Teachinghearts	Salvation in The Feasts of Israel The Gospel Schedule. "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Lesson 7a: Time: 120 minutes Print: 23 pages

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Leviticus 23

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, about the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons. Leviticus 23: 1-4 (KJV)
The great Feasts of Israel occurred during seven months from the first feast on Passover to the last feast on Tabernacles. Through the Feast System, God symbolically provided a prophetic picture of His plan of salvation in history. The feasts also specify the work of His indestructible High Priest as the only intercessor for mankind. The Messiah, the Anointed One is the anointed High Priest.

When we look on the ancient festival system, and understand it and the symbolism behind it as a prophecy, we can gain additional insight and appreciation for the magnificence of God's plan for mankind, and for the significance of His Holy Word to us today.
For whatsoever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15: 4)

• The Sabbath. In giving these sacred festivals, the first thing the LORD mentions is The Sabbath. In doing this He links the ten commandments to the ceremonial laws. It is through the fulfillment of the ceremonial laws that God would bring back the laws into our hearts and give us rest from sin. Therefore, these festivals were a time of celebration.
• The Seasons. The feasts were built around the idea of seasons and harvests as signs for His people. So, the Sabbaths and the new moons are critical markers in time. They will to be celebrated in the new earth.
  'And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. (Genesis 1: 14)
  The spring festivals pointed to events connected to the First Coming of Christ. The autumn festivals and the Sabbaths of the seventh month pointed to events connected to the Second Coming of Christ.

Three Great Pilgrimage Feasts of Israel
Three times each year the people were required to go to Jerusalem. It represented the three times that the members of the Godhead go to earth with Jesus to fulfill a portion of the Plan of Salvation and gather the harvest.
Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. Three times a year all your males should appear before the Lord. (Exodus 23: 14, 17)

• Passover (Pesach) - The Journey of Jesus the Messiah.
  Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you from out of Egypt by night. (Deuteronomy 16: 1)
  Passover occurred on the fourteenth day, first month. This is the month of Abib (Nissan) which was the beginning of their sacred year. It celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, the land of slavery. It also celebrates the deliverance of the world from sin when Jesus died during Passover.
  This month shall be for you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house. And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Exodus 12: 2-3, 6)
• Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) (Shavuot or Shavu'ot) - The Journey of the Holy Spirit.

  Three Great Harvests The three great feasts centered around the three great harvests of Israel. They also correspond to three great actions of the members of the Trinity for the church. » Passover. The Barley Harvest. Jesus Christ, the Messiah is sacrificed. » Pentecost. The Wheat Harvest. The Holy Spirit comes to be with the church while they are on earth and He writes the law in our hearts. » Tabernacles. The Fruit Harvest. We dwell with the Father in heaven. He gives us new bodies and a new home. This is also the fruit harvest. It is the work of the Holy Spirit who comes at Pentecost to produce the fruits of the Spirit in every believer. This fruit is harvested at this time.

  
  And you shall count to you from the morning after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even to the morning after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD. (Leviticus 23: 15-16)
  According to Jewish tradition Shavout, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost marks the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai on tables of stone. It began fifty days after the wave sheaf. It also marked the giving of the Holy Spirit to the church on the day of Pentecost to write the law on flesh (in our hearts).
• Tabernacles (Succos) - The Journey of God, The Father.
  It occurred for seven days during the autumn harvest on the seventh month of the year (Tishri) starting on the fifteenth day. It celebrated the time when Israel lived with God. Each of the other two feasts ends with a promise of Tabernacles. The fourth cup of Passover, which is God's promise to take us, is a prayer for the "fruit of the vine" when we will be taken at the Second Coming harvest. Pentecost is the fulfillment of the promise to give us the fruit of the Spirit.

Fulfillment of the Spring Festivals
The spring feasts show how God acted to remove sin from the land and fulfill His covenant to us. He removes the penalty of sin by providing a permanent offering. He removes the consequence by defeating death and proving the resurrection. He removes the desire to sin by writing His laws into our hearts with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Our Intercessor Passover Crucifixion Lamb Jesus Christ Jesus dies for our sins

Passover (Crucifixion and Exodus)
In the Passover ceremony God removes sin and the penalty of sin from the land.
Passover. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD'S Passover.
Unleavened Bread. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work." (Leviticus 23: 5-8)
The death of Jesus Christ during Passover, fulfilled the events that this festival symbolized for hundreds of years.

• Passover (Nisan 14). In the original Passover, the death angel avoided the homes of the people who had the blood of a lamb on their doors. But the firstborn and the rest of Egypt were killed. The death of Christ ended the sentence of death on the children of Adam.
  The Lamb of God. The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world". (John 1: 29)
  Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end. (John 13: 1)
• Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15-21). In this period they ate unleavened bread. Bread represents the body and leaven is a symbol of sin because Satan was "puffed up" with pride just as leaven causes bread to rise. So during Passover, sin would be removed from the land. The first day of the feast was a Sabbath of rest. This represents Jesus in the grave. The Bread of Life was broken and dead.
• Barley Harvest. This harvest was gathered at this time. It is the first fruits from the dead earth. It is the resurrection of Jesus with others.

Month	S	M	T	W	Th	F	Sabbath
Nisan	-	-	-	-	-	-
	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
			11	12	13
		17	18	19	20		22
	Jesus is inaugurated as High Priest
		24	25	26	27	28	29
Iyar	30		2	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	14	15	16	17		19
	21	22	23	24		26	27
Sivan	28	29	1	2	3	4	5
	Disciples inaugurated as priests
		7	8	9	10	11	12
	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
	27	28	29	30	1	2	3
Tamuz	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
		26	27	28	29	1	2
Ab	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Elul	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
		16	17	18	19	20	21
	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Tishri	29	1	2	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9		11	12	13
	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
	28	29	30	-	-	-	-

Passover was the beginning of the exodus for the Jews to the Promised Land and it was also the exodus of Jesus from earth.
The Transfiguration. And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his clothes was white and glistening. And, look, there two men talked with him, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory, and spoke of His departure [exodus] which He should accomplish at Jerusalem. (Luke 9: 28-31)
There are two points to note in this story.

• The word "departure" is "EXODOS" in the Greek. So Jesus began an exodus journey when He officially became the Passover Lamb. The exodus would bring Him to Heaven, the ultimate Promised Land. The lesson on the twelve tribes describes this exodus.
• Moses symbolized the resurrected dead, while Elijah symbolized the translated living. The exodus would begin an exodus of the righteous living and the dead to heaven with the message of these two men.

Wave Sheaf - Feast of First Fruits (Resurrection)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD. Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine. Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. (Leviticus 23: 9-14)
The wavesheaf is the harvest that was gathered in bundles and presented as an offering of the firstfruits from the new harvest. In the wavesheaf God proved that He could defeat death and give eternal life. The First Fruits of the barley harvest from the ground were to be dedicated to God. The barley harvest that was gathered at Passover represents the first fruits from the dead earth. At His resurrection, other people were resurrected with Him. They all became the first fruits.
Jesus was not the first person to be resurrected. But it was the best and the first significant resurrection.
That the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26: 23)

Three Days And Nights.
Christ had to fulfill many laws in three days to become an acceptable offering. The laws were prophecies that were designed to reflect what would happen to Him. They may even be instructions from the past to guide His decisions.

Three Days Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Night 1 Day 1 Night 2 Day 2 Night 3 Day 3 Nissan 14 Nissan 15 Nissan 16 Passover Lamb Killed Sabbath Wavesheaf Ordination Thanksgiving Free Will Suffering Dead, Buried Resurrected Roast, Boil, Eat Swallow Vomit Jesus in the Bowels A high Sabbath is the merging of two Sabbaths. The Sabbath of a feast day occurs on the weekly Sabbath (sunset Friday to sunset Saturday).

