THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS,
#5 OF THE SEVEN FEASTS
OF ISRAEL AS INSTITUTED
BY GOD THROUGH MOSES HIS
SERVANT AT MOUNT SINAI.
LEVITICUS 23
23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of
blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you
shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.'"
Thus the Feast of Trumpets began. Moses instituted this feast as
the fifth of seven feasts.
God introduced the
Seven Feasts of Israel as the children of Israel were encamped at Mount Sinai.
There, at that pivotal place, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
made covenant with a nation of two million souls. They had just
left Egypt behind in an extraordinary exodus attended by many miracles.
They had all passed through
the waters of the Red Sea in a national baptism of sorts
to emerge safely on the other side.
This was a wonderful moment in holy history.
There, at the foot of the Mount Sinai,
God brought His righteous rule, His precepts, His Torah (or Law) to the nation of Israel.
This was not just a national regal matter or an issue of cold legalism.
YHVH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
was revealing Himself to His covenant people.
His intent was to draw them into a relationship down at the grassroots of the nation that would
show them the wonders of His essential character.
God was introducing His covenant people to Himself.
The Torah was not meant to be just a system of blood covenant national state rituals for an ancient people that this world wants to forget.
Nor was it just a system of religious mores for legalistic finger wagging types.
Nor was "the Law" to be just lofty ideals chiseled on stone tablets for government buildings and offices.
The prophet Isaih saw the God of Israel commission His Servant for some far greater tasks than these and on a global scale. (Isa.49:6)
The prophet Jeremiah prophesied that YHVH-God was leading His people on into a New Covenant.
The days would come when His Word, His Torah, would be written on human hearts.
(Jer.31:31-34)
Right from the very beginning Torah was meant to
bring God's people Israel into a very personal relationship with YHVH-God.
The true foundation of the nation was to be a devotion and an obedience that would be established right down
at the grassroots at the tribal, family, and personal level.
And so what was God doing at Sinai? He was setting forth His grand agenda for the salvation, sanctification,
and eventual glorification of all His covenant people.
His grand Plan for the people He loved, and indeed for the whole world, was
laid out in the
Seven Feasts of Israel. (Lev.23)
The Spring Feasts would see Messiah execute His
Priestly role as High Priest of Almighty God.
And the
Fall Feasts would see Messiah come into His Kingdom as the King of Kings.
THREE SPRING FEASTS; . . . AND THREE
FALL FEASTS.
TWO SETS OF WAYPOINTS FOR MESSIAH'S TWIN ROLES AS PRIEST AND KING.
AND IN THE SEVEN FEASTS GOD LAYS OUT THE TWO APPEARANCES OF MESSIAH.
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It is a brief overview of the Seven Feasts of Israel.
The Seven Feasts of Israel
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MESSIAH'S TWIN ROLES AS PRIEST AND KING.
THE DUAL OFFICES OF MESSIAH IN THE
ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
AND THE NECESSITY FOR MESSIAH TO COME DOWN INTO OUR COSMOS TWICE.
So why was it necessary for there to be two comings of Messiah?
And why do some of our Jewish brethren consider that there will be two messiahs?
They postulate a holy messiah of the High Priesthood,
"Meshiach ben Joseph".
And they speculate concerning a royal messiah of the Kingdom,
"Meshiach ben David".
Why the apparent dichotomy? Just what is going on here?
The answer lies in the seemingly contradictory character of the God of Israel.
Our God is a God of Righteous Law and also a God of Mercy and Grace.
Beloved evangelical theologian Francis Schaeffer addressed this in his writings.
The royal House of Judah in the Jewish nation is drawn into the former.
And the Church with
lost Israel favors the latter.
"Candles at the Wall"
by Jewish artist Eizen.
Prints available from the
Israeli Poster Center.
Click on the image to see the
article on the Two Witnesses.
The two witnesses are showcased in the
two Shabbat candles. And two candles are
placed on our dining tables in Christendom.
The theme of
'two witnesses' is seen in
both the Old and New Testaments.
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So how can the two burdens for Israel be reconciled. Our Hellenized minds driven by Greco-Roman logic
and running the soulish software of either secular or religious humanism are confounded. We have no rational answer.
But in the cross of Calvary we see the two reconciled and come into perfect union.
We see God's Righteous Law and Justice in one view.
And we see His Mercy and Grace in the other.
Here is the Good News.
Both come into perfect harmony in the sacrifice of our Messiah.
Israel's promised spotless Sacrifice Lamb brings the two together.
And in Himself Israel's Prince of Peace re-unites His family.
All of lost Israel are regathered and restored.
Messiah is bringing them back into His shalom.
And so it is in the blood of the New Covenant that our Messiah establishes the long awaited Peace of Jerusalem.
Both of these Messianic anointings must be witnessed and ratified here on earth.
Holy history will call for a unified two-fold earthly witness here below before the Ancient of Days, before angels, and before men.
This in fact is
the ministry of the two witnesses.
This dual ministry in the Prince of Peace must be showcased and sealed up in holy history.
This is the "final witness" of the 5th seal. (see
Revelation chapter 6).
This will lead on to the 6th seal and the return of Messiah.
He will bring then bring in His
Millennial Kingdom.
Here on earth in this present evil age we struggle with the apparent irreconcilable duality in the character of YHVH-God.
Our Jewish brethren, as the royal tribe, are inclined to champion the Messiah of Righteousness, the promised Son of David.
They alway were people who held God's Righteous Law in His Torah very dear to their hearts.
And right from the beginning of their wanderings, at the breach of Jeroboam, the Christians of
lost Israel
have always sought after the Messiah of Grace and mercy.
Their histories since that awful great divorce of Israel has kept the two houses separate and in disarray.
This deep and hurtful schism remains as a forgotten and unresolved blood feud in the covenant family of Israel.
Who will heal the breach of Jeroboam?
Here we have good news. Messiah will do that Himself.
The New Covenant will see God's Law, His Torah, written into human hearts and lives.
(See
Jeremiah 31:31-33).
He enters the hearts of all who call upon Him in repentance.
And even as He sits upon His throne in the hearts of men He ministers at the altar of their heart as well.
And so both of these factions of Israel, both of them partially blind,
will be regathered and restored in Messiah.
And both houses of God's covenant people will go on to find their destined unity in Christ.
He is both our Saviour of Grace and our coming Righteous King.
Both of these burdens are reconciled at the cross of Calvary.
(Psalm 85:10)
So as we have seen, God's people have been deeply divided. But YHVH-God Himself has never been divided.
Here on earth we see that there are two offices and two anointings for Messiah according to the
Order of Melchizedek. (See
Psalm 110:4).
Melchizedek was both High Priest and King.
He was High Priest of God Most High and King of Salem or Prince of Peace.
In the springtime feasts 2000 years ago the God of Israel did not come as the Conquering King
(although many of our Jewish brethren very much wanted and expected their Messiah to do just that).
But on that first occasion He was showing His covenant people
His priestly ministering character for mercy and grace. His atoning blood would bring salvation
to Israel and flow out to convert and to save the heathen Gentiles. (Isa.49:6) During that epic
Passover of
32 A.D. Messiah came as the
Suffering Servant. He was Israel's ultimate promised
Sacrifice Lamb.
Our Jewish brethren, (the rest of Israel being as
lost sheep), expected that when their Messiah came He would deliver them from Roman subjection.
But that was not God's immediate plan.
That Kingdom role, (with Messiah coming as the
Conquering King), would have to wait until Messiah's
Second Coming. His first coming as the
Suffering Servant was very necessary for the salvation of all of God's covenant people.
The blood of His atonement would bring them salvation.
Ultimately His sacrifice would bring
His deliverance.
THE SPRING FEASTS AND THE PRIESTLY MESSIAH.
THE FALL FEASTS AND THE KINGDOM MESSIAH.
AND THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS UP NEXT.
In the fullness of time and on one extraordinary
Passover nearly 2,000 years ago Messiah came to fulfill His first role and mission as Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb.
He arrived at the walls of Jerusalem passed through the eastern gate riding on a donkey.
On this tenth day of Nisan, four days before Passover, on Palm Sunday, Messiah came into His Holy City.
He was inspected and found spotless. And He was executed/sacrificed by temporal/religious powers.
Thus Messiah would fulfill His High Priestly role as the
Suffering Servant.
Jesus/Yeshua fulfilled all three of those springtime feasts during that epic year.
And He fulfilled them precisely on the holy days appointed.
His sacrifial death came right on
Passover. He was buried and in the grave just in time for the
Feast of Unleavened Bread.
And His Resurrection from the dead came three days later right on the
Feast of Firstfruits.
The summer of that year saw the fourth feast fulfilled as well.
Fifty days after Firstfruits the
Feast of Pentecost had "fully come". The Holy Spirit fell on the 120 in the upper room.
It was the 7th of Sivan. This was the very same Hebrew calendar day God brought down the law from Mount Sinai.
And also at Mount Sinai Israel corporately betrothed themselves to YHVH-God as a nation.
After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness they crossed the Jordan with Joshua.
And with the sign of circumcision the Nation of Israel entered the promised land of Canaan.
This was the Old Covenant between YHVH-God and the nation of Israel, a covenant which they broke.
The Old covenant was never "done away with". Because all through the prophecies of the Old Testament we see the promise of
Israel's national restoration. We see all 12 tribes represented in the New Jerusalem, the Holy City, the Bride of the Lamb.
And here at Pentecost the Holy Spirit overflowed Israel and spread out to the Gentiles.
This Pentecostal power in individual hearts shows us how the restoration of all Israel will eventually happen.
The Old Covenant will be fulfilled in the power of the New Covenant.
This is precisely as the Prophet Jeremiah had predicted.
(Jer.31:31-34)
So the Hebrew calendar date for Pentecost, the 7th of Sivan was the birthday of Israel.
Now on that same date on the Hebrew calendar the Feast of Pentecost "had fully come" bringing the promised Light to the Gentiles. (Isa.49:6)
On that epic feast day in the summer season of the crucifixion year the
Feast of Pentecost
took on an expanded meaning and significance in its New Covenant fulfillment.
In the summer of that year the birthday of Israel, the Feast of Pentecost, also became the
birthday of the Church.
So four of the
Seven Feasts of Israel have already erupted into holy history.
They have been fulfilled in the New Covenant.
2,000 Biblical years have passed by.
And here we stand awaiting those final awesome events.
Three of the seven feasts are still out there awaiting fulfillment.
And these three
Fall Feasts will bring us into the Apocalypse.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEVEN FEASTS
Here below is an overview of the seven feasts as they have unfolded so far.
1.
Passover
Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua at His crucifixion
on Nisan 14 in the spring of 32 A.D.)
2.
