1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Passover Jesus fulfilled, he fulfilled the Feast of First Fruits, and he fulfilled the 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:12,800 Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, by sending his Holy Spirit. So those are complete. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:19,040 But we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are illustrated by the Fall Feasts. 4 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:34,560 God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, 5 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:41,560 where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage 6 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:47,200 in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Bus. And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today. 7 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:53,680 You know, we're in that season, we've entered that season of the Feasts of Israel. And some 8 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,640 people are probably scratching their heads. 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We are just absolutely 31 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:29,320 dedicated to being a part of what God is doing in his land because it's a prophetic picture of 32 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:35,960 of God's faithfulness. Yes. When you, if you love the word of God, you're going to see in his word 33 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:41,560 that he has made all kinds of promises to Israel and he's fulfilling them. We're watching prophecy 34 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:48,520 happen all the time now in our generation. You know, our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, talked about 35 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:56,200 how when she was a little girl in the 1920s, she heard the elders in her house, you know, after 36 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,360 after church service would be talking about how the Bible talks about how the Jews are going to 37 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,600 come back to the land of Israel, wondering when that's going to happen, or maybe they were seeing 38 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,920 that it was starting to happen and she heard it as a little girl. Yeah. And then it was called 39 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:15,960 Palestine. Yeah, back then. That's because it was in the 1920s that the British mandate happened. 40 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:21,560 And that may be what triggered everybody thinking that way was the British mandate. Yeah. And 41 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,640 yeah, and particularly the British renaming at Palestine, because that's what was on their, 42 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,800 their Bible maps, because that's what Rome had renamed it. 43 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,280 Palestina. Yeah. And then, you know, the Ottoman Empire took it over and they didn't call it 44 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:43,720 Palestine. They called it something about Syria, you know. So anyway, bottom line is we love Israel. 45 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:50,120 We're dedicated to Israel. God has given us even a house in Israel. And, you know, that's miraculous 46 00:04:50,120 --> 00:05:00,840 in itself, but we understand that we as Gentiles are grafted into the root of the olive tree. 47 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:06,360 The Bible talks about the olive tree as a symbol of Israel, that we, according to Romans 11, 48 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,560 we are grafted in. Some of the branches were broken off. Some, not all of them, some were 49 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:17,720 broken off so that there was room for the Gentiles to be grafted in because God really always had it 50 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:26,120 on his heart to get everybody on the planet into his kingdom. And so Israel was being used by God 51 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:34,600 as a symbol, as a picture of what he wants to do in the earth. And much of it is also a picture of 52 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,880 what's going on in heaven and to bring it to earth, on earth as it is in heaven, like Jesus taught us 53 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:47,400 to pray. So we want to look at how these feasts are and what's our part in them. Is this important 54 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:53,240 or is this something Old Testament and we don't have to do it anymore? Or, you know, what is our 55 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:00,680 job here? So we're going to dig. It's important that we compare Scripture with Scripture and that 56 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:07,160 we get the picture of what God is doing because there's a whole lot of traditions as lots of 57 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:17,080 believers in Jesus and Yeshua have begun to look to Israel to teach us more about what does it mean? 58 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,640 What does it mean to serve God? And rightly so, because they were the ones that were given the 59 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:29,000 word. I think Paul says probably in Romans 11 that unto them, the Jewish people, that unto them was 60 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:35,480 given the oracles of God. Exactly. So they understand a whole lot about what it really means. 61 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:43,800 The problem is that there's a whole bunch of pharisaical traditions that even Jesus was saying, 62 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:49,960 no, your traditions are negating the word of God. So we need to sort out what's tradition 63 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:56,840 and what's the word because there's a whole lot of traditions and traditions can be beautiful. 64 00:06:56,840 --> 00:07:03,160 Traditions can have really good roots and really good understanding that they can highlight things. 65 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:10,680 But when it comes right down to it, we don't need to keep the traditions of men. 66 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,680 We need to keep the word of God. And so we need to be very careful. And we don't want to be 67 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:24,840 law police, like the Pharisees were. They were so concerned that they not offend God, 68 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:30,840 that they got busy offending Jesus who is God because they didn't understand because all they 69 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:37,800 were doing was going by what the rabbi said instead of what the word said. So we have to be careful 70 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:48,760 that we don't be rabbinic Jewish wannabes and try and keep all these traditions that Jesus 71 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:57,320 didn't even approve of. So that's the introduction to the importance of looking at this with a clear 72 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:04,120 understanding of what is all of this? How do we fit in? How do we fit in? And I want to make this 73 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:11,880 comment that much of what God did through the Jewish people, through Israel, because the Jewish 74 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:18,920 people is only one tribe and a smattering of other tribes among them. But the thing that God did 75 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:26,040 through Israel was to illustrate things about his kingdom. And so what we're looking at is the 76 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:32,840 illustrations so that we can get an understanding of what our Father's heart is. And there's just so 77 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:38,680 much we're going to dig, dig, dig. And I think we're going to find some beautiful revelatory 78 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:45,480 ideas here. But what really these things are is like a rehearsal for what's going to happen when 79 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:50,840 he comes with his kingdom. And if you look at the spring feast, we're not going to look at the spring 80 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:56,040 feast today. We're just going to look at the fall feast because this is fall, at least in our 81 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,960 hemisphere, in the Northern hemisphere. For those of you who might be listening in the Southern 82 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:10,200 hemisphere, just imagine that this is fall for you because in Israel it's fall. So the spring 83 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:18,760 feasts, Jesus fulfilled the spring feasts. So he died as the Passover sacrifice. Not only the 84 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:26,120 Passover lamb wasn't necessarily a sin offering, but there is an atonement offering of a goat that's 85 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:32,280 given on the same day. And that's really what Jesus was to forgive us of our sins. I don't want to 86 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:38,120 take time with all of that, but Passover Jesus fulfilled. He fulfilled the feast of first fruits 87 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:44,280 and he fulfilled the feast of Pentecost, the feast of weeks by sending his Holy Spirit. 