GOD'S HOLY DAYS
| FIRST
DAY
OF UNLEAVENED BREAD God’s holy days are
Sabbaths; just as permanent as the
weekly Sabbath. The first holy day in
God’s calendar is the 15th
Nisan. This is the first day of Unleavened Bread. Lev 23:5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at
twilight is the LORD’s
Passover. Lev 23:6
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is
the Feast of Unleavened
Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat
unleavened bread. Lev 23:7
On the first day you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no
customary work on it. God wants us to
remember the day that He brought the
Israelites out of Egypt. Exo 13:3
And Moses said to the people: “Remember this
day in which you went out
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by
strength of hand the LORD brought
you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be
eaten. The Passover meal is
eaten in this holy day. Mar 14:1
After two days it was the Passover and the
Feast of Unleavened Bread.
And the chief priests and the scribes sought how
they might take Him by
trickery and put Him to death. Lev 23:6
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is
the Feast of Unleavened
Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat
unleavened bread. By eating the Passover,
we accept Christ’s sacrifice for
our sins and agree to live our life as Christ lived
His. Joh 6:57
As the living Father
sent Me, and I live because
of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live
because of Me. The physical promise
from God was: He would bring the
Israelites out of Egypt, and take them to the Promised
Land: a land of milk and
honey. Exo 3:17
and I have said I will bring you up out of
the affliction of Egypt to
the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the
Amorites and the Perizzites
and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing
with milk and honey.” ’ The ancient Israelites
ate the Passover meal; dressed
ready for departure from Egypt. They were protected
from death, because of the
blood of the lamb on their door lintels. They left
Egypt with high spirits, and
headed for the Promised Land. The spiritual
application of the first day of Unleavened
Bread is as follows. We eat the symbols of
Christ’s body and blood which shows
that we accept Christ’s death for the remission of our
sins. Rom 3:25
whom God set forth as a propitiation by His
blood, through faith, to
demonstrate His righteousness, because in His
forbearance God had passed over
the sins that were previously committed, Heb 9:22
And according to the law almost all things
are purified with blood, and
without shedding of blood there is no remission. We agree to live our
lives as Christ lived His life. Joh 6:57
As the living Father
sent Me, and I live because
of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live
because of Me. We are prepared for the
journey to eternal life. Mat 10:38
And he who does not
take his cross and follow
after Me is not worthy of Me. Mar 13:13
And you will be hated
by all for My name’s sake.
But he who endures to the end shall be saved. We leave the ways of
this world. God must come first in
our life from this time on. Mat 10:37
He who loves father
or mother more than Me is
not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter
more than Me is not worthy
of Me. Rom 8:38
For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor
principalities nor powers, nor things present nor
things to come, Rom 8:39
nor height nor depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord. The first day of
Unleavened Bread is the start of our
spiritual journey, out of this physical world, toward
the Kingdom of God. We
must make a commitment to leave the ways of this
world, and we must accept the
blood of Jesus Christ, which pays the penalty for our
sins. The Passover must be
kept. Num 9:13
But the man who is clean and is not on a
journey, and ceases to keep the
Passover, that same person shall be cut off from
among his people, because he
did not bring the offering of the LORD at its
appointed time; that man shall
bear his sin. The first day of
Unleavened Bread is also the day that
Christ was resurrected. He then went to hell or Hades
and preached to the
spirits there who are held for judgement. He was in
Hades or hell for three
days and three nights. He descended to hell Thursday
morning, so He spent
Thursday Friday Saturday there, and He spent Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
nights there in hell, then on Sunday morning He rose
from the dead. LAST
DAY
OF UNLEAVENED BREAD Lev 23:8
But you shall offer an offering made by fire
to the LORD for seven days.
The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you
shall do no customary work on
it.’ ” The last day of
Unleavened Bread coincides with the day
the Israelites were at Marah, where the water was
bitter. Exo 15:23
Now when they came to Marah, they could not
drink the waters of Marah,
for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was
called Marah. At Marah, the water was
made sweet by a tree, God gave
them a statute and an ordinance; and God proved them. Exo 15:25
So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD
showed him a tree. When he
cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.
