was crucified. In other words, Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, Nisan 14. The feast of unleavened bread began on Thursday, Nisan 15 which was a high Sabbath day. Then Friday was Nisan 16. Then that evening on Friday, Nisan 17 began a new day on Nisan 17, the third day, which was Saturday, the weekly Sabbath from sunset to sunset. Then AFTER the weekly Sabbath during the INTERMISSION of the night between the daylight hours of Nisan 17 and Nisan 18 God raised Jesus from the dead. THEN on Nisan 18 AFTER the Sabbath and the intermission of the night Jesus presented himself to Yahweh to become the FIRSTFRUITS and the HIGHPRIEST. That was the day that Jesus became the eternal Son of Almighty God. #4. The feast of WEEKS or the feast of PENTECOST. The feast of weeks was a NEW meat offering that speaks of the church as being NEW creatures that present themselves as LIVING sacrifices unto God. The word Pentecost means fifty. And the DAY that the church began was on the FIFTIETH day from the first weekly Sabbath day after the feast of unleavened bread. For example, the first “weekly” Sabbath day after the even day feast of unleavened bread in the year Jesus was crucified fell on Nisan 26. Leviticus 23:15-17 says to count seven COMPLETE Sabbaths from the wave offering that was made during the feast of unleavened bread. Seven Sabbaths is 49 days and the day of Pentecost is on the next day after seven complete Sabbaths which would be 50 days. And 50 days would land in the third month of Sivan on Sivan 10 in the year our Lord was crucified. So the day the church began was on a Sunday which is when 120 disciples were baptized in the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The church is called the BODY of Christ. In other words, the church is the hands, feet, and mouth of Jesus on the earth. Believers in Jesus are called God’s New creation created in Jesus Christ. Let us read Leviticus 23:15-17. “And you shall count unto you from the morrow AFTER the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be COMPLETE: (In other words, the last day of the seven-day feast of unleavened bread is a Sabbath day but it does not always fall on a “weekly” Sabbath day. So the counting of the seven COMPLETE Sabbaths begins on the FIRST “weekly” Sabbath day AFTER the ENDING Sabbath day of the feast of unleavened bread. And from that first Sabbath DAY after the feast of unleavened bread you count seven COMPLETE Sabbath WEEKS which is 49 days) 16. Even unto the morrow AFTER the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; (Or after you count seven complete Sabbath WEEKS which is 49 days you add one more day which makes the count be FIFTY days) and you shall offer a NEW meat offering unto the LORD. (Again, the NEW meat offering represents Christians offering themselves as a LIVING sacrifice to God which is our reasonable service) 17. You shall bring out of your habitations TWO wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.” Again, a loaf of bread represents TEACHING. So to me, the two wave loaves represent the two WITNESSES before God which are the church during this PRESENT world and the Jews during the world to come. Now, the first FOUR SPRING feasts have already been fulfilled. The first three were fulfilled by Jesus directly. And then the fourth feast. The day of Pentecost was fulfilled BECAUSE OF Jesus. For you see, God created us to be new creatures IN our Lord Jesus Christ. So without Jesus, there would be NO “BODY” of Jesus Christ which is the church. And seeing that the first four feast days correspond to the very DAY with an event related to the Messiah, it makes perfect sense for the REMAINING THREE feast days to ALSO correspond to events directly related to our Messiah, Jesus. #5. The feast of TRUMPETS. The feast of trumpets is in the SEVENTH month on the FIRST day of the month, according to Leviticus 23:23-25. Leviticus 23:23-25. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of TRUMPETS, a holy convocation. 25. You shall do no servile work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.” I believe that the feast of trumpets foreshadows the SEVENTH trumpet in the book of Revelation chapter 11. For you see, that is WHEN Jesus will return and every eye will see him. And them that pierced him will know that their Messiah has come to DELIVER them. The seventh or last trumpet is when the rapture of the church will occur and the 144,000 children of Israel will be sealed to endure the WRATH of God. Then nine days later, on the TENTH day of the seventh month, the feast of the DAY OF ATONEMENT will take place during the wrath of God being executed by Jesus. #6. The feast of the DAY of ATONEMENT. Please read Leviticus 23:26-32. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27. Also, on the TENTH day of this SEVENTH month, there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28. And you shall do no work on that same day: for it is a Day of Atonement, to make an Atonement for you before the LORD your God. (Now, I believe that during the WRATH of God that many Jews will call upon the name of the Lord ON the TENTH day of the SEVENTH month to be saved ALIVE from the Islamic Muslim armies seeking to wipe the Jews in the land of Israel off the face of the earth) 29. For whatsoever soul it is that shall not be afflicted in that SAME day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30. And whatsoever soul it is that does any work in that SAME day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31. You shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32. It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the NINTH day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall you celebrate your Sabbath.” Now, when you think about Israel being in an all-out war to just survive it is hard to see them laying down their weapons to keep this annual Sabbath day. BUT when Israel realizes that their ONLY HOPE is Yahweh then I can see them calling on Yahweh with every fiber of their being as their LAST and ONLY HOPE to survive. Some Christians believe that the rapture of the church will happen on the Day of Atonement. But to me, the feast of TRUMPETS fits best for the day of the rapture of the church and the CALL to WAR for Israel. #7. The feast of TABERNACLES.
The feast of tabernacles is also called the feast of BOOTHS because during this feast day the children of Israel dwelt in TEMPORARY shelters called booths. Please read Leviticus 23:33-44. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The FIFTEENTH day of this SEVENTH month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for SEVEN days unto the LORD. 35. On the FIRST day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein. 36. SEVEN days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the EIGHTH day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no servile work therein. 37. These are the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything upon HIS day: (To me, HIS day is speaking of Yahweh’s 1000 year long day of rest while Jesus rules for him. Please keep in mind that the 1000 year reign of Jesus is a TEMPORARY dwelling for the children of Israel and those left alive of the nations who will inhabit the earth in their MORTAL bodies. So the SEVEN-day long feast, to me, represents the SEVENTH 1000 year long day of Jesus as being the Lord of the SABBATH of Yahweh, HIS day. And the EIGHTH day represents the NEW heaven and the NEW earth that Yahweh himself will create after the earth passes away during the second half of God’s WRATH at the END of the Millennial reign of Jesus) 38. Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give unto the LORD. 39. Also, in the FIFTEENTH day of the SEVENTH month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast unto the LORD SEVEN days: on the FIRST day shall be a sabbath, and on the EIGHTH day shall be a sabbath. (In other words, God himself is changing the Sabbath to the EIGHTH DAY) 40. And you shall take you on the FIRST day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God SEVEN days. 41. And you shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42. You shall dwell in booths SEVEN days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in BOOTHS: 43. That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 44. And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.” There are many children of Israel all over the world called the dispersed of Israel. And toward the end of the 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation, many in the land of Israel will be taken captive in the Muslim counties surrounding the land of Israel. But God promised to turn again to his people Israel a SECOND time to deliver them. And that second time that God will turn to save Israel will be AT the second coming of Jesus. Please read Isaiah 11:1-12. “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: (Speaking of Jesus our Messiah’s FIRST coming) 2. And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (Speaking of the SECOND coming of Jesus to execute the WRATH of God upon the entire world except for the faithful Christians in Jesus Christ) 5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. (Speaking of the 1000 year reign of Jesus) 7. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. (Speaking of the 1000 year reign of Jesus) 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. (Speaking of the 1000 year reign of Jesus) 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Speaking of the 1000 year reign of Jesus) 10. And in that day (Speaking of during the whole 1000 year reign of Jesus) there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11. And it shall come to pass in that day, (Speaking of during the whole 1000 year reign of Jesus) that the Lord shall set his hand again the SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be LEFT, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” And then during the Millennial reign of Jesus, the REMNANT of children of Israel and those LEFT ALIVE of the Gentile nations shall be taught about the Lord from generation to generation throughout the WHOLE 1000 years. In other words, those in their MORTAL bodies during the Millennium will keep the SPIRITUAL feast of TABERNACLES to learn the REASON for keeping the feast days of Yahweh. Let me explain what I mean by the SPIRITUAL feast of Tabernacles as opposed to the LITERAL ceremonial feast of Tabernacles taught in the Old Testament. All NON-seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians know and understand that Jesus is our Passover Lamb. And we do NOT keep the feast of Passover in the LITERAL way as taught in the Old Testament. BUT, we do, indeed, KEEP the SPIRITUAL feast of Passover by celebrating Jesus, the TRUE PASSOVER Lamb. And in the SAME way, during the Millennium, those of the nations will come up to Jerusalem from year to year AS they get SAVED to WORSHIP Jesus the King and Almighty God Yahweh to celebrate their TRUE tabernacling of the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. Please notice as you read the following passage of Scripture that the children of Israel are not mentioned. It is only the Gentile nations that were left alive in their mortal bodies that go up from year to year to worship and keep the ALEPH-TAV feast of tabernacles. Zechariah 164:16-19. “And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came AGAINST Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep (ALEPH-TAV, Jesus) the feast of tabernacles. (In other words, all the Islamic Muslim countries that HATE the Jews with a passion that comes AGAINST Israel in the last days before Jesus returns will suffer the WRATH of Almighty God. And those LEFT alive will be TAUGHT of the Lord DURING the 1000 year reign of Jesus. And AS they are SAVED by the Gospel of Jesus Christ they will come up to Jerusalem to worship Jesus and Almighty God Yahweh. And also to celebrate the Holy Spirit of God TABERNACLING IN them. Please read the three part study called Dd-16. THE SABBATH AND THE ALEPH TAV! Part 1) 17. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep (ALEPH-TAV, Jesus) the feast of tabernacles. (Which is spiritually symbolic of getting SAVED so that the Holy eternal Spirit of God can TABERNACLE in ONLY the BELIEVERS in Jesus as their Lord and Savior) 19. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep (ALEPH-TAV, Jesus) the feast of tabernacles.” The ALEPH TAV is untranslated. Many Christians believe that these first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet that are not translated are hidden prophecies pointing to Jesus. And that is just one of the reasons that I believe that the feast of tabernacles is a PROPHECY pointing to people during the Millennium who KEEP the feast of tabernacles AS they are being SAVED from year to year and the Holy Spirit comes and DWELLS in them or tabernacles in them. There are THREE annual feast days that are associated with the THREE HARVESTS. And AFTER the final HARVEST has ENDED then comes the EIGHTH DAY which is symbolic for the NEW heaven and the NEW earth being created by Yahweh the Father AFTER the Millennial reign of Jesus. Please read Deuteronomy 16:16. “Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:” According to the Bible, the ORDER of the THREE harvests where every man is harvested in his OWN ORDER is JESUS becoming the FIRSTFRUIT unto God. THEN WE who are in Jesus at his coming before the 1000 year reign of Jesus will be gathered to God in the SECOND harvest. And the THIRD harvest will be those who get saved DURING the Millennial reign of Jesus. So if people are not saved by then, then there is no hope for them. They will be cast into the lake of fire to be destroyed because they rejected Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They did not keep the SPIRITUAL feast of Tabernacles during the Millennial reign of Jesus But the question has been asked, what about all the good moral people who never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to be saved? All the morally righteous people from Adam to Jesus such as Abel and Abraham have already been preached to, the Gospel was preached to them in hell when Jesus descended first in the belly of the earth. They rose with Jesus and their souls are in heaven awaiting their new immortal bodies at the SECOND harvest. Please read the study G-21. WHAT AND WHERE IS PARADISE? So another question has been asked if there will be a preaching of the gospel to the DEAD at the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus? The Bible does not specifically say to