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Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, by sending his Holy Spirit. So those are complete.
But we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are illustrated by the Fall Feasts.
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to talk about this idea of the Feasts of Israel. You know, we love Israel. We are just absolutely
dedicated to being a part of what God is doing in his land because it's a prophetic picture of
of God's faithfulness. Yes. When you, if you love the word of God, you're going to see in his word
that he has made all kinds of promises to Israel and he's fulfilling them. We're watching prophecy
happen all the time now in our generation. You know, our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, talked about
how when she was a little girl in the 1920s, she heard the elders in her house, you know, after
after church service would be talking about how the Bible talks about how the Jews are going to
come back to the land of Israel, wondering when that's going to happen, or maybe they were seeing
that it was starting to happen and she heard it as a little girl. Yeah. And then it was called
Palestine. Yeah, back then. That's because it was in the 1920s that the British mandate happened.
And that may be what triggered everybody thinking that way was the British mandate. Yeah. And
yeah, and particularly the British renaming at Palestine, because that's what was on their,
their Bible maps, because that's what Rome had renamed it.
Palestina. Yeah. And then, you know, the Ottoman Empire took it over and they didn't call it
Palestine. They called it something about Syria, you know. So anyway, bottom line is we love Israel.
We're dedicated to Israel. God has given us even a house in Israel. And, you know, that's miraculous
in itself, but we understand that we as Gentiles are grafted into the root of the olive tree.
The Bible talks about the olive tree as a symbol of Israel, that we, according to Romans 11,
we are grafted in. Some of the branches were broken off. Some, not all of them, some were
broken off so that there was room for the Gentiles to be grafted in because God really always had it
on his heart to get everybody on the planet into his kingdom. And so Israel was being used by God
as a symbol, as a picture of what he wants to do in the earth. And much of it is also a picture of
what's going on in heaven and to bring it to earth, on earth as it is in heaven, like Jesus taught us
to pray. So we want to look at how these feasts are and what's our part in them. Is this important
or is this something Old Testament and we don't have to do it anymore? Or, you know, what is our
job here? So we're going to dig. It's important that we compare Scripture with Scripture and that
we get the picture of what God is doing because there's a whole lot of traditions as lots of
believers in Jesus and Yeshua have begun to look to Israel to teach us more about what does it mean?
What does it mean to serve God? And rightly so, because they were the ones that were given the
word. I think Paul says probably in Romans 11 that unto them, the Jewish people, that unto them was
given the oracles of God. Exactly. So they understand a whole lot about what it really means.
The problem is that there's a whole bunch of pharisaical traditions that even Jesus was saying,
no, your traditions are negating the word of God. So we need to sort out what's tradition
and what's the word because there's a whole lot of traditions and traditions can be beautiful.
Traditions can have really good roots and really good understanding that they can highlight things.
But when it comes right down to it, we don't need to keep the traditions of men.
We need to keep the word of God. And so we need to be very careful. And we don't want to be
law police, like the Pharisees were. They were so concerned that they not offend God,
that they got busy offending Jesus who is God because they didn't understand because all they
were doing was going by what the rabbi said instead of what the word said. So we have to be careful
that we don't be rabbinic Jewish wannabes and try and keep all these traditions that Jesus
didn't even approve of. So that's the introduction to the importance of looking at this with a clear
understanding of what is all of this? How do we fit in? How do we fit in? And I want to make this
comment that much of what God did through the Jewish people, through Israel, because the Jewish
people is only one tribe and a smattering of other tribes among them. But the thing that God did
through Israel was to illustrate things about his kingdom. And so what we're looking at is the
illustrations so that we can get an understanding of what our Father's heart is. And there's just so
much we're going to dig, dig, dig. And I think we're going to find some beautiful revelatory
ideas here. But what really these things are is like a rehearsal for what's going to happen when
he comes with his kingdom. And if you look at the spring feast, we're not going to look at the spring
feast today. We're just going to look at the fall feast because this is fall, at least in our
hemisphere, in the Northern hemisphere. For those of you who might be listening in the Southern
hemisphere, just imagine that this is fall for you because in Israel it's fall. So the spring
feasts, Jesus fulfilled the spring feasts. So he died as the Passover sacrifice. Not only the
Passover lamb wasn't necessarily a sin offering, but there is an atonement offering of a goat that's
given on the same day. And that's really what Jesus was to forgive us of our sins. I don't want to
take time with all of that, but Passover Jesus fulfilled. He fulfilled the feast of first fruits
and he fulfilled the feast of Pentecost, the feast of weeks by sending his Holy Spirit.