88 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:51,400 So those are complete, but we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are 89 00:09:51,400 --> 00:10:01,560 illustrated by the fall feasts. So we're making this recording on the eve of Yom Teruah. And 90 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,880 I'm sorry you won't be hearing it until a few days from now, but it's important for us to understand 91 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:14,760 what all of these are about. I thought it was called Rosh Hashanah. Isn't it New Year's Day? 92 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:25,160 Okay. Well, sorta. It is, but it isn't. Okay. So it is the civil new year. You know, you have multiple 93 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:32,200 new years, right? We have on our calendar, January 1st is New Year's Day, but we also have maybe the 94 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:37,400 beginning of a fiscal year at a different time. And you might have the beginning of the school year. 95 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:43,640 So there are different beginnings of years. But the reason why you have this as the beginning of 96 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:51,080 the civil year, as I understand it, has to do with when they came back from Babylon. Because at the 97 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:59,000 very beginning of their keeping of the laws in Exodus 12, 1 to 3, the Lord spoke unto Moses and 98 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,080 Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, this month, which it was spring, it was the month of Aviv, 99 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,560 this month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It should be the first month of the year 100 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:14,600 to you speak to the congregation of Israel saying in the 10th day of this month, take every man a 101 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,400 lamb according to their house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. So that was the beginning of 102 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:25,960 the month where Passover is. Aviv means spring. So it's the month of Aviv and it's the beginning. 103 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,200 But when they came back from Babylon, they started calling it Nisan because that's what they called 104 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:39,080 it in Babylon. So the city Tel Aviv, yes, is Tel, which is, was built. A tel is a like a 105 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,360 mound that a city used to be built on. It was crushed and rebuilt. But they built it out of 106 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,680 the sand. Yeah, they built it on the sand. I don't know why they call it Tel. We saw the original 107 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:54,360 picture of the settlers when they started Tel Aviv. There was like maybe 50 of them. 108 00:11:54,360 --> 00:12:00,360 They had shovels and stuff and they built that on the sand. Yes, they did. Nothing else around them. 109 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:08,440 Amazing. Yeah, Joppa wasn't far from them, but they started an entire new city. 110 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:13,480 Wow. And now Tel Aviv is. And Tel Aviv, but it means spring. It means spring. 111 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:20,520 So that was a little bunny trail there. Yeah, a little bunny trail. So this idea of it being 112 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:29,400 Rosh Hashana, what Rosh means head and Hashana means the year. So head of the year is what Rosh 113 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:37,240 Hashana means. It became that because, you know, it's kind of like a tradition that comes from a 114 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:44,840 biblical event, but it's not a biblical principle. Well, sort of. It's a sort of biblical principle. 115 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:51,160 The rabbis figured it out that it works for them. I really want to see us celebrating New Year's 116 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:58,120 on the beginning of Aviv. And we do, but we can also celebrate. I mean, hey, let's just have as 117 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:04,920 much celebration as we can, right? So in Ezra chapter three, verses one and two, it says, 118 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:11,080 when the seventh month had come and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered 119 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:18,920 together as one man to Jerusalem. OK, this is the seventh month. Then Yeshua, the son of Yozadak 120 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:25,480 and his brethren, the priests and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built 121 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:32,280 the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it as it is written in the law of 122 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:38,760 Moses, the man of God. And then in verse four, it says, they also kept the feast of tabernacles as 123 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:44,440 it is written and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. 124 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,160 Afterwards, they offered the regular burnt offering and those for new moons and for all 125 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:54,200 the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated and those of everyone who willingly 126 00:13:54,200 --> 00:14:01,000 offered a freewill offering to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer 127 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,120 burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple had not been laid. So what happened 128 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:12,040 was they came back from Babylon and everything was destroyed. Everything was a mess. So they were in 129 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,360 all of their cities, spread out wherever they were. And they all came together in the seventh month to 130 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:24,280 come and build the altar. That's the first thing that they built the altar. So they built the altar 131 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:31,960 and they started to offer sacrifices. So that I believe is the reason why they start the new year 132 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,320 on Russia. They're calling it Rosh Hashanah, but it's the first day of the seventh month. 133 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:38,520 It's a new start. 134 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:45,720 Right. So then in Nehemiah 8.2, it says, and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, 135 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,600 both of men and women and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the 136 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:56,120 seventh month. So he began reading to them also on the first day of the seventh month. 137 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:03,080 So that's why they have started doing the civil year beginning there, because it was a new 138 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:08,840 beginning for them. It was a wonderful new beginning. You start with offering sacrifices 139 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:14,440 and you start with going back to the word of God. You know, some people will celebrate their 140 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:20,040 their born again birthday in that way. You know, I started a whole new life on this day. It's kind 141 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:27,800 of like drawing a line in the sand. And here is where I begin. I began my new life or maybe it was 142 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,760 the baptism of the Holy Spirit or something that happened in your life that has caused you to have 143 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:38,360 a life change. So why would God choose the seventh month for this? 144 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:44,920 Well, he made the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. So it's a Shabbat. 145 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:50,760 OK, so that's a holiday really in itself. And once a week, there is a holiday, a holy day. 146 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,200 Right. And I remember being in Israel at the time of the feast, being in the choir and were there 147 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:02,200 like three weeks ahead of time. And you would have you have these different holidays, then you have a 148 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:07,480 Shabbat in there. And sometimes they call it a double Shabbat. Yeah. If the holiday was right 149 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:15,080 next to it. So that's two days off. Right. Right. So God has a thing about sevens. 