my knowledge. We can HOPE that all the good moral people in the world who never had a chance to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be given a chance to hear the Gospel and be saved. But we, as Christian are NOT called to preach what is not actually stated in the Bible itself. So I myself believe that we should never preach that all the dead from the cross to the end of the Millennium who never heard the Gospel will be given the opportunity to hear the Gospel on the final Day of Judgment being a part of the TRUE GOSPEL of Jesus Christ. Also, keep in mind that the people during the Millennium will SEE Jesus so they will be WITHOUT excuse for sure in my own opinion. You would think that they ALL would be saved but that does not seem to be what will happen. What we do know with absolute certainty is that the books will be opened at the end of the Millennium on the final Day of Judgment and ANOTHER book of life will be opened. And all the people from Adam to the end of the Millennium who did NOT take part in the SECOND harvest AT the SECOND coming of Jesus will be judged BY their WORKS written in those books. And for ME, seeing that God warns Israel that they can be righteous their whole life and then if they TURN from their righteousness and sin then they will DIE in their sin and ALL their righteousness will NOT be remembered leads me to believe that God only records a person's LAST works at their time of death. And the children of Israel said that is not FAIR God which is what we say about people never having the opportunity to hear the Gospel. But God says that all people are WITHOUT EXCUSE because they have the very creation of God to know that there is a God. Please read Romans 1:18-25. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who HOLD the truth in unrighteousness; 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them. 20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE: 21. Because that, when they knew God, (By seeing the CREATION of God) they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Meaning that they listened to the voice of the deceiver, Satan, the Devil, to follow false Religions to make idols to many false gods) 22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” And since God warned his OWN chosen people Israel to NOT TURN from RIGHTEOUSNESS and they will LIVE, then I have to believe that all the good moral people who never had a chance to hear the gospel will also LIVE because of their righteous works. In other words, ONLY those who have never heard the gospel AND who ALSO DIED while REMAINING good moral people NOT living in sin by OBEYING their God-given conscience will be judged BY their LAST GOOD works and LIVE. BUT at the same time, all the unsaved people who never had a chance to hear the gospel who died while LIVING IN SIN shall be judged by their LAST WORKS of living in sin, And these WORKS whether good or bad are already written in the books the moment a person dies. But this is just my OWN personal opinion. To me, what the Church of God and some other Christians are teaching about a FOURTH harvest from all the dead from Adam to the end of the Millennium borderlines on universalism where everyone including Satan will eventually be saved. So I myself would REJECT the Church of God teaching on the eighth-day harvest. First of all, they left Jesus OUT and the three harvests. And IF they include Jesus in the three harvests then they are creating a FOURTH harvest just like the PRE-tribulation rapture teaching tries to squeeze in a FOURTH harvest of tribulation saints. But the Bible itself only speaks of ONLY THREE harvests and every man in their own ORDER. Please read 1 Corinthians 15:20-28. “But now Christ has risen from the dead, and BECOME the FIRSTFRUITS of them that slept. 21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23. But every man in his OWN ORDER: Christ the firstfruits; (Or in order number ONE was Jesus Christ the FIRSTFRUITS unto God as the feast of unleavened bread HARVEST, the FIRST harvest) afterward they that are Christ's AT his coming. (Or in order number two will be ONLY those in this present world who are IN Jesus Christ. This is the SECOND HARVEST of the feast of weeks which is also called the feast of Pentecost. For you see, only those who are IN Jesus Christ have the Holy Spirit dwelling or TABERNACLING in them. So true born-again Christians ARE, indeed, KEEPING the TRUE feast of Tabernacles that the ceremonial feast of tabernacles points to) 24. Then comes the END, WHEN he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, (In other words, the END is speaking of the THIRD and FINAL HARVEST at the END of the Millennial reign of Jesus AT the great White Throne Judgment. For you see, that is WHEN Jesus will commit the kingdom back into the hands of God) even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25. For he must reign, till He has put all enemies under his feet. 