So those are complete, but we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are
illustrated by the fall feasts. So we're making this recording on the eve of Yom Teruah. And
I'm sorry you won't be hearing it until a few days from now, but it's important for us to understand
what all of these are about. I thought it was called Rosh Hashanah. Isn't it New Year's Day?
Okay. Well, sorta. It is, but it isn't. Okay. So it is the civil new year. You know, you have multiple
new years, right? We have on our calendar, January 1st is New Year's Day, but we also have maybe the
beginning of a fiscal year at a different time. And you might have the beginning of the school year.
So there are different beginnings of years. But the reason why you have this as the beginning of
the civil year, as I understand it, has to do with when they came back from Babylon. Because at the
very beginning of their keeping of the laws in Exodus 12, 1 to 3, the Lord spoke unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, this month, which it was spring, it was the month of Aviv,
this month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It should be the first month of the year
to you speak to the congregation of Israel saying in the 10th day of this month, take every man a
lamb according to their house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. So that was the beginning of
the month where Passover is. Aviv means spring. So it's the month of Aviv and it's the beginning.
But when they came back from Babylon, they started calling it Nisan because that's what they called
it in Babylon. So the city Tel Aviv, yes, is Tel, which is, was built. A tel is a like a
mound that a city used to be built on. It was crushed and rebuilt. But they built it out of
the sand. Yeah, they built it on the sand. I don't know why they call it Tel. We saw the original
picture of the settlers when they started Tel Aviv. There was like maybe 50 of them.
They had shovels and stuff and they built that on the sand. Yes, they did. Nothing else around them.
Amazing. Yeah, Joppa wasn't far from them, but they started an entire new city.
Wow. And now Tel Aviv is. And Tel Aviv, but it means spring. It means spring.
So that was a little bunny trail there. Yeah, a little bunny trail. So this idea of it being
Rosh Hashana, what Rosh means head and Hashana means the year. So head of the year is what Rosh
Hashana means. It became that because, you know, it's kind of like a tradition that comes from a
biblical event, but it's not a biblical principle. Well, sort of. It's a sort of biblical principle.
The rabbis figured it out that it works for them. I really want to see us celebrating New Year's
on the beginning of Aviv. And we do, but we can also celebrate. I mean, hey, let's just have as
much celebration as we can, right? So in Ezra chapter three, verses one and two, it says,
when the seventh month had come and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered
together as one man to Jerusalem. OK, this is the seventh month. Then Yeshua, the son of Yozadak
and his brethren, the priests and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built
the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it as it is written in the law of
Moses, the man of God. And then in verse four, it says, they also kept the feast of tabernacles as
it is written and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.
Afterwards, they offered the regular burnt offering and those for new moons and for all
the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated and those of everyone who willingly
offered a freewill offering to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer
burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple had not been laid. So what happened
was they came back from Babylon and everything was destroyed. Everything was a mess. So they were in
all of their cities, spread out wherever they were. And they all came together in the seventh month to
come and build the altar. That's the first thing that they built the altar. So they built the altar
and they started to offer sacrifices. So that I believe is the reason why they start the new year
on Russia. They're calling it Rosh Hashanah, but it's the first day of the seventh month.
It's a new start.
