Chuck Missler: Feasts of Israel Pt. 1

[Music] father we thank you for who you are we thank you Father for the word you've given us we thank you Father for the extremes you've gone to that we might live and we thank you Father for the heritage that we have the benefit of we pray father you just open your word to our lives help us to understand these patterns and these lessons you have for us as we commit ourselves into your hands in the name of Yeshua our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen well we're here to explore the feasts of Israel you know it's really a tragedy that the early church even the early centuries became very anti-semitic and it was a deliberate attempt to steer a path away from the Old Testament route strangely enough that was tragic for the Jews because that led to the tensions and the persecutions through the centuries but it's also tragic for the Christian because we've lost the benefit the richness of that background from which there's so much to learn so we're gonna explore the seven feasts that are so featured in the Old Testament the feasts of Israel in the Hebrew they're called the appointed times now it's interesting Jesus emphasized the details of the text in general when he said in Matthew 5 in the sermon amount he said think not that I come to destroy the law of the prophets I come not to destroy but to fulfill the words law there's the Torah destroy the Torah or the prophets I come not to destroy but to fulfil for verily I say unto you till heaven and earth pass one yarder one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled now the yatin tittle of course is a he Bray is Amanda whew look at a Hebrew word you'll find that the yacht is a little letter that you and I would mistake for an apostrophe just a little mark on the paper really and the tittles their different views some say the tittles are the little diacritical marks that suggests the vowels others say that the little decorative hooks but any case they're a brand equivalent to what we would say like the crossing of the T of the dotting of if you will but Paul picks up on this even further he says for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope the ultimate commentary in the Bible is the Bible itself and whatsoever things were written aforetime and he's referring here to the ancient texts of the Old Testament all of them whatsoever things were written for our learning so it's tragic that so many of us as Christians fail to really dig into the Old Testament we tend to be New Testament oriented but there's so much that we miss the New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed they're incomplete one without the other and it was August in that highlighted that Strait interestingly enough so we also know from the Old Testament Hosea 12:10 opens another door for us it's God says I have spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the Ministry of the prophets what is a similitude it's a figure of speech a simile is the resemblance we see examples of that allegories most of us familiar with allegory is that's comparison by representation there are metaphors which are representations hypercute Asus's is an implied resemblance or a representation a type we're going to talk a little bit about is they figure in the example of something in the future and there are analogies and so these are just a half a dozen types of figures of speech it's interesting that in our literature we have over 200 different types of figures of speech cattle catalogued in terms of their use in the scripture and so we're going to talk a little bit about types in 1st Corinthians Paul indicates that now all these things happened unto them speaking of the vicissitudes of Israel and its history all of these things happened unto them for examples for they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come the word examples are in the Greek as to post which is word from which we get type it's a figure an image a pattern keyword that pattern a prefiguring a type it's interesting that all kinds of types we see in the Old Testament the brazen altar the Ark of the Covenant the mercy seat water from Iraq manna brazen surf these are not only events that actually happened they are also deliberately designed to teach us something about the future the Passover lamb of course great example the camp of Israel manna in need for food God provided a daily provision of manna a miracle bread from heaven it was provided for six days and then the seventh day there wasn't any you had to pick up twice as much on Friday so you'd have some for Saturday if you will and so there was that was to prevent any gathering on Sabbath what's interesting about this that many people miss this is occurring in Exodus 16 the old law remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy wasn't given until Exodus chapter 20 this is four chapters earlier that means the Sabbath was being observed before the law was given the Sabbath was established in Genesis not in Exodus 20 not in the law so there are all kinds of lessons here this is before the law was given the brazen serpent another example I won't just touch on a few of these because a warm-up before we get into the feasts themselves the brazen serpent is that event that occurred numbers 21 in response to murmuring God sent some fiery servants with bit which bit people they died that and Moses interceded on their behalf and God says okay what I want you to do Moses I want you to put a brass serpent on a pole up on top of a hill and all that look to it will be healed it's a strange way for God to provide a healing but and you can read the entire Old Testament all the way to Malachi and not get clarity on why this strange approach or healing in fact that brass serpent that's up on this on this pole was around centuries later and being worshipped Hezekiah discovered it had to destroy it says a thing of brass because it become a Fetty shei that form of idol worship and Moses left over certainly wilderness so even so the son of man must be lifted up it isn't until Nicodemus visits Christ's in John chapter 3 that Jesus explains to him the meaning of this strange emblem in numbers 21 Jesus says to Nicodemus and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life the most famous verse in the entire scripture people know no other worse all know John 3:16 but it's the brazen serpent event that gives rise to that explanation but what's interesting here is the Old Testament you can go through read the whole Old Testament and not understand why that idiom why a brass serpent a serpent is a symbol a symbol of sin a brass serpent on a pole what a strange thing to look at until you realize in the New Testament that is an anticipatory that was an anticipatory symbol of Christ himself on the cross being made sin for us and so another example in the Old Testament murabba at refa deem water they needed water God told Moses to strike the rock which he does the rock splits and gives them water in fact they found that rock by the way it's in jabal our laws it looks like they found that the very spot later on that was the Nexus 17 later on at Meribah a similar thing occurs again there without of water again they pray about it and God told Moses to get the water just to ask that it would happen but Moses was upset he struck the rock a second time and that was tragic because that was not what God wanted them to do and that becomes so important to God that that keeps Moses from inheriting the land he spent 40 years in Egypt 40 years in the backside of the desert Midian and then 40 years wandering with them through the wilderness and he gets to see it from a mountaintop but just not get the end of the why because he didn't do exactly what God asked him to do but the that rock was Christ Paul says in 1st Corinthians 10 verse 4 in other words he's speaking idiomatically it was an emblem of Christ if and because Moses implied to the people that God was angry and he wasn't he didn't represent God faithfully for that reason Moses was put in the penalty box you're out of the game what's interesting is if he had done what God told him to do those two events would foreshadow the first and second coming of Christ in one place where he struck in the other case where he's not here with me it breaks the model if you will but Moses was because of this Moses denied entry in the promised land what last one I'll throw out and then we'll get into the camps here the end of the feasts the camp of Israel you know I'm often to say that every detail in the Old Testament is there by design and that design will always point to Christ well here's a challenge in numbers 2 we know that there's a census being taken of the people is if every detail in the scriptures thereby designed what about this what could be hidden behind the details that are given us the camp official numbers chooses two big census just a census of the population jesus said the volume of the book is written of me let's see if this is plays out here as we go through those twelve tribes we discover that not only the enumerated that not the total population but the population it's over twenty able to go to war but for every number