MESSIANIC JEWISH OUTREACH HOLY FEASTS OF YAHVE
The 7 holy feasts of Yahve foreshadow Yahve's plan of salvation for all mankind and points us to Yahshua who is the salvation of Yahve. The holy feasts are given in Leviticus 23, Numbers 28-29, Deut.16 for all Israel. Yahshua, the apostles and Paul kept all the holy feasts of Yahve!
PASSOVER -PESACH
Yahve saved Israel from Egyptian slavery by the blood of the sacrificed lamb. On the 3rd day of first month each family had to selct a lamb a yr. old male without any blemish, on the 14th day it had to be killed at twilight. Lev.23:5 "In the first month on the 14th day at twilight is Yahve's Passover". This pointed towards Yahshua's sacrifice who paid the death penalty for our sins. Yahshua is the Passover sacrificed Lamb, now we have direct acces to the throne of Yahve. The terms of this covenant is sealed with the blood of Yahshua. The blood on the door symbolizes the blood Yahve places on our hearts to embrace His Lamb. "The life is in the blood". If you follow Passover and apply Messiah Yahshua's blood as atonement for our sins, Yahve promises that when He sees the blood, He will pass over you in judgement!
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
Unleavened bread means sinlessness. Exodus 12:14 "On the first and 7th day you should hold a set apart convocation don't work on these days". Partaking of the unleaved bread for 7 days means coming out of sin completely. The matzo bread is pierced with holes that represents Yahshua's wounded body. Yahshua is our unleavened bread from heaven, without sin! Observing the feast of Unleaven Bread helps us realize the need for Yahshua to overcome sin. Yahshua was sacrificed for the forgiveness of sins, deleavening or cleansing our hearts and helps us live Torah obedient lives, through the Holy Spirit dwellling in us.
FEAST OF FIRST FRUIT - BIKURIM
This feast points to Messiah Yahshua's resurretion from the dead. Yahshua is the "first fruit of the resurrection" I Cor.15:20 "Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruit of them that sleep". The wave sheaf offering made up of heads of grain represented the first fruits. These grains were parched by fire, just as believers of Messiah are tried and tested by fiery trials. We are the first fruits who rise to newness of life following the blood redemption of Passover.
PENTECOST - SHAVUOT
Pentecost is the day when the first covenant the Torah and 10 commandments were given to Israel. Exo.19-20. It is also a day when the Holy Spirit was given. Acts 2. Pentecost means 50 and is counted the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread. Seven weeks are counted plus the day after the 7th week totaling 50 days. When Yahshua returns He will bring back our perfected spirits merged with our glorified bodies and we wil become kins and priests during Yahshua's millenium reign in Jerusalem!. During Pentecost we contemplate the holiness of Yahve as described on Ezekiel 1.
FEAST OF TRUMPETS - YOM TERUAH
During the Feast of Trumpets we look forward to the return of Messiah. IThes.4:15-16. "For the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the arcangel with the trumpet of God and dead in Christ shall rise first". On the first day of the month shall be a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation, you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahve". Lev.23-24. Feast of Trumpets is called the day of judgement 10 days of solemn repentance that ends with the day of atonement. Feast of Trumpets is also the day when Adam was created, the New year or Rosh hashana. Feast of Trumpets signals the resurrection of the dead in Messiah and the second coming of Yashua. I Cor.15-21-23. When Yahshua returns at the Feast of Trumpets He will put down a rebellious world and usher the Kingdom of God. The promise of Feast of Trumpets is intimacy with our creator, also in Yom Kippur and Feast of Tabernacles we can experience the closeness of Yahve in the garden of Eden.
ATTONEMENT - YOM KIPPUR
Atonement points to Yahshua who has made atonement for us. Through Yahshua's dead and resurrection we can be reconciled back to our Father Yahve. Atonement also represents the marriage of the Lamb Yahshua to His Bride! "On the 10th day of the 7th month hold a sacred assembly afflict yourselves". Lev.23:26-32. The high priest took 2 male goats one for his own sin offering and the other for the sin offering of the people, called the scapegoat to be led out into the wilderness. This goat represents Yahshua's rightiosness being on us ascending to Yahve. Rom.4:24. This goat represents Yahshua taking our sins upon Himself removing them from us! It is the Sabbath of Sabbaths. On Yom Kippur we remember and mourn the fall of Adam and Eve and the first blood sacrifice by Yahve for man. The Israelites made it a practice to forgive each other on Yom Kippur. It's the only day Satan is powerless against us! Torah was received twice: On Pentecost and Yom Kippur. The blood sacrifices were explained and the tabernacle was set up.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES - SUKKOT
Feast of Tabernacles or Boots is the final feast for 8 days the culmination of the annual cycle of times Yahve invites us into His presence to dwell with Him to Tabernacle with Him eternally.