• Wavesheaf. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. (Leviticus 23: 11).
  The wavesheaf must be offered the day after the Sabbath. Since Nisan 15, the day after the Passover lamb was killed, was also a Sabbath that could occur any day of the week, two Jewish traditions have developed about this feast. Is this Sabbath, the first weekly seventh day Sabbath after Passover or is it Nissan 15, the day after the Passover lamb was killed.
  Jesus resolved this issue by dying on a Friday. Both Nissan 15 and the weekly Sabbath occurred on the same day. It was a high Sabbath.
  So the wave sheaf was the resurrection on Sunday.
• Age of the Peace Offering (Three Days). But what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings shall ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing, and the person who eats it will bear his own iniquity. (Leviticus 7: 17-18)
  » Peace Offerings. Any offering kept longer than three days was unacceptable. Free will offerings must be eaten in three days. Thanksgiving offerings are eaten the first day.
  
  » Passover (Buried First Day). You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, Nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover to be left over until morning. (Exodus 34: 25)
  Since Jesus became all these offerings He had to meet all requirements. After being killed as the Passover Lamb He was buried the same day, before the next morning. He was not hung on the cross for days. He must wait for one Sabbath to be a wavesheaf offering. And He presented Himself as the wave offering within three days.
  
  » Ordination Ram (One Day). You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
  If any of the flesh of ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten because it is holy. (Exodus 29: 31,34)
  Jesus was also the ram of ordination. He had to be buried before the morning. His body could not remain on the cross overnight. At His resurrection He would present Himself as the offering in His own ordination ceremony.
• In the Bowels. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12: 40)
  He prophesied that He would be "in the bowels or the heart of the earth" for only three days. We have always assumed that this phrase means physically buried. But we do not know. Jesus began to be tortured and beaten on that Thursday night. His time in the bowels must include this time from the moment of His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane when His blood first started to pour out. From that moment, He began the suffering that Jonah experienced. When He became the offering, He suffered for three days. And within that time, when He became the sin offering, He suffered for three hours.
  In the bowels also means in the body. This includes the mouth. Therefore, this is how Jesus was represented by the animal who chews the cud.
  • Boiled and Chewed. Jesus was the offering that was boiled, roasted and chewed up by the mouth as they spit on Him and hurled insults at Him.
  • Swallowed. He was eaten or swallowed on His burial into the bowels of the earth.
  • Vomit. He was vomited or regurgitated at His resurrection. This included His ascension to Heaven, not just His resurrection from the grave. He would escape not only from the grave but from the planet earth.

Counting the Omer
You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD. (Leviticus 23: 15-16)
You shall count for yourselves seven weeks, from when the sickle is first put to the standing crop shall you begin counting seven weeks. Then you will observe the Feast of Weeks [Shavu'ot] for the LORD, your God. (Deuteronomy 16: 9-10)
This is the forty nine days between Passover and shavout. The Jews called it "counting the omer". An omer is a measure of barley. The counting begins on the day after the Sabbath after the Passover. They brought barley the size of an omer to the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering. Then fifty days later they brought the first offering of the new wheat harvest. The counting reminds them of the link between Passover and Shavout. When they were freed from slavery to when they were given the law on Sinai. In the Christian era, this marks the period from the crucifixion of the lamb of God and our freedom from slavery to sin, to when we would be given the Holy Spirit who would write the law of God in our hearts. Since Christ played both the role of the Lamb and the Priest, He would be inaugurated as the new High Priest with His own blood as the sacrifice under the new covenant during this period.

Thursday Night	Friday Nissan 14	Saturday Nissan 15	Sunday Nissan 16	49 days									Sunday Sivan 6 (Day 50)
				Day 1		7	8	Day 33		40		49
Passover (Pesach)		Sabbath	Wave sheaf		Counting the Omer (49 days)								Pentecost (Shavuot)
Meal	Crucifixion	Resting in the grave	Resurrection		Inauguration				Lag B'Omer			-		Holy Spirit
				(7 Days)			(33 Days)				(10 days)

Lag B'Omer ("Day 33 of Counting the Omer"). Lag B'Omer is celebrated on day 33 as a minor holiday during this period. Normally the 49 days are a time of partial mourning, but they are required to take this day as a day of joy and cease mourning.
It is celebrated as an outdoor festival with a picnic and a bonfire and other traditions added after Christ. The Jews have lost the reason why they do this, and they have added other traditions to commemmorate an important event during the Bar Kochba revolution in 132 A.D. when a plague that killed 24,000 students ended on this day.

• ("Day 1"). Nisan 16: Jesus Appears to Mary: ("Resurrection"). The resurrected ones were the barley harvest.
  Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. ... When she said this she turned and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. (John 20: 1, 14)
• ("Day 1"). Nisan 16: Jesus Appears to the Disciples: ("Before His Inauguration"). Then Jesus went to heaven.
  So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you". (John 20: 19)
• ("Day 8"). Nisan 23: Jesus Appears to the Disciples: ("After His Inauguration"). Jesus was not seen for seven days and then appeared on the eighth day. He was being inaugurated as the permanent High Priest at the temple in heaven. The service requires the priest to stay at the temple for seven days, then the Lord will appear on the eighth day. The LORD Jesus appeared to His disciples on the eighth day after His own inauguration began.
  After eight days His disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said "Peace be with you". (John 20: 26)
• ("Day 33"). Iyar 18: Jesus Appears to the Disciples: ("At the Sea of Tiberias"). He had an outdoor picnic with a fire with the disciples. These are the traditions of the Lag B'Omer as celebrated by the Jews.
  Outdoor Meeting. But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus
  Bonfire. So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it and bread.
  Picnic. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast". None of the disciples ventured to question Him, "Who are You?" knowing that it was the Lord. This is now the third time that Jesus manifested to the disciples after He was raised from the dead. (John 21: 4, 9, 12, 14)
  The dates of His other appearances can be calculated, but we have to guess about this one. So far, this is the only time that He met them outdoors. And He had a fire and picnic prepared.
  This number 33 has several important connections.
  • 33 Days On Earth. After spending 7 days in Heaven, He spent 33 days on earth after His ascension. This was prophesied in a blessing to Asher. Jesus walks the earth freely for the number of days of His age.
    And according to your days, so will your leisurely walk be. (Deuteronomy 33: 24-25)
  • 33 Days to Lag B'Omer. He appeared to the disciples 33 days after His resurrection for a picnic.
  • 33 Days to Cleanse a Woman. After the birth of a Son, the woman (church) must wait an additional 33 days after waiting 7 days for His circumcision.
    • Child Joins the Covenant (7 Days). Jesus became our official high priest.
    • Woman Cleansed (33 Days). The disciples were given their final instructions.
  • 33 Years Old. Jesus was 33 years old when He died. His death cleansed the world from sin.
  So the holiday represents an oasis in time between Passover and Pentecost. It is the moment when we can stop our mourning and celebrate with the Lord the fact that we have been cleansed from sin and death.
• ("Day 40"). Iyar 25: Jesus Leaves the Disciples: ("Rapture"). He was seen for forty days after His resurrection.
  until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1: 2-3)
• ("Day 50"). Sivan 6: The Holy Spirit Comes: ("Shavu'ot or Pentecost "). The wheat harvest.