There He made a statute
and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, God proved [tested] the
Israelites by promising that no
diseases would come upon them if they obeyed His
statutes and commandments. Exo 15:26
and said, “If you diligently heed the voice
of the LORD your God and do
what is right in His sight, give ear to His
commandments and keep all His
statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you
which I have brought on the
Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.” Israel will eventually
be smitten with the diseases. They
have not kept God’s Commandments, and will probably
not repent until the time
of Jacob’s trouble. Deu 28:60
Moreover He will bring back on you all the
diseases of Egypt, of which
you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Jer 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They
have forsaken Me, the
fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves
cisterns broken cisterns that
can hold no water. Jer 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake
You shall be ashamed. “Those
who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth,
Because they have forsaken
the LORD, The fountain of living waters.” The Israelites chose
physical water over living water: By
doing this, they rejected God. This is vastly
different to the woman of Samaria
who wanted living waters. Let’s look at the
account in the New Testament of the
Samaritan woman. Notice that she chose the living
waters over the physical
water. This was the same decision which the Israelites
had to make, but they
chose the physical water over the living water. Joh 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give
Me a drink,’ you would have
asked Him, and He would have given you living
water.” Joh 4:13
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks
of this water will thirst again, Joh 4:14
but whoever drinks of
the water that I shall
give him will never thirst. But the water that I
shall give him will become in
him a fountain of water springing up into
everlasting life.” Joh 4:15
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this
water, that I may not thirst,
nor come here to draw.” The woman of Samaria
lost interest in physical water; she
wanted living water. Joh 4:28
The woman then left her waterpot, went her
way into the city, and said
to the men, The spiritual
application of the last day of Unleavened
Bread; is to accept God the Father as the fountain of
living waters; which
springs up to eternal life. It is our choice to make.
God has called us out of
this world, but it is up to us to make the decision to
obey and believe God.
Unfortunately the Israelites rejected God, even though
He had just brought them
out of slavery and through the Red Sea. Let’s not be
like the Israelites, let’s
love honour and obey our heavenly Father. It is a time to decide
to obey God, the fabulous new
knowledge of eternal life is given by the Father and
Christ, we must believe
it, love it, and love God. Let us not be like the
foolish Israelites, let’s
really treasure our wonderful loving God. Let us
honour Him praise Him and give
thanks to Him for giving us this wonderful knowledge,
and for showing us the
way to eternal life. The days of Unleavened
Bread are when we should be
applying ourselves to get rid of the old leaven of sin
{put off malice and
wickedness} and aim toward being unleavened [sinless.]
We achieve this by being
sincere and honest in our lives. 1Co 5:7
Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you
may be a new lump, since
you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our
Passover, was sacrificed for
us. 1Co 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, nor with the
leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth. PENTECOST Pentecost is the only
holy day that is not on a set date.