Right. So then in Nehemiah 8.2, it says, and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation,
both of men and women and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the
seventh month. So he began reading to them also on the first day of the seventh month.
So that's why they have started doing the civil year beginning there, because it was a new
beginning for them. It was a wonderful new beginning. You start with offering sacrifices
and you start with going back to the word of God. You know, some people will celebrate their
their born again birthday in that way. You know, I started a whole new life on this day. It's kind
of like drawing a line in the sand. And here is where I begin. I began my new life or maybe it was
the baptism of the Holy Spirit or something that happened in your life that has caused you to have
a life change. So why would God choose the seventh month for this?
Well, he made the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. So it's a Shabbat.
OK, so that's a holiday really in itself. And once a week, there is a holiday, a holy day.
Right. And I remember being in Israel at the time of the feast, being in the choir and were there
like three weeks ahead of time. And you would have you have these different holidays, then you have a
Shabbat in there. And sometimes they call it a double Shabbat. Yeah. If the holiday was right
next to it. So that's two days off. Right. Right. So God has a thing about sevens.
It's pretty interesting how all of this comes together in a series of sevens.
So you've got what God did like there's a there's a seventh year. That's a sabbatical year for your
land to let the land rest. A Shemitah year, they call it. And when they went into Babylon,
it was because first of all, it was idolatry and not keeping the word of God. But part of the stuff
they didn't keep was letting the land rest every seventh year like they were supposed to.
So the land rested for 70 years and 70 Shemitahs they didn't do. So it was like 490 years. They
didn't keep that law. That's a long time. That's a lot of generations of disobedience. Yeah. We
we thank God working within a quick time frame. But yeah, this is hundreds of years. Yeah. Time
frame. So he is into doing things in cycles of seven. So giving these feasts in the seventh
month, it's like he's sanctifying the month as well. Yeah. If you're in Israel at this time of
year, you have to work around the non-work days to get anything done. You might as well postpone
projects until after the feast. Yeah. And you have all this massive traffic because these holidays,
people come from around the world to Israel to celebrate with their families. And so it
creates all kinds of traffic. And then if you try to get a hotel and all that, just like the USA,
you know, when there's a prime time, the prices go up. Exactly. Exactly. Should be a law about that.
I'm sure when Jesus comes, it'll be fixed. Yeah. So there's something that God loves about wordplay.
You know, he is the word. Remember, Jesus is the word. The word was made flesh. In the beginning
was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. And the same was in the beginning
with God. So he loves wordplay. If you could read Hebrew, you would understand that there's all kinds
of wordplay going on in the word. It's just amazing. And so we're going to take a little bit of a dive
here into this idea of these sevens and what God does. Like Shabbat is an amazing word and it's
connected to the idea of rest, right? So if you're into taking notes, the Strong's Concordance
number for Shabbat is 7676. And it means to repose or to desist from exertion. The Bible scholar
Gosenius from the 19th century, he says Shabbat means to rest, to keep as a day of rest. The
primary idea appears to be that of to sit down, to sit still. And that doesn't mean at a computer
either. Yeah, that's probably true. To cease, to desist, leave off, to desist from doing anything.
And it also means, of course, to celebrate the Sabbath. But you celebrate the Sabbath by stopping
everything else. And it's a madhouse to get everything ready just before Shabbat. Yeah,
I've got to hurry up so I can rest. Yeah, because in Israel everything shuts down at three o'clock
in the afternoon on a Friday. Everything is closed. The last bus's transportation is done by three
o'clock. And you have to be done with everything. Then you get it prepared. And then once it's all
prepared, Shabbat starts, you light the candles. So now we can rest. Yeah. Hurry up and rest.
Yeah. So where does it begin? Where do we see this beginning? It starts in Genesis 2, 2. It says,
on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had done. And he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had done. Now, you don't get anything from that of understanding when you read
it in English. But if you insert the Hebrew words, you'll start to see words that connect.