The Cosmic Lag B'Omer
This follows a time pattern for the appearance of the Messiah in a 6000 year cycle. The history of the world is the time of mourning bewteen sin and salvation when the law of God is written in the heart by the Holy Spirit. Lag B'Omer is day 33, the time two thirds of the way through the period of mourning and fasting when we rejoice because the Messiah is here. Jesus came around the year 4000, two thirds of the way through 6000 years. He died at age 33 on the cosmic day 33 after 3 days of suffering.

• Passover (1). Christ is the Lamb that was slain at the foundation of the world.
• Lag B'Omer (33). The Messiah appears two thirds of the way through the time of mourning. During this joyous time the custom is to cease fasting and have weddings.
  Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" And Jesus said to them, "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast". (Matthew 9: 14-15)
  Jesus' first miracle was to make wine for a wedding. As the Bridegroom, He would give His blood for the bride.
• Omer Counted (49). This is the last day of fasting. We must prepare for the coming of the Bridegroom. The counting of the omer is connected to the great harvests. It must be the census of the righteous 144,000.
• Shavuot (50). God comes. The Holy Spirit is poured out. The latter rain and Second Coming occurs on this day.

Day 0	1	7	12	14	21	28	33	35	40	42	49	Day 50
Year 1		840	1440	1680	2520	3360	4000	4200	4800	5040	5880	Year 6000
	Fasting						Joy	Fasting					Shavuos
Lamb Slain			-	Flood	Slavery	Divided	Messiah	-				Holy Spirit

Pentecost - (The Feast of Weeks or Shavu'ot) (Holy Spirit)
Pentecost occurred fifty days after the day after the Sabbath following the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.

Jesus Our Intercessor Pentecost Baptism Holy Spirit Holy Spirit Jesus washes away our sins through the Holy Spirit

In the Old Testament Exodus, the Day of Pentecost corresponds to the Children of Israel coming to Mt. Sinai. (Exodus 19: 1-6). There, God came down in fire and smoke and gave them the Ten Commandments. Jews celebrate the giving of the Torah and the harvest of the first fruits.
This also corresponded to the time of the Wheat Harvest. On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured out as tongues of fire and the first fruits of the Gospel were reaped when three thousand were converted in one day.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls. (Acts 2: 1-4, 41)
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I indeed baptize you with water to repentance: but He that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. (Matthew 3: 11).
At Pentecost, the New Testament church was formed when many ethnic people were won to Christ. It was a form of reversal of the Tower of Babel, because all men there heard the message in their own tongues. The Holy Spirit overcame the language and cultural barriers. The end time church will also be made up of every nation, tribe, tongue and people.

Two Loaves : (Jesus, Holy Spirit). You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the LORD. Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD. You shall also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering with two lambs before the LORD; they are to be holy to the LORD for the priest. (Leviticus 23: 17-20)
Every harvest had an offering of first fruits. At Shavout it was the whear harvest and this was given as baked bread. Notice who is being offered in each of the three main harvests and in what form it is offered.

• Passover : ("Barley Grain"). Jesus Christ is the uncooked grain who is about to be roasted.
• Pentecost : ("Two Baked Loaves"). Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are the cooked grain as loaves of bread.
• Tabernacles : ("Three Baked Loaves"). We have to look at other laws to determine what is the wave offering at this time. The righteous are now priests that come before God as the wave offering and they are being consecrated. Only priests can enter the sanctuary, so God consecrates us all and offers the entire world as a wave offering. A part of this ceremony is offering three loaves of bread (Exodus 29: 23). Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Father are the three loaves. It was their combined efforts that have saved us.

The Proclamation of the Gospel on the Day of Pentecost
On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations. (Leviticus 23: 21)
On the day of Pentecost they are to make a proclamation at a gathering. When it was fulfilled, the Jews had gathered in Jerusalem from many different places because of the required pilgrimage at Pentecost. Peter preached to them and the other disciples spoke in at least fifteen other languages and 3000 were converted that day.
Holy Spirit. And there appeared to them tongues of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.
The Proclamation. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit was giving them utterance.
Jews from all four corners. Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.
The Wheat Harvest. So then those who had received his words were baptized, and that day there were added about 3000 souls. (Acts 2: 3-5, 41)
At the resurrection of Jesus in the barley harvest, Jesus also made a proclamation of the gospel. (Acts 26: 23)
On the last Jubilee at Yom Kippur, a proclamation will also be made to announce our freedom. (Leviticus 25: 10)

Reaping the Harvest. There are two main laws that govern the gathering of a harvest for God.

• When ("Timing of the Harvest"). The law says that God will not accept the fruit harvest until the fourth year after planting. There is an optimal time for planting and an optimal time for reaping.
  Plant Fruit. When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.
  First Fruits. But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.
  Harvest Belongs to the People. In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you, I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19: 23-25)
  This is why many time periods are based on forty or forty two periods of time. Both are within the fourth year.
  • Forty Months for the Righteous. The righteous are judged first, after forty months.
  • Forty Two Months for the Wicked. The wicked are judged next after forty two months.
    Iniquity is also judged in the third and fourth generation.
    You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing loving kindness to those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Deuteronomy 5: 8-10)
    Judgment in the Fourth Generation (Between the Third and the Fourth).
    • Rome. Jesus came during the fourth kingdom (Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome).
    • Millennium. Jesus came in the fourth millennium to be judged as a serpent and die for our sins.
    • Levi and Judah (Third and Fourth Son). Jesus' fate was defined by these two sons, priest and king.
    
    Fruit in the Fourth Year. Given to God.
    • Fruit of Israel. Jesus died after three year of preaching and in the fourth decade of living.
    • Fruit of the Womb. Mary probably visited the temple in her fourth month at the birth of John.
  
  Reaping. The laws on the land sabbath and jubilee give us the promises for reaping.
  » Do not plan your harvest so that the fourth year occurs during the land Sabbath when reaping is not allowed.
  » Do plan your harvest to take advantage of the blessings promised in the year before the land sabbath.
• Where ("Strategy of the Reaping"). A part of the law on gathering the harvest was the instructions on where to work and what to do with the produce. This law requires the workers to go to the Jews first.
  When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 23: 22)
  At Pentecost, there were Jews from "every nation" or all four corners of the earth (Acts 2: 5).

Jesus Reaps the Harvest According to the Law. Jesus fulfilled these laws with these instructions.
These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: "Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' (Matthew 10: 5-7)

• Jews First. He give the Gospel to the Jews first and instructed the disciples to do the same.
  For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Romans 1: 16)
  Jesus and the disciples ministered for seven years to fulfill the last portion of the 490 years remaining for the Jews in the prophecy of Daniel. He used another one law to guide the timing of His ministry.
  • Jesus Ministers 3½ Years. After He was planted He reaped only the twelve disciples and a few women.
    No Fruit for Three Years. "And he said to the vineyard keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?' (Luke 13: 7)
    But after three years, the harvest was a disappointment. The parable from Luke goes on to suggest that God was willing to try for a little longer. He ministered for another half year.
    Wait another Year. And he answered and said to to him, "let it alone, sir for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer and if it bears fruit next year fine; but if not, cut it down. (Luke 13: 8)
  • Disciples Minister 3½ Years. He made the disciples dig around and cultivate the plants for another three years after Jesus was planted and sprang to life. They reaped at least 3000 souls. But that was also a disappointing harvest. So the tree was cut down. (Matthew 3: 10) And God went to find fruit among the Gentiles (Matthew 21: 43).
• Four Corners. This is the entire land that will be reaped by two groups, the owners and strangers. While Christ was on earth the disciples were only supposed to reap the harvest in Israel but leave some for the alien.
• Poor and Strangers. The rest of the harvest of God will be gathered by the Gentiles. The field is the four corners of the world and whatever fell to the ground in israel.