It is counted from the Wave Sheaf, and is always on a
Sunday. Lev 23:15
‘And you shall count for yourselves from the
day after the Sabbath, from
the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave
offering: seven Sabbaths shall
be completed. Lev 23:16
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh
Sabbath; then you shall
offer a new grain offering to the LORD. Christ’s disciples
received the Holy Spirit of power on
the day of Pentecost. Act 1:8
But you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to
Me in Jerusalem, and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Act 2:1
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come,
they were all with one accord
in one place. Act 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven,
as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled the whole house where they were
sitting. Act 2:3
Then there appeared to them divided tongues,
as of fire, and one sat
upon each of them. Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. This day is also called
the Feast of Weeks. Exo 34:22
“And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of
the firstfruits of wheat
harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s
end. Two loaves had to be
made for the day of Pentecost; which
represented the firstfruits. Lev 23:16
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh
Sabbath; then you shall
offer a new grain offering to the LORD. Lev 23:17
You shall bring from your dwellings two wave
loaves of two-tenths of an
ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be
baked with leaven. They are
the firstfruits to the LORD. Jesus Christ is called
a firstfruit. 1Co 15:20
But now Christ is risen from the dead, and
has become the firstfruits of
those who have fallen asleep. Christ is the bread of
life. Joh 6:33
For the bread of God
is He who comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world.” Joh 6:51
I am the living bread
which came down from
heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live
forever; and the bread that
I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for
the life of the world.” Salvation is only
available by Christ. Joh 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I
am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me. Act 4:10
let it be known to you all, and to all the
people of Israel, that by the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you
crucified, whom God raised from the
dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. Act 4:11
This is the ‘STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED BY YOU
BUILDERS, WHICH HAS BECOME
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.’ Act 4:12
Nor is there salvation in any other, for
there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” The Pentecost bread is
baked with leaven. Leaven does not
necessarily mean sin. Mat 13:33
Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom
of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and
hid in three measures of meal
till it was all leavened.” One of the Pentecost
loaves pictures Christ. Salvation is
only available through obedience to Christ. Human beings with the
Spirit of power are also
firstfruits. 1Co 15:23
But each one in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits, afterward those
who are Christ’s at His coming. Rev 14:4
These are the ones who were not defiled with
women, for they are
virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb
wherever He goes. These were
redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God
and to the Lamb. Jas 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth by the
word of truth, that we might
be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. God’s elect are the
firstfruits. 1Pe 1:2
elect according to the foreknowledge of God
the Father, in
sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. If not for God’s elect,
God would destroy all flesh. Mat 24:22
And unless those days
were shortened, no flesh
would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those
days will be shortened. Mar 13:20
And unless the Lord
had shortened those days, no
flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake,
whom He chose, He shortened the
days. The importance of the
two Pentecost loaves becomes
apparent. One loaf represents Christ the first of the
firstfruits, and the
other represents God’s elect, who are the human
firstfruits. There is no way to
salvation, but by Christ. The fifty days from the
Wave Sheaf has tremendous
spiritual meaning. The Holy Spirit is
promised fifty days before it is given. Joh 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on
them, and said to them, “Receive
the Holy Spirit. Luk 24:49
Behold, I send the
Promise of My Father upon
you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you
are endued with power from on
high.” Act 1:4
And being assembled together with them, He
commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the
Father, “which,” He
said, “you have
heard from Me; Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. There is a good reason
for the fifty days from the Wave
Sheaf to Pentecost. During this time, the Spirit of
truth is with us. This is
the time that God teaches us the knowledge of the
truth. We already have the
earnest of the Spirit, and now the Spirit of truth is
with us. Joh 14:16
And I will pray the
Father, and He will give you
another Helper, that He may abide with you forever Joh 14:17
the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows
Him; but you know Him, for He
dwells with you and will be in you. Caleb had the Spirit
with him when he searched the
Promised Land. Num 14:24
But My servant Caleb, because he has a
different spirit in him and has
followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where
he went, and his
descendants shall inherit it. There were twelve men
sent into the Promised Land by
Moses: one from each tribe. Num 13:2
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan,
which I am giving to the
children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers
you shall send a man,
every one a leader among them.” They spent forty days
searching the Promised Land. Num 13:25
And they returned from spying out the land
after forty days. Jesus taught about the
Promised Land for forty days. Act 1:3
to whom He also presented Himself alive after
His suffering by many
infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty
days and speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God. What a beautiful truth.