you can you're gonna add a number maybe two and a half or something for a wife and a kid or something you can modify the numbers to get an estimate population but this is the army actually but there when they camp they camp in four camps Judah Issachar and Zebulun or the camp of Judah Reuben Simeon and GAD are the tribe of Reuben or the camp of Reuben Ephraim Manasseh and Benjamin those three tribes become the camp of Ephraim and the tribes - Asher and Naphtali would be the camp of Dan and we have the numbers here and that if you take the numbers of the camps that'll turn out to be significant for us in a minute the camp of Judah is the largest 186,000 the camp Rafi from the smallest 108 the other to about 150 give or take so okay there's the the Levites camp in the middle there's the tabernacle the Levites and what we're showing this with east to the bottom as the base line in the tabernacle around it of course is where the Levites camp most and the priests on the east side of the tabernacle the KOA fights gershonites and Mara writes on the south west north sides of the tabernacle all together being about twenty-two thousand now you have to understand to understand this you have to read the text very carefully the camp of Judah was to camp east of the Levites the camp of Reuben to the south of the Levites if you're going to be strict there's no way to camp southeast of the because Judah can be East and Reuben to the south there isn't any provision for anything but a cardinal element the compass southeast is neither south north east so who's going to only cardinal directions are ordained if you will and whatever the width of the Levites were we don't know what that was but that's our unit that's how wide the camps could be in other words then would be proportional population there's the camp of the Levites they represent roughly 22,000 and the census Judah camps the camp of Judah those three tribes that make up that camp damn bacon camp is wide as the Levites and then take whatever space they need Reuben camps to the south they got his symbol was the man these are the ends that the mustard around and again they give camp as wide as the Levites and take whatever they need so this area down here to the southeast doesn't feed either one so one of the insights here if you're going to be rabbinical about this be very precise and give them credit they work very hard to try to lead live to the letter of the law southeast was forbidden okay so that goes all the way around so ephraim would be to the west symbol over the ox and then we have Dan who originally was a serpent user didn't like that too well so they replaced it with a serpent in the needles mouth and that later becomes the eagle if you will those are the four emblems of the four tribes okay so let's stand back let's take an aerial view of what's going on here we have we have Judah 186,000 we have Ephraim the smallest hundred Nate if you stand back from this what do you what does the camp of Israel look like here you have a sketch in effect in numbers chapter two which you could easily mistake if you were Balaam on top of the hill prophesying over Israel you'd be looking at a cross if you were were chuck if you were a space in a time machine helicopter flying over the camp of Israel during its runners wanderings that was apparently than what you would be seeing if they follow the text carefully what's also interesting here is the four emblems also are familiar to us as the emblems of the four phases of the cherubim surrounding the throne of God so though the camp seems to have modeled itself after the throne of God with a tabernacle in the middle and the mane ox Eagle and lion Ripley representing the four Gospels if you will lion being Matthew the law of tribe of Judah the Son of man being Luke's Gospel the servanthood of ox being represented by Mark's Gospel and John the Eagle so these are possibilities what let's jump into our particular topics here one of the things to keep in mind in hermeneutics the theory of interpretation is that most of us in the West tend to think of prophecy as prediction Plus from fulfillment we see a prediction of some kind is fulfilled we call that prophecy that's the Western model the Hebrew mind thinks a little differently the Hebrew model is that prophecy is pattern the the the Jewish scholars paid a lot of attention to the fact that God tends to communicate by patterns not just the classical prediction plus fulfilment and that's we're gonna get into some of this we're gonna talk about feasts here Paul tells us in Colossians chapter 2 he says let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of any holy day or of New Moon or Sabbath days and that indeed is something we should bear in mind these things are interest to learn about but not to be judged by so many people get fascinated with Shabbat Sabbath that's great but that shouldn't be a point of division or judgment and that's we're coming to that later in this discussion but the other thing that Paul points out to after having commented on these things new moons holy days are worth which are a shadow of things to come see a feast has a historic immemorial context each one of the seven feasts of Moses that we're going to get into he has a historical root or basis but it's not limited to that they are a shadow of things to come each feast has a historical role and a prophetic role and it's interesting that each feast is not only prophetic it is it ends up getting fulfilled on the day it's observed interestingly enough as you'll see as we go here so that's so we're moving into Leviticus 23 what deals with the appointed times it was rabbi Hirsch that said many years ago a Jews Catechism is his calendar so many of us that have a denominational background may be familiar with catechisms what we really believe in studying that well the Jews Catechism turns out to be his calendar in many real ways and they have a hepatic calendar their counter is built on a multiple of seven septics simply means Sevenfold obviously there's a week of days where all if we all deal with that the seventh day of the week of course is Shabbat not Sunday Sunday's the first day of the week Shabbat is the seventh day of the week secular calendars are trying to get away from that but that's contrary to God God's seventh day is clearly Shabbat they have a so in the Jewish mind you have a week of days you also have a week of weeks we're gonna run into one of those in the sin where you have a a week of a week of weeks seven weeks of seven days each you also have a week of months the religious year will be built on a week on a week of months in fact there's two of them there's two weeks of seven months each that we'll talk about there's a week of years they call that the sabbatical year six years you could you plow your land and raise crops but the seventh year you had to give the land a year of rest and that was God that was the sabbatical year the land headed was entitled to arrest also and when he takes seven weeks plus one you get the Jubilee year very interesting concept in the scripture very under studied on the Jubilee year all land reverts to its owners all slaves go free all deaths are forgiven in Peters second sermon in Acts chapter 3 he makes reference to the second coming of Christ as the time of restitution of all things that a phrase that's used of that of the Jubilee year so there's a prophetic implication here that is worth some serious study now I want to call your attention to a verse in Genesis chapter 1 and God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years we're all familiar with it justice 1 the word for seasons there translated seasons actually is homily adine which means the appointed times this is an interesting word for a number of reasons there are every as every Jew would point out to you there are seventy appointed times let's understand this then of course 52 Sabbath's each year each each Shabbat never calendar there are seven days that that we call Passover but that includes it's related feast days will collectively call them Passover and we'll get into that minute then there's a several one day face Shevat feast of weeks yom teruah the feast of yom kippur the day of atonement and then they have the feast of tabernacles actually seven days plus an eighth day of assembly when you add those up that turns out to be seventy appointed times why am i making a point of this well if you take that turn Hamoui Deen and look at it as an equidistant letter sequence that's a form of encryption if you take if you take an equal equidistant letter sequences like is say taking every third letter every fourth letter or whatever it turns out if you turn a computer on the task and have it look at all possible sequences the word Hamoui diene should statistically show up a number of times but it shows up only once as an encryption it this you'd expect because just that statistic frequency of letters that you you expect that sequence to show up five different times it shows up only once in the 78,000 letters that make up Genesis only once and it's at an interval of 70 and it's centered on Genesis 1:14 now if you get into these things that the likelihood