Claims and Lies About Jesus. Many traditions and books make up claims about what Jesus did before His public ministry and after His resurrection.

• The Missing Years. Those who speculate on what Jesus did before His public ministry point to claims that He travelled to India and Britain with Joseph of Aramathea where He built a church. If He had done this before He preached to the Jews He would have broken the law. These events did not happen.
• Did Jesus Have Children? Other rumors claim that He went to India and had children. Some claim that He married Mary Magdalene and had children. These rumors also deny prophecies which state that He would not have any offspring or posterity and that He would die with nothing and have no one.
  Then after the sixty two weeks the Messiah would be cut off and have nothing. (Daniel 9: 26)
  He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivors where he soujourned. (Job 18: 19)

The Resurrection of the First Fruits
Jesus and a group of other people were resurrected as the first fruits. On that Sunday, He went into the Most Holy Place and presented Himself to God as the offering and proof of the atonement and resurrection.
The Resurrection. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, look, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many. (Matthew 27: 50-53)
The First Fruits From the Dead. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. (1 Corinthians 15: 20-23)

Agricultural Seasons (Rain, Harvests and First Fruits)
Here is a calendar of the annual seasons and harvests.

Month				Weather	Crop	Harvest	First Fruits	Feasts
Spring (Grain harvest)	1	Nisan	March-April	Spring rain	Barley	Barley harvest begins	Barley	Passover
	2	Zif	April-May	-	Lentils, peas	Barley harvest ends	-	-
	3	Sivan	May-June	Dry season	Wheat	Wheat harvest begins	Wheat	Pentecost
Summer (Grape harvest)	4	Tamuz	June-July	-	Grapes, figs	Wheat harvest ends	New wine	-
	5	Ab	July-August	Summer heat	Grapes, figs	Grape harvest	-	-
	6	Elul	August-September	-	Grapes, figs, date, pomegranate, etrog		New olive oil	-
Autumn (Olive harvest)	7	Tishri	September-October	Early rain	Olives	Ploughing	-	Tabernacles
	8	Cheshvan	October-November	-	Olives	Ploughing. Plant grain. Fat sheep killed	Jesus was the Seed planted on the earth at His birth during Tabernacles
	9	Kislev	November-December	-	Olives	Plant wheat, barley
Winter	10	Tebeth	December-January	Main rain	-	-	No Harvest (Rest)
	11	Sebat	January-February	-	-	-
	12	Adar	February-March	-	Flax	Almond blooms

The Great Summer Drought
Between the spring and autumn months was the hot summer which lasted about three and a half months. During this time, there were no harvests, and no rain. This symbolizes the spiritual drought of the 1260 Years of Papal supremacy.
And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. (Revelation 11: 3, 6)

Tishrei 1	Tishrei 10	4 days	Tishrei 15	6 days	Tishrei 21	Tishrei 22
Rosh Hashanah	Yom Kippur	Latter Rain	Tabernacles	Succos (7 days)		Shemini Atzeres
Feast of Trumpets	Judgment		Rapture	Scape Goat in the wilderness	World is Judged	New Heavens and Earth
Time of the End	Sealing	Harvest	Second Coming	Millennium	Third Coming

The Spring and Autumn Rain
The physical rainy season began in autumn and ended in spring. The autumn rains were called the early rain and the spring rain was called the latter rain.
The Rains of God. He will give the rain for the land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. (Deuteronomy 11: 14)
The promise of God to send rain spanned the beginning and end of the rainy season. This rainy season for agriculture began in autumn and ended in spring. The eary rain softened the earth and allowed the ground to be plowed and seed to be planted. This rain allowed the seed to grow. In addition, the early rain came at the fruit harvest and it watered the trees and gave the fruit water just before they were harvested.
However the season for salvation is slightly different. The spiritual rainy season began in spring at Passover and ends in autumn at the feast of Tabernacles. But the promise of God still applies. We get an early and late rain. This difference confuses the meaning of the words "early rain (former)" and "late rain (latter)". But the crops came in the same order.

• Early Spring Rain (First Rain). The coming of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
• Ploughing. When God resurrected Jesus and the first fruits, He literally ploughed the earth, or dug up the earth. For three and a half years Jesus and the disciples ploughed the field in Israel to get them ready for the planting of the seed (His death) and the coming of the Holy Spirit with power.
• Seed Planted. Jesus was the Seed planted in the earth at His death. Ploughing and planting continued during the rainy season to increase the yield.
• Reaping the Grain harvest. The 3000 souls saved at Pentecost and the dead who were raised at the resurrection.
• Drought. In the physical world the summer drought occured in this time. But in the spiritual world it is still raining. The Holy Spirit is here, but He is ignored. So, practically, there was a spiritual drought in the middle of rain from heaven.
• Late Autumn Rain (Last Rain). The outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the end of time.
• Reaping the Fruit harvest. The billions of souls saved at the Second Coming.
• Ploughing. Notice that the spiritual and agricultural ploughing seasons merge at the great resurrection. We will be ploughed up from this old earth and planted in Heaven.
• Winter Rest. We will grow during the winter months of the millennium.

Physical Rain	Spring						Summer	Autumn
	Late Rain						Dry Season	Early Rain						Ploughing
Harvest		Barley				Wheat	2000+ years				Fruit		Olive		Planting
Spiritual Rain	Seed Planted			Pentecost			-	Yom Kippur		Tabernacles				1000 Years
	Ploughing			Early Rain			Apostasy	Late Rain							Resurrection
Diet	Protein (Grain Harvest)						Carbohydrates (Fruit Harvest)					Fat (Olive Harvest)

So rejoice, O sons of Zion, and be glad in the Lord your God; for he had given you the early rain for your vindication. And He has poured down for you the rain, the early and latter rain in the first month. (Joel 2: 23)
This verse is ambiguous because the various translations make it so.
» Early Rain Vindication. The early rain is sent for our vindication. We technically have two early rains and two first months. One is civil and the other is religious (physical and spiritual). The first month of the civil calendar is Tishri. The first month of the religious calendar is Nisan.

• Spring. We were vindicated in the first month of the religious cycle because Christ died for us during Passover so that the first death, the penalty for sin can pass over us.
• Autumn. We were vindicated in the first month of the civil cycle because Christ justifies us during the judgment of Yom Kippur so that the second death, can pass over us and we can receive the gift of God which is eternal life.

The First Fruits Harvests
The Harvests of God. You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where He chooses to establish His name. The tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear [love] the Lord your God always. (Deuteronomy 14: 23)
There was an important harvest every seven weeks. Each 49 days represents the perfect passage of time from one harvest to the next. The first fruits were the special part of the harvest that came in just before the rest of the harvest. These are dedicated to God. The rest of the harvest is for the people.
So, spiritually, we will have a harvest of the first fruits and then a general harvest. Practically, it is the first fruits that are the example that lead the rest of the harvest to God.

Seed Planted		Grain Harvest					Fruit Harvest
No Harvest	Barley		49 Days	Rain	Wheat	49 Days	New Wine	Grape Harvest	1798	49 Days	Rain	New Olive Oil	Living	First Born
													Jews
	Christ		Disciples		3,000	Jews	Martyrs					144,000	Martyrs
30 Years	3½ years						˜ 2000 Years					Last Days	Dead

The Seven Fruits of the Promised Land. A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey (dates). (Deuteronomy 8: 8)
This honey was not from bees but was boiled from the date fruit. Although there were other fruits and trees, God promised a land with certain fruits that would become key symbols in the Plan of Salvation.

