7angels
could you explain these for me please so i know how they apply?
I'm not sure what more you want me to say. You already quoted me giving the bare bones of it:
The spring feasts (Passover, Unleavend bread and First fruits) are prophetic of Jesus' first coming, his sacrifice, his sinlessness and his resurrection. The feast of weeks (Pentecost) is prophetic of the founding of the church. The autumn feasts are prophetic of the events of the last days.
First is the feast of Trumpets; this is prophetic of the rapture of the church. The final long trumpet blast of this day was called the last trumpet, and it is this, not the 7th trumpet of Revelation, that Paul is referring to in 1 Corinthians 15.
The day of Atonement is prophetic of Israel's repentance and restoration.
The feast of tabernacles is prophetic of God in Christ' and his finally dwelling among his redeemed people.
The Spring feasts should be uncontroversial, I hope. They commence at the beginning of the barley harvest.
Passover (Pesach) was instituted as a memorial of the first Passover (Exodus 12). Each household was to take a lamb and kill it "between the evenings" (v 6) on the 14th of Abib, which was now made the first month of the year. The blood of the lamb was to be daubed on the doorposts and lintel of the house, and everyone was to stay inside the house, so that the destroying angel should see the blood and pass over that house. In every house in Egypt, where there was no blood, the first-born son died. The lamb was to be roasted and eaten that night, and anything left over was to be burnt up. It was to be eaten with herbs and unleavened bread, and all leaven was to be removed from the house.
Passover prefigures the death of Jesus as the substitute for us, when he paid the penalty of our sin on the cross. In Genesis 22 we read how Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but that at the last moment God showed him a ram caught in a thicket, which he sacrificed instead. The lamb stands for Jesus, who is the substitute, dying in our place.
The blood splashed on the doorposts and lintel indicate that the household has deliberately taken shelter under the blood. In order to be saved we have to come into the house; similarly Noah was brought into the ark and sealed up in it. Similarly , at the rapture, the church will be taken into the bridal chamber in heaven while destruction comes on the earth. Anyone who is outside suffers God's wrath.
The lamb was to be entirely consumed that night; Jesus paid the full price and poured out his life as an offering for sin; indeed, he was made sin for us. (2 Cor 5:21; John 3:14; Numbers 21:9) The sin offering was entirely burnt up. (Ex 29:13-14; Lev 4:8-12)
In the bible, leaven stands for sin, which puffs the sinner up with pride. All leaven had to be removed from the house, and this prefigures the sinless perfection of Jesus, who knew no sin. The Passover leads straight into the next feast.
The feast of unleavened bread continues for 7 days after the Passover and continues to prefigure the sinless perfection of Jesus, as well as the fact that his righteousness is made available to us. It commemorates the Exodus, when the Israelites had no time to let their bread rise when they left Egypt, but had to bundle up their unleavened dough and set out. Anyone who eats leaven during the feast is to be cut off from his people, which prefigures the total absence of sin among the redeemed. This will be fulfilled for Israel after the Lord returns and implements the promise of Jer 31:31, but the church can share in it now to the extent that we walk in the Spirit, and we will share in it fully at the rapture, when we will be completely freed from sin. ...
when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
On the first day of the week after the first sabbath after Passover is
the feast of first fruits. (Lev 23:10-14) Here, the Israelites were to offer the very first sheaf of the harvest to the Lord. By the first century this had become a ritual carried out by the high priest, who ceremonially cut a sheaf and then presented it in the temple on that Sunday morning. This prefigures Jesus as the very first man to be resurrected. At the time that the high priest presented his sheaf in the temple, Jesus ascended to the Father to present himself as the first fruits of the harvest of the resurrection. That was why he said to Mary Magdalene,
"Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father" (John 20:17) but afterwards allowed his disciples to touch him. The first fruit had to be offered in order for the people to be accepted. (Lev 23:11)
Since they are contiguous, these three feasts are collectively known either as Passover or as Unleavened Bread.