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua in His burial in the tomb
on Nisan 15 in the spring of 32 A.D.)
3.
Feast of Firstfruits
Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua at His Resurrection
on Nisan 17 in the spring of 32 A.D.)
4.
Feast of Pentecost
Fulfilled! (By the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost
on Sivan 7 in the summer of 32 A.D.)
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(A gap of 2000 years or so has allowed the Gospel, the Light of Israel,
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to go forth into the nations for the heathen Gentiles to be evangelized).
(Isa.49:6)
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Now here come the three
Fall Feasts of Israel.
They will erupt into holy history in spectacular fashion.
And the first of the three is probably just up ahead.
Indeed the very next feast coming up for fulfillment will be,
5. The
Feast of Trumpets
Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).
Something BIG is going to happen
on the first day of the Tishrei moon,
on some future Rosh Hashanah,
in the autumn season of some future year.
As we put the various Biblical pieces together it seems
quite likely that the New Covenant fulfillment of Rosh Hashanah,
(the Feast of Trumpets), will be the occasion of the confirming
of the 7 year "Covenant with Many" which involves Israel.
This was the prophecy given by the Angel Gabriel to the prophet Daniel
as it is written in
Dan. 9:27.
This is sad to have to report, ..... and few dare to mention it.
But God's covenant people will make a strong covenant with a pretender.
He will be a
false messiah.
Seven years after this epic future Daniel 9:27 event,
and 30 days beyond the end of the 1260days + 1260days
or 30 days beyond the
70th Week (or 70th "seven") of Daniel;
That is
1260 days +
1290 days = 2550 days later,
we arrive on the 10th day of the Tishrei moon.
Oh yes, it is
6. The
Day of Atonement
Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).
When the Tishrei to Tishrei time span over seven years
is 86 moons in the
metatonic cycle, (and not 87 moons),
we notice something extraordinary.
Those 2550 days reach out and touch the next two feasts!
It is a perfect fit!
This author noticed this in 2003.
See this article on the
Fall Feasts of Israel.
Tishri 1 to Tishrie 10, seven years later = 2550 days.
Remember also that 1260 + 1290 = 2550 days.
So.
Day #1 = the Feast of Trumpets.
Day #2550 = the Day of Atonement.
Check this out for yourself using this Hebrew calendar converter.
You can find this converter at www.hebcal.com
It seems that some future Tishrei 1 will see the confirming of the
seven year treaty of Dan.9:27.
Seven years later, on Tishrei 10, the history of this present evil age will be wrapped up.
Holy history will see the emergence of a stupendous day of awe.
It will be the final blow-out
Day of Atonement.
And it will be the last day to be saved. (Joel 2:28-32)
This future climactic 'Day of Reckoning' will cap off our present history.
It will be the very last day of this present evil age.
The following day will see the opening of the 'Day of the Lord'.
Judgment Day will have arrived.
And the angels of wrath, the grim reapers,
Will be hovering over the wicked.
After the tares have been gathered, (Mat:13:30)
the Elect will be gathered at the
Resurrection-Rapture.
The seventh and final feast is
7. The Feast of Tabernacles
Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).
The fulfillment of this feast will see the establishment
of the long awaited glorious 1000 year long
Millennium of Messiah.
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These are the
Seven Feasts of Israel.
INTRODUCTION TO THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS
AND THE FALL FEASTS OF ISRAEL
So as we see, the autumn season of harvest brings in the 5th, 6th, and 7th feasts.
These are the
Fall Feasts of Israel.
And the Feast of Trumpets is the very next feast due to unfold.
As we can see, the Feast of Trumpets is up next.
Do the Judeo-Christian people know its meaning?
Do they know what future earthshaking event
the Feast of Trumpets will signal?
This will be our focus now as we go on into our journey of discovery.
What is God showing us in the fall feasts?
The spring feasts in their New Covenant fulfilment
revealed Messiah in His priestly role. We saw Him as the Sacrifice Lamb
and the Suffering Servant.
But the fall feasts will be different.
Messiah will be dealing with His covenant people
in His political or Kingdom role. This will be a global ministry and rule.
Because the coming Messiah is not just
returning to His national people Israel. At the Second Coming
He will be returning to take up a global
worldwide rulership as King of kings and Lord of lords.
So the
fall feasts are of a political nature.
They celebrate God's righteous rule upon this earth as the real and literal future Messiah.
This is the future glory Handel presented in His magnificent musical presentation of Messiah.
On a certain future fall season Israel and all mankind will arrive at a day of great import.
They will see God's Kingdom
announced with the blowing of trumpets. This will be the fulfilment
of the Feast of Trumpets. What will have happened?
That will be our focus as we move on in this study.
The day this epic future Feast of Trumpets unfolds will be an awesome day in world history.
Because the 70th Week of Daniel will have begun.
And God will resume His covenant dealings with His people down here
amidst the earthly politics of men. The nations will be raging. (Psalm 2)
And why? Because the Kingdom of God will
be coming into world history. And many antagonists, angelic and human,
will be in an uproar.
Despite the platitudes of state clergymen the Kingdom of God has not yet fully come.
Messiah has certainly come to His throne in men's hearts this is true.
But He is also destined to come to this earth and to minister and
rule for a literal thousand years. (See Rev.20)
Messiah will come again. Only on this occasion He will not be the Suffering Servant.
He will be the returning Conquering King.
Israel and the nations will see Messiah in His Kingdom role.
His judgment and wrath will be poured out on the wicked.
Jerusalem will see His wonderful deliverance at Armageddon.
And His covenant people in exile will experience His magnificent deliverance at
Bozrah.
After His second coming Christ/Messiah will establish
that long awaited glorious
Millennium of Messiah.
So why are the coming fulfilments of the Fall Feasts so awesome?
Because they open the final epic
end time drama.
Many people in the nations, the heathen, hate and despise Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach.
They are the playthings of their dark angels who dread His coming as Messiah.
And so without understanding why they do it depraved mankind, the peasants, princes, and priests rage against the coming Messiah.
This is the mystery of iniquity.
King David wrote a song about this. And he told of
the terrible shock these rebels will have.
(Psalm 2)
The people who dread the coming Son of David, (and many who don't want to talk about it), actually despise the Throne of David.
They loathe the coming righteous earthly
Millennial Rule of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This is the heart of the main conspiracy against YHVH-God that is at work among men.
The plot it is cloaked and hidden under a smokescreen of diplomatic and ecclesiastical
disinformation.
But nevertheless it is the
root cause of all anti-Semitism.
In its true essence hatred of Jews (who are people of Judah, the royal tribe of Israel), is a spiritual hatred against Messiah/Christ.
It is not a racial thing at all.
Unfortunately we still see ecumenist churchmen pressuring Israel to compromise themselves by giving up God's sovereign Holy Land.
This is the current manifestation of
anti-Semitism in the Church.
WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE FALL FEASTS
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is
not like other gods. He is real. And He can be
known in a personal way.
He comes to indwell those who open their hearts and lives to Him and those who exercise faith, and put their trust in Him.
The
Fall Feasts were set to showcase the Messiah of Israel, not only in the realms of religion and personal faith
but also as he comes to re-enter world history as King of Kings.
The Holy One of Israel is the "God who is there".
He is the eternally existent God who was, is, and is to come.
Messiah has already come down into our cosmos once.
The terminus of the first 69 weeks of Daniel's
70 Weeks of years showcased the
first coming of Messiah. On that day, Palm Sunday, we saw Messiah come in His priestly religious role.
That event marked the terminus of the
69 weeks. One week, or one "seven" of years remains.
Quite clearly our Messiah has not finished His work on this planet and in our cosmos.
The terminus of the future
70th Week of Daniel, the final 7 years of this age will see Him come again, this time in His Kingdom, or political role.
Even now He is in the process of drawing out a
covenant people to Himself, not only from national Israel but from all the nations.
His chosen "called out people", His "ekklesia", is the global "Congregation of Israel", which includes the true Church.
They are destined to be regathered at the end of this age as a
single Elect or Chosen people, drawn out from scattered Israel and from the nations.
His Elect, (singular), will be gathered from both sides of Calvary, from the ancient patriarchs to the very last Tribulation Saint.
The Holy One of Israel is a gracious God. And He has one single grand all encompassing salvation plan.
His covenant people, drawn from Israel and from the nations are all destined to become unified under Messiah as
"a royal priesthood and a holy nation". (1Pet.2:9)
Our God is not dead. Nor is He a do-nothing God. He is at work. And He has a grand Plan.
The final seven years of this age will see Him deal with His people on
blood covenant matters their religious leaders have omitted to tell them of.
And so He will call forth His witnesses,
Then He will return to judge the world, restore Israel, establish His Kingdom.
He will go on to restore the ecosystems of His creation and so bring His divine agenda to completion.
The
Seven Feasts are waypoints that mark out the thresholds in this grand plan.
They were destined to showcase the acts of Messiah, not only to Israel but to the nations.
Jesus/Yeshua is not only our personal Savior but also our coming international Messiah.
His covenant people are not passive in all this as they have been told.
As the Body of Christ they are in vital union with Messiah and active agents in the
end time drama.
These annual celebrations lay out YHVH-God's agenda for redemption, sanctification,
and then finally, the glorification of all His remnant Elect at the
Resurrection-Rapture at the last day.
So YHVH/God is not silent, unknowing, uncaring, or absent from the scene.
The
Day of the Lord, or Day of Christ, (see Eph.2), will surely open up on the day after that final epic
Day of Atonement.
Indeed most of the Book of Revelation is a heavenly court case in which YHVH-God presides.
God is not dead. Rumors of His death, spoken of by certain high churchmen, are quite incorrect.
These clerics who say such things do not know and love the God of the Holy Scriptures.
They are hired men of the state and the marketplace, many of them quite lost and deceived.
Dark religious spirits have been feeding them
disinformation for them to pass on to the poor spiritually undernourished sheep of God's pasture.
The Holy One of Israel will not tolerate this forever.
He is alive and well. And in the Scriptures He has made available to us
information that is true and correct. It is the revealed Word of God.
At the close of this age Messiah will be delivering this living Word personally by His own earthly Presence
in His resurrected body.
And at His Second Coming His holy agenda will be brought to a magnificent climax.
THE SECOND COMING OF THE COSMIC CHRIST.
We serve a God of wonder. The word 'wonder' in Hebrew means
"SURPRISE!".
The God of heaven has come to earth as a baby in a manger.
He has indeed come down Jacobs ladder.
He has come right on into this poor corrupted sin-sick world.
And He personally ministered to His people and among mankind for three and a half years.
But that was just the beginning of His surprises.
More surprises are coming as we enter into the final seven year period of this age with the Feast of Trumpets.
