The Christian Life is not Hard - it is Impossible!

[WilliamL]

7 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

You are correct, the festivals were given to God’s chosen people (a chosen people for His own through Abraham, after disinheriting the nations) to celebrate and observe. Are we not also grafted into those feasts by the blood of Christ?

1.      Redemption, the purchase price, Kinsmen Redeemer.

2.      Sanctification, burial, baptism.

3.      Harvest, Christ first of the harvest.

4.      Pentecost, receiving the Holy Spirit.

5.      Saved, Rapture, harvest.

I see a prophetic timeline in the feasts for Israel and the church, with the next prophetic event fulfilling the Rapture of God’s children of all time. I would also call the feasts the redemptive plan and story.

Spring Assemblies – Representations Already Fulfilled in Type

Here and in Part 3 are the 7 מֹועֲדֵי/yearly appointed times of the LORD that are also holy מִקְרָאֵי/assemblies. First, the three

Spring assemblies – representations already fulfilled in type:

1) first day of the חַג/Feast of Unleavened Bread, wherein the Passover sacrifice of a lamb was consumed, and by when all old leaven was to be discarded; 1st month, 15th day. Lev. 23:6-7

Temple part: Altar of Sacrifice.

Representation: Sacrifice of carnal acts and desires of the flesh, by means of repentance. And thereby, resurrection and salvation of the body from physical (= the first) death. John 8:34; Rom. 6:6-7

Fulfillment: The crucifixion of the body of Jesus, bringing to pass a resurrection of the dead. A resurrection to life, coming by means of our consumption of His body and His blood. Matt. 26:26-28; John 6:47-58; 1 Cor. 5:7-8

2) seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread; 1st month, 21st day. Lev. 23:8 The day Israel passed through the Red Sea, thereby being delivered from the worldly influences of Egypt.

Temple part: Laver of Washing.

Representation: Water baptism. “…all were baptized into Moses…in the [Red] sea…” 1 Cor. 10:1-2

Fulfillment: “Baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.” Mark 1:4 The blood of Christ washes away the worldly sins of our souls, including worldly relationships and worldly doctrine. Leaven represents doctrine. Matt. 16:5-12

3) חַג/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost; seven weeks from the first weekly Sabbath after the first Feast day of Unleavened Bread. (That Sabbath being the day of the “Firstfruits Wave Offering.”) Lev. 23:15-21 Bread with new leaven (= the establishment of new doctrine) is offered up in the Temple. Lev. 23:17 The Day that YHWH established in Israel His new doctrine from Mount Sinai: the Ten Commandments. Ex. 24:1-9

Temple parts: Holy Place, with its 1) Lampstand: Holy Spirit anointing; 2) Table of Showbread: the bread/doctrine/Gospel of Christ; and 3) Altar of Incense: sacrifices of praise and intercessory prayer.

Representation: Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Fulfillment: The infilling of Christ’s disciples with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, seven weeks after He first ascended into heaven on the yearly appointed day of the Firstfruits Wave Offering. Acts 1 - 2:4

Autumn assemblies – representations yet to be fulfilled in type:

4) ‘Feast of Trumpets’ (lit., Memorial Sabbatism of Blowing Horns); 7th month, 1st day. Lev. 23:24-25

Temple part: veil between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

Representation: Judgment announced, begins. Dan. 7:10d (A Jewish religious tradition says that the dead will be raised on this day.)

5) Day of Atonement; 7th month, 10th day. Lev. 23:27-32

Temple parts: Most Holy Place, with its Ark of the Covenant, whereon the blood of redemption is sprinkled. Lev. 16:14-15

Representation: Judgment sealed, for both the righteous and the unrighteous. John 5:28-29; Dan. 12:2-3

6) first day of the seven-day חַג/Feast of Tabernacles; 7th month, 15th day. Lev. 23:34-36a

Temple parts: Most Holy Place, and the angels whose wings overcover the Ark. ; Ex. 37:7-9 At this time, the raptured Church will be “standing before the throne [of God] and before the Lamb…” Rev. 7:9; Luke 21:36 “And the One sitting on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.” Rev. 7:15

Representation: Redemption from spiritual slavery and spiritual (= the second) death. At which time, the bodies of the redeemed will be made immortal, and taken to dwell within and under God’s heavenly Tabernacle.

7) Shemini [Eighth Day)] Atzereth [Closing-Up Assembly],” which concludes the yearly cycle of 7 Holy Assembly Days; 7th month, 22nd day, the day after the Feast of Tabernacles ends. Lev. 23:36b

Temple part: “…[there will be] no naos/holy sanctuary in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its naos/holy sanctuary.” Rev. 21:22

Representation: New Heavens and New Earth: complete fulfillment of mankind’s redemption.

Taken all together, the yearly cycle of “rehearsals” portrayed, in type, God’s whole Plan of Redemption for the human race. That process begins with the sacrifice of our carnal nature – which nature resulted from Adam’s and Eve’s choices in Eden – and concludes with the complete restoration of the redeemed ones before the face of God in the New Heavens, New Earth, and New Jerusalem:

Revelation 22:4 They shall gaze upon His face, and His name shall be upon their foreheads.

 

117. Israel’s 7 Appointed Holy Assembly Days, Part 2: Spring Assemblies – Representations Already Fulfilled in Type    https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/3807-israel’s-7-appointed-sacred-assembly-days-part-2-spring-assemblies-–-representations-already-fulfilled-in-type/

118. Israel’s 7 Appointed Holy Assembly Days, Part 3: Autumn Assemblies – Representations Yet to Be Fulfilled in Type    https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/3821-israel’s-7-appointed-holy-assembly-days-part-3-autumn-assemblies-–-representations-yet-to-be-fulfilled-in-type/

[steve morrow]

IMPOSSIBLE  ---  NOT  FOR  BELIEVERS / A  CHRISTIAN

 

PHILIPPIANS 1:29  for unto you it is given in the behalf of  CHRIST  not only to believe on  HIM  but also to suffer for  HIS  sake 

1 PETER 4:1  forasmuch then as  CHRIST  hath suffered for us in the flesh arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 

--4:2-- that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of  GOD

 

1 JOHN 5:14  and this is the confidence that we have in  HIM  that if we ask anything according to  HIS  will he heareth us

--5:15-- and if we know that  HE  hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of  HIM

 

PSALM 30:10  hear  O LORD  and have mercy upon me  LORD  --be thou my helper--

 

1 JOHN 3:22  and whatsoever we ask we receive of  HIM  because we keep  HIS  commandments and do those things that are pleasing in  HIS  sight 

 

GALATIANS 1:10  for do I now persuade men or  GOD  --or do I seek to please men-- for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of  CHRIST

 

DANIEL 9:13 as it is written in the law of Moses all this evil is come upon us yet made we not our prayer before  THE  LORD  our  GOD  that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy truth

 

JOHN 14:13  and whatsoever you shall ask in  MY  name that will I do that  THE  FATHER  may be glorified in  THE  SON 

 

--14:14--  IF  YOU  SHALL  ASK  ANYTHING  IN  **MY  NAME**  I  WILL  DO  IT

 

PSALM 66:18  if I regard iniquity in my heart  THE  LORD  will not hear me 

 

HEBREWS 10:36  for you have need of patience that after you have done the will of  GOD  you might receive the promise 

 

JAMES 1:12  blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life which  THE  LORD  hath promised to them that love  HIM

 

PROVERBS 28:9  he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

 

 

Edited May 26 by steve morrow