of that being just a statistical accident is absurd it's less the the the the the odds have been estimated greater than 70 million to 1 for that to have had occurred that way it's it appears to be very intentional so the huh Moya Dean there's something that this is a testimony that the text there's far more tucked away in this text than we have any ability to imagine the faces of Israel is what we're gonna deal with these huh Malia Dean we're gonna explore more carefully there are seven of them the first three are in the spring Passover the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of firstfruits these all occur in one month of first month of the religious year called the month of Nisan the next three feasts are in the fall the fall free feasts are the Feast of Trumpets the feast of yom kippur the day of atonement and the feast of tabernacles so we have three in the first month three in the seventh month and there's one more the feast of weeks that we're gonna deal with specially so that's the seven feasts of Moses there are a couple of other feasts that are celebrated pyramus celebrated in February typically celebrating the events of the book of Esther and the feast of Hanukkah is celebrated roughly around our Christmas time but they're not feasts of Moses they both occurred much later their feasts of Israel yes but they're not feasts of Moses we really dealing with a mosaic he's here because they have a special issue here in Leviticus 23 we have the details these feasts mentioned but these are the feasts of the Lord even holy convocations which shall proclaim which he shocks proclaim in their seasons the word feasts by the way that we use is actually miasma Gras it really means convocation the calling together it's called it's a rehearsal it's a rehearsal and what's interesting about that term it implies a preparation for the future it's a rehearsal in some sense these feasts are not only celebrating a historically then they're also anticipating a future fulfillment holy convocations that's a appointed place a meeting an appointed sign or signal mode so we see in the very language in the Hebrew it implies they a there's a the anticipation towards the future now in general little background here in Genesis chapter one all through chapter one the evening in the morning were the day one the evening in the morning it's always evening and morning every wonder why that is it's a very strange issue the word evening in the Hebrew is additive the word morning is Booker and the evening in the morning these words it's interesting the seventh-day does not have an evening or not in the morning recorded in Genesis that should alert us the fact that the term data and bokor came to mean evening and morning they may have meant something else earlier era have actually means refers to obscuration it's something that's increasing entropy when and when encroaching darkness began to deny the ability to discern form shapes and identities it's getting darker it's getting harder to see that is additive therefore it suggests twilight or the time of approaching darkness is what the original consent conception here is sunset making the duration of an impurity when a ceremony unclean a ceremony unclean person became clean again in Leviticus 15 in other words this becomes then the mark of the beginning of the Jews of the Hebrew day it's in the evening we think of day beginning at midnight that's a Western view the the Jewish view is that the day began at sunset strange isn't it the other word is Booker and what that word implies is becoming discernable distinguishable visible perception of order relief of obscurity in other words decreasing entropy it dealt with the attendant ability to begin to discern forms and shapes distinct identities breaking forth the light you're getting up the morning and you're just the lights just beginning you're able to begin to see discern cinnamon so it refers to dawn or morning and so used and so let's take a look in Genesis we have the creation going on and day 1 the randomness is at the bottom order to the top in other words as I go up on this I'm going from chaos to order the bottom is randomness top is design or order and out of obscurity disorder later comes to mean evening volker is orderly discernible meaning good morning so in that day 1 we have out of chaos the beginning of some structure let light be and so forth and as we go that's the first day as we go through the six days of creation each day we have a increase in order a decrease in entropy going from Erath to Booker and we go eat to day three the same thing day four continues again day five continues again we go arif to Booker and that's day five you go from air of to Booker and we have day six so it's a step-by-step creation going on when we get to day seven interest and error of being darkness Booker being light we're going from confusion or disorder to order in those steps so it's interesting and incidentally we're going to use that symbol in a subsequent charge to represent a day but I want you get used to the idea that the day starts at sunset okay so now we get to day seven there is no air oven bokor on seventh day why because there's no crew there was no creation going on then God rested he imposed a imposed a repose on the entire creation and so now we're going to be dealing the climax of all history of course is the final week of Christ with a triumphal entry through the resurrection which is obviously recorded in all four Gospels but one of the issues that we immediately confront as we start talking about these feasts and so forth we discover by looking at the Bible carefully that almost everything we've been taught about the Easter week as we might call it is wrong the church has for centuries assumed that the crucifixion took place on Friday and there may be good scholars that still will defend that view but is it Friday or Wednesday let's explore that a little bit we know from John 12 that Jesus traveled from Jericho to Bethany six days before Passover well that would require more than a Sabbath day's journey of Passover is on a Friday I'll show you that in a minute my chart Jesus also specified there would be three days and three nights those are his words between the crucifixion resurrection you can't get three days and three nights between Friday and Sunday I have fond memories of being on TBN with a co-host and our guest at that time was the famous apologist John Warwick Montgomery and my co-host got in a discussion with him about Friday or Wednesday and dr. Montgomery defended the Friday traditional view and theirs by calling partial days is over when he finished his little thing I turned to my co-host with 35 million households watching television said you have to realize that dr. Montgomery is an attorney and that's the way they bill and and almost fell off the couch laughing he the first time I'd actually met him but I felt I knew him very well because such a close friend of Walter Martin so we took some liberties there and always just good-natured kidding but there are good scholars that do defend Friday but there's another there are three issues here the other one is there two Sabbath's between Passover and Sunday morning I'll show you that too so all three of these things put together suggest strongly that what that Jesus could not have been crucified on a Friday that's the point of it though of all this and in in Matthew 28 verse one you're by English Bible says when the Sabbath was passed that's a mistranslation if you look at the route text that many Bibles will be footnoted it is the word of Sabbath on which means it's a plural noun that there are two Sabbats at least there's a plurality of Sabbath's between Passover and that Sunday morning but so the see with a feast of unleavened bread which is one of the seven high Sabbath each year intervened between Passover and Shabbat so let's take a look at this this is a little sketch if I may of the 14th the Passover which is the feast the one person were in tackle here is nailed to the calendar as being on the 14th of Nisan on the Jewish calendar now if that's the case then we know let's take a look at the presumption that the 14th was a Friday well then John 12 verse 1 says Jesus then Jesus six days before Passover came to Bethany he's in Jericho getting the Bethany and six days that's about 20 mile walk by the way but he's six days before Passover well if if that's true six days before Passover if the Passover is on a Friday then that would turn out that he did that journey on the eighth of the Sun which is would have been a on this reckoning of Shabbat six days before Friday is a Shabbat now could a Orthodox Jew go more than a Sabbath day's journey on Shabbat no so all that tells you is that that particular year that particular time the 14th could not have been a Friday okay it just doesn't work you with me okay so the the eighth of the Sun that year could not have been a Shabbat something else we have looking at this from another point of view and Luke 19 we have recorded the triumphal entry Jesus rides this do ranges this a ride on his donkey on a donkey from Bethany up over the Mount of Olives through the through into