Leviticus Session 12 of 16 (Chapters 23) with Chuck Missler

[Music] we are in leviticus 23. and rabbi sampson rafael hirsch made an interesting remark in his writings he says the jews catechism is his calendar and we're going to explore the hebrew calendar tonight you may recall that paul in galatians 3 25 pointed out that the law is our schoolmaster and we often understand that in denotative terms of course as we study romans and galatians and so on but the term really is far broader than most of us may realize matthew 5 17 18 jesus said that i come not to destroy the torah the prophets i come not to destroy but to fulfill and one of the premises of our ministry is to emphasize that every detail in the scripture points is there by design first point secondly it generally is linkable directly to jesus christ and we'll see that very evident in the strange details of what constitutes the hebrew calendar as specified in the torah now there are things in the hebrew calendar that come from other traditions purim comes from the story you know the story of esther and and hanukkah comes from the the rededication of the temple after uh being desecrated by antiochus epiphanes and so forth so there are things in the jewish calendar that are also relevant we're going to focus here on the torah the seven feasts of moses if you will now the jewish calendar turns out to be an ultimate teaching aid romans 15 4 reminds us that where paul says whatsoever things were written before time were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope that's quite a verse that challenges us to recognize in every detail of these quaint weird ordinances and laws and what have you in the uh we encounter through the scripture they're not there by accident if we dil if we're diligent and peel back the details and get into it we'll discover that there's a treasure and that treasure almost always points directly to jesus christ now we can talk a little bit about calendars i'll spare you a long treatise on that but it's interesting that there are at least 14 of the ancient calendars probably all of them that were built on a 360-day year and it's interesting all of them the mayan the uh you can go through 14 of them and we have a briefing pack on that called signs in the heavens that goes into that but they all changed about 701 bc for some reason and there are some interesting conjectures about that and we explore those conjectures about a possible mars flyby and so forth that are really very provocative and surprisingly supported although certainly not conclusively um but you can look in our briefing package signs in heavens to get that background but the point is most of the calendars changed pope gregory the 13th in 1582 added um five and a quarter days to get the calendar see one of the problems is is that the lunar calendar and the solar counter and the sidereal calendar measures around the sun from the stars solar around the sun itself and the lunar calendar is geared to the movements of the moon and none of them quite reconcile as simply as you'd think and so that's where some of the problems occur but in any case much of this is recognized in the 16th century and pope gregory the 13th solved the problem for his part of the world by adding five and a quarter days and that the gregorian calendar replaced the julian calendar gradually in over the various countries and that's basically what we're here to the lunar calendar you see is about 11 and a half days shorter than the solar year what's strange is this occurred in the reign of hezekiah and hezekiah solved the problem of getting it readjusted not with the leap year thing we're used to but with a leap month and he added what they call an inter-calorie month was added for seven leap years in a 19-year cycle so during that 19-year cycle they add a month in the 3rd 6th 8th 11th 14th 17th and 19th years you say well that's kind of weird yes it is and there's a lot of aspects anyone that thinks the calendar studies is simple really needs to get very careful be very precise and make sure you're dealing with very authoritative documents but it's a in any case this idea you'll discover that the jewish calendar every once in a while they'll add a month eight hour they have a month of eight hour they they add what they call adar2 a second month and uh they do that as i say seven times in a 19-year cycle another thing we should be sensitive to as we get into this realize that the jewish calendar day starts at sundown normally we're used to a gentile concept of midnight to midnight but the jewish calendar its evening and morning were the first day in genesis correction was day one the first day was an ordinal not a relative number but that's another issue um anyway let's jump into leviticus 23 where we're going to discuss the feasts of moses in leviticus 23 verse 1 and the lord spake unto moses saying speak unto the children of israel and say unto them concerning the feasts of the lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations even these are my feasts this is god speaking now the details of the feasts we're going to talk about are actually largely given elsewhere but here they're at least set out in order altogether and you'll find the feasts are in there are three feasts in the first month of the year of the religious year there are three feasts in the seventh month of the year and there's one kind of weird in between the spring feasts are the first three we'll get into this but when you get to the the the jewish civil calendar i'll call it the genesis calendar starts in the fall rosh hashanah is their new year it's on our calendar it's usually around september but when they were in egypt and moses was called to lead them out of egypt and the passover was instituted in exodus 12 verse 1 god in addition to giving all the details about the passover putting the blood on the doorpost and so forth he says this month that's the month of nisan will be the beginning of months so god revises their calendar in exodus 12 1 so the religious calendar starts in the spring nissan was in the spring passovers in the spring and so in that month of nisan we have three of the feasts passover on the 14th the feast of unleavened bread which is a sequence that starts on the 15th the day after and then there's this strange feast the feast of firstfruits which occurs the morning after shabbat after passover since passover can be any any day of the week depending on what year you're in it's enabled to the calendar because it's the 14th but following whenever it is there's a shabbat a saturday the next morning is the feast of firstfruits which is always thus on a sunday you with me okay there are three feasts in the fall the feast of trumpets now the feast of trumpets occurs on the first of tishri that's the seventh month of the year it's also the day they celebrate as rosh hashanah and most people even jews assume they're the same thing no rosh hashanah is a civil celebration starting the civil new year it's called that's it's the head of the years what rosh hashanah means it's the it's their it's their new year it also happens to be the day religiously it's the seventh month and they they celebrate the feast of trumpets okay we'll talk about each one of these a little bit so both those occur the same day but they're really from from a different point of view but ten days later is yom kippur the day of atonement the most solemn of all the feasts five days later is the feast of tabernacles so those three feasts are in the seventh month and we're going to discover that these feasts are not only commemorative they all have a historical roots but they're also prophetic and we'll talk about that in a minute but the first three fees seem to point to the f were fulfilled prophetically in the first coming of christ the last three feasts prophetically are fulfilling the second coming of christ fifty days after the feast of first fruits there's a strange one in between it's after the spring but it's not fall yet and that's the feast of shavuot the feast of weeks and that's a strange one and most scholars unless you've really studied it have only scratched the surface on that peculiar feast it may have