Grain. The grain harvest represents the seed that is planted. It is Christ, the disciples and the Jews who are the source of the information about God. After the plant grows, fruit is expected. Therefore, in the end a fruit harvest should appear from this plant that is watered by the Holy Spirit. Christ is the Seed that was planted, He can bear multiple types of fruit from one tree. And with each type of harvest a crop of first fruit appears.

• Barley Harvest. The first fruit from the dead earth were brought as the wavesheaf offering at Passover. They proved that God had conquered death and could raise any righteous dead on the last day.
  » Unknown Number. Jesus and the first fruits from the dead earth were resurrected and displayed before God.
• Wheat Harvest. This harvest came fifty days after the barley harvest. These first fruits proved that God had kept His promise in the covenant. He would send the Holy Spirit to write the law in our hearts.
  » 3,000. They are the first fruit of the wheat harvest who were converted at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came. As these Jews went back to about 16 countries, they spread the gospel and the rest of the wheat harvest came in.

  Fig Harvest The figs ripened at the end of summer, but the fruit started to grow during the spring. Poor people would eat the green figs at this time. Jesus cursed the fig tree, because it did not start bearing fruit and He was hungry. This was a condemnation of the Jews who should have grown fruit for the Gentiles. (Mark 11) Like the fig harvest, the Jews would ripen at the end of time.

• Grape Harvest. It came fifty days or seven weeks after Pentecost (Shavout). The first fruits proved that a human filled with the Holy Spirit can obey God. They will not fail where Adam and Eve did. These did not love their life even up to death, so they would not disobey God for pleasure or food.
  » The new wine harvest. Since Pentecost, the work of the Holy Spirit has been to produce fruit in the people who will occupy the kingdom. It probably marks the beginning of the spread of the Gospel around the world with the 3000 who were converted at Pentecost and then went back to their own country. From the prophecy of the third seal we know that the majority of the oil and wine harvest came after this seal. The grape harvest are the martyrs who spilled their blood. The first fruits were the martyrs from the church of Smyrna killed by Diocletian.
  More Martyrs. The grape harvest continues until the plagues. Under the fifth seal, the martyrs are told that their death will not be avenged at that time until the rest of the martyrs are killed.
• Olive Oil Harvest. The first fruits of the new olive oil festival comes fourteen weeks after Pentecost just before the feast of trumpets. This harvest is greatest after the feast of tabernacles. The righteous are olive trees standing at the throne of God. This represents the permanent presence of the Holy Spirit in the righteous for eternity. They proved that God can bring perfection through the Holy Spirit.

  Pomegranate Harvest The borders of the garment of the High Priest alternated with 72 bells and 72 pomegranates. The pomegranate harvest was in Elul (August/September). This was the time of the feast of trumpets and the festival of the new olive oil. Around this time the ten days of awe began and Jesus went into the Most Holy place on Yom Kippur. According to the Middrash, the pomegranate has 613 seeds. This is equal to the number of laws (mitzvot) in the Torah. The juice also makes a natural red dye.

  
  » 144,000 (New Olive Oil and Pomegranates). They are the first fruit of the olive harvest. They are the first fruit of a harvest that goes out into the field to prepare and gather the greater harvest for the Second Coming.
  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whereever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. (Revelation 14: 4)
  The Loud Cry of the Third Angel. The pomegranate harvest comes just before the feast of trumpets at the same time as the new olives.
  The 144 noise makers, the 72 bells and 72 pomegranates, make a loud sound on the last day of judgment. On the day of atonement, the noise of the bells and pomegranates on the hem of the robes of the priest signalled to the people waiting outside that the High Priest is still alive, ministering on their behalf before God. They are the first group who are totally filled with the Holy Spirit.
• First Born Harvest. The new Israel, those born of the Holy Spirit in the feast of Tabernacles will receive the name of God. They are the fruit from the grain harvest and the wheat harvest and the olive harvest. They all become the first born of a new creation. Then we will eat in the presence of the Lord in the New Jerusalem and He will drink the fourth cup of the Passover with us and officially end the Passover and begin the Tabernacles.

One Great Harvest
There is a link between the harvests of Passover and Tabernacles. Until the future Passover when the Jews recognize the Messiah, we are still in Passover time. At Passover they pray for the "fruit of the vine" and Jesus does not drink this fourth cup until after the Second Coming. The Fruit from all harvests will be brought before God at this time. This is the time when death has truly passed over all the children of Adam and Eve. Then we can truly celebrate Tabernacles as one family.
Your shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your corn and your wine. (Deuteronomy 16: 13)
The feast of Tabernacles is celebrated at the time of the autumn harvest of olives. But it also celebrates produce from both the spring and summer harvest (corn and wine). This "corn" is wheat and barley not maize. So the Jews, the rest of the wheat and barley harvest, will be part of the harvest in the end.

• Olive Harvest. The righteous living who are converted by the Holy Spirit.
• Grape Harvest.The martyrs are a special group among the dead.
• Wheat Harvest. The Jews who return. They are part of the olive harvest but they are set apart because God deliberately broke them off and He prophesies that He will deliberately bring them back.
• Barley Harvest. The rest of the righteous dead are raised.

Fulfillment of the Autumn Festivals
Since Jesus was in human form and subject to physical laws, the spring feasts were fulfilled in real time. The final generation will experience the fall feasts in real time when it is time for their exodus.

Rosh Hashannah: The Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23: 23-25)

Time No More Rosh Hashanah, is both the end of the Jewish festival calendar, AND the beginning of the Jewish civil calendar year. It is the New Year under the civil calendar. So, this marks both the end of the old and the beginning of the new. Similarly, we see in Revelation 10: 6-7, the reference to the end "time shall be no more" occurring "in the days of the seventh Angel's Sounding". This is a correlation to the seventh trumpet and the beginning of the new year of Christ's eternal kingdom.

Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) is on the first day of the seventh month. It began the "Ten Days of Awe" and ended on Yom Kippur.
The Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) was a prelude to judgment. On the seventh New Moon of the festival year, the trumpet sounded to call the people to prepare for the approaching day of judgment, on the great Day of Atonement when the books were still opened.
Symbolically, this represents the fall of the Papacy, the unsealing of the Book of Daniel at the time of the end, and the beginning of the Advent movement around 1798. (Daniel 12: 9, Revelation 10: 1-2, 7)
And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (Daniel 12: 9 )
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth," "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10: 1-2, 7 )

Rosh Hashanah. The New Year (the first of Tishrei)
In the Torah, Rosh Hashanah (which means "the head of the year"). It is the start of the Ten Days of Penitence, and it is celebrated on the first and second days of the seventh Hebrew month, Tishri. According to Jewish belief, God judges all human beings throughout the year, and He decides whether they deserve to be inscribed in "The Book of Life" or not by the time of Rosh Hashanah. It marks the beginning of the judgment in which God seals them and writes their name in the Book of Life. After this, people have ten days to change the result. It is also known as:

• Yom Teruah. The day of sounding the shofar, the traditional ram's horn. This is the only command for this day.
• Yom Ha'Din. The day of judgment when all living things are judged.
  » The Accuser of the Brethren Comes. On Rosh Hashanah, Satan and his entourage of angels come before the Heavenly tribunal to prosecute the righteous. They list all the iniquities that they have committed.
• Yom Hazikaron. The day of remembering. It is a reference to Abraham who offered his only son, Isaac, to God as proof of his obedience. According to Jewish tradition, this sacrifice occurred the first of Tishri.
• Creation of Man. It is also celebrated as the anniversary of the sixth day of creation when man was created.
• Coronation of God. It is the coronation of God as King over us.

Yamim Nora'im ("The Ten Days of Awe"). For the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the world can change the decision made in the judgment. Rosh Hashanah is the day the names are inscribed in the Book of Life. The decision is sealed on Yom Kippur. Those who are being judged have ten days to change God's mind by repentance.