Jerusalem very pivotal event in history because five centuries earlier angel Gabriel had told Daniel the very day that he was to do all that so there's a big issue here that will try to skirt around right now for this review in Luke 19 you'll find the triumphal entry mentioned now turns out he did that on the 10th of nasaan that was the same day that the Passover lambs are presented to the priest for inspection the day that the on the 10th of nasaan is when the Passover lambs that are going to be offered on the 14th are inspected to make sure they're without blemish well it turns out that if we're correct that that's that would be on a you know that the Passover actually took place on a Wednesday that 10 days earlier would have been the intent of Nisan and that's when the Passover lambs are offering inspection and that's when our Passover was presenting himself for inspection riding that donkey exactly the way Zechariah predicted in Zechariah chapter 9 riding into Jerusalem and so now Passover the Lambs are examined on the tenth they're offered between the evenings in Exodus 12:6 X is 12 6 in the Hebrew it's between the evenings is the way it's expressed we have all through the Old Testament that not a bone was to be broken there there dozens of specifications you can hit a couple of these they're not a bone broken numbers 1246 Exodus 12 46 specifies it numbers 9 repeats it again it's even alluded to in the Psalms and Jesus of course is our Passover when John the Baptist first introduces Jesus Christ publicly he says behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world he introduces him with a Jewish title he introduces him in his first public appearance under John the Baptist that he's our Passover and of course in 1st Corinthians 5 verse 7 Paul takes advantage of that calls Jesus is indeed our Passover now you introduces the lamb I say the Old Testament details him as our Passover in Isaiah 53 in Psalm 22 each one of those are worth a full hours presentation if we had the time to go into the details so he as I say was inspected on the 10th of nice on he is who was found without blemish Peter endorses in his epistle and again open again no bones broken all through the scriptures pilot even echoes that that appraisal when he says I find no fault in him indeed he was presented without blemish without without without sin was the point and he tried very hard to get off the hook but in any case something else about that whole era is occurs in exodus chapter 6 where we're talking about the Passover of that's 4th coming out of Egypt where God says wherefore say unto the children of Israel I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians I will rid you out of their bondage I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments and I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a god and he shall know that I am the Lord your God which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians reason I'm pulling us out here the Jews will highlight 4 major commands here I will bring you out I will rid you out of their bondage I will redeem you with outstretched arm and I will take you to me for a people from these four labels they label the four cups of the Passover presentation the cup of bringing out the cup of the delivery the cup of redemption or a cup of blessing as Paul calls it when he in he alludes to its institution of the Lord's Supper and the fourth cup of taking out I'm mentioning there are so many details about the Passover that we don't have time to go we're going to get we're going to have a subsequent session that will dance little barter will take you through the Passover much more deeply than we have time for here but in 1st Corinthians 10 we we have this third cup is the cup with which the Lord Institute's the Last Supper the last Seder I should say and the it's interesting that that fourth cup was incomplete that he takes a Nazarite vowel the Lord says I will not touch through the vine until we all are together in the in the kingdom leaven is very prominent in all the Levitical observations except one and I'll come to that leaven is a type of sin in the Old and New Testament both it's a very interesting idiom used that way because it corrupts by puffing up and it's a very very colorful metaphor if you will and all through the Old Testament that term is used that way all through the New Testament it's used that way it's a it's a very consistently used idiom where 11 refers that which is sin or hypocrisy or deceit as always 11 is 11 it's interesting that the woman in 11 in Matthew 13 the the fourth of the kingdom parables you won't understand that unless you understand that leaven is sin and that you that the whole point of that parable hangs on understanding the role of that of the leaven they're in second current in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians Jesus was made sin for us and again we have the the his role as a in our place in contrast to the leaven of course Jesus himself it's one of his seven IM statements in the Gospel of John says I am the bread of life in contrast to the in the contrast to the leaven Passover is so essential for Christians to understand that that's why we're devoting a whole separate session just on the Passover itself we're just hitting a few highlights here but I do want to cover the this three days and three nights issue if Passover is on the fourteenth Jesus himself said he would be in the he would be in the grave three days and three nights well if he if he is executed on Passover between the evenings Passover starts at sunset before sunset the following day from our point of view is till the 14th of the Sun if he's in the grave three days and three nights that means the resurrection would occur at sundown Saturday night in other words the first part of the of the you know the following day so now we also know that the women came to the tomb after the end of the Sabbath's that's in Matthew 28 verse 1 why what the Sabbath's is plural the day after Passover is starts the feast of unleavened bread which is one of the three obligatory feasts that every able-bodied Jew had to attend after the feast of unleavened bread we have Sabbath seat Passover could be any day of the week depending what year it was because it would shift because of the shift of the calendars but whatever it is it there's a Passover there is a Sabbath after Passover the next morning is the Feast of Unleavened is the feast of firstfruits it's defined that way so on this particular time the 14th of Nisan is on a Wednesday that made the morning after Shabbat after Passover that's it's always on a Sunday morning but that Sunday morning would be three days and three nights from the Wednesday follow me and all fits it wouldn't fit any year it fits this year and so so we have here in view Passover itself another major from bread and a which is Ash a baton and say in addition to the 52 Sabbath's each year they have seven high Sabbath's and feasts of unleavened bread is one of those the feast of firstfruits the the first of the harvest celebration that Sunday morning when the smoke at the temple was going up from the formal feast of firstfruits there were a group of women heading for an empty tomb Deuteronomy points out that there are three of the seven that are required attendance three times in a year shall all by males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread in the feast of weeks and in the Feast of Tabernacles and they shall not appear before the Lord empty the feast of firstfruits that's the one right after the one we're dealing with here in Leviticus 23 verse 11 for the the morrow after the Sabbath after Passover so he got Passover in the fourteenth there's a Sabbath after that a Shabbat that's like a Saturday and it's the morning after their words law the feast of firstfruits will always be thus on what we would call a Sunday the morning of the ultimate firstfruits of course is when Jesus Christ Himself became our first fruits okay so not only is the firstfruits predictive of Christ his fulfillment of that was on that day so knows this - so far Passover he was our Passover and he was crucified when the lamb was slain ie on Passover he is also that firstfruits predicts his resurrection he is resurrected on the day that it is celebrated so now not only are these feasts predictive they're fulfilled on the day that they're observed okay I'll show you how precise this is let me ask a question when did the flood of Noah end in chapter 6 we have of Genesis we have the set up of all of this chapter 7 we have the the flood beginning chapter 8 verse 4 is where the flood ends let's take a look at that Chapter II the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat in chapters 6 & 7 we've had the whole story of Noah's Flood I assume that but whenever if you're a normal Bible reader and you come across a verse like this the ark rested the seventh month and seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat you you go ahead and keep reading if you've been to one of my Bible studies you are no longer a normal well-adjusted bear person you'll recall that I gave you this teaser saying that there's no irrelevant