Lesson 35 - Leviticus 23 Concl.

[Music] Leviticus 23 is where the seven biblical feasts are deigned and they're explained now we've covered the first four of them so far the three spring feasts of Passover unleavened bread and first fruits and then the one summer feast called Shavuot in Hebrew or better known in Christendom as Pentecost now here we arrive at the three fall feasts and we've looked at the first of those yom teruah law which is better known in our day is Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year now this day falls on the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew religious event calendar ten days later is Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement and the one we began discussed before our lesson ended last week was so coat also known as the Feast of Tabernacles also known as the feast of booths also known as the feast of ingathering got several different names for it and we'll actually find all of them in the Bible so let's reread a small portion of Leviticus 23 to establish the context for today's lesson open your Bibles to Leviticus 23 we're going to start reading in verse 33 and go to the end so you want to go to page 137 if you have a complete Jewish Bible Leviticus 23 starting at verse 33 AD and I said to Moses tell the people of Israel on the fifteenth day of the seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to Adonai and on the first day there is to be a holy convocation do not do any kind of ordinary work for seven days you were to bring an offering made by fire to AH deny and then the eighth day you were to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai it is a day of public assembly do not do any kind of ordinary work these are the designated times of Adonai to cheer to proclaim as holy convocations and bring an offering made by fire to a danaiah burn offering a grain offering a sacrifice and drink offerings each on Sunday besides the Sabbath of Adonai your gifts all your vows and all your voluntary offerings that you give to Adonai but on the 15th day of the seventh month when you have gathered the produce of the land you are to observe the festival of Adonai for seven days the first day is to be a complete rest the eighth day is to be a complete rest on the first day you are to take choice fruit palm fronds thick branches and river willows and celebrate in the presence of Adonai your God for seven days you are to observe it as a feast to Adonai seven days in the year it is a permanent regulation generation after generation keep it in the seventh month you are to live in Sukkot in booze for seven days every citizen of Israel is to live in a booth in a Sukkah so the generation after generation you will know that I made the people of Israel live in Sukkot in booth when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I'm at and I your God thus Moses announced to the people of Israel the designated times about a nine well the first thing established is the date of the sickest of all is to begin on the 15th day of the 7th month known as T Sri further it's to be a seven day long event and then after the seven days on the eighth day there's to be a holy convocation and meeting them together to worship now in verse 37 we were also introduced to another part of the Sukkot celebration called in Hebrew the sec it means libation or as it's often called in our English Bibles a drink offering now I don't like that term because it really conjures up the wrong mental image of what's going on here this libation offering usually consists of water or wine or both the one mentioned here is a water libation and without going into all the details of the actual ritual I'll just say that water is put into a special vessel then it's poured out by a priest at the temple during a special ceremony so what is the meaning of this water libation very simple really recalling that all of these feasts are agriculturally based and that the feast of tabernacles Sukkot occurs at the final harvest of the season before the new crops are planted the water libation is connected with a plea to God for rain the rainy season in Israel is generally late October through March rain was key because the Israelites didn't practice irrigation if the rains didn't come then the spring harvest would be very very poor this water libation occurred every day during the Feast of Tabernacles now as very little is said in the Torah on just how the water libation ritual was to be accomplished traditions were developed on on its proceedings and of course these traditions changed over time now because of something I want to show you shortly about a story concerning Jesus I want to briefly explain this water libation tradition as it was observed in his day the high priest would take a special vessel down to the pool of Siloam fill it with about a quart of water in the meantime some other priests went to another pool of water where willows grew they gathered the Willows they laid these long willow branches against the sides of the great altar of burnt-offering like you see here they had to extend above the flat platform and kind of formed a little bit of a canopy over it now two different pools of water were used for a very practical reason the pool of Salome was nearby and it was where the city obtained much of its fresh water the pool of siloam was large least a half an acre in size and it was a plastered pool that was fed by a man-made aqua dock now people wash their clothing there they filled their jugs for drinking and cooking because this pool had been plastered it was a lot like a enormous modern swimming pool Sun it no vegetation of course ruined therefore in order to obtain the necessary willow branches a group of priests had to go to a source of water that was natural or vegetation did grow it's possible that that source was a substantial stream but at one time flowed through the Kidron and Hinnom valleys you see the you see the Kidron Valley here but they may well have had to go all the way to the Jordan River which was a couple days of travel to get