The men spent forty days in the
Promised Land, searching it out. Christ spent forty
days telling His disciples
about the Kingdom of God. Ten men brought an evil
report of the Promised Land. Num 13:27
Then they told him, and said: “We went to the
land where you sent us. It
truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its
fruit. Num 13:32
And they gave the children of Israel a bad
report of the land which they
had spied out, saying, “The land through which we
have gone as spies is a land
that devours its inhabitants, and all the people
whom we saw in it are men of
great stature. Num 13:33
There we saw the giants (the descendants of
Anak came from the giants);
and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and
so we were in their sight.” Only Joshua and Caleb
wanted the Promised Land. Num 14:6
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son
of Jephunneh, who were among
those who had spied out the land, tore their
clothes; Num 14:7
and they spoke to all the congregation of the
children of Israel,
saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land. Num 14:8
If the LORD delights in us, then He will
bring us into this land and
give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and
honey.’ Num 14:9
Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear
the people of the land, for
they are our bread; their protection has departed
from them, and the LORD is
with us. Do not fear them.” Only Joshua and Caleb
eventually went into the Promised
Land. We must want eternal life, or we will not get
it. Num 14:30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and
Joshua the son of Nun, you
shall by no means enter the land which I swore I
would make you dwell in. The men who were
fearful died by the plague. Num 14:37
those very men who brought the evil report
about the land, died by the
plague before the LORD. The disciples all
wanted the Promised Land [eternal life]
and spent ten days waiting for the Spirit to come
after being taught forty days
about the kingdom. Act 1:3
to whom He also presented Himself alive after
His suffering by many
infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty
days and speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Act 1:4
And being assembled together with them, He
commanded them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the
Father, “which,” He
said, “you have
heard from Me; Act 1:5
for John truly
baptized with water, but you
shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many
days from now.” How beautiful is the
meaning of the day of Pentecost, and
the days leading up to this day. When God decides to
offer us eternal life; He calls us out
of this world, and when we are baptised we get the
earnest of the Spirit. He
then puts the Spirit of truth with us, so we can learn
of the Kingdom of God.
God then gives us time to reflect and pray about the
kingdom, and then He gives
us eternal life in the form of the Holy Spirit of
life. God’s tremendous love
and patience is shown at this time.
If we refuse eternal life during the fifty days,
{which may be a different time
for us today but would be a parallel to the 50 days}
we can go back to the
world, and still have a chance for eternal life later
on. By doing this we will
not please God, and have thrown away our chance to be
a firstfruit. We do not
yet have the Spirit of truth in us till God gives it,
which will be a parallel
to the receiving of the Spirit on the day of
Pentecost, so we can’t blaspheme
the Spirit prior to receiving it. During the time of the
exodus God required the men to have
physical courage to enter the Promised Land. Physical
and spiritual courage is
required to enter the Promised Land by God’s spiritual
servants. [Eternal life
in the form of the Spirit of truth.] Jos 1:6
Be strong and of good courage, for to this
people you shall divide as an
inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers
to give them. Rev 21:6
And He said to me, “It is done! I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain
of the water of life freely
to him who thirsts. Rev 21:7
He who overcomes shall inherit all things,
and I will be his God and he
shall be My son. Rev 21:8
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their
part in the lake which
burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death.” Pentecost is a holy
day, and no work is to be done. Lev 23:21
And you shall proclaim on the same day that
it is a holy convocation to
you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall
be a statute forever in all
your dwellings throughout your generations. God’s beautiful plan of
salvation in short. Humanity has always
rebelled against God’s way of life. If
God gave everyone eternal life in the form of the
Spirit of life; most would
blaspheme the Spirit, and die forever in the lake of
fire. That is what
happened in the original creation. God had a different
plan when He renewed the
earth, and created Adam and Eve. Humanity has not been
given God’s Spirit of power; so they
cannot blaspheme it. Most humans will be given God’s
Spirit when they are
resurrected from death back to physical life. God’s
kingdom will be under way
on the earth. People will be given a hundred years to
choose eternal life or
eternal death. There will be some people who will obey
God before His kingdom
is set up. These people will be firstfruits. The day
of Pentecost pictures the
receiving of eternal life, in the form of the Holy
Spirit of power. God’s plan
is as follows. [1] God calls us out of
this world, and we receive the
earnest of God’s Spirit at baptism. This enables us to
begin to learn of the
things of God. If we are hearers, and not doers of
God’s word: we can leave,
and go back to the ways of the world. We will not go
into the lake of fire at
this stage, but we have given up the chance to be
firstfruits to God, and
Christ. We could have persevered, and become
firstfruits otherwise God would
not have called us. [2] God begins to give
us the knowledge of eternal life.
We keep the Passover in the holy day, and begin to
keep the Wave Sheaf. This
could be, and usually is: many years after baptism.