detail in the scripture every detail there is deliberately there by design whenever you find the rabbi's will tell you whenever you find a story that seems to have some unnecessary detail in it that's called a remiz that's a sign that says dig here dig deeper dig here it's a hint of something deeper well this is one of those the ark rested the seventh month my seventh year to that the ark rested in the seventh month on the 17th day of that month now this one takes a little digging that's why I wanted to amplify it here there's there's hundreds of details on all these things we can't go through all of them we just hit some of the highlights but this one takes a little explanation so I thought we'd get into it you need to understand that the Jews have two calendars not just one the counter in Genesis is the calendar it starts that that Jewish New Year is in the fall Rosh Hashanah head of the year and so that's in it's the first of Tishri that's a fall month Rosh Hashanah is in the fall the Passover month is in the Sun in the spring if you think of Rosh Hashanah is roughly September typically on our calendar they shift of course you think of Nisan as being March April well in Exodus chapter 12 where God is telling Moses about getting ready for the chapter 12 and X is where the Passover takes place in Egypt where they're gonna put the blood on the doorpost and all of that verse 2 of chapter 12 God says to Moses this month the month of the Sun this month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you well that's a little awkward because they're used to dealing with first of Tishri is the new year but now they're in spring and God saying no I want you to make this the first year of your first a month of your year so if you look at the Genesis calendar the first month would be Tishri in the fall you go through the different 12 months and they wrap around again but by following the exodus account we've got to read Eze ignaty asanas the first month not the seventh but the first and wrap it around so you really have two calendars the civil calendar the secular calendar from their point of view would be the Genesis calendar and they celebrate that this way today that way to this day in the fall they at Rosh Hashanah they will celebrate the new year whether you're religious or not that's the civil new year the religious year would be the the first of the religious year is at past the month of Passover which is nasaan two calendars all right so Tishri is the first month of the secular year it's the seventh month of the religious here nasaan is the first month of the religious year it's the seventh month on the genesis calendar you with me so far okay now let's talk about the Feast first a feast of firstfruits again crucifixion took place in what day of the month anyone 14th 14th to the Sun how long was he in the tomb three days good guess okay so that means he gets resurrected on the 17th of Ghassan right except although Hassan's the first month the religious calendar it's the seventh month of the Genesis calendar right what does that mean justice 8:4 says that the new beginning on the planet Earth occurred on the 17th day of the seventh month when the ark came to rest that starts the whole new era right on the anniversary in advance of our new beginning in Christ you see the 2 count did you see the events linked how the the the resurrection of Jesus Christ is on the anniversary of the new life given by the whole episode of noah and the eight people aboard that art okay our new beginning on planet earth was on the anniversary in advance putting it that way of our new beginning in christ you can look at it from either point of view same anniversary i think that's kind of interesting so the final week of christ at friday he's at bethany goes to he talked about that by saturday he does his try by the way the triumphal entry is not on a sunday always big palm sunday sorry it was shabbat small point but again almost everything that has come out of tradition turns out to be wrong not just in the heat just on the Jewish side Jewish traditions the traditions that aren't in the text are often wrong well in the church to things that are not documented Bible typically are not only unreliable they're typically wrong Sunday the fig trees cursed Monday the conspirators council these are these are conjectures trying to feasts together the different you know different person different scholars have a slightly different perception here Tuesday would be the Last Supper between the evenings according this reckoning the crucifixion on a Wednesday using their accountants now Thursday the feast of unleavened bread women prepare the spices Saturday they rested after the Sabbath surpassed we have he has risen that's one reckoning and there are all kinds of technical disputes on some of them I want to touch base on something else because I think it's illuminating in many ways there's a fancy word you can look up in any encyclopedia call the court wrote décima nism it's a viewpoint it it in there in in the early church's zeal to separate from Jewishness these court door decimals were a point of great discussion now what does court a testament mean it's a Latin way of saying for teens cuatro decimal is fourteen the term was used to identify those that practiced their celebration of Passover for Christians on the fourteenth day of the song as per the Old Testament calendar in other words there were Christians in those early centuries that tried very hard to celebrate the Lord's resurrection in accordance where they with the in connection with the Jewish Passover the 14th 14th from the Sun so they would look at the 14th in asan and practice accordingly this was the original method of fixing that a Passover which is to be according to the book of Exodus a perpetual ordinance nothing ever changed the Bible's view a Passover it was that way there have been some rabbinical debates about some subtle details that basically has always been the 14th nasaan and the earliest church practiced that in in honor of Christ's Christ being our Passover makes sense doesn't it in the second century find there's all kinds of tensions brewing over this issue in a 115 and 125 AD the Roman Church it Passover on a Sunday on a Sunday at least since the time of bishop exercise sexist and Eusebius records that in 154 AD Polycarp visits rome to discuss the difference between the pascal or passover the calculation with bishop anisette is and reached an amicable compromise he was able to there's a tension going on and they're finding they're trying to find a compromise what's going on here you see me saucer rights at polly crates of public crates of Ephesus and Irenaeus wrote in support of the court of Decimus certain church fathers were saying that these 14 guys had it right but they are not being accepted by the leadership it's a big tension brewing here and it gets worse until you get to the council of nicaea we all know about the council when i see it because of certain other debates but there's something about the council when i see that I had missed until I was pointed to this do you do a little research here during the council this is now the third this is 325 AD this is the Constantine the Emperor of the world is chairing this conference the council unanimously ruled that the Easter they usually trim Easter here to describe what we would call the Passover season and these two is actually a pagan label but we're not using as a pagan label here we're using it as the way most people use it today referring to what the Jews would call Passover now the Easter Festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox after that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and thereby coincide with a Passover festival Easter should become memory to the following Sunday you understand what they're trying to do they're trying to not only follow the Old Testament they want if it accidentally Falls that way they want to shift it what's going on here as a result of the council Nicaea and amended by numerous subsequent meetings the formal church deliberately attempted to design a formula for Easter which would avoid any possibility of falling on the Jewish Passover even accidentally besides striking a little strange the quarter decimals were then excommunicated those that were trying to follow the scripture were excommunicate which was heavy stuff in those days if you read at Eusebius in his life in his work on the life of casting quote it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews who aim piously defiled their hands with enormous sin and are therefore deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd for we have received that for we have received from our Savior a different way see the church is trying to blame the crucifixion of Christ on the Jews his blood be on us and our children it's the anti-semitism it's driving this here now I think we all know that the guy responsible for the death of Christ is me my sins put him on that cross but this is the it's a I think it's useful for us to understand the mood of the times there in the Epistle of Emperor Constantine himself as recorded in the dorit's ecclesiastical