there they have these willow branches we don't know for sure the high priest would then dip his golden pitcher into the pool of siloam down at the bottom of the hill from the city of David then he would proceed up up a stairway that they have only recently discovered and you can walk most of that stairway today it takes you right up along here and what it says here Central Valley but in that era it was called the Tyrolean Valley they follow this enormous stairway all the way back up to the temple they go to a well known gate through those walls that surrounded the city it was called the Watergate that's how it got its name he'd wait there until some Levi sounded three long trumpet blasts then he would proceed to the great altar and in front of large crowds he pour that water out you see him doing it here in the picture and recite in a very loud voice therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation hmm that was taken from Isaiah 12:3 had no idea what he was saying as the high priest poured out that water libation another priest poured wine out of a pitcher and when that was done music was played by the Levites and then the entire crowd would together recite psalm 18:25 save now I pray O Lord O Lord I pray send props and now prosperity and this song was called the oceania or we say hosanna during this song scores of priests would march around waving these palm branches and I hope some of some of these starting to conjure up a memory of a happening in the New Testament they had all these same elements involved in it now I've mentioned repeatedly there practically every scene in the Bible of Yeshua of Jesus being in Jerusalem had to do with his being there as a pilgrimage for one or the other of the three pilgrimage feast matzah chef won't or Sukkot after all Jesus lived well to the north in Galilee far from Jerusalem so it had to be a good reason for him they ever venture down to Jerusalem long way now not only that but he didn't have very much regard for the and the tradition based Judaism that now ruled every aspect of every Jews life so unlike that vast majority of Jews in that area he wasn't just itching to go to Jerusalem now let's take a look at one of those times he was in Jerusalem because it's centered on this feast that we're discussing the Feast of Tabernacles so turn your Bibles to the book of John turn it to chapter 7 I'm a little bit of a stickler and making sure that we have the entire context correct when we study God's Word so I don't like pulling a verse or two out of the Bible and just hanging it up there we're gonna study the whole chapter so turn to John chapter 7 after this Yeshua traveled around in the Galilee intentionally avoiding Judah because the Judean Tsar out to kill him but the festival of Sukkot and Judah was near so his brother said to him leave here and go into Judah so that your Talmud EMU disciples can see the miracles you do for no one wants to become what's to become who wants to become known acts in secret if you're doing these things show yourself to the world the brother spoke this way because they had not put their trust in Yeshua said to them my time hasn't yet come but for you anytime's right the world can't hate you but it does hate me because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are you go on up to the festivals for me I'm not going up to this festival now because the right time for me has not yet come having said this he stayed in the Galilee but after his brothers had gone up to the festival he too went up not publicly but in secret and at the festival the Judeans were looking for him where is he they asked and among the crowds there was as much whispering about him some said he's a good man others said no he's deceiving the masses however no one spoke about him openly for fear of the judean now not until the festival was happily the issue will go up to the temple courts and begin to teach and the Zhu Dan's were surprised how does this man know so much without ever having studied so you sure gave him an answer my teaching isn't my own comes from the one who sent me anyone wants to do his will he will know whether my teaching is from God or if I speak on my own person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself but person who tries to win praise for the one who was who has sent him is honest there's nothing false about it didn't Moses give you the Torah yet not one of you obeys the Torah are you have to kill me you have a demon the crowd answered who's out to kill you and you shoe issue answer them I did one thing because of this all of you are amazed Moses gave you the breat my law circumcision ceremony not that it came from Moses but from the patriarchs and you would do a boy's Brit Milah on Sabbath if a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so the Torah of Moses is not broken why are you angry with me because I made a man's whole body well on Sabbath stop judging my surface appearance and judge the right way some of the Jerusalem people said isn't this man this the man that they're out to kill yet here he is speaking openly and they don't say anything to him it couldn't be could it that the authorities have actually concluded that he is the Messiah surely not we know where this man comes from but when the Messiah comes no one will know where he comes from or upon Yeshua continuing to teach in the temple courts cried out indeed you do know me and you do know where I'm from and I have not come on my own the one who sent me his real but him you don't know I do know him because I'm with him and he sent me at this they tried to arrest him but no one laid a hand on him cuz his time had not yet come however many in the crowd put their trust in him and said when the Messiah comes will he do more miracles than this man has done perishing the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua so the head priest and the Pharisees sent some of the temple guards to arrest him and Yeshua said I will be with you only a little while longer then I will go away to the one who sent me you will