Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Feasts of Israel 513 - 6 - 6

The Feasts of Israel
There are three Spring Feasts, Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of First Fruits.
There are three Fall Feasts, Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Weeks occurs between the spring and fall feasts.
The spring feasts were fulfilled in the First Coming of Jesus. During the first Passover the blood of a lamb was smeared around the door so the Angel of Death would Passover the house and spare the lives of those inside. Jesus was our Passover Lamb; John 1:29, “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” There is no atonement for sin apart from the shedding of blood.
Genesis 4:3-4, “3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:” Abel brought a blood offering which was acceptable to God.
Leaven is a symbol of sin as it puffs up. The use of Unleavened Bread was a call to be a people set apart to holiness. Jesus was set aside in the tomb and his body knew no corruption, no puffing up.
The feast of First Fruits pointed to the resurrection of Jesus as the first fruits from the dead.
The Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, happened on Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out. This Church was actually established on this day.
The Fall feasts are yet to be fulfilled.
The Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, is thought by many to point to the Rapture as The Rapture is associated in Scripture with the blowing of a loud trumpet. During 2015 and into early 2016 there were reports across the planet of sounds like trumpets. NASA has offered an explanation as rather background sounds, interesting.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Atonement, Yom Kippur, prophetically points to the Second Coming of Jesus when the Jewish remnant “shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.”
Tabernacles, Sukkot, will be the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise that He will once again tabernacle with His people as He reigns over The Millennial Kingdom from Jerusalem. 
 

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