history says quote it was in the first place declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews and celebration is holy festival because their hands having been disdained with crime the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded let us then have nothing in common with the Jews who are our adversaries avoiding all contact in the evil this is astonishing it continues who after having compass the death of our Lord being out of their minds are guided not by sound reason but by an unrestrained passion wherever their innate madness carries them a people so utterly depraved therefore this irregularity must be corrected in order that we may no more have anything in common with those parasites and murderers of our Lord no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews a shocking language and support for us to understand how virulent the attitudes were in the early church save zi1 return to the early church I don't think so this is 30 this is this is not medieval this is third century this isn't Vatican yet this is Constantine then Byzantium okay and so it's not surprising then that confusion reigns it gets worse see they were using the Julian calendar which had an 11-day problem that they later discovered Pope Gregory corrected the Julian calendar was involved in astronomical problem that discrepancy between the solar year in the lunar year and all kinds of alternatives for changing the date were tried by the church but proved unsatisfactory so Easter was celebrated in different dates by different churches in different parts of the world got worse and worse in 387 for example the dates of Easter in France and Egypt for 35 days apart so there's the whole church is struggling here to Jewish bear money the Jewish day starts at sunset the lunar calorie and there on a lunar calendar or shot three and a half days shorter than our calendar and they solve that in a very strange way all calendars change in 701 BC there's there's scientific speculation that it had to do with the Mars near past by Anna we go through all of that in our Joshua commentary I won't go into it here but they all changed about several MBC and most cultures all Kircher all the ancient cultures 14 of them had 360-day calendar 12 months of 30 days each and none were quite right in 701 and they work fine for centuries until 7 1 7 they all have to change them most of them add 500 quarter days to adjusted the Jews Hezekiah did something different they argue they all argue why he did it I mean they all argue the different things they did but they don't know one document they have to change it at all and that's why we there's evidence of a of an actual change in the orbit but anyway the way the Jews we add one day every four years and then every 25,000 years another correction but the point is the Jews add a month on a very Liat leap year they take a leap year and just add a month and Lybia made a 13-month thing they do that in the third 6th 11th 1417 Thank You month by going through that procedure they get back to side aerial proximity the lunar year the side arrow year being separate by 11 and a half days so the Jewish calendar has got its own problems that's the way they solved it there that's what makes the difference is so strange about 465 the church adopt a system of calculation proposed by another astronomer to reform the calendar and fix the date of Easter and some of this some of these methods are still in use through the sixth century the British and the Celtic Christian churches you know declined to accept these changes until big disputes going on through those centuries out through the seventh century and then we finally get to 1582 when Gregory revised the Julie encounter be what we call the Gregorian calendar and by adopting that he eliminates some of the difficulties in fixing the date of Easter and arranging some kind of ordered all this and it was until 1752 you know virtually almost two centuries it took for the British Empire and Ireland to join in to accept the Gregorian calendar but that would that brings some thing in here but the Eastern Churches didn't accept the Gregorian calendar and so they still stayed differently and occasionally those dates would coincide in 1865 in 1963 they happened to be and step together in 1928 that's recently briefs Parliament enacted a measure allowing the Church of England to commemorate Easter on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April that they finally adopted a formula but despite all this churning around there still Easter's looked at as a moveable feast because these contrived deliberately tried to disconnect it from the Bible those that stayed with the Bible were excommunicated and strange strange stuff so we we've talked about the spring feasts passover feast of unleavened bread and feast of firstfruits they collectively are called a Passover as a season because they're all within a few days of each other so it's a Passover season but the three distinct feasts Passover in the 14th and a son the feast of unleavened bread the next day and starts ghost for seven days actually and the feast of firstfruits which is the Sunday after Shabbat after Passover and this is one of those strange places where that the said the Samaritans have it correct strangers the Samaritans the Jews have slightly different traditions and there's big debates between the Pharisees in the spirit and it turns out the ferret this is one of those strange places where I but I think but the there are three more feasts that are in the fall all fall in the same month this is interested keep in mind the three spring feasts are the month of the Sun the three fall feasts are also in one month in the month of Tishri the three feasts are the Feast of Trumpets Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles we'll take a quick look at these the month of Tishri let's just take a look at the month there the first of the month is of course Rosh Hashanah that is the head of the new year the same day is also a religious day it's called a yom teruah it's the Feast of Trumpets and if you go 10 days later that is the most solemn occurrence on the Jewish calendar it's the Day of Atonement Yom Kippur and that's one that Jews who observe very little else will make a point of honoring that day is a day of repentance a day of getting it right with God kind of thing between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement are ten days of affliction you mean no rain which is really 10 days of preparing for the Day of Atonement and all of these have interesting prophetic implications now there are lots of speculations by different scholars having different percentage ideas as to what these things commemorate the Feast of Trumpets many people think will be some people think that's gonna be the day of the rapture I don't happen to hold that views but doesn't mean they're not right it's hard for me to defend that because I don't see it that way but that's fine there's some good scholars that do sit that way the Yom Kippur is the Day of Israel's national repentance as a nation they repent and prophetically I believe it goes to the day that's talked about in Hosea 5:15 where God says I returned to my place until they acknowledge their offense in their affliction they will seek me earnestly and I think that's what's going to happen prophetically Isaiah 53 which many of us think is prophetic of the crucifixion of Christ it is but in a very strange way what it is actually predicting is the national recognition of Christ's dying for them you read Isaiah 53 carefully it is really a statement and acknowledgement by the nation that he did indeed die for them so in a sense of speaking Isaiah 53 is yet to be fulfilled because really ting to Israel's repentance well five days after the Yom Kippur five is typically the number of grace we have the feast of booths or Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles and so that's the picture of the month of Tishri and what seems to be the assessment of most scholars is that these three feasts one way or the other all reflect the second coming of Jesus Christ because the Feast of Trumpets suggests that the feast of booths maybe that that's where they leave their temporary residences to go into their permanent residences and the national repentance this all orchestrates to the day that the kingdom is established by our Lord thy kingdom come when you pray that prayer that's what you're praying for and so let's take the feet of Trumpets yom teruah it's coincident with the new year but the same day but the two different things one civil one is religious it really refers to the great it's a day of trumpeting one of the debates that occurs about the Feast of Trumpets from a freddie point of view is is there a linkage between the Feast of Trumpets and Paul's alluding to the last Trump in and that is a first of all many people try to tie the Feast of Trumpets to the seventh trumpets of there's a string of trumpet judgments in the book of Revelation and some people figure the seventh of those trumpet judgments is the last Trump well you want to distinguish the Feast of Trumpets is a victory sounding not an alarm for a of a judgment