God will decide when this
occurs. It was about three and a half years for
Christ’s disciples. It took
forty years for the Israelites to enter the Promised
Land. [3] God’s Spirit of
life is with us from the Wave Sheaf
till the day of Pentecost. So we can get a glimpse of
eternal life. This
coincides with the time that we are learning the
knowledge of the truth. The
knowledge of the truth is totally new knowledge which
we have not been able to
understand until the time that God begins to reveal
the knowledge of eternal
life to us, this can only be given to us when we Love
God, Believe God and Obey
God. Even at this time we cannot blaspheme God’s
Spirit, because it is with us,
not in us. It will be in us when God gives us the
Spirit of life {or power or
truth.} [4] Eternal life is
given at Pentecost in the form of the
Spirit of life. If we do not persevere to the end, and
go back to the ways of
the world, after receiving the Spirit of life: we will
go into the lake of
fire, which is eternal death. The journey to eternal
life shows just how much love and
patience God has for His creation. If we blaspheme
God’s Spirit after receiving
it, we can blame no one but ourselves. FEAST
OF
TRUMPETS Notice carefully that
the Feast of Trumpets is a memorial;
it has already occurred, so it is not referring to the
return of Jesus Christ.
Read on for the fabulous new knowledge about the true
meaning of this Holy Day. Lev 23:24
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In
the seventh month, on the
first day of the month, you shall have a
sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, a holy convocation. Num 29:1
‘And in the seventh month, on the first day
of the month, you shall have
a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
For you it is a day of
blowing the trumpets. The feast of Trumpets
is the only holy day in the new
moon. The feast of Trumpets is a memorial of the
giving of the old covenant on
Mt. Sinai: with the writing of the Ten Commandments in
stone by the finger of
God. Notice the following
scripture. It states plainly that on
the new moon is a feast day. The Feast of Trumpets is
a memorial, the event
which it pictures has already occurred, this fantastic
event which was
celebrated with the blowing of trumpets was the giving
of the Ten Commandments
on Mount Sinai. Psa 81:3
Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on our
solemn feast day. Psa 81:4
For this is a statute for Israel, A law of
the God of Jacob. Psa 81:5
This He established in Joseph as a testimony,
When He went throughout
the land of Egypt, Where I heard a language I did
not understand. Exo 19:19
And when the blast of the trumpet sounded
long and became louder and
louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. The feast of Trumpets
is a memorial of the giving of the
old covenant. The Israelites agreed to the terms of
the covenant, but they did
not keep those terms. Christ has shed His
blood to ratify the new covenant, and
we have accepted His sacrifice by keeping the
Passover: so we are now offered
the new covenant. The Israelites were not
capable of keeping the old
covenant. In the new covenant, God will put His laws
in our hearts and minds. Heb 8:6
But now He has obtained a more excellent
ministry, inasmuch as He is
also Mediator of a better covenant, which was
established on better promises. Heb 8:7
For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then no place would have
been sought for a second. Heb 8:8
Because finding fault with them, He says:
“BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING,
SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND
WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH Heb 8:9
NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE
WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY
WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE
LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE
THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I
DISREGARDED THEM, SAYS THE LORD. Heb 8:10
FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER
THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN
THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON
THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. The old covenant
promised physical blessings for physical
obedience to God’s laws and statutes; and physical
death for disobedience. The new covenant
promises eternal life for obedience to
God: and eternal death for disobedience. THE
DAY
OF ATONEMENT Lev 23:27
“Also the tenth day of this seventh month
shall be the Day of Atonement.
It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall
afflict your souls, and offer
an offering made by fire to the LORD. Lev 23:28
And you shall do no work on that same day,
for it is the Day of
Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD
your God. Jesus’ death reconciled
us to God; but it is by His life
that we are saved. The atonement is the time God the
Father accepts us for our
salvation. Rom 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified by
His blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through Him. Rom 5:10
For if when we were enemies we were
reconciled to God through the death
of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we
shall be saved by His life. Rom 5:11
And not only that, but we also rejoice in God
through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation. The Day of Atonement
pictures us being at one with God.