And we shall see those seven years, (1260 days + 1290 days) terminate right on time with the
Day of Atonement. This is the high drama up ahead in the
Fall Feasts.
So what is all the drama about in the fall feasts?
And why is this world not ready to receive the Prince of Peace?
Well this is where the plot thickens.
It seems that here on earth there are many that would stand in the way of the coming Messiah.
There are a myriad of pagan trolls at the gate, both governmental and religious.
They make it their business to guard the passes
between heaven and earth. This is the spirit of
gnosticism.
These dark angelic powers rule by fear, guilt, and by the casting of their own spells and taboos.
They seek out and find a myriad of human stooges to do their bidding.
They cast their gnostic fog
of false religion over the Word of God. They try to keep the Bible muddled and confusing to understand.
And they try to cloak the truth of God's redemption plan we see outlined in the Holy Scriptures.
Dark spirits in government and in religion pull the strings of men.
This is how they get them to do their bidding.
Of course this is a plot by angelic rulers of darkness.
They are trolls. They seek to prevent God's Word from coming down to men.
And they seek to impede men from coming to know God.
Religious legalists do this in many ways.
One way is by making faith in God a meritocracy which they control.
Faith in God, which should be a delight is thereby turned into an onerous religious burden.
So men turn away from God altogether. Many think that walking with Him is impossible.
This is a lie. But it is just one aspect of the twisted nature of false religion.
It is all part of the
information war being carried out against God's Holy Word.
That spiritual war for the hearts and minds of men
goes on in the angelic realm of the lower heavens and also here on earth among men.
Men may not like it. But the trumpets will announce a coming changing of the guard.
Messiah is coming.
The
Day of the Lord
will see Him make short work of all His enemies, both angelic and human.
By His Holy Word He is in the process of sweeping them aside as He comes.
Even as the
Suffering Servant He still comes into the hearts of His covenant people.
And He is supplanting the rulers of darkness in the live of men. But that is just the beginning.
He will complete the process at the final epic conclusion of the
Fall Feasts of Israel.
His beloved saints will bring in the end time witness
at the 5th seal. And at the 6th seal Messiah will return.
As the
Day of the Lord opens up He will judge the wicked. The tares will be harvested first by the grim reapers, ther angels of wrath.
Then He will glorify His saints at the
Resurrection-Rapture.
Lucifer, the great Deceiver will be cast into the
Abyss for a thousand years. (Rev. 20:1-3) The world system will
no longer be in the hands of evil humanistic Luciferian men and their 666 economic system.
Because the age to come will be the
Millennium of Messiah.
He is surely coming back to this cosmos.
And when He does He will come to minister in mercy and to rule in righteousness.
Humanistic men never did like the idea of Messiah.
They have put a religious smokescreen over His future coming and rule.
They have crafted their man-made plans for a world without God.
They do not know that they have become the playthings of their own dark angels.
The principalities and powers of this world stand against the coming Messiah.
But God prevails. He has has broken through at Calvary.
And as "the Breaker" He will break through at the
Bozrah Deliverance. (Mic.2:12-13)
The princes of darkness are small potatoes.
They have already been defeated at the cross.
Now, on the altar of men's hearts, His Kingdom, the place of His rule, is being established.
But God has not finished. He will come to set things right here on earth as well.
That is what the upcoming, yet to be fulfilled,
Fall Feasts are all about.
And the first one of them announces God's agenda for the wrap-up of this age.
This is, of course, the Feast of Trumpets.
Man and man's religion is humanistic, carnal, and materialistic.
And regrettably, most Christians in the west at the present time are living on the carnal side of their nature.
Much of man's religion sets out to "vaporise" the prophecies of Messiah's
Second Coming. Kings and merchants, (and their hired churchmen) refuse to face
the reality of the cosmic Christ and of Messiah's future Kingdom.
They want to say that the Apocalyptic scriptures are just matters of religious reverie
to be enjoyed on a Sunday underneath the stained glass windows of the cathedral.
They also say that Christ's work on earth is finished. It was finished at the cross.
The tickets to heaven are for sale. And that is all there is to Christianity.
But is this true?
In the matter of redemption Messiah's work certainly has been finished.
But God has further plans that will again involve His entry into human history.
For churchmen under the stipend of kings and merchants this may be an embarrassing
and inconvenient truth. And the rulers and merchants they are beholden to will not like the message.
But Bible prophecy is the true and faithful Word of God.
And it is sitting there waiting for us to read and receive.
And since good men, such as William Tyndale have died
bringing God's Word to us should we not hold the Bible
and its end time message dear to us?
Christians are fond of saying that God has finished His work.
It is true that in the spirit realm Christ has come.
He has defeated the powers of darkness.
That war has been won.
The Way between heaven and earth now stands open before us.
But our personal salvation is just the beginning.
There is an end time drama in holy history
that the Ancient of Days has called for.
And so it will happen, right on schedule.
The awesome events of the end time drama will surely unfold
precisely as prophesied.
Western Christians have been having a real problem coming to grips with this.
But the climactic
blood covenant witness of Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach
must be seen before men and angels.
This epic 5th seal witness will be seen before
the sign of the Son of Man is seen in the heavens
at the cosmic disturbances of the 6th seal. (Rev.6)
And the fullness of the Gentiles must be brought in
before the partial blindness of Israel is healed.
There is another reason for the end time drama we see
showcased in the Feast of Trumpets and the Fall Feasts.
Many Christian believers are only half committed.
Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach loves His people and wants the very best for them.
They are not going to do well with one foot in the New Jerusalem
and the other in Mystery Babylon.
Jesus still stands at the doorway of our hearts.
And He is knocking. He is even standing at the door of a lukewarm
Laodicean Church.
Here in the west wayward
Gomer, Israel and the western church,
still continues to go off with her
secular political lovers.
As in the Song of Solomon the would-be bride is behind closed doors.
This is not her ultimate destiny. And so her Shepherd Lover
is knocking at the door. He wants her to come with Him.
Gomer she has no need for
her earthly political protectors.
They will bring her to a death just as sad as the
Lady of Shalott.
The resurrected Christ has defeated the forces of darkness!
The
gnostic barriers
between heaven and earth are broken. They have been breached by
Messiah as He comes down Jacob's Ladder.
Christ, our Messiah, is now the bridge over troubled waters.
He reaches out to His covenant people in unconditional Agape love.
So what is the true bridal response here?
God's covenant people will surely bring the bridal witness to their Bridegroom.
And even in the midst of the end time drama they will be kept by the power of God,
preserved from the evil ways of this world,
and saved from the wrath to come.
God is not our co-pilot. He is sovereign, not us.
We are not "little gods" and "write our own ticket with God"
as modern churchmen have told us. God is not mocked.
Nor will He keep His wrath for ever. In the fullness of time He will act.
Even now He is in the process of restoring Israel spiritually and gathering all His people.
In the
Millennial Age to come He will come in the new spiritual body we saw after His resurrection.
He will glorify His people.
He will
judge the nations and separate the sheep from the goats.
And He will also restore the cosmos, even the ruined ecosystems of this planet
to the praise of men. He is a God of action. And He makes all things new.
The Fall feasts were part of God's grand Plan of the ages.
They were set forth not only as annual religious celebrations.
They were destined to unfold into holy history as epic events, even memorials,
of great and everlasting importance.
Each of the Seven Feasts God set forth at Sinai pointed to a mystery.
They pointed to a future wonder
that God's covenant people had not yet been seen.
God is pretty serious about His annual parties.
And He has not changed His mind about their great importance.
Every year since Sinai those seven feasts have been celebrated in religious settings.
They are part of the Jewish culture. They are celebrated in
the present Judaic religion of the Levitical priesthood.
But when the
fall feasts erupt into holy history in future times they
are destined to go far beyond that. Because when Messiah comes He will serve in two offices and roles.
When He returns to earth again He will head up both the High Priestly office and the
Kingdom offices of the
Order of Melchizedek. (Psalm 110:4 & Heb.5-7)
TRUMPETS, ATONEMENT, AND TABERNACLES.
THE THREE FALL FEASTS ARE UP NEXT.
As we have seen, feats #5, #6, and #7 are yet future. They are still mysteries.
They have not yet come into their New Covenant manifestation.
But they will. In some future fall season we shall see them.
The
Fall Feasts are becoming the subject of much study and discussion right now.
Many Christian believers in the Western Church are finally beginning to realise that
the "Holy One of Israel" is in control of world events.
He is the sovereign overseer of history.
And He is not silent. Nor is He absent, unknowing, uncaring, or dead.
He is very much alive! And he has an agenda. In fact, His Plan is unfolding.
And it is right on schedule!
So the Fall Feasts are up next.
They have not come to their New Covenant fulfilment yet.
But knowing YHVH-God, we can be sure of this.
When they erupt into holy history in some future fall season of the year
these
Fall Feasts will be every bit as spectacular
as the four events that preceded them.
The fifth feast, the Feast of Trumpets is up next.
And the sixth feast, (or actually a fast), will follow, probably seven years later, (as we shall see).
In fact this final
Day of Atonement will almost certainly be the last day of this age.
It will be the last day to repent. This will be the awesome climactic
Day of Reckoning.
Afterwards, Messiah will come. He would judge the wicked,
and then deliver and glorify
His Elect.
He will then return to judge the nations at the
sheep-goat judgement. After that, at the Feast of Tabernacles, He will establish His
Millennial Kingdom .
So three epic end time events will be marked by the
Fall Feasts of Israel. And they are up ahead in our future.
A RECENT DISCOVERY INVOLVING THE FALL FEASTS
Bible students of a Berean disposition have been at work.
Recent times have seen them make some exciting discoveries.
It seems clear that the next two feasts will mark out the
beginning and the end of the final seven years of the age.
This will be outlined further down in this article.
The 70th Week of Daniel is a time of trial and a time of glory.
God will be resuming His determined dealings with His covenant people.
This is the
end time drama.
Then after the Great Tribulation and
at the end of this seven year period God will regather all
of His Elect. (Mat.24:31 & Dan.12:7)
God's covenant people will come together at the final big party, the
the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
They will be glorified together, from both sides of Calvary,
from both houses of Israel,
from Judea, and from out at
Bozrah at the ends of the earth.
The saints will be gathered and brought into the glory.
Jesus said that they would be gathered together as a single Elect. (Mat.24:29-31)
Because YHVH/God Almighty is at work here.
At the
Resurrection-Rapture He will wrap up the history of this present evil age.
Because He fully intends to regather and restore His people
from Israel, the Church and out in the nations at the ends of the earth.
He is bringing
ALL of His people home!
So the journey of God's covenant people is far from over.
It is headed for a magnificent conclusion.
The
Seven Feasts of Israel are key waypoints.