and so that linkage people try to make that Langly linkage between the last Trump and the trumpet judgment are taking both of them out of out of context altogether the last trumpet is not the last trumpet because the trumpets all this there are going to be trumpets it's lone all through the millennium it's the last Trump in another sense it certainly is not the link to the last trumpet of Revelation that gets into a whole study of those seven trumpets but they're trumpet judgments in any case there is a term that you might be aware of that I think is very useful to understand the trumpet of God his own only appears twice in the Bible it appears in Exodus 19 where the giving of the law at Sinai is recorded and that we hear the trumpet of God is alluded to there the only other place you find it is that the rapture verse Thessalonians 4 neither one of these fit the conditions of the Feast of Trumpets they're easy it's easy to try to mix those together and many many people do and I'm gonna sing they're wrong it's just a different we just have a different view and for a number of different reasons but it's interesting that the Feast of Trumpets in any case is followed by ten days of affliction which indeed may be idiomatic if you will of the tribulation the days of affliction and so now the the Teatro far is a ram's horn it's not the silver temple temple trumpets it's different kind of trumpets a shofar and that's talked a lot about in Isaiah 58 and elsewhere the lifting the the ram's horn really has its institution in the ikeda the offering of Isaac and which where the substitutionary ram is placed and that ram as they celebrate that there's a two horns the left horn is the first Trump and the right horn is the last Trump and some scholars try to tie it to the aki da in any case it still doesn't necessarily help us in terms of the other passages the climax of the Feast of Trumpets is the great blowing that the key I get a lot it's the and it's a free series of ten blasts each a final blowing of ten blasts and these are not short blasts which are the alarm blasts these are the long blasts which imply victory so this is not a judgment kind of thing it's a victory kind of thing and so forth it's worth so there are people who try to play with this and have different views the last Trump the important one for our from our perspective is the one that's eluded to in first Corinthians 15 where Paul talks about the last Trump is this the seventh trumpet judgment revelation don't think so for a number of reasons first of all it's not the last trumpet anyway because trumpets will be sounded in the Millennial temple it is described as the Trump of God and that's I say given at the giving of the Torah at Sinai and at the rapture in 1st Thessalonians 4 that's the tie together there these days of fliction the yeoman Narain is the ten days of preparation for Yom Kippur it's some people link this to the threshing-floor idiom in several places but not the least of which is in the Book of Ruth Ruth was the Gentile bride is that Boaz's feat a kinsman redeemer during the thrashing floor event in Ruth chapter 3 verses 89 so there are some idiom possibilities here that I don't you play with at your leisure but we get to the big one Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement tenth of Tishri the and that's alluded to all through the scripture and it's a lot talked about in Hebrews chapter 9 it is a day of national repentance is the focus of and that's where Isaiah 53 is really that's where it gets fulfilled in effect this is the only day that a high priest can enter the Holy of Holies and then only after enormous ceremonial preparation no one was allowed in the Holy of Holies except on this day and then only him and only under these various special conditions when they had to move and stuff there's a very elaborate procedure to wrap the Ark of the Covenant so that no one could touch it and there's there's a whole set of assignments but when it's all set up the high priests the only guy can enter it in there and God is viewed as sitting he's dwelling in fact between the cherubim apparently hovering over the seat of Mercy if you will looking down at the broken law which is inside the Ark of the Covenant the idiom there is that as God sees the broken law he first sees that the blood that is atone for that look that broken law now looking down bro-in-law its propitiated by the shed blood of Christ in effect there's a whole study there of the role of it's interesting as you get into this I don't spend the time here in this brief review but the real issue is not the Ark of the Covenant it's the seat of mercy the mercy seat we believe it has a future not just a past and so also a day of atonement is the scapegoat and there's two goats oz as well and the scapegoat and one is slaughter and one is the sins put on some only put on his head and led off into the wilderness and pushed off a cliff to make sure he doesn't come back and very strange set of procedures all this incidentally occurs on the north side of the camp which is interesting that's exactly where Gul Kathy is also by the way the lottery box did you see they have these two goats and one gets children in each of the two roles the lottery box first selected him for the next temple is already available for viewing at the temple Institute in Jerusalem for visiting Israel maybe one of the things to take a look at well again three times a year so all my males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall shoes the Feast of the unleavened bread the feast of weeks the Feast of Tabernacles the feast of unleavened bread the Feast of Tabernacles we understand there's a big those are big these this Feast of Tabernacles is a strange one what's that really all about well the Feast of Tabernacles is on the 15th of Tishri five days grace would you know after Yom Kippur one of the three feasts that are compulsory attending what they did this is a very colorful time to visit Israel in fact it's very colorful time see any Orthodox Jews because what they actually do is they build a temporary shelter in the back yard to camp in so to speak and they actually build this and they they live in it for those seven days and what the specifications require is you've got to be able to see the stars through the roof and the wind has to pass through the walls the intention is to recreate the hardships of the wilderness wanderings and so you can't make it too comfortable you've got to deliberately make it so that you can see the stars through the roof which means it leaks and you've got the wind coming through the side and they actually do this for a week it's a and the point being at the end of Sukkot they leave those temporary dwellings to the permanent dwellings and so the whole thing's done with a with a great deal of color and and and celebration now the gaps in the sides the roof and so forth and so now it seems suggestive that of the three feasts of the seventh month that this one really seems to suggest the Millennial Kingdom where they leave their temporary shelters to go to the permanent one it's also maybe suggestive of our receiving our permanent habitation as first Corinthians 5 to alludes to but it's just a small point here there is speculation that the Transfiguration is recorded in Matthew 17 may have been occurring at about the time of the Feast of Tabernacles because Peter is so anxious to build some booths we want to build there's Moses and Elijah was there he wanted to build three booths and he didn't get the picture but the point is he he mine being on bullets cause some scholars to speculate that that may have been some linkage to the Feast of Tabernacles but it also involves a procession that's worth mentioning there is a lulav there's a rather decayed one that I don't have the fresh one that's been a little while but there's a what they call the lulav which has three branches in it a willow a myrtle and a palm the willow has no fragrance and no fruit the Myrtle has fragrance but no fruit the palm has no fragrance but yields fruit and that leaves the last the fourth item of the quartet is the etrog and I don't have one here I'm sorry we have one usually at the time of the fall it looks like a huge lemon about the size of a grapefruit and it's a very very very fragrant has a very intense taste it's a etrog and so it's interesting to force them together one has no fragrance no fruit one is fragrance and no fruit the other one has no fragrance of fruit the drug has both fragrance and fruit and so you can make sermons about that if you like you can tie it to the four soils of Matthew 13 whatever there's ways to do that so the feasts of Israel we've talked about the spring feasts passover piece of unleavened bread feast the firstfruits good we talked about the fall feasts Feast of Trumpets feast of you know Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles now the first three are there's a pretty good agreement most among most scholars that they're pretty predictive of the first coming of Christ all the elements of those first three feasts were fulfilled and were fulfilled on the very day they're observed that's fascinating not only that