The Month Elul and Forty Days of Repentence. However, starting on the first day of the month "Elul", Jews get up every night and go to the synagogue during the morning watch. There they pray for forgiveness until morning comes, and then go to work. The custom becomes more and more intense, and reaches a peak on the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. During these days they ask God and each other for forgiveness, and greet each other with the blessing "May you be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life".

• The Animal Exodus. The first day of Elul is also the new year for animal tithes. Animals are brought to the sanctuary just as the animals started going into the ark before the flood came. In the same way the people prepare for the judgment of the earth. This final exodus is the last great sign.
• The Shofar. It is sounded as a call to repentance every day except Sabbath and the last day.
• Psalm 27. This is added to the daily prayers. It is for protection during persecution.
• Selichot Prayers. Appeal to God's mercy for forgiveness based on Exodus 34: 6-7.

U'netaneh Tokef. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur they say a special prayer about the awesomeness of that day and the consequences it brings. It is a recitation of the wrath of God. It is the same warning as the third angel's message.

The Land Sabbath (Shemitah).
The laws about the land Sabbath are a pattern of what should happen on the earth.
Millennium. The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. (Leviticus 25: 1-4)
No Reaping. Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you. Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat. (Leviticus 25: 5-7)
Great Harvest. But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?" then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years. When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in. (Leviticus 25: 20-22)

• Millennium ("Verse 1-3"). When we go to the Promised Land, the land will have rest for that first year. We know that the earth will rest for one thousand years. This is the land Sabbath.
• Six Years ("Verse 4"). We get to work for six years. This means that the earth should last for six thousand years.
• No Reaping ("Verse 5-7"). No harvesting occurs in that year. This is because there is no more mercy. The wicked will not longer be asked to repent.
• The Sixth Year ("Verse 20-22"). This is a promise that God will increase the harvest in the sixth year. It will be fulfilled by the outpouring of the latter rain.

The Jubilee (Yovel).
To understand the end of time, you need to merge the events of a land sabbath with the events of the Jubilee.
You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
Shofar. You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.
A Proclamation. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
No More Time. You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field. (Leviticus 25: 8-12)
The Jews start the Jubilee and the sabbatical years at Tisheri 1, although the text seems to say Tisheri 10 (Yom Kippur). The Jubilee represents the last year on earth when we will be freed and it begins on Yom Kippur. This is what happens in the jubilee year.

• Inheritance ("Verse 13"). Everyone receives property from God, because we will inherit the earth.
• Debt Forgiven ("Verse 14"). All debt is forgiven just as all our sins are forgiven by the free gift of God.
• Freedom ("Verse 39-43"). All slaves and their family were freed. Jews were freed. And A Jew who sold himself to a foreigner could buy back his freedom. This is why God both has a plan to substitute and to buy us back from the penalty of sin.
  Freedom for the Poor ("Verse 47-55").
  Freedom for Foreigners ("Verse 44-46"). They can become permanent slaves. However, the law provides a method for foreigners to become a part of the nation of Israel. Therefore, if a foreigner joins the kingdom of God he will have the right to be freed at Jubilee.
  Therefore, sinners who refuse to join the righteous will never be free.

The Day of Atonement - The Judgment (Leviticus 23: 26-32 and Leviticus 16)
This occurs on the tenth day of the seventh month, Yom Kippur. It is the holiest day of the year and God seals the fate of the people for the next year. According to Jewish tradition, on Yom Kippur, the judgments entered into the books of God are sealed on this day. Therefore, this is the last day that we have to change the decision of the judgment.

The Sealing and Judgment The sealing occurred during the ten days of awe from Tishri 1 to 10. During this time of judgment, the righteous are sealed and their names are kept in the Book of Life or deleted. The tenth day, or Yom Kippur is simply the last day when this opportunity is available.

The Sealing. The Jews also understand this time as the period in which they are sealed and their names are kept in the Book of Life. This understanding is the exact same meaning that is taught by Adventists. Note that according to Jewish belief, there is a judgment of the righteous that occurs before the feast of tabernacles when we live with God. The judgment is occurring now. At the same time, the sealing of the people of God is occurring. This is the symbol of the sealing and numbering of the 144,000 end time people of God. (Revelation 7: 4-10, Revelation 14: 1-4).

The Last Day of the Judgment
And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. (Revelation 11: 18-19)
And he said to me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (Daniel 8: 14)
This corresponds to the beginning of the Judgment of the dead in Heaven in 1844. Then, Christ, as our Great High Priest, moved into the Holy of Holies to begin the final phase of His High Priestly ministry, the cleansing of the Sanctuary. The Most Holy Place was opened at this time. (Revelation 11: 18-19, Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14, Daniel 8: 14).

Jesus Our Intercessor Yom Kippur Satan Lord's Goat Scapegoat Jesus defends us in the judgement and places the blame on Satan

Those who refuse to submit to judgment will be cut off.
Disobedient. If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
Sabbath Violation. As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people (Leviticus 23: 29-30)

Here are some rituals associated with the service.

• Mikvah ("Washing"). Our sins will be washed away after this service.
• Blessing the Children. They bless the children and symbolically mention the names of the two children who represent the two tribes that make up the final church. Ephraim represents the Gentiles and Manasseh represents the Jews.

  Son. May G-d make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.
  Daughter. May G-d make you like Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah.

• Kol Nidrei ("Annulment of All Vows"). Yom Kippur services begin with the annument of all vows after sunset. Even our marriage vows will not be honored in heaven.
• Yizkor Service ("Remembering the Dead"). The dead will soon be resurrected.
• The Haftorah ("Jonah"). They read the entire book of Jonah. Just like Jesus we will be in the bowels of sinners.
• U'netaneh Tokef ("Warning about the Wrath"). This is a recitation of the curses of the covenant. These will be poured out as the wrath of God in the seven last plagues at the end of Yom Kippur.
• Neilah ("Locking"). This ritual is done only on Yom Kippur. This last service is a symbol of the locking of the gates of heaven. After this all is forgiven and no prayers are heard.
• Sounding the Shofar ("The Last Trumpet"). The trumpet could be a symbol of the last trumpet that will sound. It announces war on the enemies of God. During this war, God will rescue the righteous dead and the living.
• Closing Prayers. The prayers end with the words "Next Year may we be in Jerusalem!" We will be in the New Jerusalem after a year of plagues.

Azazel: The Scape Goat (Leviticus 16)
This was the day that the Temple was cleansed and the scape goat was banished at the end of the ceremony. He was taken to the wilderness by a strong man and thrown over the edge of a cliff.
Satan will be banished to the earth for one thousand years at the Second Coming. He was thrown off the mountain of God as profane (Ezekiel 28: 16) and a strong man will bind him to the earth for 1000 years (Revelation 20: 1-2).

Jewish Tradition and the Judgment
It is interesting to note what Jewish tradition teaches about the judgment and its timing in the feast days. Judgment is given on four occasions.

