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Notes From A Teaching By H. Michael Weiner, Rabbi And Congregational Leader

Shomair Yisrael Messianic Jewish Congregation, Knoxville, TN.

8/24/02

 

Does God want us to keep his appointed times? Why? - Why did God require the slaughter of so many animals? The Temple?  Why 3 times per year? We think we’ve advanced.  Have we really?

 

Isa. 42:21  The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he (who is he?  Hezekiah?) will magnify (show purpose in) the law, and make it honorable.

 

This happens because of a certain person…

• Isa 42:1  Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles

• Isa 42:2  He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

• Isa 42:3  A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

• Isa 42:4  He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

• Isa 42:5  Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

• Isa 42:6  I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 

Modern Judaism and modern Christianity are both confessions of the lost interest in religious reality.  But, we can understand God’s purposes. Daniel speaks of a fourth kingdom…

 

Dan 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

 

The ancient church rejected the Law and the Festivals. Let’s look at the Feasts… from the point of view of the Jew before the Messiah came…  here is what the ancient Rabbis had to say about… Shavuot - Ask a Jewish person about Shavuoth, or Sukkoth for that matter. Rabbi says -        What does it mean?   We are left dry… with the commandment without the meaning. The historical Church rejected the Law on the same basis that the Jews rejected it. Moade means “Feasts in their seasons.”  Times are important.

 

Gal 4:4  But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

 

Mark 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

 

Here is a sandwich in one verse of scripture…

 

Nahum 1:15   - Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!  O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows:  for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

 

Where is the victory?

 

Isa 40:9  O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

 

The appointed seasons speak of the victory of Yeshua over all evil and brings forth the restoration of the Garden of Eden to the entire Earth. There are 7 festivals of creation found in Lev 23 + one found in Lev 25

 

Lev 23:1-2 -   And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

 

1)  Shabbat -

 

Lev 23:3  Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

 

How does the Sabbath speak of the victory of Yeshua?

• Heb 4:4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

• Heb 4:5  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

• Heb 4:6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

• Heb 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

• Heb 4:8  For if Yeshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

• Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

• Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

• Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

This is not a 24 hour Sabbath…but a way of life.  Shabbat speaks of complete provision of God.  By keeping we testify to God’s total provision. But man sinned in the Garden…

 

2) Pesach -

 

Lev 23:5-8  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8  But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

 

1 Cor 5:7-8  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even The Messiah our passover is sacrificed for us: 8Therefore 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.

 

1 Cor 10:1-4  Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was The Messiah. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

 

 Passover speaks of the congregation of Messiah that has been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

 

3)  The Festival of First Fruits -

 

Lev 23:10  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the FirstFruits of your harvest unto the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12  And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13  And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14  And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

 

1 Cor 15:1  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that The Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

 

1 Cor 15:20  But now is The Messiah risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

 

4)  Shavuoth (Pentecost) -

 

Lev 23:15-22 -   And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 17  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the FirstFruits unto the LORD.  (baked with oil and wine representing Jew and non-Jew.) And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savor unto the LORD. 19  Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the FirstFruits for a wave offering before the LORD with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21  And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22  And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shall not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shall thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shall leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

 

Acts 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

James 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

 

1 Cor 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

 

Gal 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in The Messiah Yeshua.

 

5)  Rosh Hashanah

 

Lev 23:24 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

 

1 Cor 15:51  Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

1Thes 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in the Messiah shall rise first: (KJV)

 

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound (blow his trumpet),the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

 

The climactic moment of God’s Kingdom coming. (2^nd coming)

 

Ex 19:10-13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. 13 Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."

Ex 19:16 - Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Ex 19:19-20 - And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.

 Ex 20:18-21 - Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die." 20 And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin." 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

Josh 6:20 - So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Judg 7:18 - When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, 'The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!' "

2 Sam 6:15 - So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

Neh 4:19-20 - Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."  

Ps 150:3 - Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; 

Isa 18:3 - All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth: When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it; And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.

 

6) Yom Kippur -

 

Lev 23:27  Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28  And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29  For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30  And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31  Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32  It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

 

Rev 11:15-18 -   And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his The Messiah; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17  Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 18  And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

 

Rev 1:7  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

 

Zec 12:10-14 -   And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11  In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12  And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13  The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14  All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

 

Zec 13:1  In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

 

There is coming a day of salvation for Israel that they cannot imagine.

 

Rom 11:25-28  -   For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27  For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 28  As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

 

7)  Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) -

 

Lev 23:34  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

 

 Once the Jewish people came into the land of promise, we remember what it was like to be wanderers, strangers and pilgrims unto God.

 

Heb 11:9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

 

Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

 

        A memorial for the overcoming Bride of Messiah.

 

8)  Jubilee -

 

Lev 25:8  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

 

Rev 22:1  And he showed me a pure river (Yovail) of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

 

Rev 22:4  And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

 

        Eight feasts which speak of the victory of Yeshua over evil.

 

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