This does not happen at our acceptance of Christ’s
death: this happens when we
accept Christ’s life. Christ ascended to the Father to
be accepted for us. It
is then that we have qualified to receive the Holy
Spirit of life. Joh 20:17
Jesus said to her, “Do
not cling to Me, for I
have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My
brethren and say to them, ‘I
am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to
My God and your God.’ ” Joh 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on
them, and said to them, “Receive
the Holy Spirit. We must afflict our
souls on the Day of Atonement, and
realise the seriousness of sin. Jesus Christ was
terribly flogged; He was twice
crucified and died a death so cruel, that it is
impossible to comprehend what
He went through. Jesus Christ loved us while we were
yet sinners. The wave
sheaf pictures Christ ascending to the Father, after
His resurrection, and
after He was raised from the dead, to be accepted on
our behalf. The Day of Atonement
pictures God the Father accepting us
for eternal life. Sin is no longer a barrier between
us, and God. We are now at
one with God, and have been approved to receive the
Holy Spirit of life; thanks
to the perfect sacrifice of our saviour, Jesus Christ. Compare the following
scriptures. Wave sheaf fulfilment
by Joshua upon entering the Promised
Land. The Israelites stopped eating manna [the
teaching we were given while we
had the Spirit of promise.] They then ate the food of
the Promised Land which
was different to manna. The food of the Promised Land
is the knowledge of the
truth, which is the knowledge of eternal life. Jos 5:11
And they ate of the produce of the land on
the day after the Passover,
unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same
day. Wave sheaf fulfilment
by Christ after He had risen. Thanks
to Christ; we now have access to eternal life. Christ
ascended to the Father
after His resurrection and after being raised from
Hades. His sacrifice is now
complete, and God the Father accepts Christ on our
behalf. Joh 20:17
Jesus said to her, “Do
not cling to Me, for I
have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My
brethren and say to them, ‘I
am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to
My God and your God.’ ” Atonement fulfilment
upon entering the Promised Land. [We
have shown from other articles that the man with the
drawn sword is Christ
announcing that God the Father is in the midst of the
Israelites.] Jos 5:13
And it came to pass, when Joshua was by
Jericho, that he lifted his eyes
and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him
with His sword drawn in His
hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are
You for us or for our
adversaries?” Jos 5:14
So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army
of the LORD I have now
come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and
worshiped, and said to Him,
“What does my Lord say to His servant?” Jos 5:15
Then the Commander of the LORD’s army said to
Joshua, “Take your sandal
off your foot, for the place where you stand is
holy.” And Joshua did so. Jesus Christ is telling
the disciples that they are now
approved by God the Father to receive the Holy Spirit.
God the Father is now
our God. Thanks to the perfect sacrifice of Christ, we
now have atonement with
the Father. Joh 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on
them, and said to them, “Receive
the Holy Spirit. The following verses
can now be understood. Rom 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified by
His blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through Him. Rom 5:10
For if when we were enemies we were
reconciled to God through the death
of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we
shall be saved by His life. Rom 5:11
And not only that, but we also rejoice in God
through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation. Christ was resurrected
and then raised from Hell, after
living a sinless life. He paid the penalty for our
sins, and was accepted by
the Father on our behalf. The Day of Atonement
pictures God approving us for
eternal life because of Christ’s sacrifice for us. FIRST
DAY
OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES Lev 23:34
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
‘The fifteenth day of this
seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for
seven days to the LORD. Lev 23:35
On the first day there shall be a holy
convocation. You shall do no
customary work on it. Lev 23:41
You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for
seven days in the year. It
shall be a statute forever in your generations. You
shall celebrate it in the
seventh month. The first day of the
Feast of Tabernacles is a Holy Day.