God has blazed a trail for us. With the feasts He has marked the map in seven places.
They will be very helpful to us as we journey on in our passage into the glory.
Every one of the seven feasts will eventually be recognized as a time and travel marker for
God's Elect. The feasts mark out the major events of past and future holy history.
They will go on to be celebrated in the Millennium to come; - and forever.
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IN THE ANNUAL HEBREW CELEBRATION OF
ROSH HOSHANAH, 'HEAD OF THE YEAR'. WILL A FUTURE HEBREW OR
JEWISH NEW YEAR BE WITNESS TO SOME SINISTER EVENT THAT
MIGHT BE AN OCCASION FOR THE TRUMPETS TO SOUND IN ALARM?
The Feast of Trumpets is the next feast due to be fulfilled.
It is the first of the three
Fall Feasts of Israel.
It is celebrated
on the first day of the new moon of Tishrei.
It is called Rosh Hashanah which means "head of the year".
The Feast of Trumpets is
the only one of the seven feasts to open up on a new moon,
a dark and moonless night.
Is this significant? Is this a portent of something ominous for
this 5th feast? Will there be some
sinister goings on when the Feast of Trumpets erupts into holy history?
Is there something hanging over God's Judeo-Christian people
on some future dark night as that awesome
future moon of Tishrei is about to appear?
In times past the new moon was typically the time of the month
when Israel got up to mischief. They would go up to the
high places on these moonless nights.
There, under cover of darkness, they would
break the covenant they had made with YHVH-God.
They would commit great evil.
They would worship idols in the groves on the high places.
And they would engage in acts of sexual immorality.
The Feast of Trumpets is the only feast to be celebrated on a new moon.
Could it be that some sinister event of great importance is destined to
unfold in the gloom of some future new moon of Tishrei?
Will something momentous occur on this night
that will be a cause for general alarm
around the world among God's covenant people?
And will this event call for the blowing of trumpets?
The first day of any given Hebrew month is the new moon.
This is the time when the first thin crescent
of the new moon can just be made out with the naked eye.
This is well demonstated in
this article which features a photograph from
an Islamic website. It shows a new moon just 25 hours old.
It is barely able to be seen.
At that time of the month the moon is just a barely discernable crescent
seen at dawn and at dusk in the direction of the rising or setting sun.
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, FIRST OF THE FALL FEASTS OF ISRAEL.
THIS IS THE NEXT BIG EVENT ON GOD"S AGENDA.
The next feast due for fulfillment is the Feast of Trumpets.
It is celebrated on the new moon of Tishrei as
Rosh Hoshanah, the "head of the year", or the Jewish new year.
It will be maked by a blowing of trumpets.
The watchmen of Israel will be sounding the alarm. (Ezek. 33:1-6)
All of God's covenant people,
Jewish or non-Jewish, will be called
to solemn assembly.
This will be an awesome day in the history of Israel and Christendom.
Some big event will happen on some future new moon of Tishrei.
As we shall demonstrate further down in this article,
this will almost certainly be the signing of the momentous
seven year Middle East peace covenant of Daniel 9:27.
Daniel indicates that the deal will be brokered by and with a certain "prince".
God's people will be entering into a seven year protection covenant.
They will make a seven year treaty with someone who promises to bring them, (and the world),
the peace they so fervently desire.
Moses said that this would happen. He said that God's covenant people would depart from the faith
and get themselves into a world of trouble and tribulation. He told them this quite clearly in the
Song of Moses.
And Jesus Himself said that this would happen.
He said that His people would sign away the covenant things of God.
This involves the land of Eretz Israel, the so called "west bank"
and the holy precepts of the God of Israel the Church was supposed to uphold.
Jesus Himself said that His covenant people would enter into another covenant with
someone who ominously will come not in the Father's name
but "in his own name".
This is the "prince" of Daniel 9:27.
He will be a global megadealer and peacemaker.
This nefarious deal will in fact bring in a limited peace, for a time.
But he will turn out to be a false messiah.
(John 5:43)
These will be a wicked business.
Instead of crying out to God, His Judeo-Christian people
will enter into a deal with a Luciferian selfist.
And that's not all.
A Harlot will emerge, riding a beast with ten horns.
Dear saints, this will be some serious skullduggery.
Is this why the Feast of Trumpets is the only feast to
come on the dark night of a new moon?
BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION!
SOUND THE ALARM ON MY HOLY MOUNTAIN!
The prophet Joel saw the scenario well.
And he saw the response.
He heard God say,
JOEL 2
1. "Blow the trumpet in Zion,
Sound the alarm on my holy mountain,
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble.
15. Set apart a fast; Call a solemn assembly.
Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation.
......Let the priests weep between the porch and the altar."
When the trumpets sound on that epic future Jewish New Year
an awful thing will have just happened.
Like Esau, God's people will have signed away their birthright and their blessing.
And now they are in for some serious trouble!
Under the covering of this harlotry they may think that they are safe.
But they are not. They are now under a selfist ruler and a harlot church system.
In fact they are just three and a half years away from the
Great Tribulation.
For the faithful Elect the situation is clearly untenable.
The nefarious deal will call for congregational and national repentance.
The trumpets will be blowing.
All of God's covenant people, those in Israel and those
abroad among the nations will be
"called out" to assemble themselves before God.
This will be an awesome and stupendous day. It will be day like no other.
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FINAL SEVEN YEARS OF THIS AGE.
Thus we begin the
70th Week of Daniel.
In spite of the protestations and denials by
Preterists and
Dominionists
this seven year period has to happen. It has been set by God.
This seven years, (like the seven years of famine in Egypt at the time of the patriarchs),
will be the time of God has determined for some heart to heart dealings
with His covenant people.
YHVH-God is being very gracious here.
His people will be given a clear picture of what is real and what is not real.
God's people will be given time to change their minds and change their heart attitude.
Above all, they will be given a fresh opportunity to
come to
love God. The true remnant Church will dump their low grade religion.
The "deal with God" they purchased cheaply at the religious bazaars
will have to be renegotiated at a higher more legitimate level.
And the "free ticket to heaven" will be traded in for a more personal covenant with God
which is one of total commitment.
Those who go on to embrace the "final witness" will go on to discover the
joy of that true and faithful
blood covenant relationship to which they have been called.
And as for national Israel?
By the time the 70th week of Daniel is over
something wonderful will have happened.
As a nation they will have come to recognize and know their Messiah! (Zech. 12:10-13:1)
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
DAY ONE OF A TIME PERIOD OF 2550 DAYS.
THIS TIME PERIOD EMBRACES THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL, PLUS 30 DAYS.
In the process of a study of the Hebrew Feasts the author
made a rather startling discovery.
As we can see laid out in the diagram below
the next two upcoming Feasts just happen to
mark out with total precision the beginning and the ending
of that awesome future 7 year timespan, the
70th week of Daniel along with the 30 day extension of the latter half
of the 70th Week from 1260 days to 1290 days as mentioned by Gabriel to Daniel in Dan.12:11.
These 2550 days make up the final 7 years of this age.
The number of days in the timespan is
2550 days.
And the number of days spanning the Feast of Trumpets and the
Day of Atonement
when they are seven yeasr apart and 86 moons, (not 87 moons), in the
metatonic cycle is also
2550 days.
This is quite a large number. And the two timespans match up perfectly to the day.
So is this likely to be just a coincidence?
Probably not.
Here below is a diagram showing how the
70th week of Daniel is staked out perfectly
by the two upcoming Fall Feasts of Israel, those being
the Feast of Trumpets and the
Day of Atonement.
This is true for those seven year spans beginning in
12 of the 19 years of the
metatonic cycle.
These are those seven year Tishrei to Tishrei
timespans of 86 (not 87) moons.
We shall be looking into this further towards the end this article.
Click on the image above to go to another chart of the 70th Week of Daniel.
The Feast of Trumpets is a clean slate right now.
It has not yet been fulfilled.
God's covenant people
should be keeping a close watch on events in the fall of the year.
If an epic global 7 year peace covenant is signed
on Rosh Hashanah that will be the sign.
If you, the reader, are a true watchman, then you will know what to do. (Ezek. 33:1-6)
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS BEGINS THE CIVIL YEAR
AND RELATES TO POLITICAL OR KINGDOM ISSUES.
The Feast of Trumpets is the first day of the Hebrew year
on the
civil calendar.
On this day God's people stop work.
It is a holiday, or a 'holy day'.
And it is called Rosh Hashanah, meaning in Hebrew,
'head of the year'.
The fact that this celebration marks the beginning of the civil year
for Israel is an important point.
The religious calendar begins six months before in the springtime
in the first month, the month of Nisan, (or Abib).
From this we can surmise that
the Feast of Trumpets, (and all the fall feasts),
relate to civil, political, or royal kingdom issues.
This would seem to suggest that these three autumn feasts relate
to certain pivotal events connected to the
birthpangs and the birthing of the coming
Kingdom of God as it manifests
in world history.
Our coming Messiah is in the
Order of Melchizedek.
Melchizedek as King of Salem or 'peace' was also
Priest of God most High.
So our Messiah has dual offices or authority.
He is to be both King of Kings and High Priest.
He rules in the priestly or religious authority.
He also rules
in the royal or kingdom authority.
His Kingdom is to be ruled from the Throne of David
of the Jewish House of Judah.
So as our coming Messiah He is
therefore both priest and king. This is a very important point.
His future Millennial dominion embraces both the realms of
politics and also religion or Church and state as it were.
This is a key prophecy for us to understand.
Messiah's First coming fulfilled the spring feasts.
The three of them celebrate His priestly ministry at Calvary and the Garden Tomb.
Messiah's Second coming
Fall Feasts.
They will celebrate the coming of His kingdom rule with the
Millennium of Messiah.
This issue of the dual offices of the Order of Melchizedek is very important.
It is a key to our understanding of the feasts in their spring and fall groupings.
The kingdom and priestly offices of Messiah also helps us understand the basis for the
the eventual reconciliation of both houses of Israel and the gathering of all the covenant people of God.
God will seek out His people. He will call them from out of the Church.
He will also call them out
from the Jewish nation. The New Covenant will also go out
to connect with people from all across the world.
The Light of Israel will bring salvation to the ends of the earth.
This long awaited and magnificent reconciliation of both houses of Israel
has been prophesied in many places by the Old Testament prophets.
It will surely come to pass in crucible of the end-time.
The believing portion of national
Israel and the believing portion of the Church
will come into confluence.
A single glorious Elect will be showcased before men
and before a heavenly audience which includes the watching angels.
This will bring to pass that prophesied "royal priesthood and holy nation".
Moses and the Apostle Peter both spoke about this. - Exod.19:6 & 1Pet.2:9
God has an agenda for holy history.