far more significance to any of us than we probably have the imagination to realize so those are the seven feasts we're going to talk about in this review let's go on to verse 3. god sort of sets aside another issue he doesn't focus on it but he documents it here he says six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest a holy convocation ye shall do no work therein it is the sabbath of the lord in all your dwellings so this is the seventh day issue shabbat is the seventh day now it's interesting that this seven-fold structure pervades the whole bible we could spend many evenings just exploring not just the overt sevens that we're all conscious of just by reading the bible the seven of this and seven of them there's hundreds of those there are sevens that are hidden in the structure if you outline a passage you'll always discover there's seven parts very often we're also discovering that hidden underneath the text there are some sevens by the way so they talk ivan pannan made his whole 50-year career just making discoveries about this what the what we call the heptatic structure the seven-fold structure of the scripture but this seven-fold structure is evident right here on the calendar too we have seven days that make a week everybody knows that we have seven weeks that make up to the feast of weeks it's there is a sabbatical week in a sense um there are seven months to the year from nizon to tishri and there's also seven years to the sabbatical year so you have seven of days of seven of weeks of seven months and a seven of years in god's structure and this is not the impression of some commentator this is uh ordained by god himself quite clearly we'll talk about the sabbatical year and the strange year called the year of jubilee when we get to chapter 25 in leviticus but i want to point out we're not going to spend a lot of time on the sabbath today except to point out it is pre-mosaic it did not yet originated in the ten commandments it didn't originate moses he was just reminded to observe it it was ordained back in eden and now some people overreact to that and they make a whole thing of you know saturday worship putting himself trying to in effect putting themselves back under the law on the one hand we don't do that in the christian church we we've chosen to celebrate sunday to celebrate his resurrection that's fine but let's realize that nowhere in the scripture is the worship of sabbath set aside jesus just simply made himself the lord of the sabbath he clearly is so there's a big anyone that thinks that's a simple issue hasn't studied it so we invite you to look at our briefing pack called the seventh day which gets into that and it certainly generates some discussion so but that's not our focus here it's mentioned in passing we're going to verse 4 it says these are the feasts of the lord even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim in their seasons let's understand as we study this calendar that this is a calendar that god established it's not the contrivance of some civil authority or it's not just simply a jewish tradition or what have you got set it up what's translated here holy convocation is actually the word mcgraw in the hebrew it means rehearsal really see that's kind of interesting because we're going to discover it has a prophetic role too where it says they proclaim in their seasons the word seasons is mahwad which means to keep an appointment so in the very linguistic structure here is the hint that these things are not just commemorating something of the past they certainly do they're also a hint of that which is coming and that's where this starts to get very very provocative now we're looking at leviticus 23 if you're going to get into this more thoroughly you might put in your notes you want to put numbers 28 and 29 as two chapters that give you a lot of detail behind these and also deuteronomy 16. numbers 28 and 29 and deuteronomy 16 as well as leviticus 23. there are also some very provocative discoveries that the computers have determined about this text i'll leave that to the end so we don't derail our time here but paul tells us that these feasts are not only commemorative they're prophetic in colossians chapter 2 verses 16 and 17 paul says let no man therefore judge you and meet or in drink or in respect of any holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come the first point the real point he's making there no one should judge you about keeping the sabbath or any of these things that's part of the past paul is pointing out we're new creatures in christ we worship the lord of those things the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath so he makes that point let no man judge you in meat or drink or in respect of any holy day well that's a relief isn't it there's plenty of people around that'll point fingers no matter what you do or of the new moon that was a big thing in the jewish economy the new moon and that's a whole other study but or of the sabbath days but he says something else which are a shadow of things to come so this idea that they're prophetic not just historical is not some contrivance it's it's in the scripture and by the way the hermeneutics or the that is the the teachings of interpretation by the midrash points out that prophecy is pattern not just prediction this idea of prediction and fulfillment prediction fulfillment and that's a model of the western mind the jewish mind recognized that the that prophecy is also pattern we see what god is going to do by seeing he he works in patterns and you can and there's a wonderful wonderful family of studies in that area we call them macro codes for you it'll be the computer jargonies a macro code is a code that sort of anticipates what's coming what you're doing is an email or a letter it's a macro you often use a macro to do that the bible's full of those the abraham's offering of isaac was prophetic he knew it was the 2000 years later on that very spot another father would be offering his son and so on they're fascinating these to study but i don't want to get lose our timing here let's keep moving but these are all evidences that the new testament is in the old testament concealed and the old testament is in the new testament revealed the old testament closes with unfulfilled promises unappeased yearnings all those are fulfilled in the in the new testament if you take the old testament by itself it's incomplete it's demonstrably yearning for some conclusions those conclusions are all manifest in the new testament the first one that we're going to take of these series is the passover verse starting at verse 5. in the 14th day of the first month that even is the lord's passover now he's calling nissan the first month i'll take up a little later in the hour explain how that calendar changed but for this purpose the religious purposes nissan in the spring is considered the first month of the religious year it happens to be the seventh month of the civil year but that's neither here to there let's keep moving here now in a commemorative sense obviously very clear that the passover commemorates their deliverance from egypt in exodus 12 and so on it's interesting that god see the significance of the exodus of egypt that's where the nation was considered to be born when did israel they went down as a family under under joseph and all that but they came out as a nation and god all through the scripture it speaks of israel being born in the exodus it's the birth of a nation in fact in exodus 4 god speaks of them as my firstborn well that's pretty interesting because jesus is also reckoned as god's firstborn in zechariah 12 10 they shall look upon me whom they pierced and mourn for him his only son and so on so there's an idiomatic sense that there's a parallel between the nation and jesus and that's that parallel is observable all through the scripture that's how matthew when he talks about joseph and mary taking the baby after herod died they could come back they went there and refused to get away from herod when he died they could come back and when matthew talks about that in matthew chapter 2 he says out of egypt i've called my son well when you read hosea 