Uh-huh. Okay. So on the seventh day, so that's Shav-ee. Seventh is Shav-ee. Now, let me just
give you this little piece. Greek has the alphabet, but Hebrew has the aleph bet. So the second letter
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
to help me remember that when it's got a ball in it, it's a b sound. Okay. So it's Shabbat, okay?
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
these are going to have V sounds and some of them are going to have B sounds, but it's the same
letter in Hebrew. It's just whether it has a ball or not. A jot or a tittle. Exactly. It's one of
those kinds of things. So on the seventh day, Shav-ee, seventh, God ended his work, which he had done, and he
rested Shabbot. And that is seven, six, seven, three. On the seventh day, Shav-ee, from all his work,
which he had done. So Shav-ee is the word seventh. Okay. So we're already seeing this idea of seven.
There's something special to God about seven. Right from the beginning, right from Genesis chapter two,
the next one that is connected to it, I'm going to give you a few words here, is Shav-et. And that's
seven, six, seven, five. It means seat. Like the seat of Solomon's throne was called Shav-et.
Oh, okay. And it also means dwelling. It's a place or a habitation. In other words, a place where you
settle in or you settle on. So it's a place of rest, right? So that's Shav-et. So here's another word,
Shavua, which is seven, six, two, zero. That is, it means seven. It means a period of seven days or
seven years. So that's the word that you have for week. The feast of weeks is Shavuot. It means
when you want to make Shavua, plural, you add Oat to it. So Shavuot. So that's where you get this
feast of weeks. And that's where you get the word week. So if you're saying Shabbat is over and
you're saying have a good week, you're saying Shavuotov. Shavuotov. Okay. So the next word is
Shava. Shavua comes from Shava and that is seven, six, five, zero. And it means to swear or to take
an oath, like to swear by the name of Yehovah or Yehovah swearing by himself. Okay. And the Brown
Driver Briggs lexicon says that this verb swear probably means to, you could say to seven oneself
or to bind yourself by seven things. So in Genesis 21, you have the story of Abraham and he's had all
of these digging of wells. Okay. And the Philistines come and take them over and he'd build,
he digs another well and the Philistines come and take them over. Well, it's his men. It's his
people that are doing it, not him, but it's his well, cause it's his stuff and it's his people.
So he gets to the last well and Abimelek, the king of the Philistines comes to visit him.
And they're having, you know, a little discussion about all the problems that they're having with
the wells and Abimelek says, well, I didn't know anything about it. Yeah. And he may not have.
It's possible. It's possible. He didn't know about it. There's lots of things that go on that the
leader doesn't know about, but so they come to a place of agreement because Abraham wants the
Philistines to leave his well alone. So he comes with seven ewe lambs and he presents them to Abimelek
and Abimelek says, what are the seven ewe lambs for? What's this about? So if you think about
Abraham has lots and lots of flocks, he's very rich with sheep, lots of flocks, but he's very rich
with lots of flocks and he's going to bring something to Abimelek that is a value that he can take to his
flock. You know, it's, it's good to introduce new DNA into your herd or your flock, right? You know,
you don't want the same DNA going in this in generation after generations. You want to introduce
new DNA into your stock. So he's offering him something good, but Abimelek is saying, why,
why seven ewe lambs? And Abraham says, he wants this to be a witness. This is, this is my testimony
that I own this well and we're going to swear together that I own this well and your people
are going to leave it alone. You're going to order your people to take care of, to leave us alone.
Okay. So we can use this well. So they swore to each other, they made this oath together
and he took the ewe lambs and Abraham named the well, Be'er Sheva. Okay. Be'er Sheva we say today.
Yeah. But Be'er means well and Sheva of course means seven, but it also means to swear together,
to make an oath together. So that's just one more connection of the sevens, right?
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.
Right. That was very, that's going way south. Yeah. It is. And so then you have the word Shabbat,
which is seven, six, seven, six. And it is the intensive of that one that we introduced at the
very beginning of Shabbot seven, six, seven, three. And the Strong defines it as intermission,
like a Sabbath. Okay. So it's that seventh day, you're taking a break. What's an intermission?