look for me and you won't find me indeed where I am you cannot come and the judean said to them says where is this man about to go that we can't find him does he intend to go into the Greek diaspora and teach the Greek speaking Jews and when he says you will look for me and not find me indeed where I am you cannot come what does he mean well now on the last day of the festival Oshana rabba yeshua stood and cried out if anyone is thirsty let him come keep coming to me and drinking whoever puts his trust in me as the scripture says rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being now he said this about the Spirit whom those who trusted in him were to receive later the spirit had not yet been given because Yeshua had not yet been glorified and on hearing some of these words some people in the crowd said surely this man is the prophet others said this is the Messiah but others said how can the Messiah come from the Galilee doesn't the Tanakh the Old Testament say that the Messiah is from the seed of David and he comes from Bethlehem the village where David lived so the people were divided because of him some wanted to arrest him no one laid a hand on him and the guards came back to the head priests and the Pharisees who asked them why did you bring him in and the guards replied there's no one ever spoke this way the way this man speaks you mean you've been taken in as well the Pharisees retorted as any of the authorities trusted him any of the Pharisees know true these AMA retz these people of the land meaning the common people do but they know nothing about the Torah they're under a curse not Damone naka Dimas the man who had gone to Yeshua before and was one of them said to them our Torah doesn't condemn a man does it until after hearing from him and finding out what he's doing and they replied you aren't from the Galilee - are you study the Tanakh and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galilee then they all left each one to his own home fascinating story 'add verse 2 says that it was the time of the Feast of the Tabernacles pearly fall about 30 ad Yeshua was in his hometown region of Galilee he was reluctant to go to Jerusalem because Jerusalem was in the province of Judea and it says that the Jews were seeking to kill him actually where it says in most English Bibles the Jews were seeking to kill him that's misleading what it says is the Judean for seeking to kill him in other words it was only certain Jews those who lived in the province of Judea thus the title of the Judean for out to get him not so much the Jews who lived in other areas in Yeshua's day it was more usual for Jews from the Galilee to be called Galileans Jews from Samaria to be called Sumerians or Samaritans in English and Jews from Judea were called do Dayan's Yeshua was a Galilean Galileans didn't much like the Jew Dan's the Jew Dan's didn't much like the Galileans neither knew Dan's or the Galileans had my Jews for the sumerians you know it's kind of like church today and at this time in history Judaism was very fractured generally along territorial boundaries but also according to political beliefs even family bloodlines the Galileans were a long way from the Jewish capital of Jerusalem so they were less affected by the religious politics and by the intellectual elite who represented the ruling authority of the Jewish religion whose power base was in Jerusalem it was much like in the USA today when we talk about the red states and blue states new states meaning politically liberal red states meaning more politically conservative and in general we find that a closer estate is to Washington DC the more liberal it is and the more interested it is and the finer points of politics the further away from the seat of government like in the Midwest people are generally less concerned with politics and are less impressed with the so-called intellectual elite Rab Davis want to live simple lives they want to practice their beliefs in more basic ways it was just like that in the Holy Land an issue was time Galileans were similar people living in Kansas Judean 's for more like New Yorkers but despite the great differences in disagreements while the game galilean still recognized Jerusalem as their religious capital the Sumerians had taken the drastic step of setting up their own separate brand of Judaism the Sumerians had for all practical purposes seceded from the religious system that was centered in Jerusalem they had established a separate priesthood with their own high priests they even built their own temple at Mount Gerizim in Samaria at which they sacrificed using their own temple altar now I tell you all this so that you can understand that to lump all Jews together in Christ day and to say that the Jews did that and the Jews did this the Jews believed this the Jews believed that that's so overly simplistic is just wrong and inaccurate it's useless to speak of it that way it's very akin to the way people in foreign countries look at New York City as the stereotypical American city representing the average American cultural lifestyle and attitude but we live here know that New York City is more the exception to the rule rather than the norm in America John 7:14 tells us that somewhere in the middle days remember how long as the festival is this seven days somewhere in the middle of it Yeshua was teaching in the temple so as one would expect he observed the law of Leviticus 23 which were study and he made his pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem for Sukkot and some of the Judeans who heard him speaking asked in verse 15 how is it that such an uneducated person could know such things as he was teaching and that he could teach it with such assurance and authority meaning his words cut to the core on every issue why did they assumed he was uneducated even though he seemed to know more about the tour than anyone they had ever heard because he was a Galilean and the only place in the Holy Land that one could get a good education which by the way meant only a religious education