12 1 where that appears no wait is that is that messianic it's talking about the nation israel but see matthew's arguing in a midrashic sense that idiomatically it's christ it's a parallelism to israel that's what he's making see again prophecy's pattern not just prediction now it's interesting by the way that god predicted their deliverance 430 years earlier to the very day but again that's another whole study that's in genesis 15 13-16 getting back to the observance of passover the way they observed passover after that i mean as they observed pastor the lambs for passover are inspected on the 10th four days in advance on the 10th of nisan and then there's slain on the 14th a password between the evenings and it's interesting by the way the way they originally did it was that lamb had to be in your family in the house well in four days the kids get attached to it and then you're going to kill it for passover that's a shocker it's intended to be kind of strong instruct that sin has a penalty now incidentally we all know the story of course of the passover in exodus that occurred the night remember their day starts in the 14th it starts at the sundown and that night the angel of death goes through egypt you know the story that night from sundown to midnight is the fourteenth of nassan to the jews what is it to the egyptians friday the 13th and we're indebted to emmanuel villekowski i think who first really highlighted the research to demonstrate that that's where the superstition started that friday the 13th unlucky it's the gentile side of the passover interesting isn't it now originally of course the passover was instructed to be killed by the head of the household but it gets transferred to the temple priests to administer in deuteronomy 16 first six verses when you study the passover in detail there are dozens of details that are fascinating one of the prominent ones is they were instructed in exodus 12 and numbers 9 and psalm 34 that not a bone was to be broken in fact psalm 34 20 is predictive of the messiah and you may recall from john 19 when the roman soldier was instructed to break the legs because they they normally if crucifixion took a long time sometimes it took several days for the guy finally to die he dies by suffocation because he's in this agony he's got very difficult vector diagram pressure on his chest and he relieved that by pressing up with his legs so he could breathe well if you break his legs he can't relieve that and it speeds up to death so because they want to get the bodies off the cross before the holiday started the next day was was a big day and there's million a million visitors to jerusalem because it's passover and they have every able-bodied jew was commanded to be there they commanded the soldiers to break the lakes to speed up to death the soldier comes there and sees he's already dead he violated his orders he didn't break the lakes he didn't know what i'm sure but he was fulfilling prophecy because for jesus to fulfill the passover he had not a bone to be broken he threw his spear out and you all know about the blood and water it came out the rabbis to this day don't understand why they use warm water mixing the wine at passover they have all kinds of rabbinical writings that speculate why they do it all they have to do is read matthew 26 to find out and of course the entire land was to be consumed nothing left the next day is in exodus 12 nexus 12 is a fascinating chapter to read if we had time we should do it right now probably let's keep moving you remember jesus was first introduced by john the baptist at the beginning of his ministry when john the baptist first sees him he says behold the lamb of god that taketh away the sin of the world that's a jewish title he's he's announcing when he first appears publicly that he's going to be the passover lamb they may not have understood that but that's what in john chapter 1. and paul says in first corinthians 5 7 he calls jesus our passover so jesus identity of the passover is rich and full and and your commentary on that is isaiah 53 the whole chapter and psalm 22 we could spend easily several evenings just studying the passover but we certainly would be reading those passages if we were at the time now the lamb was presented on the 10th of nisan four days in advance to the priests on the tenth of nisan jesus was riding that donkey from bethany up over the mount of olives presenting himself as the messiah deliberately fulfilling zechariah 9 9 writing the donkey behold thy king cometh and so forth he was observed in matthew 21 as detail but the personal representative of the ruler of the world declared him free of blemish he's presenting his passover and pilate said i cannot find fault with him i don't think pilate realized but he's fulfilling a rabbinical requirement he had to be declared free of blemishes first peter 1 and by the way at the end of the yarn we get to revelation 5 and we're in heaven and who is worthy to open the book and loose the seals thereof and john says i turned and i saw the lamb not a lamb the lamb as it had been slain revelation 5 6. now there's a lot of other interesting things about the passover tradition uh in a jewish home they have the uh berkat hametz which is a search for the leaven the kids are given a project they're supposed to search the house make sure there's no leaven and they always hide a little for the kids to find they get it and they but the whole idea is the house is free of leaven they go through that routine and then they have the matzah you've seen matzah right see the matzah you notice that it's pierced and striped how interesting i don't think the jews do that to fulfill the prophecy but interesting and by the way they have three and they take the middle one and they crush it and they wrap it in a cloth and hide it hidden interesting and then in the wine they have four cups they're bringing out their label they're bringing out the delivering the redemption and blessing and the taking out and it's interesting paul says this cup of blessing that we bless in first corinthians it seems that jesus administered the lord's supper with a third of the four cups so some scholars speculate because then he says he's not going to touch wine until we're together in heaven that that meal is unfinished and that fourth cup is the one he will share at the married supper of the lamb and it's interesting that the fourth cup is the taking out interesting now this idea the point is the mishna requires that the wine that they administer at passover be mixed with some warm water and they don't know why a lot of rabbis write guesses as to what they think but the answer of course is in john 19 34. when that centurion threw his sword out came what blood and water and and from that a a a pathologist can tell you exactly how he died he died from a broken heart in fact it's interesting that the pastor overland and one of the passages was called his body the whole the whole program for passover is called the haggadah which means the showing forth paul says we show forth his death until he comes and the application of all this is of course to put apply the blood on the doorposts of our heart and of course circumcision is of the heart deuteronomy 10 jeremiah 4 and of course galatians 3 and philippians 3 romans 2 and so on the next day is the feast of unleavened bread and that's important to understand they use the term by the way let me alert you something else there are three feasts that occur with just in a few days the overlap sort of they use the term today and even in the text some places when they speak of passover they use the term connotatively to refer to all three it's a season of passover if you go to israel you're usually there either at the spring passover season if you're trying to get the holidays or in the fall where you pick up the for you know the first 15 days you've got three of them there the the feast of trumpets and the uh yum yum kipper and the uh but anyway the point is there's passover it's certainly critical and there's a feast of unleavened bread which goes for seven days let's take a look at it verse six and on the fifteenth day of the same month in other words