You know, you have a play or a long, long movie and they take an intermission, you just take a break.
So Sabbath is your break. This is your break time. You're setting it aside. It is special to God
and it's special to us. So now we have another word that I haven't run across a whole lot.
Yeah. I've never seen this one. Okay. So this one is Shabbaton. Shabbaton. And it's seven, six, seven, seven.
And it comes from seven, six, seven, six. We talk about sevens. Yeah. Even the numbers.
Even the numbers in Strong. The Hebrew numbers, Strong's numbers are sevens. That's true.
So it's a special holiday, a special day of rest, a special Sabbath. So it is your weekly Sabbath,
but it's also the day of atonement is a Shabbaton. Sabbatical years would be considered Shabbaton.
The feast of trumpets has Shabbaton. The first and last days of the feast of tabernacles are Shabbaton.
They are like a solemn Sabbath or a great Sabbath. I'm thinking you could call it a super Sabbath
for us to understand in English. Okay. Okay. It's a, it's a Sabbath on steroids. Okay.
So it's interesting to me that first of all, Yom Teruah as it's being celebrated as Rosh Hashanah,
they celebrate it for two days. The Bible gives it one day. Okay. So let's stretch it. Let's just
make it longer. Right. And particularly the, the feasts that are held for the people of Israel,
they might celebrate for one day and people outside of Israel, the Jewish people might have
to celebrate it for two days because the rabbi said, you don't know exactly when it's going to
happen in Israel. So you better just celebrate for two days and make sure you cover it.
Not necessary, but you know, why not celebrate longer? It's okay. So on the feast of Yom Teruah
or Rosh Hashanah, they read the story of the binding of Isaac. So that was when God took
Abraham, take your son, your only son that you love, take him up to the place I'm going to show
you in the mountains of Moriah and sacrifice him there unto me. And so we have this amazing story
of how God is testing Abraham and Abraham must have figured that out in his mind that, okay,
this is the son of promise. This is my son that I love and it must be okay with God for me to
sacrifice him. So maybe he's going to raise him from the dead because that's the only way that he
can actually fulfill all these promises that he's made to me.
He was already old when Isaac was born. So he's older now.
Right, even older. So Isaac is bound. Abraham is about to do him in. The angel comes and says,
stop. God says, I see that you have been faithful. I've been faithful to you.
I've been faithful. I've counted it as though you've done it. And of course we've talked about this
before, that this is something that was done on, I believe the temple Mount area, probably over
where they quarried out the rock and that's the same place that Jesus was crucified. And so it was
acting out as a rehearsal, what God was going to do in the big picture. Wow. Isn't that amazing?
But it's interesting to me that they do this on Yom Teruah when the ram was caught by its horn.
And some people say that this is the first shofar because the shofar is made from the ram's horn.
Okay. Something had to die in order for you to get a shofar. So you have this story that's being
told about the first shofar on the day of Yom Teruah.
So what is Yom Teruah? The feast of trumpets?
Yeah. It's known as the feast of trumpets, but there's more to it than that. And a good way to
illustrate that is to look at Joshua 6, where Joshua has gone across into the promised land
with the children of Israel and they've done step one and step two. And now they are about to take
over Jericho, the first city that they're going to take over. And God said, it's all mine.
Don't touch anything. That's another story. But what he said was in Joshua 6, 5,
and it shall come to pass that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn,
okay, that was the part that was caught in the thicket. So it's substituted. It was the substitute
for Isaac. Get the principle of substitution. It's all through the Bible. It's all through
the Bible that there's a substitute. You don't have to do it yourself. You can have a substitute.
So when you hear the sound of the trumpet, well, that word in Hebrew is shofar.