was at the knee of one of the many rabbis in the rabbinical schools all of them located in Jerusalem no good Galilean would ever go to those schools in Jerusalem such was the distrust and dislike between Judean Jews and Galilean Jews the Judean Jews in Jerusalem became actually the minority for a few days because this was the time of the pilgrimage Feast of the tabernacle from all over the Roman Empire came there as were Jews from the Holy Lands of Galilee even a few from Sumeria who didn't entirely agree with the Cimmerian religious authorities break from the Jerusalem Temple most people who then the Holy Lands were fully aware of this Jesus fellow and that he was one of those disgusting Galilean we can know this because it says so in verse 28 when the issuer says to the ground you both know me and you know where I am from so he was a known quantity he was well known he had admirers he had detractors some Jews had already come to believe he was the Messiah others thought the whole idea was ridiculous primarily because in their minds there was no way the Messiah could possibly come from the Galilee till others thought he was a danger and preferred that he just just go away by whatever means possible as it says in verse 43 so there arose a division in the multitude because of him and of course that division we see in the Gospels is still present today as a result of his coming now I can spend a lot longer with this chapter but I just wanted to show you a couple more things and keep in mind this is all happening within the context of Christ participating in the feast of tabernacle and verse 37 it says the following now on the last day the great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out saying if any man is thirsty let him come to me and drink the last day of the feast of tabernacles was like a grand finale tradition even gave that last day a special name Oh Shona Rob on that last day all the rituals were exaggerated and expanded the particular one I want to focus on is the water libation ceremony because all on all these other fee states the high priest came through the water gate with his gold and vessel full of water taken from the pool of siloam his signal then to enter was the sound of three trumpet blasts but on the last day a shot Arriba the Levites blew seven trumpet blasts and they repeated it three times the crowds would wait and great anticipation for this moment in which the feast was now drawing to a close the crowds knew that this was going to be a special day the high priest would then calmly carry that golden pitcher of water of the several steps to the altar he would wait till all eyes were on him and the crowd was quiet and then with a great drama you know pictured charlton heston up went that water libation vessel he would pour out all of its contents for the last time it would not be done again for a year it was at that moment when the water was drained from that golden pitcher that you see that Jesus turned to the multitude and yelled out if any man is thirsty let him come to me and drink oh man oh man you see most things of Yeshua can and must be identified with some context that's going on around him what doesn't make any sense you can imagine the sudden an awkward silence of the crowds the stunned and angry priests and levites the offended Pharisees running can you imagine this scene would have been like throwing a bomb into an anthill Yeshua had just used the biggest event of the biggest beast at the climactic water libation ceremony to proclaim himself God on earth he was the source of living water he sealed his fate right then him there on the last day of the feast of tabernacle now let's get back to Leviticus 23 one of the interesting commandments of God gives to the people is that they're to live in scope who was during the time of the feasts these open-air shelters it could be constructed in a number of ways and so they to finally became a subject of rabbinical tradition but the reason for making his people live in soot and live in these suga's Sukkot was to remind them of the 40 years that they lived in temporary shelter out in the wilderness now today in Israel you can see any number of ways that some pictures up here that people build Sukkot from simple to elaborate they even hang brightly colored glass balls other flashy items from the roof of a Sukkah lot likes done with a Christmas tree generally people no longer live in these cyka for seven days for those who even bother to observe the holy days they will eat sometimes the children will sleep inside those shelters but that's about the extent of it now I want to point out something important to you the Torah has very little to say about just how one is to observe any of these feasts in fact the Torah has very little say about just exactly how to go about most God ordained observances particularly after all of the sacrificial rituals are removed it is rules made by men that make for most of these observances that we see today that goes for Sabbath Shabbat as well so that the whole Bay and the Torah commands little of us he says that we have a lot of latitude but how to observe these special days but that is entirely different from whether or not we choose to observe that's not left up to us further when to observe these days is very specific and very clear notwithstanding some disagreement over calendar issues now while I don't like the notion of giving up one set of wrong minded Gentile Christian traditions for a new set of wrong minded Jewish traditions there's certainly nothing wrong with establishing traditions and the Jewish people have given us some awfully good and well-established starting points for our observances so many of the Jewish traditions shouldn't be thrown out automatically any more than all Christian traditions could be thrown out automatically but traditions Jewish or Christian aren't God's commandments we shouldn't mix the two up so as you as a family or perhaps us as a group of congregation work out our new understanding of the Torah and how it all ties in with our