It has been set forth plainly in the Holy Scriptures.
Our Messiah came 2,000 years ago as the prophesied Suffering Servant.
At that time He was manifest in His priestly role as
both our High Priest and also our promised Sacrifice Lamb.
In His priestly role, we saw Him fulfill the first
three feasts, which are the spring feasts.
Now we await the fulfilment of the Fall Feasts.
In the Fall Feasts we shall be seeing Messiah emerge
in His Royal Kingdom role. It will be the politics of Messiah
that will be seen this time.
He will come as the conquering King of Kings.
God's determined dealing with His covenant
people will begin.
And this final seven year period, the final "week"
of Daniel's
70th Week will begin.
It will be announced with the blowing of Trumpets.
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IN WORLD POLITICS.
THE TRUMPETS ANNOUNCE THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH
When Messiah comes next time it will be quite different from his former coming.
We shall see Him emerge in His royal or kingdom role.
He will assume rulership on this earth
as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah,
ruling from the Throne of David.
At His second coming our Lord Jesus will assume His royal
office on this earth as King of Kings.
Messiah has two offices.
He has a priestly office and a royal Kingdom office.
The Christian Church is familiar with His priestly role.
That is what the Gospel is all about.
But they are not familiar with His kingdom role.
Ezekiel saw two offices for Messiah.
They were exemplified by the two sticks that became one
in his hand. (Ezek.37:15-28)
Messiah comes into human hearts and into this world
in the dual authorities of
the Order of Melchizedek. - Ps.110:4.
THE BLOWING OF TRUMPETS TO ANNOUNCE THE COMING OF MESSIAH.
AND THE HEATHEN ARE RAGING AGAINST HIS COMING.
Does everyone want Messiah to come to rule and minister as
Messiah? Unfortunately there are many in this world,
many in national Israel, and many in the Church
who have not yet welcomed Messiah into their heart.
They do not know Him.
What they imagine` in their hearts is
that He will be a tyrant ruler.
This rebellion against the Throne of David
is the essential root cause of all
Antisemitism. This hidden hatred fomented by the principalities and powers, the angelic rulers of this present darkness,
is aimed squarely at Israel's Messiah or Christ. It is the spirit of Antichrist as viewed from the kingdom perspective of the
royal tribe of Judah.
Even now it is becoming quite clear that the politics of this world
is centered around a little fledgling country in the Middle East
which arose in 1948 after a desolation going back to the Roman destruction
of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Why do the nations hate Israel and the Jews?
It is because they do not really know Him.
And their lesser angels who currently rule over the nations are hostile to the coming Messiah.
These ruling angelic powers are currently operating up in the second heaven.
They know that the return of Messiah will be their undoing. They will be cast down.
The returning Messiah will bring their shady rulership
to an end even as the stars fall at the 6th seal. - Rev. 6
Of course the principalities and powers, the angelic rulers in the second heaven know that this
has been prophesied to happen. But they rage against it anyway.
And these dark rulers have their own agenda in the coming showdown of the Apocalypse.
They want to drag
the nations and all the peoples and races they possibly can down with them.
They invite debauched and depraved men to come and join them in their doomed rebellion against
the returning Messiah. They know His Second coming will terminate their rule.
They are pretty disturbed about this. (See Psalm 2)
Many humanistic, selfist, and Luciferian men share the same
sentiments as the dark angels that pull their strings.
Do the antisemitic ultra nationalists, racists,
and skinheads know about this epic contest of the ages?
Unfortunately the answer is no.
Most of them haven't a clue as to who is pulling their strings.
They think that they themselves are controlling their lives.
They imagine that they are the captain of their fate
and the master of their own destiny. But they are wrong.
They are in complete ignorance of spiritual matters.
They are totally unaware that in rejecting the peaceful rule of Messiah
in their heart they have unwittingly become pawns of their
own evil angels. Their spiritual masters are spirits of wickedness.
And these angels of deception are doomed. They will fall out of their heavenly places at the coming 6th seal judgement.
They will be brought low at the end of this age, even as the stars fall.
At that time the
Day of the Lord will open up.
The sun will turn to darkness, the moon to blood, and the stars will fall.
It will be then that these hideous evil angels of destruction will
be brought down. -Psalm 78:49 These will be the angels of wrath that will be seen on earth in the Apocalypse.
They will gather the wicked as tares at the last day. (Mat.13:30)
The angels of wrath will come to gather the men they have duped.
The grapes of wrath will be gathered in this horrific and wretched harvest.
Horrified men will be plucked up as weeds by angels of unimaginable horror. (Mat.13:30)
These are the evil angels of destruction spoken of in Psalm 78:49.
Jesus Himself told us quite clearly that
the wicked will be gathered up as tares/weeds at the end of this age.
They will be carried off to be burned in the fires of Hell. (Mat.13:40-42)
These awesome events of the end-time will surely come to pass
at the end of the 70th Week of Daniel.
World history for this age will come to its tumultuous climax.
The 5th seal witness of the saints will be followed by the
6th seal appearance of the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens. - Mat.24:30
All this history will come to pass in the coming
Great Tribulation.
God is gracious. This period of time
will give all who hear the call a chance to change their minds
about their Messiah. Because ready or not,
He is coming!
Of course many hardened rebels will continue to rage against Him
right up to the very end.
John in vision saw men at the end of the age blaspheming God and shaking
their fist at heaven. - Rev.16:9
But then many will come into the merciful flows of God
right up to the very end of the age. - Joel 2:28-32
This will include the entire Jewish nation. - Zech.12:10
The
Fall Feasts of Israel
will be different from the feasts we have seen so far.
They will bring in the fulfilment
of God's kingdom agenda, even the 'Gospel of the Kingdom'.
Jesus spoke of this quite often. The Kingdom is the place of His rule.
He rules first in the hearts of men, and then upon the earth
in His Messianic Kingdom.
14. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all the nations,
and then the end will come. -Mat.24:14
THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS IN SCRIPTURE
AND THE VITAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WATCHMAN TO WARN GOD'S
COVENANT PEOPLE IN A TIME OF APPROACHING CRISIS.
If we do a word study of 'trumpets' or 'blowing of trumpets'
throughout the Bible we come to a clear and straightforward
conclusion. Apart from the annual and ceremonial events
the occasions when trumpets were
blown are pivotal momemts in the history
of God's people. Typically the blowing of trumpests marked the
emergence of some crisis
in the history of the nation of Israel. So wrapped up in this
act of blowing of trumpets
is the idea of watchfulness and, (when necessary), the sounding of an alarm.
"Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others,
but let us watch and be sober-minded." (I Thessalonians 5:6)
There is also a vital element of
information warfare involved here. In blowing the trumpet
the watchman is announcing to the people under his care,
"Look, pay attention!! Here, I am bringing you some vital information
concerning an imminent and present danger. Come, let us gather together
as an assembled corporate body of people. And let us deal with this crisis
before our God."
This is how a faithful watchman operates. In doing this
he may well be putting his own life in jeopardy. The first order of business
for an invader is to take out the sentries. Those are just
the facts of life for a watchman.
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FAITHFUL WATCHMAN.
THE AUSTRALIAN COASTWATCHERS DURING THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
Martin Clemens, Australian coast watcher WW2 with native police. Click on the image to go to the article.
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Here I must digress and share a bit about the Australian coastwatchers.
These brave and faithful men operated
in the Islands of the Pacific during World War 2.
Typically they would use a portable short-wave radio
powered by a pedal generator.
It was a lonely and dangerous job.
36 of them were killed during the Pacific campaign.
They kept watch on shipping and aircraft movements and
radioed naval intelligence when any new action of the enemy
threatened allied positions.
As soon as they made their radio transmission they were often
triangulated by the Japanese.
Their position was then known.
So at that point they would pack up and leave.
Together with their faithful native companions they would disappear into
the jungle to relocate to another part of the island.
If their position was badly compromised they would have to
leave the island altogether. Under cover of darkness
they would go out by native canoe into a lagoon to rendezvous
with an allied submarine or torpedo boat and be whisked away.
On one occasion
an Australian coastwatcher radioed from an island in the Solomons
"From STO 24 torpedo bombers headed yours"
The message was picked up at Pearl Harbor and
the warning broadcast throughout the whole Pacific.
400 miles down "the slot" at Guadacanal
they knew that Japanese planes had just taken off from Rabaul.
They had a two hour warning of the attack. This allowed time for the ships
to disperse in readiness. Carrier born aircraft were refueled
and re-ammunitioned and in the air at altitude waiting
for the enemy planes to arrive. When the Japanese
torpedo bombers flew in they were
met by the fighter planes and the ships crews
with naval anti-aircraft guns at the ready.
Most of those enemy torpedo bombers were shot down.
No damage was done to our ships.
THE VITAL AND ESSENTIAL WORK OF THE WATCHMAN OVER GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE.
Such is the work of a watchman.
If the people are forewarned and if they have responded and brought themselves
into readiness then this timely warning can turn a potential
disaster into a victory.
In the case of God's covenant people it is no different.
We are in a spiritual war and increasingly so as the Day approaches.
Our enemy certainly knows a lot of what is going on. And he knows that the
day of his judgement is approaching.
The church is advancing expanding by leaps and bounds
over in the third world.
Our enemy is actively responding to these developing realities.
How about us back here in the comfort zone as we sit in our padded pews?
Do we know what's going on? And when the big event occurs will
the trumpets be blown? Will
we be warned?
The day will come when the church, as Sleeping Beauty,
will need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Information warfare is essential to ensure our readiness in God.
The right information must get to the right people at the right time.
God's covenant people must be warned when that critical moment
arrives.
If they are warned then many will be saved.
If they are not warned then many will be lost.
Our religious leaders have an awesome responsibility here.
We are told that God holds His ministers responsible for the proper
and timely warning of His people.
When the enemy is sighted by the watchmen on the
wall they have a sacred responsibility.
The people need to be warned.
When an enemy threatens to
attack or maneuvers against their city or camp then the watchman is
expected to blow the trumpet and sound the alarm.
Being a sentry is and always has been a dangerous and formidible task.
An approaching army's first action
is to silently 'take out' the sentries.
They will try to silence those watchmen if they can.
So to save his skin a sentry having seen the enemy coming
may simply withdraw from his post.
He may pretend not to see the approaching peril.
He may just melt into the shadows and keep his silence.
He may not want to raise an alarm lest he draw attention
to himself and bring his life into jeopardy.
But here is the rub.
If he does not blow the trumpet and sound the alarm then this
puts his whole company at risk. This amounts to treason.
In many armies, even today, a sentry who is found asleep
or fails to raise the alarm is court martialed or even shot.