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (Which we know from Revelation chapter 20 will take place after the 1000 year reign of Jesus has ended) 27. For He has put all things under his feet. But when He says all things are put under him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” Again, the TRUE eighth-day is God creating the NEW heaven and the NEW earth where there is NO MORE sea or no more wicked people. The word sea symbolically means sin or wickedness. So the phrase no more sea means no more SIN where people are still trying to overcome sin. And that is why the early church gathered together on the EIGHTH day that they called the Lord's Day, the first day of the week, the day that Jesus was resurrected from the dead. I know that the Church of God and all the other Sabbath-keeping church denominations teach that Jesus was in the grave exactly 72 hours and not one second longer. And then they argue that it is impossible for Jesus to have been raised from the dead on Sunday, the first day of the week. Sabbath-keeping Christians teach this lie so that they can get their followers to KEEP the weekly Sabbath day first. And once they are convinced by Scriptures that have been twisted to wrongly teach that they MUST keep the weekly Sabbath day as the Jews, then the Sabbath-keeping church denominations teach their followers that they must keep ALL the Law of Moses. In TRUTH, Jesus gave up the ghost BEFORE the high Sabbath began. And even his body without his spirit was taken down from the cross and was placed in the tomb BEFORE the high Sabbath began. So if you interpret the three days LITERALLY, as in, exactly 72 hours to the second then they have a case to argue that Jesus was not resurrected on the first day of the week. But Jesus ALSO said that he would be resurrected AFTER three days. So to me, Jesus never intended his words to be taken literally to the exact SECOND and not a second more. Now, the Roman Catholic Church tries to FORCE three days and three nights between Friday night and Sunday morning but that does not work either. There is some evidence that all Jewish church kept some of the Law of Moses contained in ordinances. But they did so in their IGNORANCE because they were raised in the customs of the Jewish religion. The early church during the first few years was an all Jewish church that was still yet LEARNING. And by Acts 15, the Holy Spirit revealed to them that all the Law of Moses contained in ORDINANCES was abolished and nailed to the cross. Please read 1 Corinthians 5:7,8. “Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ OUR PASSOVER is sacrificed for us: 8. Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but WITH the unleavened bread OF sincerity and TRUTH.” In other words, Christians during the early church did NOT keep the LITERAL ceremonial feast of Passover and unleavened bread. But rather, they kept the TRUE SPIRITUAL meaning that the feast days POINTED TO. The feast days and the weekly Sabbath days and ALL the Law of Moses contained in ORDINANCES were a SCHOOLMASTER to lead the children of Israel to Jesus. Again, please read the study Dd-5. What Does Contained in ORDINANCES Mean? Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to read ALL the studies that I gave links to throughout this study concerning this subject on Sabbath TRUTH. My heartfelt prayer is that all Christians RETURN to the TRUE FOUNDATION of the church that is taught by the very Apostles of Jesus in the first century. So let us all come into the UNITY of the faith and return to what Jesus and his Apostles taught us in SIMPLICITY in the New Testament.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to write to me. My contact email is MarkatAMatterOfTruth@Gmail .com. Some Sabbath-keeping Christians CLAIM that the early church kept the Sabbath as the Jews, but I assure you that the early first-century church was accustomed to gathering together BEFORE the light of daybreak on the FIRST day of the week that THEY called the Lord's day. Please read all the studies linked within this study and all the studies linked below. This study was just the TIP of the iceberg of exposing the ERRORS of interpretation made by the Saturday seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping churches, and the Sunday first day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians. All of the studies listed under the subject heading >>>Dd-0. What is the TRUE Sabbath?<<< And also read Dd-20. Did The Early Church KEEP the Sabbath day to learn the truth of what the early church believed. Thanks again for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the truth of the whole word of Almighty God.
Your Brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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