150 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:22,680 It's pretty interesting how all of this comes together in a series of sevens. 151 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:29,960 So you've got what God did like there's a there's a seventh year. That's a sabbatical year for your 152 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:36,040 land to let the land rest. A Shemitah year, they call it. And when they went into Babylon, 153 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:41,400 it was because first of all, it was idolatry and not keeping the word of God. But part of the stuff 154 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,240 they didn't keep was letting the land rest every seventh year like they were supposed to. 155 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:54,920 So the land rested for 70 years and 70 Shemitahs they didn't do. So it was like 490 years. They 156 00:16:54,920 --> 00:17:01,000 didn't keep that law. That's a long time. That's a lot of generations of disobedience. Yeah. We 157 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,320 we thank God working within a quick time frame. But yeah, this is hundreds of years. Yeah. Time 158 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:14,920 frame. So he is into doing things in cycles of seven. So giving these feasts in the seventh 159 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:20,680 month, it's like he's sanctifying the month as well. Yeah. If you're in Israel at this time of 160 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:26,840 year, you have to work around the non-work days to get anything done. You might as well postpone 161 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:35,880 projects until after the feast. Yeah. And you have all this massive traffic because these holidays, 162 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:41,560 people come from around the world to Israel to celebrate with their families. And so it 163 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:48,520 creates all kinds of traffic. And then if you try to get a hotel and all that, just like the USA, 164 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:56,120 you know, when there's a prime time, the prices go up. Exactly. Exactly. Should be a law about that. 165 00:17:56,120 --> 00:18:03,800 I'm sure when Jesus comes, it'll be fixed. Yeah. So there's something that God loves about wordplay. 166 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:10,680 You know, he is the word. Remember, Jesus is the word. The word was made flesh. In the beginning 167 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:15,000 was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. And the same was in the beginning 168 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:21,960 with God. So he loves wordplay. If you could read Hebrew, you would understand that there's all kinds 169 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:29,640 of wordplay going on in the word. It's just amazing. And so we're going to take a little bit of a dive 170 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:39,320 here into this idea of these sevens and what God does. Like Shabbat is an amazing word and it's 171 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:48,840 connected to the idea of rest, right? So if you're into taking notes, the Strong's Concordance 172 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:58,120 number for Shabbat is 7676. And it means to repose or to desist from exertion. The Bible scholar 173 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:06,440 Gosenius from the 19th century, he says Shabbat means to rest, to keep as a day of rest. The 174 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:12,600 primary idea appears to be that of to sit down, to sit still. And that doesn't mean at a computer 175 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:19,240 either. Yeah, that's probably true. To cease, to desist, leave off, to desist from doing anything. 176 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,200 And it also means, of course, to celebrate the Sabbath. But you celebrate the Sabbath by stopping 177 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:29,960 everything else. And it's a madhouse to get everything ready just before Shabbat. Yeah, 178 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,840 I've got to hurry up so I can rest. Yeah, because in Israel everything shuts down at three o'clock 179 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:41,000 in the afternoon on a Friday. Everything is closed. The last bus's transportation is done by three 180 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,560 o'clock. And you have to be done with everything. Then you get it prepared. And then once it's all 181 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:57,080 prepared, Shabbat starts, you light the candles. So now we can rest. Yeah. Hurry up and rest. 182 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:05,960 Yeah. So where does it begin? Where do we see this beginning? It starts in Genesis 2, 2. It says, 183 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:11,640 on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had done. And he rested on the seventh day from 184 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:18,280 all his work which he had done. Now, you don't get anything from that of understanding when you read 185 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:24,200 it in English. But if you insert the Hebrew words, you'll start to see words that connect. 186 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:32,520 Uh-huh. Okay. So on the seventh day, so that's Shav-ee. Seventh is Shav-ee. Now, let me just 187 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:40,520 give you this little piece. Greek has the alphabet, but Hebrew has the aleph bet. So the second letter 188 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:49,320 is bet. And if you see it written, it has a ball in the middle of it, like a dot. I call it a ball 189 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:56,120 to help me remember that when it's got a ball in it, it's a b sound. Okay. So it's Shabbat, okay? 190 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:02,920 But if there's no ball there, it becomes a vet. So it's a V sound instead of a B sound. So some of 191 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,440 these are going to have V sounds and some of them are going to have B sounds, but it's the same 192 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:12,040 letter in Hebrew. It's just whether it has a ball or not. A jot or a tittle. Exactly. It's one of 193 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:19,560 those kinds of things. So on the seventh day, Shav-ee, seventh, God ended his work, which he had done, and he 194 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:28,520 rested Shabbot. And that is seven, six, seven, three. On the seventh day, Shav-ee, from all his work, 195 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:36,920 which he had done. So Shav-ee is the word seventh. Okay. So we're already seeing this idea of seven. 196 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:42,920 There's something special to God about seven. Right from the beginning, right from Genesis chapter two, 197 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:50,600 the next one that is connected to it, I'm going to give you a few words here, is Shav-et. And that's 198 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:58,200 seven, six, seven, five. It means seat. Like the seat of Solomon's throne was called Shav-et. 199 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,720 Oh, okay. And it also means dwelling. It's a place or a habitation. In other words, a place where you 200 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:11,640 settle in or you settle on. So it's a place of rest, right? So that's Shav-et. So here's another word, 201 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:20,600 Shavua, which is seven, six, two, zero. That is, it means seven. It means a period of seven days or 202 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:28,680 seven years. So that's the word that you have for week. The feast of weeks is Shavuot. It means 203 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:37,000 when you want to make Shavua, plural, you add Oat to it. So Shavuot. So that's where you get this 204 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:45,480 feast of weeks. And that's where you get the word week. So if you're saying Shabbat is over and 205 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:52,200 you're saying have a good week, you're saying Shavuotov. Shavuotov. Okay. So the next word is 206 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:59,960 Shava. Shavua comes from Shava and that is seven, six, five, zero. And it means to swear or to take 207 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:07,640 an oath, like to swear by the name of Yehovah or Yehovah swearing by himself. Okay. And the Brown 208 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:16,600 Driver Briggs lexicon says that this verb swear probably means to, you could say to seven oneself 209 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:25,240 or to bind yourself by seven things. So in Genesis 21, you have the story of Abraham and he's had all 210 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:32,600 of these digging of wells. Okay. And the Philistines come and take them over and he'd build, 211 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,680 he digs another well and the Philistines come and take them over. Well, it's his men. It's his 212 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,960 people that are doing it, not him, but it's his well, cause it's his stuff and it's his people. 