In the spiritual arena there are also serious consequences
for an unfaithful watchman.
Ezekiel had this spelled out for him very clearly.
God said that as a prophet he, Ezekiel, had been made a watchman
over the House of Israel.
He was told that if he saw the enemy coming and he failed to blow the trumpet
and sound the alarm then there would be some dreadful consequences for him.
God said that He will actually require the blood of the people
at the watchman's hand.
This is an awful thing. Ministers of today are wise to heed this warning.
It is clearly laid out for them in God's Holy Word.
It is their responsibility
to warn the church of things that are threatening them
even if those things are in the early stages and just beginning to happen.
They are to inform God's covenant people of what is coming. And
they are to help prepare the congregation of God
for their essential role of witness in the
coming trials. Here is our scripture from Ezekiel.
EZEKIEL 33
Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 "Son of man, speak to the children of your people,
and say to them: 'When I bring the sword upon a land,
and the people of the land take a man from their territory
and make him their watchman, 3 when he sees the sword coming upon
the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does
not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away,
his blood shall be on his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet,
but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself.
But he who takes warning will save his life.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and
does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not
warned, and the sword comes and takes any person
from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity;
but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.'
Ezek.33:2-6
The sounding of the trumpet is an alarm, calling the people of God
to 'wake up' and 'pay attention'.
But that is not all.
The trumpets also summon the covenant people
to assemble themselves before God.
Indeed this positive response to God's call to assembly
is what actually makes them the 'called out', the 'ekklesia'/'church',
or the 'congregation' of God.
As the Bible clearly shows, the the blowing of trumpets is a
call of alarm.
It comes in response to a crisis in God's camp.
The covenant people of God are 'called out' to assemble themselves.
They are to come before God in worship and in solemn
response to this crisis. As they gather together
they are given the facts and told just what the problem is.
Then they are shown what can and must be done about it.
They are God's human agents and His witnesses on earth.
As His covenant partners they
are the responsible ones here.
As His witnesses they are very much 'in the loop'.
They are the 'called out' congregation, the 'ekklesia',
the 'church in the wilderness' of which Moses spoke about
back at Sinai. - Acts 7:38
Whenever the trumpets are blown the Judeo-Christian people
are being 'called out' to
make a judgment on some matter. Out of this will come
repentance, a new direction, a new anointing, and a new beginning.
True saints will be thankful for the corrective action God has taken
in warning them.
And they will appreciate Him calling them to conference on the matter.
They are in a crisis yes.
But in it they realize that they have arrived at a new threshold.
Surely new vistas must be just up ahead!
With joy they will make a positive response to God's call.
Then they set a new course for their future pilgrimage.
For the saints the judgment of God is not a grievous thing.
Even in chastening a new opportunity is being offered to them.
Their God is not being unkind.
Not at all. He loves His people.
In this crisis He has their best interests at heart.
He has them by the hand.
And He is leading them out of spiritual danger.
He is showing them the Way ahead,
It is a gateway onto the
paradise road.
The 'highway of holiness' leads upward;
Towards the gates of splendour;
And into glories yet unseen.
THE BLOWING OF TRUMPETS HERALDS THOSE TIMES OF NATIONAL CRISIS, A CALL
TO ASSEMBLY AND REPENTANCE, AND THEN THE SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL AND VICTORY.
In the days of
ancient Israel, as with Gideon for example,
the blowing of the trumpet was a call to assemble together
in a time of crisis. It was also a call to national repentance.
The subsequent revival, worship and re-alignment
with the plans and purposes of God
led to a declaration of war on the encroaching evil
and subsequent victory.
JUDGES 6
34. But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon;
then he blew the trumpet, and the Abiezrites gathered behind him.
35. And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh,
who also gathered behind him. He also sent messengers to Asher,
Zebulun, and Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. - Judges 6:34-35
Here is another example of the trumpets being blown, this time
in warfare. This scripture gives us valuable details as to just how
the endtime victory will be achieved.
JUDGES 7
19. So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost
of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted
the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were
in their hands.
20. Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the
pitchers--they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets
in their right hands for blowing--and they cried,
"The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!"
21. And every man stood in his place all around the camp;
and the whole army ran and cried out and fled.
22. When the three hundred blew the trumpets,
the Lord set every man's sword against his companion throughout
the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia,
toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
Here we have a select group of men.
They are a 'sold out' or 'broken vessel' company.
But when their empty vessels of clay,
(symbolic of our bodies of flesh), are broken
the inner Light shines forth in the darkness.
Then they blow the trumpets
and cry out in a declaration of victory.
The enemy scatters in total confusion,
turning their swords upon each other as they flee.
This is a magnificent story.
It is a type or a pattern of things to come.
It lays out the spiritual principles which will see
the true church and the remnant of Israel come into their ultimate triumph.
At that time a single
refined and totally committed elect company will be
bringing forth the final witness before men and angels. - Heb.12:1
With total abandonment
of concerns for their own lives they will let their light shine forth
even from the brokenness of their very own bodies.
They will take up the trumpet to announce the coming Kingdom
of God on this earth. The call will go out to all of God's people to
respond in the same manner. The days of their decisive faithful witness
will have come.
It will be in this final climactic action that
the witnessing saints will bring this church age to a close.
And then Messiah will return.
Dear saints, we should be fully informed and persuaded
concerning these awesome realities.
And we should be fully committed to follow this course of
action in witness to our Lord Jesus should that time come in our lifetime.
Because this is precisely the manner in which God will bring
this age to its appointed victorious conclusion.
It is not in our own power to bring this witness. We can't do it.
He is the One who enables and empowers us to do this.
And He is the One who will lead us on into the glory.
So..... All that being understood.
Who would want to miss out on this grand adventure in God?
The following scriptures from the book of Revelation
show us the final victory.
This will occur as the seventh trumpet, the last trumpet,
is blown.
Rev. 10:7
"but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel,
when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished,
as He declared to His servants the prophets."
Rev. 11:15
"Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven,
saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our
Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!'"
Rev. 16:17
"Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air,
and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne,
saying, "It is done!"
DANIEL 9:27 AND A COVENANT WITH A CERTAIN 'prince' WHO IS
DESTINED TO BE REVEALED LATER AS THE FALSE MESSIAH OR ANTICHRIST.
If we go looking for the next big prophesied event
due for fulfilment we don't have to look very far.
As we saw in our study of the
The 70 Weeks of Daniel
69 weeks have alredy been fulfilled.
One 'week' or 'seven' of years remains to unfold into holy history.
The next major event on God's timetable is
the signing of the 7 year covenant spoken of by Daniel in Dan.9:27.
This big blowout event sets the clock ticking into
the 70th week of Daniel,
the final seven years of this age.
The signing of this unprecedented sovereignty sharing
megadeal involving Israel and the G7 nations will be an epic event.
God's people will have entered into covenant with a false messiah!
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The Bible indicates that this will be
the opening crisis of the end-time.
Might we therefore expect that it will
be heralded by the blowing of trumpets?
For God's people in that incredible future day
the blowing of the trumpets might well be a call
to corporate international repentance both in Israel
and in the church.
It will be a sounding of alarm, a
call to worship and a summons to assembly.
And what would be the nature of this crisis?
If Israel, and possibly a large part of the established church
are involved with the 7 years covenant with a global peacemaker
then quite clearly they will be into some mischief and up to no good.
Jesus Himself told us quite clearly that this indeed would happen.
"I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me;
if another comes in his own name, him you will receive".
- John 5:43
This is a dreadful and ominous warning from our Lord Jesus Christ.
We would do well to mark His words well. And pay attention.
The trumpets will most certainly be sounded in response to this outrage.
They would be blowing in response to
the great apostasy of Daniel 9:27.
If this is truly the case
and the Feast of Trumpets instituted by Moses
and installed on the 1st of Tishrei in the calendar of the ages
is indeed to be fulfilled with the alarm that goes up
when the 7 year covenant of Dan.9:27 is signed by Israel
then surely there is some prophetic Bible passage bearing witness to this.
Is there such a scripture?
The prophecy of Joel chapter 2 may well be one.
I shall leave it up to the reader to decide.
JOEL CHAPTER 2
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the
Lord is coming, For it is at hand: 2 A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread
over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of
whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations. 3 A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of
Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them. 4 Their appearance is like the
appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so they run.
5 With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array....................
10 The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and
moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.
11 The Lord gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great;
For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the
Lord is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
12 "Now, therefore," says the Lord, "Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." 13 So rend your heart,
and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious
and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents
from doing harm. 14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave
a blessing behind Him-- A grain offering and a drink offering For the
Lord your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a
sacred assembly; 16 Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes;
Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her
dressing room. 17 Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people,
O Lord, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the
nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?' "
This is an awesome scripture.
Obviously something of major importance has happened here.
The scripture above clearly states that this particular blowing of trumpets
here in Joel 2 is in the context of the close approach of the Day of the Lord.
The prophecy is time linked into the late 70th week with the
mention of the cosmic signs of the sun and moon turning to darkness.
Further on in Joel chapter 2
we see the encirclement of Jerusalem by the nations (plural).
This too is a clear reference to the late 70th week mustering of armies
towards Jerusalem in the Valley of Megiddo, or Armageddon.
If God's covenant people are prophesied to
make a deal with the forces of darkness
then there will be consequences for them.
All of the people of Israel and Christendom as well
will then be in real trouble.
The people who know their God will realize this.
The ignorant ones who have compromised themselves and
signed the 7 year covenant
with the global peacemaker will not.
Hence the sounding of the alarm and the
epic blowing of trumpets.
All of God's people will need to assemble when this
awesome and historic day opens.
So when this great coming crisis opens up on some future Feast of Trumpets
then how shall God's people respond?
They will respond in precisely the same way thay have responded in times past.
As in the crises of times past there must be a judgment.
There will be a new and holy calling and a new separation unto God.
It will be a new gathering, a new ekklesia, a new assembly of God.
Once more the call will go out.
"Who is on the Lord's side?!
Let him come and stand by Me!" - Exodus 32:26
How shall we answer?
Pray God that each one of us will respond to the call,
both in Word and in deed, on that coming awesome day.
*BIG NEW DISCOVERY*
WHEN THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND THE
THE
DAY OF ATONEMENT SEVEN YEARS LATER
SEES 86 MOONS, (AND NOT 87 MOONS),
THEN THEY MARK OUT A PERIOD OF 2550 DAYS.
THE 1260 DAYS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 70TH WEEK
PLUS THE 1290 DAYS OF DANIEL 12:11
(WHICH IS THE SECOND HALF OF DANIEL'S 70TH WEEK + 30 DAYS ADDED AT THE END),
ALSO EQUALS A PERIOD OF 2550 DAYS. THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY.