the passover's on the fourteenth this on the 15th is the feast of unleavened bread unto the lord seven days ye must eat unleavened bread in the first day that ye shall have a holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord seven days and on the seventh day is unholy convocation you shall do no servile work therein this is the matzah the feast of unleavened bread this by the way of these seven feasts only three of them were compulsory this is the first of the three that's compulsory many jews will tell you well passover is compulsory technically no it's the day after it's the feast of unleavened bread that's the compulsory feast in deuteronomy 16 16 three of these feasts are designated to be compulsory feast of unleavened bread the feast of weeks or shavuot and the feast of tabernacles astonishingly yom kippur is not it's no solemn baller feast but it's not one of the three that was compulsory strangely enough and here we have the feast of unleavened bread so we need to be sensitive to the fact that leaven is always a type or a model or an idiom of evil of sin and it's an interesting idiom for that because 11 does its work it corrupts by puffing up unless the root of all sin is pride which corrupts us by puffing up it's you know it's interesting how the holy spirit indulges in these puns and they really are upon the we often they have a pawn for humor they're also a pawn for communication and this is one of 200 rhetorical devices that the holy spirit uses in the scripture it's always always a type of sin in exodus 12 13 leviticus 2 6 10 we've seen it a lot already in the new testament also in matthew 16 luke 13 1st corinthians 5 galatians 5. the parable of the woman the 11 in matthew 13 hangs on the point that introducing 11 in the three measures of meal was a no-no three measures of meal supposed to be unleavened kingdoms heaven like the woman put 11 and three measures of meal you and i miss that because we're gentiles a jew that's ortho is shocked gasp you don't do that that's his point you need to understand those 13 parables in matthew 13. they have some many of them have the real meaning of them the intended meaning by the rabbi master rabbi is quite in contrast to the way it's often preached from but i'll let you dig into that there are other bread models of course in the scripture manna being the best one bread from heaven he fed them until they entered the land melchizedek interesting when the strange guy that shows up in genesis 14 abraham offers him tithes and and the writer of hebrews makes the point that levi was in the loins of abraham so that meant melchizedek is higher than levi levi hadn't been born yet but you have to think like a rabbi he makes the point that that abraham gave ties to melchizedek and abraham's descendant was levi out of which came the aaron the priest he's making the point that the melchizedek priesthood is higher and different than the mosaic priesthood and indeed melchizedek was a king and a priest in israel judah was the royal line levi was the priestly line they were never to cross there was to be separate but that's different in in three places in melchizedek he's a king and a priest in jesus christ he's unique that's what hebrews writer is dealing with he's king and a priest and there's a third person that's a king and a priest you know who it is he's sitting in your chair you are we are a kingdom of priests and the rulership and priesthood in christ see as members of the body of christ that that's the whole point that the writer of hebrews emphasizes you can dig into that this idea of bread model shows up in joseph it's interesting how the holy spirit remember joseph when he was in egypt he went down and he was in prison for how long was it 12 years i forgot how long it was now i've had i've got to check my notes and in prison he encounters two people that have dreams that he interprets that are very profound one is the baker and one's the wine steward right the baker's dream meant that he's going to get killed three days later he was the wine steward dream method in three days he was gonna be freed and he was he says remember we when you don't forget me now you know i gave you and of course he does he forgets all about him until some years later pharaoh has a dream troubling and the wine says oh yeah there was a guy in prison that unraveled but it's interesting two things there one was baker bread and one was wine there's the bread and the elements of bread and wine again see it's it's a little thread it's almost it's almost like a a novelist weaving like herman melville or someone who liked to deal with symbols weaving these symbols all through except it's not fiction it's real life and it's a cosmic issues here and of course the wine steward gets freed it's the blood that frees us from bondage and so on jesus said i am the bread of life in john 6. second corinthians 5 21 all says jesus was made sin for us so let's move on to the feast of first fruits this is a this is a a very very important one that you don't you don't hear a lot about unless you dig into it and see it verse 9 and the lord said bacon to moses saying speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye have come into the land which i give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest in unto the priest and he shall wave the sheaf before the lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it now if it's the moral the morning after the sabbath that means it's a sunday morning right and it's the sabbath after passover so this is the morning after shabbat after passover it's always on a sunday and it's a sheaf it's not a single it's a sheath i'll come back to that one there's a very interesting speculation about that there's a sheaf verse 12 and you shall offer that day when you wave the sheath sheaf and he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the lord and the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of a fine flour mingled with oil an offering made by fire unto the lord for a sweet savor and the drink offering thereof shall be with wine and the fourth part of the hymn and you shall eat neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears that until the self same day that ye have brought an offering unto your god it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings a couple of interesting remarks here this is the first fruit see the idea of the first represented the rest of the harvest that was coming you get the idea there's something very provocative here there's no sin offering if you remember the first six chapters that we studied we understand there's a burnt offering and a sin offering they're different there's no sin offering here why because he had no sin who is being celebrated here who's your what's your first guess jesus christ absolutely it's his resurrection you see there was a morning when the women were walking over there in the temple you could see the smoke curling up from the offerings for the feast of firstfruits and she was they were on their way to a garden and discovering an empty tomb because he was the first fruits he's a fulfillment of this first corinthians 15 in the great resurrection chapter paul would say it's the most important chapter in the bible because without that chapter we have nothing but he's our first fruits in fact he's described there as first fruits there's also this strange event that occurs in matthew 27 remember on the resurrection day there were many that many came out of the graves and showed themselves nobody knows what that means because no other reference to it except that matthew 27 52 53 right there and some scholars believe that to fulfill the prophecy there had to be more than one so christ was the first but there were some others so that he was the first of several other scholars say well that'll be the first resurrection continues because it's not an event it's a category don't get confused my first and second resurrection the categories but um anyway the application this course is romans 11 16. but we should also probably have echoing in our minds this famous declaration by job in chapter 19. fabulous passage job 19 25-26 where job can declare this is a this was