1. Passover ("Grain"). The world is judged with respect to grain. Jesus resurrected the barley harvest.
2. Shavuot ("Fruit"). The world is judged with respect to the fruit of trees. The 3000 conversions at Pentecost.
3. Rosh Hashannah ("Man"). The judgment of man occurs during the fall feasts and there are three appointed times for judgment. Man is judged on Rosh Hashannah but the sentence is confirmed on Yom Kippur and delivered on Hoshannah Rabbah.
   1. All Living Things. Feast of Trumpets, Day 1 (Rosh Hashanah). Angels, principalities and powers.
   2. The People of God. Yom Kippur, Day 10. Judgment is in favor of the saints. In this process the people and the sanctuary are cleansed.
   3. World. Feast of Tabernacles, Day 7 (Hosana Raba). Judgment is delivered. The righteous and the wicked receive their reward.
4. Succoth ("Rain"). The world is judged with respect to rain. They do not pray for rain during the seven days of Succos, only on the eighth day. On Shemini Atzeret they begin to pray for rain because rain during Succos is a sign of the Lord's anger. There is a dual symbolism of good and evil for this rain.
   • Righteous ("Latter Rain"). On the last year before the plagues the latter rain will probably begin on Shemini Atzeret so that God will have a great fruit harvest for the final year of evangelism.
   • Wicked ("Hail"). After the harvest has been reaped, the persecuted righteous will pray for rain during succos. The rain that will occur during succos is the seventh plague which includes hail stones.

The Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23: 33-43 and Deuteronomy 16: 13-15)

Jesus Our Intercessor Tabernacles Palm Branches Booth The Lulav Jesus provides a home for us

This was a seven day feast, which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month four days after Yom Kippur. It was also called the festival of booths and sukkot or succos. It corresponds to the final fruit harvest (Leviticus 23: 39). This feast celebrates and commemorates:

• Living under the protection of God.
• The end of the wanderings in the desert of the Children of Israel.
• It was a celebration of their inheritance of and entry into the Promised Land.

Camping at Succos. The first feast of tabernacles actually occurred at Passover during the exodus. After they ate the Passover meal the Jews left Egypt and the first place they camped was a place called Succoth. Christ also experienced all the three great feasts during His exodus week.
After Jacob wrestled with God and met Esau he went to a place called Succoth to build booths (Genesis 33: 17).

Christ fulfilled the eight days of the feast of Booths during Passover as He ended His wanderings on earth so that He can enter the eternal Promised Land in heaven.
On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind. For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work. On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.
Day 1: Palm Branches. Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths. (Leviticus 23: 35-36, 39-42)

The Schedule

The Seven Days of the Feast
Day Date Water Light Readings and Songs Contents 1 15 First Day 13 2 14 1 1 No Light Hallel. Psalm 113-118 Psalm 105 Exodus plagues 2 16 Chol Ha'Moed 12 2 14 1 1 Water Light Psalm 29 Creation by sound Ezekiel 38: 14 to Ezekiel 39: 16 Armageddon and millennium Zechariah 14 3 17 11 2 14 1 1 Water Light Psalm 50: 16-23 Judgment of the wicked 4 18 10 2 14 1 1 Water Light Psalm 94: 16-23 Righteous stand up in adversity 5 19 9 2 14 1 1 Water Light Psalm 94: 8-23 A pit will be dug for the wicked 6 20 8 2 14 1 1 Water Light Psalm 81: 6-16 Rescued and recreated 7 21 Hosannah Raba 7 2 14 1 7 Beat Willows Light Psalm 82: 5-8 Numbers 29: 26-34 The wicked angels and men in the millennium Total 70 14 98 7 - Total (Ezekiel) 49+1 49 - 7 - 8 22 Shemini Atzeret 1 1 7 1 1 Pray for rain - Deuteronomy 33-34 Moses goes to heaven The rabbis circled the altar, struck the willow and asked for rain 8 22 Simchat Torah (Rejoicing in the Torah) - Genesis 1-2 The new creation
Every sabbatical year the Law was read in public on the first day of the feast (Deuteronomy 31:10-13).

The total number of animal offerings for the seven days of the feast and on the eighth day may be significant. Rembering that a beast is the symbol of a power or nation, and if the nations on the first seven days represents the time before the Second Coming and the eighth day represents the nations after He comes, then this is the possible meaning.

• Bulls ("70 and 1"). These are the 70 nations before He comes and there will be only one nation after.
• Rams ("14 and 1"). A ram is a symbol of Israel or the people of God. There are 14 tribes (12 sons and 2 grandsons) and afterwards there is only one nation of priests.
• Goat ("7 and 1"). The goat is a symbol of Satan and his people. Before the Second Coming there is a beast with seven heads or a series of seven powers that do the will of Satan. At the Third Coming there is only Satan, leading the nation of Gog against the nation of Israel.
• Lambs ("98 and 7"). This bleeding lamb is a representation of the sacrifice of Christ applied to the church between the crucifixion and the Second Coming.

98 Nations: Tabernacles in the Time of Ezekiel. We teach that Ezekiel's temple is a description of the interaction between Christ as the High priest in the heavenly sanctuary and His imperfect church on earth. If He gave the offerings for tabernacles at the crucifixion, then we will have a change in Ezekiel to represent that we have moved forward in time since the first day of the offering.
Passover. ... he shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. ... during the seven days he shall provide as a burnt offering seven bulls and seven rams ... and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
Tabernacles. In the seventh month on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil. (Ezekiel 45: 12-13)
Ezekiel represents the burnt offering of 98 lambs as 49 bulls and 49 rams. There are still seven goats in this time because the seven headed beast is still alive.
Who are these 98 nations? They are the people who make petitions to the High Priest. After the crucifixion Jesus combined the two groups of Israel and Gentiles into one group. So they are probably the 70 nations, 24 elders and 4 living creatures who come before the throne with prayers (Revelation 5: 8, 11). But it is probably the sacrifice for the seven churches during this period. Each church has one lamb for each of the 14 tribes.

The Sukkah. The Jews lived in a temporary building called a booth or sukkah for seven days. It represented the time they lived in booths during the forty years of the exodus. It was constructed in a certain way.

• Walls. It must have at least three walls covered in a material that will not blow away. This is a symbol of the three walls of the Most Holy Place where they take refuge from the wrath of the beast.
• Roof. The roof must be made of something that grew from the earth that was cut off. They must be able to see the stars. It must let the rain in. It must not be tied down.
  The roof represents Christ as our covering. He was the Promised Seed that grew up as a tender shoot from the ground. He was cut off for our sins. When He died, it washed away our sins and sent the Rain (the Holy Spirit). His death allows us to go to the stars in Heaven.

The Ushpizin (Seven Exalted Guests).
When a person is seated in his succah, Abraham and six distinguished visitors partake of his company. (Zohar 5: 103b) Just as they invite Elijah in for the Passover, the Jews invite seven of their forefathers to stay in the sukkah during the feast. An ornate chair is set for these honored guests and each night a different one leads the others into the sukkah in this order: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David on the last night.
This tradition is written in the Zohar, the kabbalistic text on Jewish mysticism. The custom originated among them and was adopted by the Hassidim and other orthodox groups. If it has no foundation in what God ordered or passed down to Moses, the tradition is still worthy of notice because this is another way in which the false Second Coming can appear to justify the appearance of all of these great men of God. Several plausible explanations might be given for their appearance.

• This is similar the transfiguration of Jesus before His exodus, when Moses and Elijah appeared.
• They are the people who were raised with Jesus who went to preach to the people.
  The problem with this is that David is among this group and after the resurrection of Christ, the gospels taught that David was still in his grave! (Acts 2: 29, 34) But most people do not know the correct teaching about the state of the dead. So billions will be fooled.

The Four Species (Lulav and Etrog).

The Personalities of the Four Species

Species Name Torah (Taste) Deeds (Smell) Body Offerings 1 Etrog Citrus Torah Deeds Heart Incense and Grain I am perfect 2 Hadas 3 Myrtles Torah No Eyes Lamb. Rabbi, child in the temple I am devoted to the persuit of wisdom, to know and follow God 3 Lulav 1 Palm No Deeds Spine Bull. Miracles, cleanses temple I must do good deeds. What is knowledge without action? 4 Aravah 2 Willows No No Mouth Lord's Goat. Serpent I have nothing, I am nothing

They take four plants and lift them up and rejoice before the Lord. The lulav represents all those who were lifted up during the crucifixion.