If you could read the Hebrew script, it is the word shofar. All the people shall shout
with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat and the people shall ascend up
every man straight before him. So the word shout there is the verb ruach. Okay. Okay. And it means
it's the verb to shout. Okay. So they're going to make this loud shout sound. The Strong's
definition on that one, it means to mar, especially by breaking. It means to split the ears with sound.
It means to shout for alarm or joy, to blow an alarm, to cry aloud, to destroy, to make a joyful
noise, sound an alarm, triumph. Gesenius says to make a loud noise, to cry out with a loud voice,
to vociferate. That's a good word for you. I remember we were, we had a group of Chinese with
us. Oh my, yes. And we're going down to, going down to Texas way. And they were just intercessors
and they're praying and, and right behind me, you were driving. I was driving. One of the
intercessors pulls out his long shofar and blows it right behind my head. And I just about ran
off the road. I mean, yes, that was a trua. That was a trua. And the other thing that Gesenius says
is that is to make a warlike clamor or by or over a conquered enemy. So this, this is the meaning of
ruach. And, and then you take it into the word shout with a great shout. That's the word to ruach.
So the feast of, of trumpets could also be called the feast of shouting or the feast of shouts.
Yeah. Okay. Great. Because if you understand this principle and you want to have a shofar,
but you don't have one yet, anytime it's called for a shofar, you can shout and it will do the
same thing in the spirit. It's so powerful. You can use your voice too. You can use your voice.
Yes, that too. So the word to ruach means alarm signal, sound of tempest,
shout, shout or blast of war or alarm of joy, a war cry, a battle cry, an alarm for war,
a blast. Like you're going to start out marching. It's a shout for joy. And that's from the outline
of biblical usage from the blue letter Bible. And the Strong's definitions is to make a clamor,
a clamor such as an acclamation of joy or a battle cry, especially clanger of trumpets
as an alarm, blowing the trumpets. And it's also the sound for making the day of jubilee.
It's a jubilee sound is this thing also. It's a loud noise. It's a tumult, a loud noise,
joyful noise, rejoicing, joyful acclamations with which the people receive the king.
Okay. So there's lots of things having to do with shouting and joyful shouting and rejoicing or
you're going after the enemy. You make these strong sounds.
Kind of like the Maori's of New Zealand. I was thinking that too.
You know, they do the Hakka, you know, that war sick their tongues out and they do that before a
soccer match, you know, to intimidate the, it is very intimidating.
Yes. Shouting like that is intimidating. So this is, this is the kind of thing that we're going to
see in this Yom Teruah. It's a time of the blowing of the shofar. It's a time of shouting,
shouting joyfully, but there's something else that's special about it.
Isn't it, it's the only feast that's held on a new moon.
Yes.
You know, Passover, Pentecost, Shavuot, you know, that's the feast of weeks and Sukkot are all held
on the full moon. And I remember out in the desert, you know, when this would start,
it was the opening night of the feast. Full moon over the Dead Sea.
So beautiful.
It was just the most amazing thing.
So beautiful. So beautiful. But now this Yom Teruah is the feast of the hidden moon.
And so it's called the hidden moon because the way it was done in biblical days to know when a new
moon was, they would have someone out in the desert where, where it's pretty clear. You don't
have a whole lot of clouds usually. And when you know that the moon has disappeared, you've seen
the last of the little toenail of the moon, you know, little tiny bit of crescent and it disappears.
Yeah.
And then when it comes back, that's the new moon. And you could only observe the new moon
to be able to say it's the new moon. So let's celebrate.
Okay.
So it's the feast that you don't know the day or the hour.
Ah, isn't that neat?
Yeah. So, you know, that reminds us of something that Jesus said about his own coming. He said in
Matthew 25, 13, watch therefore, for you know, neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of
man comes. And then in Mark 13, 32, he said, but of that day and that hour knows no man. No, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the son, but the father. And then first Thessalonians 4, 16,
it says for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Oh, there's Teruah.
Teruah.
With the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.
Trump of God.
