God gave us holy days and weeks that He intended us to remember.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The feasts [Mowed] of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations [Miqra], these are My feasts [Mowed].' It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:1,2,21c
While it is true that we are not to sacrifice animals any longer, in our enthusiasm to be free from the law given to Moses, the church has ignored much of what God gave us for our blessing.
God's feasts are not named for eating. The Hebrew word 'mowed' means an appointed time or appointed signal or sign.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs [Owth] and seasons [Mowed], and for days and years...
Genesis 1:14
Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time [Mowed]; but at the end [Qets - end of time] it will speak [Puwach - breathe, utter], and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
But concerning the times [Chronos - long or short] and the seasons [Kairos - fixed definite time], brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-10
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival [Heorte - feast day] or a new moon [Noumenia - festival of the new moon, Yom Teruah / Rosh Hashanah] or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17
Over and over again throughout scripture God shows a consistent pattern where He performs His significant acts on the days of His feasts!
The Spring Feasts were for the first Advent.
Each feast was fulfilled by Jesus exactly on each day:
See An Easter blessing for you..., the letter I sent to many that goes into much more detail.
The Holy Spirit was given to the church exactly on:
The Autumn Feasts are for the Second Advent.
Each feast will be fulfilled on the exact days:
This feast is commonly called Rosh Hashanah, for the beginning of the civil new year, but we should better remember it as Yom Teruah, the day of the shofar blast, and Yom ha-Din, the day of judgment. This will be the final day of God's judgment, His wrath upon the unrepentant nations.
Don't get confused if a scripture refers to a trumpet and think that it is necessarily pointing to the Feast of Trumpets because all God's feasts start with a trumpet.
Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."
Numbers 10:10
Trumpets are blown to announce all appointed feasts - but they are blown 100 times (11 X 9 + 1) for Feast of Trumpets.
For Yom Teruah there are eleven (number of judgment) series of nine patterns, plus one last trumpet, known as 'the last trumpet of God'.
Revelation 9 describes the sixth trumpet of God's wrath and chapter 10 starts to describe the seventh trumpet, containing the seven thunders, but the details will be hidden until it blows.
...and [the angel] cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices. Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, 'Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.'
Revelation 10:3-4
I think that the seven days of marching around Jericho before its judgment is a shadow of the seven years of tribulation ending with the seven trumpets and 'seven thunders' shout at Yom Teruah.
But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: 'Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!'
Joshua 6:15-16
There is a forty day period of time called the Teshuvah (repentance and return) that starts thirty days of trumpets being blown each morning before Yom Teruah. The last ten days ending with Yom Kippur, are called Yamim Noraim (the days of repentance or awe).
This is the day that Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah, will come back physically to Earth touching down on the Mount of Olives.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 14:4
This is also the day that the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are announced. It is important to note that this is not when these years start - that is on Nisan 1, the first day of the sacred year in the Spring. This has caused many to conclude falsely that the Tribulation or other yearly periods will start on Yom Kippur. If we can name a starting and ending day of Daniel's 70th week, it would almost surely be Nisan 1!
Also known as the Feast of Booths, starting five days after Yom Kippur, this represents the Millennium, the Peaceable Kingdom, when Jesus will tabernacle with His people.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.' Then He who sat on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.'
Revelation 21:3-5
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:6-9
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
See the many other historical events that have happened on the appointed feast days on the page:
Don't be late! - Important dates on the Hebrew calendar.
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