• Etrog. A citrus fruit native to Israel.
• Hadas. Three myrtle branches on the right.
• Lulav. One unopened palm branch at the center.
• Aravah. Two willow branches on the left.

Six branches with their leaves are bound together in a bouquet and held in the right hand while the etrog is held upside down in the left hand and turned up during the ceremony. They were waved in all six directions: east, south, west, north, up, and down.
The Jews have developed an understanding about the meaning of each of the four species. Each item has either a taste or a smell. The taste represents knowledge of the Torah and the smell represents good deeds. The four species represent the four personalities which make a complete person. In our experience we drift between the knowledge of God and action based on knowing God.
Modern science also recognizes four dominant personalities. We tend to prefer to respond to life in one way. The imperfection of man is caused by the fact that our personalities are broken and we cannot balance our responses to the challenges of life.

Jesus displayed all these personalities in His life and He was treated as all of them.

• Etrog ("Torah and Good Deeds"). Jesus was the perfect man. The etrog is the one nation He has on His heart.
  I delight to do Your will, O my God, Your law is within my heart". (Psalm 40: 8)
• Hadas ("Torah Only"). There were three myrtle branches. The myrtle represents eyes because it leaves were small and oval. In addition they grew from a straight stem in nodes of three leaves. In many ways, this is a symbol of God who was on the cross at the right hand of Jesus. The eyes represent the eyes of God like the wheels of His throne and the almond seed. The three sets of leaves and three branches in the lulav are the Trinity. This is the Lamb with seven eyes (Revelation 5: 6).
  As a child He sought knowledge in the temple of God, even forgetting to go home with His parents at the end of the feast. As an adult, he was called Rabbi, or teacher. He taught the people about God.
• Lulav ("Good Deeds Only"). There was one palm branch in the center that represented the spine. The branch must be straight and unopened and the leaves cannot be split. This represents the divinity of Christ which cannot be torn like His inner tunic.
  He submitted to the will of God in one mighty deed. He balanced His teaching with good deeds. He performed the good works of God through miracles. In his first and final week of ministry, His actions led to violence in the temple as He drove out the money changers and stopped the trade in the temple that was dishonoring the name of God. This was the raging bull with a spine who cleansed the house of prayer for all people.
• Aravah ("No Torah, No Good Deeds"). The wicked man, the fool or the penitent man who comes to God. When the wicked man empties himself he is recognized as a fool. When the good man empties himself he is penitent
  The Fool. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God". They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds. The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. (Psalm 14: 1-2)
  There were two willow branches. On the cross two sinners were lifted up with Him.
  He was treated as a wicked man, as the scapegoat and the serpent. But He was the Lord's Goat Who emptied Himself and was counted among the sinners.
  The Penitent or The Lonely and Abandoned. who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2: 6-8)

The Water Libation Ceremony.
At all special services such as Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles there were preparations in the night.

1. First Watch ("6 PM to 9 PM"). Altar of burnt offerings was cleansed.
   Jesus was washing the feet of His disciples and having the Passover meal.
2. Second Watch ("9 PM to Midnight"). Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane.
3. Third Watch ("Midnight to 3 AM") Cockcrow. Temple gates opened at midnight to let the procession of people in. All sacrifices and offerings to be used that day were examined until the time for the morning sacrifice.
   Jesus was being led away by the mob of priests, people and Roman soldiers for His trial by the priest.
4. Fourth Watch ("3 AM to 6 AM"). The priests led the processions to get the water and the willows.

Every day during the year, the wine offering was made, but during this feast a special water offering was given from the second to the seventh days. During the fourth watch, while the morning sacrifice was being prepared the priests led two processions.

• Willows. One went to the Kidron valley to a place called Motza where the ashes from the altar were poured out. They cut long willow branches and marched in rows to the temple. The swishing sound of the willows was like the wind.
• Water. The other, led by the high priest, went to the pool of Siloam to fetch water for the water sacrifice.
  Their actions were perfectly timed so that the priest went to get the pieces of the sacrifice and returned at the same time the priest returned with the water through the Water Gate. As he entered the Water Gate the trumpet blew three blasts and a flute player called "the pierced one" would stand up and play. The flute player led the procession then he blew the signal for the water and wind (willow) to enter the temple. Then the priests walked up the ramp of the altar and turned left to the corner of the altar where there was two silver basins with holes. The water and wine were poured at the same time into these bowls.
  • Water ("West"). The western basin had a narrower hole and it was for the water.
  • Wine ("East"). The eastern basin was for pouring the wine.
  As the water and wine are poured the priests lay the willows against the side of the altar to make the sukkah.
  The temple music began and the Hallel (Psalm 118) was said as the wine and water was poured out. The people shook their lulavs towards the altar at three points during the hallel (Psalm 118, verse 1, 25, 29)

The Beating of the Willows.
The willow was a plant with long oval leaves that grew near the water. It was used in several ceremonies. From the time of Moses, on each day of the feast a willow was taken into the temple. Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi instituted the custom of beating the willows outside the temple. The ceremonies that were done on the inside of the temple by Moses were now brought on the outside as they honored the feasts during the absence of a temple. This probably occurred because these were the leaders while the Jews were rebuilding their temple after the Babylonian Captivity.

• Lulav. It was one of the four species used in the lulav which was held up and waved just like a wave offering. Christ was lifted up as the wave offering.
• Sukkah for the Altar. While they sounded the shofar, they bent these branches over the side of the altar to form a sukkah. Christ was broken and bent over the altar as the sacrifice. He was probably bent over a pillar and beaten by the Romans.
• Beating the Five Willows. On the seventh day of the feast a procession of people went to the Kidron valley to gather willows. It was used in a ceremony in which they bound five willows together and beat them on the ground five times until the leaves fell off. Then they put away the branches in a safe place so that it is not stepped on. Christ was severely beaten by the Romans on the earth and stripped. Then He was lifted up and put away on the cross where He could not be stepped on.
  • Beaten by the Romans. No one knows how many times he was beaten. By law He could be beaten 40 times. But the Jews usually give a maximum of 39 lashes, just in case they made an error in counting.
    then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt. He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes. (Deuteronomy 25: 2-3)
    According to this ritual of beating the willows, there could have been 25 single lashes or 5 lashes with a flagellum made of 5 strips.
    » The Naked Branch ("Until the Leaves Fell Off"). They beat the willows until the leaves fell off. The leaves are the covering of the tree. Jesus was also known as the Branch. The Branch was beaten until His leaves fell off. They also stripped His clothes and tore His skin. Then He was crucified naked.
  • The Cry of the Weeping Willow ("I have Nothing, I am Nothing!"). He was forsaken, disemboweled, mocked, ridiculed, beaten, naked, alone, spit on, abused, distressed, terrified and robbed of His possessions.
    He became nothing! He was treated as nothing!
    » The Cry of Simeon ("I Am Hated and Unloved!"). Add this to the weeping willow and you will find a picture of total grief.
  The Coming of the Wind and the Water. Christ is the pierced one Who called the Holy Spirit Who is symbolized by both wind and water. He would come and stay on the earth when Christ died. It is a promise of the Latter Rain and the promise that God would dwell with us.

Jesus said that He was the source of living waters. He gives the Holy Spirit to cleanse us and He gives eternal life.
He who believes in Me, as the scriptures said, "from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." (John 7: 38)

Illumination of the Temple
After the water ceremony, the priests went to the court of women and lit four tall menorahs 50 cubits high that light up t