before abraham this is one of the it's the oldest book of the bible job says i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at that latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh i shall see god and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reigns be consumed within me job declaring his conviction to the bodily resurrection that he was destined for wild and of course the applications is galatians 2 20 romans 6 and so on but i have to here we have the feast of first fruits and i love to point this out it's a little detail but it's fun when did noah's new beginning on the planet earth begin we all know that noah spent 120 years or whatever building this thing in his driveway getting jeered by his neighbors right and one day he entered and then allowed seven days and god shut the door good uh no i've got not if you want to hardly but then we have the flood 350 somewhat days whatever we have the flood right when the flood ends the new beginning under noah starts right in verse 4 of genesis 8 the holy spirit says that the ark came to rest on the 17th day of the seventh month now if you're a well-adjusted reader you just keep reading don't let stumble over that but if you've been in one of my bible studies you're no longer a normal well-adjusted student you remember that chuck missler said that everything's there by design why'd the holy spirit want you to know that the ark came to rest on the 17th day of the seventh month well that's a little tough to unravel because see you're in the genesis calendar when you get to exodus 12 you get exodus 12 verse 1 and 2 god says in instituting the passover i want you to make this the beginning of months so there's a different calendar the civil calendar goes tishri chevron shizulu tevit shavat adar and then nissan and some others nissan is the seventh month on the civil calendar but god is telling moses i want you to make the beginning of months you follow me now when jesus was crucified on the 14th how long was he in the grave anyone three days so he gets resurrected on the 17th seven fourteen plus three is seventeen so jesus was resurrected on the 17th day of the seventh month or putting another way the new beginning under noah began on the anniversary in advance of our new beginning in christ what a coincidence huh do you do you see god's fingerprints on these things now somebody said well that's just coincidence you're making something i don't think so i don't think so you know it's interesting i just thought just went through my mind you know if you're studying fingerprints comparing just a line or two can make the difference between life and death in certain conditions can it you know if the piggy matches her doesn't see well these in my mind are fingerprints and if you really understand these you behold the fingerprints of god it's interesting by the way just another observation in the flight after passover out of egypt israel you may be called retrieve the body of joseph from his tomb to take with to the land right after the passover jesus was retrieved from another joseph's tomb on this very anniversary just thought that's kind of fun let's go to the next one which is shavuot it's probably the most serious of the bunch the feast of pentecost as we probably know it the feast of weeks it's also called verse 15 of leviticus 23 and ye shall count unto you from the moral after the sabbath see there again we're talking in effect that's saying counting from the feast of first fruits okay he shall count unto you from the more after the sabbath from the day that she brought the sheaf of wave offering seven sabbaths shall be complete so they're to count seven sabbath days that's why it's also known in jew hebrew as the feast of weeks verse 16 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days in other words it's seven sabbaths plus one the next day is the one we're talking about which again is always a sunday isn't it okay even until the morrow after the seventh sabbath show you number fifty days and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the lord and that's why it's called the feast of pentecost which is a greek word for 50. from a jewish point if you can call it seven weeks fine it's also because the next day that we're talking about is feast of pentecost because it's always on a sunday now there's some other interesting things here verse 17 you shall bring out of your habitations two waveloaves of two tenth deals and they shall be a fine flower they shall what be bacon with leaven notice that mark it in your bible it's the only place in the scripture where leavened bread is ordained every place else it's unleavened here it's living so you want to just notice that why 11 well i believe in part it's to give this whole celebration a complexion that's broader than jewish call it gentile or the nations and you shall offer the bread with the bread and by the way there's two loaves i have no idea why it's two loaves all kinds of all kinds of commentators speculate there's some interesting speculations one of the speculations might be old new testament threat of life speculation i wouldn't build on that but they're all you can you can play with that yourself but let's go on and he shall offer the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year one young bullock and two rams they shall be for a burnt offering unto the lord for seven lambs meaning complete okay with their meat offering and the drink offerings and the offering uh made by fire a sweet savior to the lord and you then shall he shall offer one kid of the goats for a sin offering and two lambs for the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings the priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the lord with the two lambs and they shall be holy unto the lord for the priest and ye shall proclaim on the self same day that it shall be a holy convocation unto you you shall do no servile work therein it shall be a statute for you forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations this is the second of the feast that is compulsory now that puzzles me if you take the seven pieces of moses you think well the ones that are compulsory are the three most important feasibility but you know you're surprised not passover oh feast of unleavened bread okay that's a good proxy a piece of tabernacles at the end of the climbing is fine why isn't yom kippur here what are the others no it's the feast of shabbat that's the holy spirit in my way thing of underlying hey this is an important one somehow and this is the one that's more than just jewish it's 11 bread verse 22 and when you reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when i reapest neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt leave them unto the poor under the stranger i am the lord your god that of course is an echo what's what we call the law of gleaning if you were a landowner your reapers could go through your property once and only once what was left what was missed belonged to the widows the orphans and destitute that was their form of welfare that is detailed for you in leviticus 19 verse 9 it's also in deuteronomy 24 the law of gleaning now it fascinates me where that comes up prominently in the old testament is the book of ruth and the book of ruth in fact is always read at this time at the feast of shabbat it's also the book in the old testament that's prophetic of the church where she is the bride the gentile bride of the kinsmen redeemer and so on lots of prophecy in the old testament there's lots of prophecies that gentiles be saved that's not what the church is all about the church is a mystical thing that is laid out for you in ephesians 3 and following what's interesting from an old testament if you're a christian from an old testament perspective the one you embrace is ruth because it's all about the church in effect prophetically and i challenge you if you haven't do a careful study of the book of ruth it's it's it is probably our most um demanded bible study of all the ones we've done in 30 years is a little study of the book of ruth it's a beautiful little book how interesting it is that it's always read at the feast of shavuot what is the