they're fulfilled but they were actually fulfilled on that very day these last three most scholars suspect have to do with the second advent of Christ the second coming and different scholars have slightly different emphasis or interpretations of the details and that's something that you really need to study yourself and come to your own conclusions but that leaves a very strange one yet to be addressed and that's the feast of weeks it's not in the first Advent it's not the second man it's something in between it's a very very strange one it's one that I think is under studied most summaries of the feasts of Israel will follow pretty much the materials we've presented here but the feast of weeks is usually missed completely in any significance what on earth is it predictively especially let's take a look at it bear in mind three times a year shall I males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which sees don't choose in the feast of unleavened bread in the feast of weeks Feast of Tabernacles so this is one of the big three strangely enough it's one of the big three compulsory attendance required how interesting and here's in Leviticus 23 verse 15 and 16 in Leviticus 23 is the ones highlighting most of these in Leviticus 23 it says and ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath that incidentally as previous verse 11 that was describing the feast of firstfruits we have the we have Christ crucified we have the resurrection occurring on the morning after Shabbat after Passover that's the Sunday morning from the morrow after the Sabbath that's Sunday morning from the day that he brought the sheaf of the way of offering seven Sabbath's shall be complete even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days so they call this the counting of the Omer and it always turns out to be on a Sunday and it's one of the three compulsory feasts but there's something very strange about this feast by the way there's no offerings ordained on it that's interesting but the main thing is only the use of leavened bread is involved only the use of leavened bread it's the only place in the Bible where leavened bread is used now and there's two loaves of these for some reason what do they mean no one sure clearly one suggestion is that as a gentile oriented endeavor because there 11 breath or not it's not unleavened bread two loaves some people feel that also implies that's the that's the Jews and Gentiles who both are impure some rabbis would argue those two loaves of the northern the nation reunited but again they're eleven which is not insignificant well clearly the feast of weeks we know it is prophetic of one major issue that's the birth of the church because the church was born supernaturally on that very day we call Pentecost this is the Greek for 450 is Pentecost I'm using the feast of weeks here's the English translation but many of us would call it the Feast of Pentecost and but in the Hebrew you college to vote Chava would these two weeks so Feast of Pentecost acts chapter 2 we all know the story but there's a strange legend that I'd like to share with you the mystery of Enoch Enochs an interesting character first of all he's the one that has uttered the oldest prophecy in the Bible honored by Prophet the earliest prophecy uttered by a prophet in the Bible is one by Enoch what's strange about it is it's about the second coming of Christ you'll find it quoted in Jude but it's this oldest prophecy uttered by Enoch is of the second coming of Christ that's pretty interesting because one could argue that Enoch was not Jewish he's long before Abraham and all that thing furthermore there were three groups of people facing the judgment of the flood of Noah when you study Genesis six seven eight you discover the flood Noah there are three groups of people that were facing that judgment first group were those that perished the flood whole world round not just people that region the whole world round it's the universal flood okay the second group are those that were preserved through the flood eight people poor guys and their wives aboard that boat or that art well who's the third group those that were removed prior to the flood well that's interesting the eunuch was translated before the flood right God remembering the Jewish mind thinks of patterns as a pattern here okay the flood can be viewed as the tribulation or whatever those that perished those that preserve those removed now what's interesting there is a Jewish belief that Enoch was born on shovelled he was born on the day that we celebrate as the feast of weeks just a tradition but it's a documented one by the way it's in the deceptive SOTA and it's also recorded by Ginsberg in the legends of the Jews six-volume work problem 5 page 161 and it gets even more interesting than this the Jews also have a belief that Enoch was translated raptured if you will prior to the judgment on his birthday now I find that kind of interesting I can't give you a big biblical basis for that view but that is their view and he was born on Shabbat and he was raptured on Schiavone according to their perspective now they don't have in there their eschatology it's not countenance a rapture also do understand we're dealing with some strange stuff here but I find this fascinating because if it's true that Enoch is a type a foreshadowing of the church he was born on Shabbat he was removed then the church was born on Schiavone in Acts chapter 2 it was born in a miracle and it will be removed as a miracle will the church be removed on its birthday it would be in my mind just like God that he would start the Jewish clock again on the very day that he stopped it when Jesus rolled that donkey into Jerusalem that now these things are hidden from your sight because they didn't recognize the day that that Gabriel had told Daniel that he was gonna make his appearance he offered them the kingdom they turned it down okay from now these things are hidden from your sight forever no Paul tells us how long in Romans 11:25 then we're not having be good at brethren that Israel is blinded in part until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in I think it'd be very fascinating if God would start the clock again on the very day that he stopped it if you will so there we have it the feasts of Israel and I think it's very very interesting that we have three feasts in Nice on three feasts in the seventh month Tishri and there's this one in between I think that's very interesting there are some caveats now we've talked a little bit about these I want to leave a caveat here with you because it's very easy one of the things that happens is it's a it's a big mistake not to get into understanding these things if you're serious about Christ and serious about your Bible but I tell you what is the danger here and that is we have this treasure of a heritage and there are all kinds of patterns that can teach us and they're intended to but I want you to be aware of a lure many Christians who get into this get so enamored with discoveries they're making about Shabbat and these and and learning about these face that they start feeling they have to observe they have to observe them beware of the lure of legal is there many publications by legalists that were trying to get those people to keep the keep the Torah it's one thing to honor Shabbat it's quite another to keep this try to keep the 613 rules and all that business remember the Council of Jerusalem acts 15 where this was debated and resolved circumcision was not required of the Christian the keeping the law was not a requirement for to be a Christian and many people lose sight of that remember that Abraham was saved before he was circumcised before the law was even given need to understand if you're getting into this make sure you really understand the book of Romans and the book of Galatians for that matter hromas remind you that by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin and the word law there is Torah you are not required to keep the Torah you can't by the deeds of the Torah there shall no flesh be justified you have Liberty in Christ don't lose sight of that he continues a few verses later therefore we conclude then a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law understand that very important very important now this is the Passover part of this whole story is so important we've relegated that to a complete session following this one we hope you find it as bust as I have and let's close with the word prayer father we thank you for this time together we thank you father for providing a Passover for us that what that was made sin on our behalf we thank you Father that you have loved us so much as to go to these extremes we pray father that through your Holy Spirit you would guide our steps that you would illuminate evermore the realities that face us we pray father that you would help each of us to grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior and be more effective stewards of the opportunities you put before us as we commit ourselves in your hands in the name of Yeshua our Lord and Savior our Passover Jesus Christ 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