So there's your shofar. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. So when we're celebrating this
feast of trumpets or feast of shouting, we are looking forward to the coming of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
We're rehearsing for it. You know, it's something that it enters into our thinking. You know,
we don't always think about it. Maybe we should always think about it, but we don't always think
about, you know, is Jesus coming today? Maybe we should, maybe we should make that decision.
Maybe we should make that a habit that we think, okay, is Jesus coming today? Let's live like he's
coming today. So that is what this Yom Teruah is about.
So the feast of trumpets or shouting starts the 10 days of awe that lead to the most solemn day
of the year, Yom Kippur.
Yeah. So Yom Kippur is the next feast. Actually, it's a fast.
Yeah. Yeah.
And, you know, during those, during those 10 days of awe, everybody's repenting to each other.
If they've had a fallout with their neighbor or a family member or somebody in a business,
they'll go to them to each other and humble themselves and ask for forgiveness and give
forgiveness. And some people even start at the entire month before the month of Elul.
They'll start this repenting process. And during the month of Elul, they're blowing the shofar
every day, getting ready for the feast of trumpets. So it's a, it's a big deal.
It's a really big deal.
Yeah. You know, being in Israel, so I've been to the feast about probably about 10 times.
I was a volunteer in the choir and we get to see this, you know, experience this with the people.
And on the eve of Yom Kippur, of course, they fast, they don't even swallow their own spit.
Some of them.
Some of them. Yeah.
It's very, it's the most solemn day of the holiday of the year. And you could hear them,
you know, in the synagogues, because, you know, in the synagogues all in the day.
And then as it winds down towards sundown, this is the time believing their sins are forgiven.
Yeah.
And they start rejoicing.
Yeah.
You can hear from all the synagogues and you'll hear everything going on. And on the day of Yom
Kippur, you know, you can walk in the streets because there's no traffic. You know, there's no
cars unless it's an Arab taxi, maybe. But even the women are taking the baby carriages with a baby.
They're walking down the middle of the street with the baby carriages because there's no traffic.
There's no traffic.
It's just the most, everything stops. And you know, there's no TV, no radio, it used to be.
And that was the day back in 1973 when Syria came down, Jordan came over and Egypt came up.
Surprise attack on the holiest day of the year when there was no communication.
Right.
It was a total surprise. It was the bloodiest war of Israel at that time.
Yeah. I think what happened October 7th is very similar.
They call that like the Yom Kippur of that time, which happened right at the end of the feast,
after Yom Kippur. It was the last great day of the feast is when that happened.
October 7th.
October 7th. Yeah.
So this event of Yom Kippur is described in Leviticus 16. And I won't take time to go
through all of that. But it's telling about how all of the steps that the high priest has to go
through and the thing that's so significant about Yom Kippur. Think of it as a rehearsal of the big
one, of the thing that God was going to do. God was going to sacrifice his own son. And like I said,
he wasn't sacrificed on the day of atonement, but he was sacrificed on Passover as the Passover
atonement. There's an atonement sacrifice that is a part of Passover. But the idea is that he,
Jesus became our high priest. And the book of Hebrews explains all that to us. I won't take
time for that either, but you can go back and read it for yourself. But the thing that's so
significant is that the people of Israel, their job was to fast, to afflict their souls. Now,
it doesn't say fast in Leviticus 16. It says that they should afflict their souls. So for a long
time, I was trying to figure out, well, can I afflict my soul without fasting? But then I found
a couple of verses that spell it out. Ezra 8.21 says, then I proclaimed a fast there at the river
of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God to seek of him a right way for us and for our
little ones for all our substance. And Isaiah 58.5 says, is it such a fast that I have chosen a day
for a man to afflict his soul? Yeah. So fasting means afflicting your soul.
Yeah.
But the-
That's what it feels like a lot of times.
It does. It's an affliction. You just don't want to do it, but God gives you the grace.
But the thing that's so amazing is our job is just to fast. Our job is to humble ourselves before the
Lord and the high priest does all the work.