faith in Messiah Yeshua we have to understand that we have actually a lot of latitude in establishing the how but not the weather or the wind that's commanded so let's not be judgmental judgmental or critical towards one another about all this stuff let's use that latitude to be a little creative but always reverent and true to God through the God ordained meaning of each of these holy occasions let's use these biblical feasts ordained by God to replace the tired and worn out manmade days that we declared holy but God hasn't and that invariably are just adaptations of pagan holidays well now that you better understand the physical side to the Feast of Tabernacles what's spiritual aspect of it especially from a prophetic sense well Sukkot portends the setting up of the Millennial Kingdom when Christ brings the full harvest of believers before his father it's the final in gathering of the people of the kingdom of God it is the last opportunity for anyone alive at that time to acknowledge Yeshua's lordship this event is ahead of us not too far I think we're told that we're not gonna know the day in fact you see what says he doesn't even know the day he don't know we're not gonna know we are not gonna know the day of the final and gathering but he says we can know the season for a lot of things for their future to us and I'm beginning to think that by using the word season he was alluding to the fact that a the biblical feasts being agricultural base occurred in real and specified seasons spring summer and fall and be there for as we now understand these inherent prophetic nature's of the biblical feasts we can know which feast represents his return since the spring feasts have all been fulfilled with his execution and his resurrection and the summer feast of Shavuot cost was fulfilled with the coming of the holy spirit it leaves nothing but the three fall feasts to play out that's ahead of us so it's hard to see the season of his return being anything other then literally the fall season of the year now the prophets tell us that the signal for the final in gathering of God's people for his kingdom is when the Jews come back home from their exile and that perfectly fits the pattern of the Feast of Tabernacles for days and days before the start of the feast in preparation of the feasts what do people do they make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem only once they were there did the feast begin it's like that now the Jews are coming back to Israel more every day the pilgrimage is under way the only thing we don't know for sure is when that final feast of ingathering will start but I'd bet my boots it's going to occur on the Feast of Tabernacles I just don't know what year after all every other major act of Christ in his ministry exactly coincided with a biblical Feast from his death on Passover to his entering the tomb on the first day of the Feast of matzah to his rising on the feast of firstfruits then the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Shavuot Pentecost well the next major event ahead of us is the Feast of Trumpets Rosh Hashanah Yom Tarawa a call to a holy convocation in this case it's a call to war when Christ comes to take the title deed to Planet Earth away from the evil one quickly on the heels of that event is the Feast of Tabernacles the entering into the Millennial Kingdom now interestingly we're also told ensuring the right place here I think this is right here we are sorry that the Peace of Tabernacles will continue on into the Millennium we read about that in Zechariah a prophecy about the last days and the transition into the thousand-year reign of Christ Zechariah 14:16 begins then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the king the Lord of hosts to celebrate the feast of booths to coat and it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king the Lord of hosts there will be no rain upon them now maybe since we're going to be doing this in the Millennial Kingdom we had to get a little bit of a jumpstart on it now what you think now before we move on to Leviticus 24 I want to show you something that I think is both exciting and pretty sobering I told you earlier that the procedure for the grand finale of the Feast of Tabernacles was that before the high priest would enter the temple grounds that the Levites would blow seven trumpets three times Reesa Reesa one of the reasons that I'm convinced that Yeshua will return during the fall feasts is those 21 trumpet blasts in the book of Revelation beginning in chapter 8 the Lord of God the Lord God begins to pour out his wrath over the entire planet there is a series of seven judgments then there's a pause then there's seven more judgments and there's pops and then the final seven judgments lead-up to the return of Messiah and the Battle of Armageddon notice we have what three series of seven judgments exactly like the three series of seven trumpet blasts that ushers the high priest into the temple ground also notice that in the book of Revelation it is after these 21 judgments that Yeshua who is our high priest makes his entry onto the scene and leads to him taking his place in the temple as our King now let me point out something else as well because it directly ties to the fall feasts to announce the return of Messiah we're told that he's going to arrive how with a shout this is spoken of in first Thessalonians 4:15 for this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who have fallen asleep for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with our lord this event is called the rapture by evangelical Christians and there's been all kinds of speculations on just what this when this will happen what it will look like exactly at what point so on these speculations are typically given labels such as pre-trib mid-trib post-trib all this I'll speak briefly on that in a moment but I will first want to continue with the key word shout notice that first then solonius 416 associates this shout that announces the descent of Messiah with the trumpet of God it also makes