213 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:49,960 So he gets to the last well and Abimelek, the king of the Philistines comes to visit him. 214 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:56,040 And they're having, you know, a little discussion about all the problems that they're having with 215 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,440 the wells and Abimelek says, well, I didn't know anything about it. Yeah. And he may not have. 216 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:05,320 It's possible. It's possible. He didn't know about it. There's lots of things that go on that the 217 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:13,960 leader doesn't know about, but so they come to a place of agreement because Abraham wants the 218 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:23,080 Philistines to leave his well alone. So he comes with seven ewe lambs and he presents them to Abimelek 219 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:28,120 and Abimelek says, what are the seven ewe lambs for? What's this about? So if you think about 220 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:34,440 Abraham has lots and lots of flocks, he's very rich with sheep, lots of flocks, but he's very rich 221 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:43,640 with lots of flocks and he's going to bring something to Abimelek that is a value that he can take to his 222 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:51,320 flock. You know, it's, it's good to introduce new DNA into your herd or your flock, right? You know, 223 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:56,200 you don't want the same DNA going in this in generation after generations. You want to introduce 224 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,840 new DNA into your stock. So he's offering him something good, but Abimelek is saying, why, 225 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:08,120 why seven ewe lambs? And Abraham says, he wants this to be a witness. This is, this is my testimony 226 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:16,200 that I own this well and we're going to swear together that I own this well and your people 227 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:21,160 are going to leave it alone. You're going to order your people to take care of, to leave us alone. 228 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,920 Okay. So we can use this well. So they swore to each other, they made this oath together 229 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:35,880 and he took the ewe lambs and Abraham named the well, Be'er Sheva. Okay. Be'er Sheva we say today. 230 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:43,880 Yeah. But Be'er means well and Sheva of course means seven, but it also means to swear together, 231 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:49,480 to make an oath together. So that's just one more connection of the sevens, right? 232 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:55,080 And we've been to this well. Oh yeah, we have. It's the well of the oath. It's from Dan to Be'er Sheva. 233 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:03,880 Right. That was very, that's going way south. Yeah. It is. And so then you have the word Shabbat, 234 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:10,200 which is seven, six, seven, six. And it is the intensive of that one that we introduced at the 235 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:17,720 very beginning of Shabbot seven, six, seven, three. And the Strong defines it as intermission, 236 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:26,040 like a Sabbath. Okay. So it's that seventh day, you're taking a break. What's an intermission? 237 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,840 You know, you have a play or a long, long movie and they take an intermission, you just take a break. 238 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:38,120 So Sabbath is your break. This is your break time. You're setting it aside. It is special to God 239 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:46,440 and it's special to us. So now we have another word that I haven't run across a whole lot. 240 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:53,400 Yeah. I've never seen this one. Okay. So this one is Shabbaton. Shabbaton. And it's seven, six, seven, seven. 241 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,680 And it comes from seven, six, seven, six. We talk about sevens. Yeah. Even the numbers. 242 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,440 Even the numbers in Strong. The Hebrew numbers, Strong's numbers are sevens. That's true. 243 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:11,560 So it's a special holiday, a special day of rest, a special Sabbath. So it is your weekly Sabbath, 244 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:19,160 but it's also the day of atonement is a Shabbaton. Sabbatical years would be considered Shabbaton. 245 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:25,400 The feast of trumpets has Shabbaton. The first and last days of the feast of tabernacles are Shabbaton. 246 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:31,560 They are like a solemn Sabbath or a great Sabbath. I'm thinking you could call it a super Sabbath 247 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:37,800 for us to understand in English. Okay. Okay. It's a, it's a Sabbath on steroids. Okay. 248 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:45,720 So it's interesting to me that first of all, Yom Teruah as it's being celebrated as Rosh Hashanah, 249 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:51,240 they celebrate it for two days. The Bible gives it one day. Okay. So let's stretch it. Let's just 250 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:58,120 make it longer. Right. And particularly the, the feasts that are held for the people of Israel, 251 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:03,400 they might celebrate for one day and people outside of Israel, the Jewish people might have 252 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,960 to celebrate it for two days because the rabbi said, you don't know exactly when it's going to 253 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,640 happen in Israel. So you better just celebrate for two days and make sure you cover it. 254 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:21,000 Not necessary, but you know, why not celebrate longer? It's okay. So on the feast of Yom Teruah 255 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:30,600 or Rosh Hashanah, they read the story of the binding of Isaac. So that was when God took 256 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:36,120 Abraham, take your son, your only son that you love, take him up to the place I'm going to show 257 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:43,880 you in the mountains of Moriah and sacrifice him there unto me. And so we have this amazing story 258 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:50,120 of how God is testing Abraham and Abraham must have figured that out in his mind that, okay, 259 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:56,600 this is the son of promise. This is my son that I love and it must be okay with God for me to 260 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:02,200 sacrifice him. So maybe he's going to raise him from the dead because that's the only way that he 261 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,120 can actually fulfill all these promises that he's made to me. 262 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,680 He was already old when Isaac was born. So he's older now. 263 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:18,840 Right, even older. So Isaac is bound. Abraham is about to do him in. The angel comes and says, 264 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:24,600 stop. God says, I see that you have been faithful. I've been faithful to you. 265 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:30,920 I've been faithful. I've counted it as though you've done it. And of course we've talked about this 266 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:37,720 before, that this is something that was done on, I believe the temple Mount area, probably over 267 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:45,240 where they quarried out the rock and that's the same place that Jesus was crucified. And so it was 268 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:51,560 acting out as a rehearsal, what God was going to do in the big picture. Wow. Isn't that amazing? 