The next two verses give the meaning of the feast. The
Feast of Tabernacles is
a memorial of the time the Israelites came out of
Egypt, and dwelt in temporary
dwellings. To live in booths means
to sit in booths, so for a portion
of each day of the feast we sit in our booths. Only
during the 7 days of the
feast, not on the Last Great Day, as it has a
different meaning and is a
separate Holy Day. Lev 23:42
You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All
who are native Israelites
shall dwell in booths, Lev 23:43
that your generations may know that I made
the children of Israel dwell
in booths when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.’ ” The time that the
Israelites were in the wilderness:
coincides with the time that we have the down payment
of God’s Spirit called
the earnest of the Spirit. During the Feast, we build
a booth, and sit in it
for a short time every day of the feast. This reminds
us of how the Israelites
lived during the 40 years of wandering. We sit in our
booth and consider that
our sojourn is only a temporary one, we are so very
temporary here on this
earth. Our life is like a vapour it passes so quickly,
and so we ponder that
this physical life is only temporary, the real and
lasting existence is yet to
come in God’s kingdom. Jas 4:14
whereas you do not know what will happen
tomorrow. For what is your
life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little
time and then vanishes away. Let’s be like Abraham,
who was looking to a city whose
builder and maker was God. Heb 11:10
for he waited for the city which has
foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. We are only here for a
short while, the Feast is a
reminder of that very thing, and how God brought the
Israelites through the
wilderness for 40 years to test them. These are the
things the Feast pictures.
Again fabulous new knowledge for the true meaning of
the holy days. Also at this site we
have articles to be read on each day
of the feast. THE
LAST
GREAT DAY Lev 23:36
For seven days you shall offer an offering
made by fire to the LORD. On
the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation,
and you shall offer an
offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred
assembly, and you shall do no
customary work on it. The Feast of
Tabernacles lasts seven days; the eighth day
is the Last Great Day. Joh 6:39
This is the will of
the Father who sent Me, that
of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but
should raise it up at the
last day. Joh 6:40
And this is the will
of Him who sent Me, that
everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may
have everlasting life; and I
will raise him up at the last day.” Joh 6:44
No one can come to Me
unless the Father who sent
Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last
day. Joh 6:54
Whoever eats My flesh
and drinks My blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last
day. Joh 11:24
Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise
again in the resurrection
at the last day.” Joh 12:48
He who rejects Me,
and does not receive My
words, has that which judges him the word that I
have spoken will judge him in
the last day. Dan 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of
the earth shall awake, Some
to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting
contempt. Dan 12:3
Those who are wise shall shine Like the
brightness of the firmament, And
those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars
forever and ever. As the above scriptures
show the Last Great Day pictures
the resurrection of the dead. The Holy days picture
God calling us out of this world.
God then chooses His people, and gives them eternal
life in the form of the
Spirit of life. We must then be faithful to God for
the rest of our physical
life, and subsequently for all eternity. Rev 17:14
These will make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb will overcome them, for
He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who
are with Him are called,
chosen, and faithful.” In every holy day:
there is a promise of eternal life for
being faithful to God: But there is also a promise of
eternal death for those
who don’t persevere to the end once the Spirit of life
has been received. 2Pe 1:10
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to
make your call and
election sure, for if you do these things you will
never stumble; 2Pe 1:11
for so an entrance will be supplied to you
abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. THE
HOLY
DAYS IN A NUTSHELL [1] First day of
Unleavened Bread. [We accept Christ’s
death for the remission of sins, and begin our
spiritual journey toward eternal
life. Trying to put sin out of our lives, and living
our lives as Christ
lived.] Also the day that Christ was resurrected. [2] Last day of
Unleavened Bread. [God proves us to see
whether we will obey Him, and offers us living waters,
which spring up to
eternal life.] [3] Pentecost
[Receiving the Spirit of life; this is when
we now have eternal life inherent.] [4] Trumpets. [A
memorial of the Old Covenant. The giving
of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai.] [5] Atonement.
[Accepting God the Father’s offer of
eternal life in the form of the Holy Spirit of life.] [6] First day of Feast
of Tabernacles. [a memorial of the
Israelites wandering in the wilderness. We realise we
are only living here in a
temporary state, the permanent state of a spiritual
son of God is yet to come.] [7] Last Great Day. [We
are resurrected into the Kingdom
of God.] The holy days will
apply individually to every person
born, regardless of which resurrection they may be in. |