The last Spring feast comes at the time of the wheat harvest, and occurs 7 weeks after the sabbath after Passover. (Lev 23:15-21) Hence it is called the
Feast of Weeks (Shavuot). This was the feast at which God sent his Spirit in power on his church (Acts 2). This feast prefigures the church. Notably, this is the only sacrifice that includes leaven, and two leavened loaves are to be offered. This prefigures the uniting of Jew and Gentile in the church; it also prefigures our state in this dispensation, having the Holy Spirit indwelling us but also still having the sin nature. Part of the ceremony in Jesus' time was that on the last day of the feast the priests would process down to the pool of Siloam and bring back water to pour out on the altar. Jesus upstaged this:
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:37-39) At Pentecost, this promise was fulfilled for the believers.
In the autumn, after all the harvest is complete, come the three Autumn feasts. As the major events of Jesus first coming, his death and resurrection and the creation of the church, were prefigured by the Spring feasts, we should expect the events of his second coming to be prefigured by the Autumn feasts. There are three of these, making up the seven that signifies completeness.
On the first day of the seventh month is
the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah). This day is also the first day of the civil year, and is thought to be the day of creation, So this feast is also the Jewish new year's day: Rosh HaShanah. On this day there is a blast of trumpets. In fact, there are many blasts, but they conclude with a blast as long as the trumpeter can last, which is called the Great Trumpet, or the Last Trumpet. This is what Paul refers to in 1 Corinthians 15:51-54
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
This is clearly the same event as is described in 1 Thess 4:12-18
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
As this event is the first of the autumn feasts, it prefigures the first event of the second coming, the rapture of the church. The church is a new creation; on this new year's day, the anniversary of creation, we take on the full glory of that new creation, for we will be free of sin for ever and for ever be with the Lord.
On the 10th of the month comes
the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). This is the day when Israel must fast in token of repentance. Two goats are prepared and symbolically the sins of Israel are placed on one chosen by lot. (Lev 16:21) This is the scapegoat, which is driven out into the wilderness. The other is sacrificed.
“And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins. It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever...And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” (Lev 16:29-31,34)
Israel must afflict themselves. This prefigures the fulfilment of the following prophecy:
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves. (Zechariah 12:14)
which will occur when Jesus returns, as the leaders of Israel will finally ask him to do.
Finally, on the fifteenth of the seventh month, comes the
Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth). (Lev 23:33-36,39-43) This commemorates the Israelites' dwelling in booths or tents during their wandering in the wilderness. It is also the time when the release of debts in the sabbatical year was to happen (Deut 31:10)
Associated with this feast is Psalm 118:
Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them
and give thanks to the LORD.
This is the gate of the LORD;
the righteous shall enter through it.
I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This is the LORD's doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day that the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Save us, we pray, O LORD!
O LORD, we pray, give us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!
We bless you from the house of the LORD.
The LORD is God,
and he has made his light to shine upon us.
Bind the festal sacrifice with cords,
up to the horns of the altar!
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!
(Ps 118:19-29)
This is the Messianic psalm that the crowds quoted on Palm Sunday as Jesus rode into Jerusalem:
And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”. (Matt 21:9, quoting Ps 118:25-26) But their timing was out; the Psalm was traditionally sung at the Feast of Tabernacles, rather than at Passover These are the words that the leaders of Israel must say to welcome Jesus as their Messiah at his return.
From the fact that Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, was in the priestly division of Abijah we may conclude that he was serving in the fifteenth and sixteenth week of the year. (1 Chron 24:10) That would be around the middle to end of July, depending on the time of the new moon at the start of the first month, Abib. Assuming his wife conceived after that, and Jesus was 6 months younger than John, Jesus' birth would be 15 months later, around the time of the Feast of Tabernacles; so in his first coming he "tabernacled among us" (John 1:14). In his second coming he will be established as king Messiah in Jerusalem, living in the midst of his redeemed people.