269 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:57,720 But it's interesting to me that they do this on Yom Teruah when the ram was caught by its horn. 270 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:06,120 And some people say that this is the first shofar because the shofar is made from the ram's horn. 271 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:13,320 Okay. Something had to die in order for you to get a shofar. So you have this story that's being 272 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:19,240 told about the first shofar on the day of Yom Teruah. 273 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,320 So what is Yom Teruah? The feast of trumpets? 274 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:30,120 Yeah. It's known as the feast of trumpets, but there's more to it than that. And a good way to 275 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:38,520 illustrate that is to look at Joshua 6, where Joshua has gone across into the promised land 276 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:45,960 with the children of Israel and they've done step one and step two. And now they are about to take 277 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:50,760 over Jericho, the first city that they're going to take over. And God said, it's all mine. 278 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:58,840 Don't touch anything. That's another story. But what he said was in Joshua 6, 5, 279 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:04,200 and it shall come to pass that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, 280 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:10,360 okay, that was the part that was caught in the thicket. So it's substituted. It was the substitute 281 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:15,800 for Isaac. Get the principle of substitution. It's all through the Bible. It's all through 282 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:21,160 the Bible that there's a substitute. You don't have to do it yourself. You can have a substitute. 283 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,840 So when you hear the sound of the trumpet, well, that word in Hebrew is shofar. 284 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,280 If you could read the Hebrew script, it is the word shofar. All the people shall shout 285 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,760 with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat and the people shall ascend up 286 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:47,880 every man straight before him. So the word shout there is the verb ruach. Okay. Okay. And it means 287 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:55,400 it's the verb to shout. Okay. So they're going to make this loud shout sound. The Strong's 288 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:02,520 definition on that one, it means to mar, especially by breaking. It means to split the ears with sound. 289 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:09,480 It means to shout for alarm or joy, to blow an alarm, to cry aloud, to destroy, to make a joyful 290 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:16,600 noise, sound an alarm, triumph. Gesenius says to make a loud noise, to cry out with a loud voice, 291 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,040 to vociferate. That's a good word for you. I remember we were, we had a group of Chinese with 292 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:28,440 us. Oh my, yes. And we're going down to, going down to Texas way. And they were just intercessors 293 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:34,280 and they're praying and, and right behind me, you were driving. I was driving. One of the 294 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,600 intercessors pulls out his long shofar and blows it right behind my head. And I just about ran 295 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:49,480 off the road. I mean, yes, that was a trua. That was a trua. And the other thing that Gesenius says 296 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:56,680 is that is to make a warlike clamor or by or over a conquered enemy. So this, this is the meaning of 297 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:06,040 ruach. And, and then you take it into the word shout with a great shout. That's the word to ruach. 298 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:11,560 So the feast of, of trumpets could also be called the feast of shouting or the feast of shouts. 299 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:17,160 Yeah. Okay. Great. Because if you understand this principle and you want to have a shofar, 300 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:22,120 but you don't have one yet, anytime it's called for a shofar, you can shout and it will do the 301 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:27,800 same thing in the spirit. It's so powerful. You can use your voice too. You can use your voice. 302 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:37,240 Yes, that too. So the word to ruach means alarm signal, sound of tempest, 303 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:44,200 shout, shout or blast of war or alarm of joy, a war cry, a battle cry, an alarm for war, 304 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:50,840 a blast. Like you're going to start out marching. It's a shout for joy. And that's from the outline 305 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:56,680 of biblical usage from the blue letter Bible. And the Strong's definitions is to make a clamor, 306 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:03,160 a clamor such as an acclamation of joy or a battle cry, especially clanger of trumpets 307 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:11,160 as an alarm, blowing the trumpets. And it's also the sound for making the day of jubilee. 308 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:18,280 It's a jubilee sound is this thing also. It's a loud noise. It's a tumult, a loud noise, 309 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:23,640 joyful noise, rejoicing, joyful acclamations with which the people receive the king. 310 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:31,400 Okay. So there's lots of things having to do with shouting and joyful shouting and rejoicing or 311 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:39,160 you're going after the enemy. You make these strong sounds. 312 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,680 Kind of like the Maori's of New Zealand. I was thinking that too. 313 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:49,640 You know, they do the Hakka, you know, that war sick their tongues out and they do that before a 314 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,280 soccer match, you know, to intimidate the, it is very intimidating. 315 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,560 Yes. Shouting like that is intimidating. So this is, this is the kind of thing that we're going to 316 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:06,840 see in this Yom Teruah. It's a time of the blowing of the shofar. It's a time of shouting, 317 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,080 shouting joyfully, but there's something else that's special about it. 318 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,760 Isn't it, it's the only feast that's held on a new moon. 319 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:15,240 Yes. 320 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:20,840 You know, Passover, Pentecost, Shavuot, you know, that's the feast of weeks and Sukkot are all held 321 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:27,560 on the full moon. And I remember out in the desert, you know, when this would start, 322 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,560 it was the opening night of the feast. Full moon over the Dead Sea. 323 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:32,120 So beautiful. 324 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,200 It was just the most amazing thing. 325 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,160 So beautiful. So beautiful. But now this Yom Teruah is the feast of the hidden moon. 326 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:47,480 And so it's called the hidden moon because the way it was done in biblical days to know when a new 327 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:52,760 moon was, they would have someone out in the desert where, where it's pretty clear. You don't 328 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:59,480 have a whole lot of clouds usually. And when you know that the moon has disappeared, you've seen 329 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:05,960 the last of the little toenail of the moon, you know, little tiny bit of crescent and it disappears. 330 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,360 Yeah. 331 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:14,280 And then when it comes back, that's the new moon. And you could only observe the new moon 332 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,240 to be able to say it's the new moon. So let's celebrate. 