THESE UPCOMING TWO FALL FEASTS MARK OUT THE
FINAL 70TH WEEK ALONG WITH ITS 30 DAY EXTENSION.
AND THEY DO IT WITH ABSOLUTE PRECISION!
THE AUTHOR DISCOVERED THIS IN 2003.
The Feast of Trumpets and the
Day of Atonement are the
next two feasts coming up for fulfilment.
It seems highly likely that these next two feasts will initiate
and terminate the final seven years of this age.
If a certain upcoming Rosh Hashanah does indeed initiate the 70th week of Daniel
then an interesting question arises.
Will the feast that follows it, the
Day of Atonement
provide a fitting and auspicious termination for the last day of this age?
Indeed it does!
So does the
7 year time span of the 70th week along with its 30 day extension beyond the
1260 days
that reaches out to
1290 days of Daniel 12:11 fit in accurately and perfectly between these next
two feasts?
Well here we have a rather
exciting discovery to share as we move on towards the conclusion
of our study. (This is further developed in the aticle on the
Fall Feasts of Israel.
Daniel's 70th week is seven years of 360 days or 7 x 360 = 2520 days.
The seven years we know will be in two halves of 1260 days each.
The latter half, (and the former half too) is variously given to us in Daniel 12, Rev.11, Rev. 12. and Rev. 13 as
1260 days, 42 biblical months or 3.5 biblical years,
(a time, times and half a time).
Daniel's prophecy in chapter 12 vs. 11 mentions a timespan of 1290 days.
Gabriel, the angel of God's throne, told Daniel about this timespan
(which goes out 30 days beyond the final 1260 days of the Great Tribulation). (Daniel 12:11).
This
1290 day timespan apparently incorporate an additional
30 days which are added to the end
of the final 1260 days of Daniel's 70th week.
These extra 30 days go out beyond the termination of the Tribulation.
So how do we characterize the 1260 days and the final 30 days that make 1290 days?
We do know that the 1260 day period finishes the Great Tribulation period.
1260 days/42 Biblical months relates to the trampling of Jerusalem, (Rev.11)
the regime of the
Antichrist, (Rev.13),. The very same 1260 days/3.5 years relates to the Great Tribulation period, (Dan.12)
and the ministry of the two witnesses. (Rev.11)
The same 1260 days/3.5 Biblical year timespan marks out the time period of the
exile and the nurturing of the woman, God's covenant people. The woman takes the wings of a great eagle and flies off
from the face of the dragon to a place prepared for her where she can be nurtured
and fed during this period of the Great Tribulation. (Rev.12:6 and 12:14)
See
Chart 2 over in the Chartroom.
So what is going on in those final 30 days that go out to
1290 days?
There is no question about it. The angel of God's throne, Gabriel, told the prophet Daniel
1290 days.
And we must assume that these 1290 days of Dan.12:11
will terminate on some momentous end-time event.
So we have the covenant signing of
Daniel 9:27.
This opens up into the first half of the 70th week, the
harlot years.
This would be a period of 1260 days since we are told that the prince
will stop the sacrifices and commit the abomination that makes desolate midway through the
7 Biblical years of the 70th week. 7 x 360 = 2520 days divided by 2 = 1260 days.
Then we have the second 1260 days being the years of the Great Tribulation.
Lastly we have the 1260 + 30 = 1290 days that Daniel mentions.
1260 + 1290 = 2550 days. Remember this number of 2550 days.
This is the 2550 days of the final seven years of this age.
Now for the big question.
Do these 2550 days make a perfect accurate fit into the upcoming yet to be fulfilled
Fall Feasts of Israel?
Let is check this out.
If we start with the first day of
the Tishrei moon on a certain year and count the days
til Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement on the 10th day
of the Tishrei moon 7 years later we will end up with a certain number of days.
For those seven year time spans that see 86 moons, (and not 87 moons), (and this is about half the time),
we immediately notice something truly extraordinary.
The time span bridging the next two holy days coming up for fulfillment is a time segment of precisely
2550 days!
You may check this out using the hebcal.com calendar convertor.
This can be crosschecked using our lunar cycles for a measuring rod across various upcoming seven year periods.
Using just the lunar cycles if we wish. Our lunar measuring rod for time is
another way other than using our solar year and calendars.
This feast to feast interval between Trumpets and Atonement seven years later amounts to 86 moons plus 9 days.
And since we know we are dealing with 86 moons
we can also measure out our timespan as 86 moons plus ten days inclusive.
Here is our calculation for the time period bridging the two feasts.
86 lunar cycles + 10 days =
86 x 29.530589 + 10 days =
2539.63 + 10 days =
2550 days (rounded off to the day).
We can also translate the
Hebrew calendar for the feasts and plug the days into our present western
Gregorian calendar. For this I recommend
hebcal.com/convertor,
a very helpful website provided by our Jewish friends.
This is a valuable aide in confirming the
lunar cycles from one Tishrei moon
to the Tishrei moon seven years later.
For example if we look at the
Feast of Trumpets in say the year 2008 we insert our date of Tishrei 1
into the hebcal.com convertor. Out comes September 30th, 2008.
Now we want to know when the
Day of Atonement falls in the fall of the year
7 years later. We plug in our Yom Kippur date
which as we know is always Tishrei 10 and count out seven more years to 2015.
We discover that this Day of Atonement date
is September 23, 2015.
This is 7 solar years (less 7 days)
later. 7 x 365 = 2555 days plus the extra leap year day in 2012
gives us 2556 days. Now we subtract those 7 days from the 2556 days
and we get 2549 days.
This is Extraordinary!
If we make the Feast of Trumpets Day #1.
Then we track forward these 2549 days we come to Day 2550.
And this just happens to be the
Day of Atonement!!
This demonstrates that our 2550 days, (which, as we discussed previously,
was the sum of the 1260 and 1290 days) begins and terminates on two auspicious, yet to be fulfilled Hebrew feast days!
Those feast days just happen to be the next two holy days due to
come up for epic fulfillment in future holy history!
Other upcoming 86 moon Tishrei to Tishrei spans that also fit the 2550 days are.
2011 to 2018
2014 to 2021
For more on this see the article on the
metatonic cycles.
THE LUNAR CYCLES MEASURE OUT THE TIMESPAN BETWEEN THE NEXT TWO FEASTS
(THOSE BEING TRUMPETS AND ATONEMENT). THIS GIVES US A CONFIRMING MEASUREMEMT
OF 2550 DAYS INCLUSIVE. THIS ENCAPSULATES THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL
PLUS THE 30 EXTRA DAYS PERFECTLY.
Let us now go to astronomical data on the lunar cycles. We can do our
calculations from them to tally up the days between the Feast of Trumpets
and the Day of Atonement 7 years later.
This will serve as a crosscheck on what the Hebcal Hebrew Calendar
convertor has already given us.
For seven year timespans beginning in embolismal years,
(that is those years in which an intercalary
second month of Adar has been inserted into the calendar
in the springtime before that), we are looking at 86 moons from the
moon of Tishrei of an embolismal year to the moon of Tishrei
seven years later. Seven years of 12 months gives us 7 x 12 = 84 moons.
So over seven years two extra months of Adar have been added to give us
86 moons. A seven year timespan that sees three embolismal years, (and not just two),
will have a total of 87 moons. 87 moons is too long.
This deserves some further explanation. In the 19 year metatonic cycle
on which the Hebrew calendar is based we see an extra month
needs to be inserted as a second (12th) month of Adar seven
times every 19 years. This is necessary because 12 moons of 29.5 days each
adds up to 354 days. Since a year is 365.2422 days the Passover
month of Nisan will be 365.24 minus 354 = 11.24 days earlier each year.
This 19 year
metatonic cycle is what ended up being seen on a year by year basis.
Since the month of Abib or Nisan is defined as the first full moon after
the spring equinox about every three years, (and occasionally two) the
12th moon of Adar will be so early in the year that the next month,
which might be expected to be the first month of Nisan
will fail to reach the spring equinox. In such cases the rabbis
declared a second month of Adar. This would then bump
the Passover month of Nisan up one moon to enable
it reach the spring equinox.
So as we see, a seven year timespan may have two extra moons
or three extra moons. The Tishreie to Tishrei time span may see 86 moons or 87 moons.
We are interested in those seven year timespans with 86 moons.
The Tishrei to Tishrei timespans
that see 87 moons over seven years will be too long.
They will stretch out beyond the 2550 days, the time
segment of the 70th Week of Daniel with its 30 day extension. As we shall see, the
86 moon plus 9 days timespan is the one that will
fit. This is going to be valuable information for us as we look at the coming years.
THE 2550 DAYS USING THE HEBREW CALENDAR AND LUNAR DATA.
Let us now use the lunar cycles to count out the days between
the next two feasts. Since the present lunar cycle from new moon to new moon is
29.530589 days then our Tishrei to Tishrei timespan when begun on an
embolismal year such as 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011 etc. will give us
a total of 86 x 29.530589 = 2539.63 days from a Tishrei new moon
to another Tishrei new moon seven years later.
Since the Day of Atonement is on the 10th day of the moon and this
is 9 days further along
than Rosh Hoshanah, (which occurs on the 1st day of Tishrei),
then we must add 9 days to our Tishrei to Tishrei span. This will then
give us to our timespan measuring out the number of days
between the Feast of Trumpets in year one and the
Day of Atonement
7 years later.
This will be
2539.6 days + 9 days = 2548.6 or 2549 days.
The all inclusive time span covering both feast days entirely from the very beginning of Trumpets
to the very end of Atonement would be
an extra day or 2550 days
This is very interesting.
Remember we are looking at a timespan of 1260 + 1290 = 2550 days
from the start of the
70th week of Daniel to its end along with an extra 30 days.
must be inserted at the end
of the two 1260 day halves of the 70th week.
This would explain the 1290 days mentioned by Daniel in Dan. 12:11.
So our timeline would be
1260 + 1260 +30 = 2550 days.
When we start with a Feast of Trumpets and call that 'day one'
and then track forward in time 2549 days we come to 'day 2550'. This day 2550
of our 70th week + 30 day timeline just happens to rest right on the
Day of Atonement!
This is truly amazing!
I have not read of any Bible teacher or commentator
having noticed this possible connection of the 70th week to the
Fall Feasts of Israel.
This would seem to provide fairly convincing evidence that an epic future
Rosh Hashanah or Feast of Trumpets will open up the
70th week of Daniel. The feast following this,
the
Day of Atonement, may well be the final holy event of this present era and will
in fact go out 30 days beyond the 70th Week to close up this age.
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
The feast that follows the Day of Atonement will be the Feast of Tabernacles.
It will be a much happier one than were these two former
Fall Feasts.