feast of shavuot in in our parlance typically feast of pentecost each of these feasts is prophetic and it's not only prophetic they're fulfilled on the day they're observed the passover is of the crucifixion jesus was crucified the passover the feast of firstfruits is prophetic of the resurrection and it is celebrated on sunday right it happens on sunday this is the feast of pentecost what happens in acts chapter 2 what's born in acts chapter 2 the church so this of the seven feasts is the most gentile of them all there are all kinds of books written by prophecy buffs think that the feast of trumpets or the feast of tabernacles is the rapture i don't think so doesn't mean i'm right i just don't think so if there's a feast that links to the rapture i'm not saying this does but if there is one this would be my bet i'll i'll show you another reason why in a minute um this is called hog hashibot or hog hot khazir the feast of harvest the first harvest actually and it's observed with the two loaves of leavened bread it's not offered on the altar interestingly enough two lambs are offered jew gentile law versus grace take your pick it's interesting that in acts chapter two as it gets to the whole feast of pentecost thing in the verse first verse of acts chapter 2 it says when the day of pentecost was fully come strange phrase does that mean all the other observances were anticipatory of what happened that day and what happened that day as you know the church was born something else you might want to do as you study and this may be in is in your advanced section um in fact i'll so annotate that as a one of the things you might do is read these two chapters side by side read obviously acts 2 but also read exodus 19 and there are lots of little subtleties that i think will leap out at you exodus 19 is the birth of israel acts chapter 2 is the birth of the church exodus 19 is the giving of the torah and on the third day of the third month is 46 days and moses told to prepare for the third day that's 49 days how interesting the term trumpet of god is only used twice in the bible there are lots of trumpets we're going to talk about that shortly but there's the trumpet of god is a phrase occurs only twice in the scripture it's in exodus 19 at the giving of the law of sinai and it is guess where at the rapture of the church second thessalonians 4 actually first i'm sorry first thessalonians 4. it's in exodus 19 verses 13 and 16 and it's in a wrap it also echoes in the rapture first thessalonians 4 16. so you might make something that maybe not i just mentioned passing but there's a tradition i don't like traditions i'm curious about some of them i think any tradition that isn't supported by scripture is suspect most of the ones that are not supportive of christians are not not correct they're wrong i mean they're provably wrong but there is a jewish tradition that i'm trying to track down i know that i know it's around in some of the writings i can't figure out why they believe this peculiar tradition and that has to do with enoch you all know that enoch didn't die he was raptured if you will they have a tradition that he was born on the day that is later celebrated as the feast of shavuot where they get that i don't know probably from gemma tree or something but the interesting thing that caught my eye is they also believe he was raptured on his birthday and when i heard that i thought what where do they get that well because there are three groups of people that face the judgment of god of the flood in noah those that perished the flood those that were miraculously preserved through the flood and those that were removed prior to the flood you say was just one guy so is the body of christ one the interesting idea see one thing you want to realize in any case your insights here will be heavily dependent on you recognizing that israel the church are distinct in the 70 weeks of daniel which you've studied a lot obviously there's a verse 26 has a gap between the two the church is hidden in the old testament paul tells us that in ephesians 3. in fact in when when jesus declares his mandate for his ministry in luke 4 he reads from isaiah 61 and he deliberately stops at a comma close the book and says this day is this fulfilled near he does not read there's no mission that comma has lasted two thousand years the omission he didn't get to is the day of vengeance of our god that's yet future that that comma is the same gap the same interval that gabriel had in prophecy gave daniel daniel 9. and john even in revelation chapter 12 summary of israel between verse five and first six when the but when when the body is caught up there's an interesting gap we always think the man child being caught up to god and his throne is the ascension no i think it was uh g.h pembroke that first recognized that possibly his allusion to the body of christ the rapture or maybe they're both in view why not we know that israel is temporarily set aside jesus declared it in luke 19 verse 42 and paul tells us not forever he says they're they're blinded until the fullness of the gentiles come in interesting so if the rapture should occur on shabbat is it possible that the same holiday that stopped israel's clock will restart it who knows it's interesting idea there are certain friends of mine that always get kind of excited each year as the feast of comes up and it's coming up next month i believe i've got to check the calendar exactly but that's kind of fun maybe it's already here and i don't think so it's it's 50 days after easter you can figure it out the real easter yeah okay okay the next one is yom terura the feast of trumpets lord speaking of moses saying speak unto the children of israel saying in the seventh month on the first day of the month shall ye have a sabbath a memorial a blowing of trumpets a holy convocation notice something here by the way the first of the month is on the calendar it may not be on sabbath saturday you follow me but it is a sabbath one of the things you need to be sensitive to is they're not just 52 shabbats in a year in a jewish year there are seven extra ones high sabbaths or holy convocations they're treated as a sabbath even though they're not in shabbat necessarily not on saturday necessarily the first month you shall have a sabbath a memorial of the blowing of trumpets a holy convocation now by the way um this this feast of trumpets not to be confused with rosh hashanah as i mentioned before which means the chief of the years the jewish new year that's in the civil sense the yom torer the feast of trumpets is the religious year by the way it's the beginning of the sabbatical month it's the seventh month of the religious year there's a cycle of seven days weeks also seven months so this is the seventh month verse 25 you shall do no servile work therein but you shall make an offer an offering made by fire unto the lord now this originally in the script you'll notice is a one day celebration except in about 500 bc they added the rabbis added a second date so in the jewish world it's a two-day celebration but that's not that's they've added that they speak of the techias so far this is the ram's horn this is not the silver trumpets of the temple you find trumpets all through the scripture this is not the true silver trumpets this is the shofar this is the ramshorn and i meant to bring one i brought a couple back from israel for gifts i should have brought one tonight but that's okay now you remember the big event in genesis 22 was the offering of isaac and they had a substitutionary ram ram okay that's where the rams instituted that substitution it's called the akida the the left horn of the ram was considered the first trump and the right horn is called the last trunk in jewish parlance they have three series of ten blasts each and then a final blowing of ten blasts the techia get a lot which is the great blowing they're not short blasts for alarm it's the long blast of victory that they have now there's a lot of discussion comes up about the so-called last trump which shows up in first corinthians 15. we also have the in matthew 24 31 the angels they'll be trumpet blown and the angels gather the elect