333 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:18,040 Okay. 334 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,280 So it's the feast that you don't know the day or the hour. 335 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,960 Ah, isn't that neat? 336 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:30,680 Yeah. So, you know, that reminds us of something that Jesus said about his own coming. He said in 337 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:36,200 Matthew 25, 13, watch therefore, for you know, neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of 338 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:43,320 man comes. And then in Mark 13, 32, he said, but of that day and that hour knows no man. No, not the 339 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,920 angels which are in heaven, neither the son, but the father. And then first Thessalonians 4, 16, 340 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:54,280 it says for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Oh, there's Teruah. 341 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:54,840 Teruah. 342 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,280 With the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God. 343 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,320 Trump of God. 344 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:06,200 So there's your shofar. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. So when we're celebrating this 345 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:13,240 feast of trumpets or feast of shouting, we are looking forward to the coming of Jesus. 346 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,040 Hallelujah. 347 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:20,440 We're rehearsing for it. You know, it's something that it enters into our thinking. You know, 348 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,440 we don't always think about it. Maybe we should always think about it, but we don't always think 349 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,680 about, you know, is Jesus coming today? Maybe we should, maybe we should make that decision. 350 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:34,680 Maybe we should make that a habit that we think, okay, is Jesus coming today? Let's live like he's 351 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,080 coming today. So that is what this Yom Teruah is about. 352 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:45,000 So the feast of trumpets or shouting starts the 10 days of awe that lead to the most solemn day 353 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,160 of the year, Yom Kippur. 354 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,240 Yeah. So Yom Kippur is the next feast. Actually, it's a fast. 355 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,240 Yeah. Yeah. 356 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:58,760 And, you know, during those, during those 10 days of awe, everybody's repenting to each other. 357 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:04,600 If they've had a fallout with their neighbor or a family member or somebody in a business, 358 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:11,400 they'll go to them to each other and humble themselves and ask for forgiveness and give 359 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:16,200 forgiveness. And some people even start at the entire month before the month of Elul. 360 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:22,440 They'll start this repenting process. And during the month of Elul, they're blowing the shofar 361 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:27,000 every day, getting ready for the feast of trumpets. So it's a, it's a big deal. 362 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,840 It's a really big deal. 363 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:34,200 Yeah. You know, being in Israel, so I've been to the feast about probably about 10 times. 364 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:40,920 I was a volunteer in the choir and we get to see this, you know, experience this with the people. 365 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:46,040 And on the eve of Yom Kippur, of course, they fast, they don't even swallow their own spit. 366 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:46,680 Some of them. 367 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:47,880 Some of them. Yeah. 368 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:54,120 It's very, it's the most solemn day of the holiday of the year. And you could hear them, 369 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,400 you know, in the synagogues, because, you know, in the synagogues all in the day. 370 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,800 And then as it winds down towards sundown, this is the time believing their sins are forgiven. 371 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,200 Yeah. 372 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,480 And they start rejoicing. 373 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:05,800 Yeah. 374 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:11,560 You can hear from all the synagogues and you'll hear everything going on. And on the day of Yom 375 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:17,000 Kippur, you know, you can walk in the streets because there's no traffic. You know, there's no 376 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:24,680 cars unless it's an Arab taxi, maybe. But even the women are taking the baby carriages with a baby. 377 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,120 They're walking down the middle of the street with the baby carriages because there's no traffic. 378 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:28,920 There's no traffic. 379 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:35,080 It's just the most, everything stops. And you know, there's no TV, no radio, it used to be. 380 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:43,960 And that was the day back in 1973 when Syria came down, Jordan came over and Egypt came up. 381 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:48,600 Surprise attack on the holiest day of the year when there was no communication. 382 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:49,080 Right. 383 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:54,040 It was a total surprise. It was the bloodiest war of Israel at that time. 384 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,280 Yeah. I think what happened October 7th is very similar. 385 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:04,840 They call that like the Yom Kippur of that time, which happened right at the end of the feast, 386 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,920 after Yom Kippur. It was the last great day of the feast is when that happened. 387 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,200 October 7th. 388 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,560 October 7th. Yeah. 389 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:17,320 So this event of Yom Kippur is described in Leviticus 16. And I won't take time to go 390 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:23,640 through all of that. But it's telling about how all of the steps that the high priest has to go 391 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:30,440 through and the thing that's so significant about Yom Kippur. Think of it as a rehearsal of the big 392 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:38,520 one, of the thing that God was going to do. God was going to sacrifice his own son. And like I said, 393 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:45,480 he wasn't sacrificed on the day of atonement, but he was sacrificed on Passover as the Passover 394 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:53,400 atonement. There's an atonement sacrifice that is a part of Passover. But the idea is that he, 395 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:59,640 Jesus became our high priest. And the book of Hebrews explains all that to us. I won't take 396 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,200 time for that either, but you can go back and read it for yourself. But the thing that's so 397 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:12,120 significant is that the people of Israel, their job was to fast, to afflict their souls. Now, 398 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:17,880 it doesn't say fast in Leviticus 16. It says that they should afflict their souls. So for a long 399 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:24,440 time, I was trying to figure out, well, can I afflict my soul without fasting? But then I found 400 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:32,360 a couple of verses that spell it out. Ezra 8.21 says, then I proclaimed a fast there at the river 401 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,880 of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God to seek of him a right way for us and for our 402 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:45,720 little ones for all our substance. And Isaiah 58.5 says, is it such a fast that I have chosen a day 403 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:51,480 for a man to afflict his soul? Yeah. So fasting means afflicting your soul. 404 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:52,520 Yeah. 405 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,560 But the- 406 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,080 That's what it feels like a lot of times. 407 00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:00,760 It does. It's an affliction. You just don't want to do it, but God gives you the grace. 