Then the temporary dwellings that the Israelites had in the desert and which are currently commemorated by this feast will be transformed into permanent secure dwellings, because the Lord himself will be living among them as their king. In the millennium, the nations will be obliged to come to Jerusalem for this feast, but none of the others. (Zechariah 14:16-19) The feast will then be to celebrate the king's presence dwelling among them and the fact that all of Israel will be holy (Zech 14:20-21). The sabbatical year will have come and all debts released, for God forgives us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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Retrobyter
Your focus on the indwelling of the Ruach haQodesh Elohiym (the Holy Spirit of God) is insufficient to divide these peoples! In fact, the "MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION IS BROKEN DOWN" between them within the Messiah! It is only OUTSIDE of the Messiah that Isra'el and the Gentiles are separate groups of people!
But the church is something new, neither Jew not Gentile but the union of both in Christ. Only those baptised are made one in Christ:
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
(Gal 3:27-28)
and made to drink of the one Spirit:
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
(1 Cor 12:13)
Once the church is removed, those who are left who repent and believe in the Lord will no longer be incorporated into the church, because the church will not be there.
Dispensationalism, which is different than the pretribulational rapturist point of view in particular but often goes hand in hand with it, is an error! God has NEVER dealt with human beings in different ways after the Fall! They (We) have always been "saved" (or rather, "justified by God") on the basis of His grace, through faith, and by blood! Nothing else would do! So, there's no such thing as a "dispensation of grace" versus a "dispensation of the Law (the TORAH)!" The ONLY difference is that they were looking forward to the Messiah while we look backward to the Messiah and know His name is Yeshua` Natsaret, haMashiach Elohiym l-Melekh Yehudiym, l-Melekh Yisra'el, l-Melekh haMlakhiym! Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah of God to be King of the Jews, to be King of Isra'el, to be King of Kings!
I don't dispute that. Certainly no one can be saved except through the blood of Christ and the grace of God. But dispensationalism is not about a different way of being saved, as if Israel could be saved by the law, but about the different roles and course of life set out for the church, for Israel, and also for the Gentiles who will be converted after the church has been removed. The church's role is to be the bride of Christ; Israel's role, after their national repentance, is to be chief of the nations on earth. The Gentiles converted after the removal of the church will either be separately martyred and raised to reign with Christ or else will enter the millennial kingdom as the Gentile nations. All will be saved through the blood of the Lamb, but they will not all have the same course of life after that.
Thus, it is GENTILE BELIEVERS (to which most refer as the "church") who are given the shot of being added to His Kingdom! The Isra'elites merely must have the "blinders" removed! Once they can see that Yeshua` haMashiach is THEIR PROMISED MESSIAH, everything falls into place for them! It will be GENTILE believers who must re-learn what they think they know when the time of Resurrection, Transformation, and "Rapture" comes and we fly off with the Messiah - not to "heaven," but THROUGH the "heavens" - THROUGH the skies - TO ISRA'EL as the Messiah arrives for the Rescue
Can you give any scripture to back that up? What I see is Jesus' promise:
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Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." (John 14:1-3)
That means he is currently preparing those rooms in heaven, not on earth, and will take us to be with him there.
Also this is a possible hint of the rapture:
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.
(Isaiah 26:20-21)
Surely those chambers are ther rooms that Jesus is preparing.
and the time of His Kingdom (which shall NEVER end, not just for a thousand years) begins!
The thousand years are mentioned 6 times in Revelation 20. At the end of them:
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
(1 Corinthians 15:24-28)
The Millennium is just the time haSatan ("the Enemy" in Hebrew) is incarcerated in the bottomless pit! And, it is DURING the Millennium in which the parables of Matthew 13 will be fulfilled.
No, I can't agree with that. These parables are about the church age. Especially, the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven speak of the evil that is in the church during this current age.