from the four winds and so forth don't confuse the trumpet here of collecting god's elect with the seventh trumpet judgment of revelation they have nothing to do with one another the seventh trumpet is not the last trump anyway because trumpets are blown all through the millennium so the trumpets in revelation the trumpets of the rapture aren't the last trumpets ever blown that's not the point it's the last trump in another idiomatic sense i'm sort of reminded you know at the naval academy classes you typically have a bell when the class is supposed to start you had a class you had a bell four minutes later and then you had a bell five minutes later as i recall the the one bell announced that the class starts if you got there before the next bell the four-minute bell you weren't late if you got there after the four-minute bell you were late if you got there after the five minute bell you were absent even though you were there so what you want to do is get there before the last bell you understand the last of the series is the point and it's my personal suspicion that's the idiom that paul is using there the last trump is the last one we want to hear we're on our way you know it's it's a it's a different thing so so don't try to connect the last trump of paul's writing in first corinthians with the last trump of there's a lot of books on prophecy go go all haywire because they try to make the the seventh trumpet judgment somehow tied to that and and all kinds of things fall apart didn't work okay now there's something else that occurs it's not your text but it's well observed between the feast of trumpets and yom kippur there are seven there are ten days but there are seven days before yom kippur called the yomim norim which is uh the days of affliction they're in effect the certain days of preparation for yom kippur they're suggestive of the thrashing floor and you could go to luke 3 and get a feeling for that and some people regard the idiom of the thrashing floor idiomatically of the tribulation by the way you notice that in ruth uh book of ruth ruth is at boaz's feet in the thrashing floor scene after you've studied ruth that's a very important discovery insight to realize but let's move on verse 26 we're now getting to the the solemn one of the year the yom kippur the day of atonement people who know of none other all know about yom kippur the lord spoken to moses saying on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement it shall be a holy convocation unto you and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the lord yom kippur tenth of tishrei and uh it's discussed in detail in leviticus 16 of course here and also in hebrews 9 the first 16 verses and that's your best commentary on it frankly it's the most solemn of all the feasts and we covered this pretty much back when we looked at leviticus chapter 16. but he goes on here in verse 28 shall do no work in the self same day for it is a day of atonement to make atonement for you before the lord your god for whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted on that same day he shall be cut off from among his people and what's your soul to be that do with any work in that same day the same so will i destroy among his people that's interesting see you don't want to add you don't want to work you don't want to add to what god has completed interesting verse 31 ye shall do no manner of work it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations and all your dwellings it shall be unto you a sabbath of rest and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month that evening and even unto evening ye shall celebrate your sabbath against the sabbath even though it's the tenth it's not certainly saturday now this is the day of course the high priest can enter the holy of holies the only day of the year and he only do that after great ceremonial preparation and he sprinkles the mercy seat and god who dwelt between the cherium above the chariot looking down at the broken law is propitiated because of the shed blood of course that's also we have the two goats the azazel the scapegoat and the other one once offered one is turned loose in the wilderness leviticus 16 dealt with all of that you recall and of course it's exemplified in matthew 27 second corinthians 5 and of course in isaiah 53 and so in fact 52 15. in fact if you visit jerusalem and visit the temple institute you will see the lottery box that they intend to use when they pick which boat goat's going to be offered which one goes is leading the wilderness the scapegoat and so it's you can actually see it there and handle it this also has to do with the red heifer it gets covered in numbers 19 and hebrews 9 13. and you won't understand john 2 and the water turned to wine unless you understand which water was used that was the water purification then we have this this is the day that the veil was torn in two from top to bottom that veil according to the josephus was four inches thick this wasn't a we used term veil we visited something sort of gossamer no this was a this was a tapas a you know heavy tapestry kind of thing it was torn from top to bottom and of course the hebrews 10 makes a big issue of all of that i should mention something here as we talk about this there is very little relationship between what we're seeing here which is mosaic judaism and talmudic or rabbinic judaism the judaism today which you would properly call talmudic judaism or rabbinic judaism has very little connection to the bible to the to the torah they'd be offended by that but frankly see the problem they have they've lost the temple for 1900 years that leaves them in a dilemma because the torah leviticus 17 11 says that without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sins well where can they shed blood there's no water there's no temple they've got a problem they can't cling to the old ways because the old ways are not available to them so they have redefined and rationalized a man-centered good work system of appeasement prayer and charity and penance and so forth but that's the talmudic judaism the mosaic judaism is at an end because the fulfillment of that was jesus christ so they're in a bind they either accept jesus the messiah and that means that's called what we call we use the term messianic jew or completed jew as some people like to say in the sense that he's found his messiah or you embrace talmudic judaism which is a rationalization that's distant from the original text it leans heavily on the impressions and interpretations of generations of brilliant uh but misguided rabbis and let's move on to sukkot the feast of tabernacles the lord the lord speaking to moses saying speak unto the children of israel saying the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the lord now this is what we call sukhothai the word means boots it's the fifteenth of history it's five days maybe it's exemplifying five generally means suggests grace so it's five days after yom kippur verse 35 on the first day shall be a holy convocation you shall do no servile work therein and this by the way is the third of the three compulsive feasts a piece of unleavened bread feast of shavuot or priest of pentecost and the feast of the tabernacles verse 36 seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the lord it is a solemn assembly and he shall do no service work therein these are the feasts of the lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations to offer an offering made by fire in the lord and burnt offering a meat offering of sacrifice and drink offerings everything upon his day beside the sabbath of the lord and beside your gifts and decide all your vows and beside all your free will offerings which you give unto the lord also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month when you have gathered in the fruit of the land ye shall keep a feast in the lord seven days on the first day shall be a sabbath and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath the eighth day by the way has a special name shamini at zaret the day of assembly they call it the eighth day of assembly verse 40 and he shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees the branches of palm trees the boughs of thick trees the willows of the brook and ye shall rejoice before the lord of your god seven days by the way they build what they do is really quite colorful in anticipation of this feast of tabernacles all the jews build a temporary dwelling in their backyard or wherever they can do it it's sort of like a camping a campout thing but they have to build it so you can see the stars through the roof and that the wind can blow through the walls you can't make it solid you've got to make a very temporary light and that's deliberate because the intention is it's to remind them of the wilderness wanderings when they wear the under the open sky and where the wind you see that's that's the intention those are that's their temporary dwellings and the big climax at the end of this is when they leave get this leave their temporary dwellings to return to their permanent dwellings you get a feeling what that might that's why so many people say that sounds like the rapture so there are a lot of bible scholars that feel if one of the thesis predictive rapture it would be this one i don't happen to think so but that doesn't mean i'm right now they also had some they have a procession here with four different kinds of of leaves they have the lulav willow they have the myrtle the palm and the etherog the citrus one has no fragrance enough fruit one has fragrance and no fruit one has fruit no fragrance and one has fragrance and fruit i know what you make of that it sort of sounds like the four soils maybe from matthew 13 but not quite so let's leave that go trees are men in in number of places psalm 1 and daniel 4 and so on we could we could do more that but and they sacrificed 13 bowls two rams 14 lambs and one kid and it goes from it goes to 13 12 11 down for seven days when you go through that arithmetic there's 70 sacrifices 70 sacrifices and that's that the talmud ties that to genesis 10 the 70 nations of the world by the way some people feel that the transfiguration in matthew 17 was near the feast of tabernacles that's why peter in a zeal there says we can make three booths why is he thinking booze is it because it's at the time or about the time of that's just speculation not a part verse 41 and ye shall keep it a feast unto the lord seven days in the year it shall be a statute for you ever in your generation you shall celebrate it in the seventh month ye shall dwell in booths seven days all that are israelites born shall dwell in booths but your generations may know that i made the children of israel dwell in booths when i brought them out of the land of egypt i am the lord your god so they have temporary dwellings for seven days then there's a special sabbath at the end of that remember i said a feast is a rehearsal right and so on verse 44 and moses declared unto the children of israel the feast of the lord you know hebrews 11 declares that all these all these israelites ever since have died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off how if nothing else in their in their calendar and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth they were persuaded of them and they embraced them now by the way this particular season is going to be celebrated in the millennium zechariah 14 verses 16-18 says it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which come against jerusalem shall even go up from year to year notice that all the nations that are left of all the nations that came up this is after armageddon shall even go up from year to year to worship the king of the lord of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles it shall be that whosoever will not come up of all the families of the earth unto the jerusalem to worship the king the lord of hosts even upon them shall be no rain that must mean they need rain in the millennium get that and if the family of egypt not go up and come not and have no rain they shall there shall be the plague where with the lord shall smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of hamper tabernacles sounds like you better do it i i have one other thing that i'd like to share with you that's to me a mind blower okay there's been a lot of controversy about the so-called bible codes and the main and when they say that they really mean a specific code the equidistant letter sequences actually dozens of different codes that are clearly there with the equidistant letter sequence thing as a form of encryption most people write about this don't have a crypto background but that's neither here there there seems to be certain things hidden in the biblical text an example of this happens to be in genesis 1 verse 14. genesis 1 verse 14 reads as follows and god said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years why are there lights in the heavens among other reasons to demark the seasons the word for seasons is hamoidin that's what's translated seasons it means actually what it means is the appointed times when you take a computer and you search for this sequence and through the torah the word appears only once in encrypted form and a sequence at an interval an equidistant letter sequence of 70 letters if you take every 70th letter centered on that verse first of all if you take every 70th letter it turns out it spells hamoiri and where does that occur it's not just happens statistical accident for two reasons i'll show you one reason it's centered on this very verse where it's introduced you see the connection between the hidden code and and the link that's that's the key thing what's so interesting about the number 70 there are 70 specially appointed times in the holy days called the homeowner name in a year as defined by leviticus 23 there are 52 sabbaths seven days of peshawar that's encompassing a passover feast of 11 bread and peach first fruits one day for hog ha shabbat the feast of pentecost one day for yom torer the feast of trumpets it merits one day in the scripture they celebrate two days and one day for yom kippur day of atonement seven days for shukat feast of boots and one day which is the eighth one of that the shimoni atsuret that's 52 plus 7 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 7 plus 1 which adds up to 70. the very interval that that word is encrypted in the torah now what makes the you think this is a coincidence i don't think so i'll tell you what another reason see the longer the word is the more rare it is or more likely it is for it to show up just statistically just the fact that it does in itself isn't significant it needs to cluster it must be some other rationale or it's a suspect if you do a statistical analysis of the hebrew alphabet and the 78 000 letters of the book of genesis statistically you would expect this to show up by random chance five times what's interesting only shows up once and it shows up exactly on the verse that happens to talk about it and the chance it's been the experts have estimated that the possibility of that happening by accident is one chance in 70 million 70 million in one god is great isn't he any fun well we've run out of our time our notes will have some study questions some research projects and some discussion questions and so on let's close with the word of prayer well father we thank you that you are in control of the appointed times and we thank you father that you have an appointment for us and oh father we would ask that through your holy spirit and through your word you prepare us to acquit ourselves honorably as good stewards of the days that remain we do pray father that we indeed might number our days that we might apply our hearts to wisdom we thank you father for your word but above all father we thank you for your word which became flesh and dwelt among us and we behold his glory the glory of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth we thank you father that he tabernacled among us oh father we would ask you to help us to grow in grace in the knowledge of him that we might be more fruitful and more pleasing in my sight as we commit ourselves into your hands indeed in the name of yeshua our lord and savior jesus christ amen [Music] you

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