408 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:06,040 But the thing that's so amazing is our job is just to fast. Our job is to humble ourselves before the 409 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,040 Lord and the high priest does all the work. 410 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,680 So it's definitely a fast day then. 411 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:13,240 Yeah. 412 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:16,520 So should we fast? You know, Jesus already paid for our sins. 413 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:24,920 Right. We don't have to fast, but it's important for us to keep short accounts of our shortcomings. 414 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:25,720 Mm-hmm. 415 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:34,680 And so it doesn't hurt to take a day and draw back and make sure that everything's covered. 416 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:35,320 Yeah. 417 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,960 Make sure that you've really kept short accounts. But the beautiful thing is that the high priest 418 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:47,480 does it all himself and Jesus is our high priest. So he has done that for us. So if you feel led to 419 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,800 fast, I really think you need to fast if the Holy Spirit tells you to fast. 420 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:52,360 Yeah. 421 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,880 I think it's important for us to ask the Lord, how do you see us doing this? What do you want us to do 422 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:04,520 in this process? How do you want us to celebrate your feast? So if he wants us to fast, let's fast 423 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:10,840 and let's get his heart. Maybe we could be fasting for the veil to be taken away from their eyes so 424 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:17,480 that they can see Yeshua for who he is. And the Muslims too, you know, they need that veil taken 425 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,440 away. They need to be set free and, you know, the nations of the world, there's a whole lot of folks 426 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:30,120 need to be seeing Jesus as our high priest, as our atonement. So doing a fast in intercession, 427 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:35,800 I think is very appropriate. But do what the Holy Spirit shows you to do. 428 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,480 Mm-hmm. Yes. 429 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:42,280 So Philip, now you've been to Israel many times and you've spoken about that just now. 430 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:48,120 So you've observed what happens right as Yom Kippur ends and they come out of the synagogues 431 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,600 rejoicing. And then what's the next thing you hear? 432 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:56,920 The next thing they start building their sukkahs, which is what Moses commanded them to do. And 433 00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,920 that's what they're doing. They're commemorating what the children of Israel went through 434 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:01,960 in the desert. 435 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,080 And the feast of Tabernacles. 436 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,680 And they don't wait till the next day. It's like, you know, if we have a holiday weekend 437 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:12,120 coming up, OK, it's coming up the next day. You know, it's just like, OK, we'll get up 438 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:19,000 and we'll go picnic. No, they start that night as soon as sun is down. And Benyahuda Street 439 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:26,360 is like the downtown hurrah street, you know, of any city. And by about nine o'clock, about 440 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:33,480 three hours after sundown, everything opens up. It's like a big party. I mean, you know, 441 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:39,080 everybody comes out and then they start building their booths. I mean, I mean, they're making 442 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,840 noise, too. They're out there with hammers and, you know, two o'clock, three in the morning. 443 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:49,640 They are building the sukkah because this is a great joy. Yeah. You know, to be able 444 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:54,600 to do this. It's the as some they'll build it from scratch. They'll just have everything 445 00:44:54,600 --> 00:45:01,000 and others will. They'll close off an outside balcony somewhere and just do things. So 446 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:07,560 people, wherever they can do it, they do it. And it's just the most amazing, joyful time 447 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:13,000 for that. And it's just so exciting. Yeah, it's interesting to me since the Feast of 448 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,560 Tabernacles doesn't actually happen until the 15th day of the seventh month. So Yom Kippur 449 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,440 is the 10th day of the seventh month. So they start working on their sukkah for five days. 450 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:27,880 They're going to make sure that everything's set up well. And so in their sukkah, they'll 451 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,760 sleep in there. They'll eat all their meals in there. And they usually they'll have an 452 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:39,320 empty plate on the end. And you don't hear this too many places, but that's for Elijah. 453 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:44,840 Yes, because they're looking for the Elijah the prophet to come before the Messiah comes. 454 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:50,120 Yeah. And so that's an amazing. There's always a plate there for Elijah. Yep. It's true. 455 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:56,280 It's true. So in Leviticus, Chapter 23, it talks about the Feast of Tabernacles. 456 00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:01,160 It talks about the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths. I don't know why they call it a 457 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:06,760 booth, but they call it a booth. But it was basically built out of whatever they could find 458 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:14,760 in the wilderness to build it with. So in Leviticus 23, 34, verse 33 says, the Lord said to Moses, 459 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:20,600 say to the Israelites, the 15th day of this seventh month, and for seven days is the Feast 460 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:27,720 of Tabernacles or booths to the Lord on the first day shall be a holy convocation. That's that 461 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:36,120 Shabbat Shabbaton. Okay. Okay. You shall do no servile work on that day. You don't do anything 462 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:43,000 that you would do for work for your regular job. You're not going to do anything then for seven 463 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,880 days. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord on the eighth day shall be a holy 464 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:53,080 convocation and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. It's a solemn assembly. 465 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:59,640 You shall do no laborious work on that day. And then verse 39 says, also on the 15th day of the 466 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:05,400 seventh month, which is the month that we're just entering in now, when you have gathered in the 467 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:10,040 fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, the first day and the eighth 468 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:15,640 day, each a Sabbath or a Shabbaton. And on the first day, you shall take the fruit of pleasing 469 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:21,960 trees and make booths of them, branches of palm trees and boughs of thick leafy trees and willows 470 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:26,440 of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. You shall keep it 471 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:32,120 as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year, a statute forever throughout your generations. You 472 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,960 shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths shelters for seven days. So that's why 473 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:45,880 they actually go and stay in the booth or the tabernacle. That your generations may know that 474 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:52,120 I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yehovah your 475 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:59,800 God. And so thus Moses declared to the Israelites, the set or appointed feasts of the Lord. So this 476 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:06,040 is like the grand finale of the feasts of the seventh month. And it's a picture of what it's 477 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:13,400 going to be like when God is with us. You know, Emmanuel, God with us. It surprised me that the 478 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:19,720 word tabernacle can actually be made into a verb. That God tabernacles among his people. 