Lev.23:34. We remember the time when Israel lived in booths for 40 yrs. in His presense. It looks forward to the millenium when we dwell with Him eternally. The Shekina glory was the pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud. Yahshua becoming that pillar of light. Yahve ordained Israel to celebrate 40 yrs our fathers were led by HIs presence in the wilderness. We are commanded to erect booths with 3 walls and a roof so we can see the sight of the Shekinah glory of Yahve! Each of the Feasts is built upon the previous one and each one reveals Yahshua as the Messiah and His nature. Another name for this Feast is "Time of our Rejoicing". Yahshua celebrated His birthday on the Feast of Tabernacles when He appeared with Moses and Eliyah. Tha is why Peter said: "lets build 3 booths one for Yahshua one for moses one for Elijah"! because it was required for the Feast! Tabernacles, Passover and Pentecost are mandated Feasts that we must celebrate since we are going to celebrate them during the Millenium! Yahshua will fulfill the Feast of Tabernacles at His second coming. Tabernacles represents the beggining of the Millenium. We, the first fruits with our glorified bodies will be part of the first resurrection will serve Yahshua as priests in the restoration of all things! Yahshua comes to tabernacle with us at the Feast of Tabernacles. The time of our rejoicing as we celebrate His birth in a booth. We look forward to His return to reign forever in the MIllenium Kingdom after the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preach throughtout the world and the restoration of all things!
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DIETY OF MESSIAH YAHSHUA
Yahshua is the Living Torah, the physical manifestation of Yahve (God) and the fulfillment of the law. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God".
Yahshua is the Living Torah because He is "the Word of God". Remember when you hold the Bible in your hands you are holding Yahshua! The real hebrew name of Jesus is Yahshua which means God's salvation! The Hebrew name of God is Yahve.
Yahshua is the physical manifestation of Yahve because the "Word was God". Yahshua said: "I and my Father are one, if you have seen me you have seen the Father". John 10:30, 14:7-9. Yahve revealed Himself to us only through Yahshua. Col.1:15-18: "who is the image of the invisible God. The first born of every creature".
ITim.3:16 "God was manifest in the flesh". Look at Isaiah 9:6 "For unto us a child is born unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the MIghty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace". Isaiah prophesies Yahshua as Mighty God and Everlasting Father, therefore, Yahshua is divine, fully God and fully man!
Yahshua is the fulfillment of the law of Moses because Yahhsua fulfilled all the prophesies written about Him in the Old Testament the Torah!
Yahshua is the tabernacle or dwelling place of Yahve. Col.2;9 "for in Him dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead bodily". And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory". John 1:14. Phil.2:6-7 "Yahshua who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God".
Yahshua is the "unleavened bread that came from heaven", He had no sin. Leaven represents sin. IPeter:2:22 "Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth".
Yahshua's body was totally made in heaven and sent from heaven by the Holy spirit and deposited in mary's womb! Heb.7:26 Yahshua is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners". Isaiah7:14 "A virgen shall conceive and bear a son and shall call His name Emmanuel" which means God with us!.
John 10:30 "I and my Father are one". John 14:9-11 "I am in the Father and the Father in Me". John 17:21-22 "that they all may be one as you Father are in Me and I in you".
THERE IS NO RAPTURE
The false doctrine of the Rapture was invented in Ireland by a mentally ill Margaret McDonald in 1830. The following scriptures prove there is no Rapture: The word rapture is not in the Bible. The main scripture IThesal.4:15-17 was misinterpreted. This scripture is referring to the second coming of the Lord. It says: "until the coming of the Lord". We need to understand the context in which Paul spoke at that time. "Caught up together with them in the clouds". The word clouds means in groups of people!. "To meet the Lord in the air". The word air means in our glorified bodies!
ICor.15:23, Heb.12:1. Everybody will be changed at the second coming of the Lord. This is the cloud of witnesses.
The Lord Yahshua does not come 3 times only 2. It does not make sense if the Lord takes up the believers to heaven and then comes back to earth to celebrate the Millenium in Jerusalem!.
Rev.12 Mark 13:11, 20. There is a half hr. silence when Satan is cast out to earth.
Rev.9:4-5. "But those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads they should be tormented 5 months". The ones tormented here are unbelievers. Believers must go through the 5 months tribulation but they have the seal of God in their foreheads!.
Mat.24:22 "And except those days should be shorten for the elect's sake those days shall be shorten".
Mark 13:20 "But for the elect's sake He had shortened the days".
Mark 13:11, Luke 12:10-12 "When they deliver you up take no thought what you shall speak, for it is not you that speak but the Holy Spirit". During the tribulation when we are delivered to give testimony of our faith the Holy Spirit talks for us. If we don't let the Holy Spirit talk for us, we will be committing the unpardonable sin which is a sin against the Holy Spirit. The unpardonable sin can be committed only by believers during the tribulation!
IThes.3:13 "At the coming of our Lord Yahshua with all His saints".
IThes.4:13 the dead that rise first they are already with the Lord.
The fly away doctrine of the rapture refers to magic and is forbidden in Ezeq.13:20-25.
Rev. 13:7, Rev.6:6. Satan makes war with the saints or believers.
Rev. 12:17 "Satan make war with the renmant that have the testimony of Yahshua.
ICor.15:22-23. Shall all be made alive they that are Christ's at His coming. Shall all be changed at the second coming.
Rev.7:14 "These are they which came out of the great tribulation". It refers to the believers.
Rev.20:4 "Which had not worshiped the beast neither received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands, they lived and reigned with Christ a 1,000 years"!
Based on the above scriptures we the believers must go through the tribulation. It is the last test Allmighty God gives us so we won't commit the unpardonable sin!