Tabernacles will bring this world and its remaining people on into an era beyond this present evil age.
It will come after the awesome
Day of the Lord. During this hidden period of time,
Messiah will judge the wicked as tares (Mat.13:30) and then turn to deliver and glorify His saints
The combined Resurrection-Rapture (1Thes.4:15-17) will be an awesome and unprecedented event.
All the saints from both sides of Calvary will come into the glory.
They will be transformed to emerge with new resurrected celestial bodies.
Their new spiritual bodies are to be
patterned after the resurrected body in which Jesus appeared after His
Resurrection.
During those 40 days, before He ascended into heaven, Jesus appeared to His disciples numerous times .
He turned up walking with them at Emmaus. He walked through walls into the upper room.
And He cooked fish by the seashore for Peter and the other disciples when they came in from fishing.
Thomas doubted that the resurrected body of Jesus was real.
He thought they had just seen a ghost. But when Thomas felt the wounds in the body of Jesus he
found that he was touching a solid body with mass and substance. And so he believed.
The glorified saints will have a body similar to the one Thomas felt.
They will be able to travel through walls and through space very quickly to appear where they are needed.
And so they will minister under Messiah during the Millennium. (Rev.20:4-6)
So the 7th feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, will be happy and joyful occasion for the saints and for the
remaining mortals who stand upon this earth. At last they will be a under the righteous rule of Messish.
He will usher this world and its surviving mortals into that glorious age spoken of by the prophets.
The earth and this cosmos will rejoice in that day.
God's creation, and the ecosytems will be restored. Streams will break forth in the dry places
and flowers will bloom in the desert.
Bible believing Christians
have long believed that the Feast of Tabernacles celebrates our God who comes down to fellowship and to camp out with His people.
And many believe that this feast, Tishrei 15-21 in some future year,
will mark the innauguration of the
Millennium of Messiah.
THE GREAT FUTURE EVENT THAT WILL BE USHERED IN
BY THE BLOWING OF TRUMPETS ON A FUTURE ROSH HASHANAH
As we have seen, the 70th Week of Daniel begins on the
day that the 7 year covenant
of Daniel 9:27 is signed. This is the next big event in holy history.
So is the Feast of Trumpets. It is the next feast to unfold into history.
So might the two go together?
Let us pause and think for a moment.
If the worldly powers are seeking an auspicious day
for the signing of their 7 year covenant with the global peacemaker
then the Feast of Trumpets at Rosh Hoshanah
('head of the year'), would be such a day would it not?
What better day could there be?
For them, the trumpets would be announcing and celebrating
their new 7 year global regime.
The occasion of blowing of trumpets certainly fits the occasion for
at epic future
New World Order covenant signing with Israel.
And a Hebrew new year celebration, the only feast carried out on a dark and moonless night,
might be wayward Israel's gift to her
new consort and sovereignty.
So we need to keep this possiblility in mind.
There are some good reasons to believe that the terminus of the Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East
and the signing of the
7 year treaty with the global peacemaker will probably occur on some future Rosh Hoshanah.
That day will certainly be marked by a blowing of trumpets.
It will be an epic day of alarm for the people of God, of that we can be sure.
For the saints of God the trumpets will be sounding out an alarm.
The shofars will be sonding, calling God's people to fast and pray and gather to assembly.
As we know from this pivotal and much hated verse Dan.9:27,
the signing of this 7 year covenant is a blockbuster future event.
It sets the clock ticking into
Daniel's 70th week and the final seven years of this age.
OUR RESPONSE AS THE TRUMPETS BEGIN TO SOUND,
AND THE TAKING UP OF THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. <
When the trumpets sound in that future time the saints will respond.
But the response and action called for in that cataclysmic future time
will not be a call to war.
The response will be
on a higher plane than we have ever seen before in the nation of Israel
or in the nations of Christendom.
In that day the call will go out for God's covenant people to
return to the eternal covenant with YHVH-God and to seek His face.
The saints will enter into a campaign of holy and positive witness.
The sword and the gun will have no part to play in the victory that will come out of all this.
(See Dan. 7 and Dan 12, and Rev.13)
The saints will be
taking up the 'Sword of the Spirit'
which is the Word of God.
True saints will
operate in the realm of
spiritual warfare rather than earthly military warfare.
And even in a day of thick darkness they will 'rise and shine'. - Isa.60
THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL.
Our Apostle Paul brings us a similar warning about taking up the sword in a time that clearly calls for gracious witness.
He says,
"The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God,
for the pulling down of strongholds". - 2Cor.10:4
As Christian believers today our
first order of business before God in a time of crisis
is to respond to Him in holiness and with a clear conscience.
We are to respond in faith before God rather than responding in fear
before the circumstances.
For us the blowing of the trumpet is a call to assemble before God Almighty.
He is the One who will give us our instructions in that day.
No one else qualifies.
Dear saints, we must understand something of church-state politic here.
To see the whole church to break the habit of 17 centuries will be
highly unlikely.
Since 325 A.D. and the
Council of Nicea the established Christian church
has sought out and taken the
protection offered by the sword of earthly secular princes.
But when that big crisis up ahead erupts into history
it will be different. It will be an unthinkable compromise
for God's elect to sign onto that Dan.9:27 deal.
Others may do it to then be drawn down the garden path on into deeper harlotry.
But we cannot do this.
Thus begins the first 3.5 years of the endtime drama.
The persecutions during those early years,
will not come from the Antichrist.
As we have seen before in post-Nicean church history the persecution
will come from inside the church.
Yes, it will continue the pattern of the centuries past.
The persecutions that are unleashed upon uncompromised Christians comes from compromised Christians.
Pagans are not our problem.
It is compromised fellow Christians of the
harlot church who stoop down and bring the grief to the saints.
This is an old repeated pattern. (Rev.17:6).
This is sad, but true. Christian history gives an abundance of evidence
of this. Church persecution will be a feature of the first half of the 7 years.
These are the three and a half years before the 'abomination of desolation'.
The peacemaking antichrist will undergo a character change to become the 666 Beast
Right there in the middle of those 7 years the Antichrist will be revealed. -Dan.9:27b
AWESOME TIMES ARE UP AHEAD. OUR GOD IS NOT SILENT.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL CALLS HIS PEOPLE BACK TO THE COVENANT
In all of this our God will be taking an active role in world history.
The Holy One of Israel will be 'calling His people out'.
We are called to bring forth the witness of Messiah and to walk in holiness.
The trumpets will be calling us to assembly and to attention.
In that coming day the trumpets will be summoning us to lay down all the covenants we have made
with this world and to fully and totally embrace Christ's Kingdom.
When the Daniel 9:27 covenant is confirmed and that
awesome future time in holy history we simply cannot enter into this 7 year covenant with the
political or religious princes of this world.
Certainly not when we know just how that covenant will be broken by the other party 3.5 years later.
The prophet daniel tells us what will happen. (Dan.9:27b) At the midpoint of those
seven years he will
stop the daily sacrifices and commit the 'abomination that makes desolate.
The peacemaker will no longer be Mr. Niceguy. The
restrainer will be taken out of the way. (2Thes 2:6)
And the world leader will be possessed by the Beast demon of the bottomless pit. (Rev.17:11)
And so at the midpoint of the seven years he will undergo a character change to
be revealed as the 666 Beast Antichrist. (Rev. 13)
As we have seen, that epic future Feast of Trumpets will come into its New Covenant fulfillment.
The people of God will be summoned to sacred assembly.
They will be called by the God of Israel to attend to some covenant business
of extreme importance.
The burning issues which necessitate this
sacred assembly of God's 'ekklesia' or 'called out congregation'
will be of an intensely spiritual nature.
This also involves ou political allegiances.
God is calling people into His Kingdom.
Quite clearly many of the kings and rulers do not like this one bit. (See King David's song in Psalm 2).
But they will have to get over it or be swept aside. Because Messiah is coming!
Ah, politics. The trumpets are proclaining a new king, even the coming Messiah.
He is the prophesied future King of Kings. The principalities and powers
pull the strings of high government officials. They know what this announcement means for them.
It means their doom.
So they do not like this announcing of the Kingdom of Messiah one bit.
Is this is why we have
not yet heard the 'rest of the story' of this Feast of Trumpets?
Is this just too sensitive to teach from a pulpit set up right next to a national flag?
Since the Council of Nicea the church has been deeply involved and
compromised with the secular princes and powers of this world.
The event which triggers the Feast of Trumpets and the summons
the Jewish nation and the Christian church to holy assembly
will be a momentous event. It will be a
earthshattering upheaval of the whole church-state accord
which we have lived under for 1700 years.
What will happen to the church on this awesome day of decision?
We might well expect to see the church split up again
into those same three factions that are seen in every crisis in church history.
The three church factions will be
1. A continuing compromised harlot church
described by John as the
'Whore of Babylon'.
She is destined for destruction. -Rev.17 & 18
2. A warring raging nationalistic church allying with
patriots and 'freedom fighters' in the nations.
This movement will be crushed. (Dan. 7:21&25, Dan.12:7, Rev.13:7-9)
3. A separated and holy witnessing pilgrim church,
some of its members dying in the witness, and
often seen migrating or
exiled to places afar. (Rev.12:6)
The
Fall Feasts will see the unfolding of the final histories of this age.
This world and the Christian church as we know it today will
be changed forever. It will never be the same.
This is why Biblical information on the coming epic Feast of Trumpets
has been 'cloaked' by the ecclesiastical powers.
The real story has been hidden. It has been hidden for good political
and ecclesiastical reasons. Why is this so?
The church and Christendom generally is carnal and unruly.
It is inclined to take up the sword. It is wont to go crusading when facing
a spiritual challenge.
It also has a very poor record
of grace and patience under trial.
But as we approach the endtime drama
the faithful and devoted Christian believers will be there.
And they will go up onto the stage of human history,
in the days when the 5th seal is opened.
They will be going up to witness before kings and princes. (Mark 13:9)
So the saints have reason to know what is going on.
There is an
information war going on.
The saints deserve to know God's truth. They
need to have a full understanding of what their purpose will
be.
It seems that in these spellbinding future times they will be the ones who will on the stage of holy history.
They will bring in the epic 'final witness'
before the Ancient of Days and before the courts of heaven.
Then the Word will be given.
And Messiah will return.
RELIGIOUS SMOKESCREENS HIDE THE REAL STORY OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS.
If what we have said about the coming Feast of Trumpets is correct
and is truly the case then why have we not heard of it before?
And what sort of religious smokescreens
have been put up to obscure the real story of the Feast of Trumpets?
For most of the older denominations this is a moot point.
Since they believe all the covenants with Israel have been
transcended and swallowed up in the church these studies of the seven feasts
of Israel do not