479 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,920 And when Jesus was born, he probably was born during the feast of tabernacles. 480 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:31,560 Yeah. So I won't go into how I believe that that's true. But if you will take the hint from 481 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:40,520 when Zechariah the priest in Luke chapter one, when his time would be in the temple to do the 482 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:46,280 incense offering, it was in the course of Abiah. If you go study that out, you'll find when 483 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,960 Elizabeth would have gotten pregnant and in her sixth month, Mary would have gotten pregnant. 484 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:57,880 And nine months later would have been the feast of tabernacles. And that's why there was no room at 485 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:04,680 the end. Well, yeah, everybody was coming for the feast of tabernacles, but they were also 486 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:11,240 coming to be registered for the taxing. Isn't that amazing that happened in the same season? 487 00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:16,280 Well, I think Rome was smart enough to know that the people were going to be traveling then anyway. 488 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:21,720 So, you know, just go stop by your hometown and register. That's kind of what I think it was 489 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:29,000 anyway. Okay. So what do we do? What is the thing that God wants us to do? And I recommend that you 490 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:34,120 just tune into the Holy Spirit and do what he says. You don't have to necessarily go by what the 491 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:38,200 rabbis say, although the traditions may be beautiful. If you want to keep the traditions, 492 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,120 keep the traditions, but know that they're traditions and not law. Okay. It has nothing 493 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,920 to do with your salvation. Yeah. Good balance. Yeah. You just keep balance. And, you know, 494 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,920 if you want to dip apples in honey for the beginning of the year, even though it's not 495 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:58,040 really the beginning of the year, go ahead, enjoy apples with honey. Enjoy it and enjoy the 496 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:03,400 goodness of God and wish people a happy new year. You know, like I said, we don't have to be the law 497 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:10,040 police, even though we could probably dip apples in honey on the first day of Aviv as well. We might 498 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:17,480 as well. Let's just do it twice. But, you know, here's the thing. Some years ago, I guess it was 499 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:28,280 the year 2013. Our founder had just passed away. So we were kind of loose ends a lot. And things 500 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:34,520 that had been before, you don't necessarily keep doing things the way you did, but you keep doing 501 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:40,440 things the way you did until you get new orders. But Philip would say to me during that summer, 502 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:46,600 honey, how'd you like to go camping? Yeah, we haven't been camping in a long time. Yeah. Right. 503 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:51,640 But what did I say? It was a long time. It was a long time. It had been years since we'd gone camping. 504 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,360 And I just wasn't, I wasn't interested in thinking about camping. And when I say this, 505 00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:02,120 I'm going to say it more like, I don't think I had this tone of voice in my voice, but this tone of 506 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:09,400 voice was in my heart. I said, no, camping's too much work. I don't think I said it that way. Did 507 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:14,120 I? It was probably close to that. Oh, was it that close? Okay. You notice it was a while before I 508 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,480 asked you again. Yeah, but you did ask again and you asked at least two or three times. And I kept 509 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:27,720 saying, no, it is too much work. No. So we got into the fall and I realized that we were in the 510 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:34,040 seventh month or getting close to it. I don't remember. And I don't know why I didn't ask about 511 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:39,160 Yom Teruah and I didn't ask about Yom Kippur. I said, Lord, I was praying one morning and I said, 512 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:46,760 Lord, how do you want us to observe your feast of tabernacles? Because like I've said before, 513 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:52,920 we are not Jewish wannabes, but this is a scriptural feast. This is something that the Bible 514 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:58,520 says to do. And we're going to have another podcast coming up soon where we're going to talk 515 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:07,400 more about keeping the law, you might say. But I just wanted to hear from the Holy Spirit, 516 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:13,960 what's his vision for us? What does he want us to do? And all of a sudden, as I asked that question, 517 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:24,040 all of a sudden, up in my spirit comes this joy to go camping. And so ever since, we've been going 518 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:30,840 camping. Yeah, it's 11 years now. Yeah. This will be our 11th time. Yeah. And of course, every year 519 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:36,040 we streamline a little bit, you know, every year, a number of years to get it down to a system. 520 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:41,640 Yeah. And it's kind of glamping, kind of really. I mean, we're in a tent though. We're not in a 521 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:49,400 trailer. Yeah, it's in a tent. But, you know, we use a tall queen-sized air mattress. And we take 522 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:57,000 a refrigerator and a frying pan and a, what do you call it, a crock pot. And we fish. And we fish. 523 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:04,680 We park by a trout stream and we fish. And we have a good time. And we rest and enjoy the great 524 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:12,280 outdoors and enjoy the fresh air and enjoy camping out and having campfires at night. That's how 525 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:18,920 the Holy Spirit led us. Yeah. So I just want to encourage you to do the thing that God shows you 526 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:24,600 to do. Get bold enough to ask the Holy Spirit, how do you want me to do this? What do you have for us 527 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:31,720 to do? And this is really all about coming into a deeper relationship with the Lord, that we 528 00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:39,320 understand that this is personal. Yeah. The feasts are personal. The Word of God is personal. It's 529 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:46,200 all about relationship with our Father. So Father, we just thank you for your greatness. We thank you 530 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:53,240 for your glory. We thank you that we have this opportunity to join in with what your Word says 531 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:59,960 and make it personal for us as we look at your feasts, as we look at the things that are in your 532 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:08,920 Word to make them personal for us. As you are in the process of working reconciliation, you became 533 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:16,200 the atonement for us to bring us into the ministry of reconciliation. We want to participate with you. 534 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:22,840 We want to co-labor with you. We want to co-operate with you. And we thank you for teaching us how to 535 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:35,000 do this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. 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