the voice of the archangel associated with the trumpet of God so the shout has something to do with the noise of a trumpet the Hebrew word for shout is Rua Rua the first feast of the three all festivals is called in the Bible not tradition but in the Bible yom teh rule calling that day rosh hashanah as it's done now is kind of a nickname you won't find it in the scriptures and it also gives the day an additional meaning that wasn't really intended but yom teh rule means the day yom of the trumpet Tay Tay blasts Rua or the day of the trumpet shouts or as it's better known the Feast of the trumpets for short in fact of the three or four specifically named kinds of trumpet or shofar blasts in the Bible one of them is actually called the Tay rue ah it means the shout the Feast of Trumpets occurs two weeks before the feast of Sukkot and since we are told in first Thessalonians 4:16 that Messiah will return with a shout with a tail ah and that shout is directly connected to the trumpet of God there is no doubt in my mind that this shout is a trumpet blast not a shout from a bunch of people shouting out holy mackerel that's not what's going on here so the Bible shows us that the procedure for the return of Messiah and the entry into the melamine Millennial Kingdom follows precisely the pattern for the fall feasts first there is a shout a trumpet then there are three sets of seven judgments and then Christ's return now this certainly does not agree with the doctrinally based timetable of some evangelicals who see a pre or mid-trib rapture but frankly I don't think that kind of timetable holds water it violates every God ordained pattern and certainly nowhere does the Bible say anything that Christians are going to avoid the tribulation I mean I really don't want to go through that but I think we will what it says is that God will cut short the divine judgments he's gonna pour out or no living thing could possibly continue to exist on this rock that we call earth further we must understand there is a vast difference between tribulation and God's wrath they're not the same thing the tribulation spoken over the Bible has nothing to do with God's wrath tribulation is mankind's evil run amuck tribulation is about men doing terrible things to other men out of their wickedness tribulation is not an act of God per se it's an act of men God's wrath on the other hand is divine acts of judgment brought about by God's spiritual agents usually as angels it is God inspired punishments upon the earth and its inhabitants so we have God's angels going about crushing this planet with those three sets of seven supernatural judgments by the way called the seal trumpet and Bowl judgments when God gives them the order to do it the biblical pattern since the book of Genesis is that God's people do not escape man-made tribulations but we do escape his divine wrath God's people defined as those who are in fellowship with him do not escape evil earthly rulers we do get martyred for our faith but never does God pour out his wrath on the innocent right along with the guilty he is not indiscriminate God does not destroy his people right along with his enemy therefore while I don't claim to know all the exact timing of these end times events it seems incredulous to me the Christians are going to escape troubles caused by evil men it's always been that people and proper fellowship with the Lord get harmed and killed most of the New Testament writers died awful death missionaries are regularly killed today all over this world Christians are being tortured and murdered for their faith it's just that the tribulations are gonna keep getting worse until God feels it's finally time for him to act what believers will escape is the destructive outpouring of God's 21 divine judgments upon the earth we're not going to be treated to his wrath so it seems to me that somewhere in the coming years when evil gets completely out of control but just before God's fury is spilled out on the earth and its inhabitants the rapture will happen and in some form or another believers will be whisked away I don't know what its gonna look like I have no idea I also think and I want to make it very clear that this is just my opinion that those 21 judgments are gonna come very rapidly very rapid beginning on yom teruah the first day of the seventh month by the hebrew calendar and ending at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles which is just 15 days later or which begins rather but then ends 23 days later why could it not be that God's wrath begins on yom teruah of one year and that those 21 feasts rather judgments are poured out over a longer period of a year or more and then another year of the Feast of Tabernacles Jesus comes because it would break the entire biblical pattern it's never happened that way Yeshua was killed on Passover he went the very next day which is the Feast of matzah into the tomb then he was raised from the dead on the very day of the feast of fruit and fifty days later on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came boom boom boom boom boom this all happened in rapid succession in the same year so why would we think the prophetic fulfillment of the fall feast would be stretched out over multiple seasons and years now I'm convinced they'll be fulfilled in the same way that the spring in the summer feasts were fulfilled I'm equally convinced that the reason for many of the end times doctrine that we see today that require a healthy helping of allegory in big time stretching to make a warg are because Gentile Christians have thrown the baby out with the bathwater when we have determined that the law and the prophets were abolished that the Old Testaments no longer relevant we also abolished all of God's pattern all gone so when they're ignored guess what we do we invent it our way we go off on these wild tangents even if there's maybe a nugget of truth buried in there somewhere we'll start with leviticus 24 please [Music] [Music] issue you [Music]

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