So it's definitely a fast day then.
Yeah.
So should we fast? You know, Jesus already paid for our sins.
Right. We don't have to fast, but it's important for us to keep short accounts of our shortcomings.
Mm-hmm.
And so it doesn't hurt to take a day and draw back and make sure that everything's covered.
Yeah.
Make sure that you've really kept short accounts. But the beautiful thing is that the high priest
does it all himself and Jesus is our high priest. So he has done that for us. So if you feel led to
fast, I really think you need to fast if the Holy Spirit tells you to fast.
Yeah.
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
in this process? How do you want us to celebrate your feast? So if he wants us to fast, let's fast
and let's get his heart. Maybe we could be fasting for the veil to be taken away from their eyes so
that they can see Yeshua for who he is. And the Muslims too, you know, they need that veil taken
away. They need to be set free and, you know, the nations of the world, there's a whole lot of folks
need to be seeing Jesus as our high priest, as our atonement. So doing a fast in intercession,
I think is very appropriate. But do what the Holy Spirit shows you to do.
Mm-hmm. Yes.
So Philip, now you've been to Israel many times and you've spoken about that just now.
So you've observed what happens right as Yom Kippur ends and they come out of the synagogues
rejoicing. And then what's the next thing you hear?
The next thing they start building their sukkahs, which is what Moses commanded them to do. And
that's what they're doing. They're commemorating what the children of Israel went through
in the desert.
And the feast of Tabernacles.
And they don't wait till the next day. It's like, you know, if we have a holiday weekend
coming up, OK, it's coming up the next day. You know, it's just like, OK, we'll get up
and we'll go picnic. No, they start that night as soon as sun is down. And Benyahuda Street
is like the downtown hurrah street, you know, of any city. And by about nine o'clock, about
three hours after sundown, everything opens up. It's like a big party. I mean, you know,
everybody comes out and then they start building their booths. I mean, I mean, they're making
noise, too. They're out there with hammers and, you know, two o'clock, three in the morning.
They are building the sukkah because this is a great joy. Yeah. You know, to be able
to do this. It's the as some they'll build it from scratch. They'll just have everything
and others will. They'll close off an outside balcony somewhere and just do things. So
people, wherever they can do it, they do it. And it's just the most amazing, joyful time
for that. And it's just so exciting. Yeah, it's interesting to me since the Feast of
Tabernacles doesn't actually happen until the 15th day of the seventh month. So Yom Kippur
is the 10th day of the seventh month. So they start working on their sukkah for five days.
They're going to make sure that everything's set up well. And so in their sukkah, they'll
sleep in there. They'll eat all their meals in there. And they usually they'll have an
empty plate on the end. And you don't hear this too many places, but that's for Elijah.
Yes, because they're looking for the Elijah the prophet to come before the Messiah comes.
Yeah. And so that's an amazing. There's always a plate there for Elijah. Yep. It's true.
It's true. So in Leviticus, Chapter 23, it talks about the Feast of Tabernacles.
It talks about the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths. I don't know why they call it a
booth, but they call it a booth. But it was basically built out of whatever they could find
in the wilderness to build it with. So in Leviticus 23, 34, verse 33 says, the Lord said to Moses,
say to the Israelites, the 15th day of this seventh month, and for seven days is the Feast
of Tabernacles or booths to the Lord on the first day shall be a holy convocation. That's that
Shabbat Shabbaton. Okay. Okay. You shall do no servile work on that day. You don't do anything
that you would do for work for your regular job. You're not going to do anything then for seven
days. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord on the eighth day shall be a holy
convocation and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. It's a solemn assembly.
You shall do no laborious work on that day. And then verse 39 says, also on the 15th day of the
seventh month, which is the month that we're just entering in now, when you have gathered in the
fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, the first day and the eighth
day, each a Sabbath or a Shabbaton. And on the first day, you shall take the fruit of pleasing
trees and make booths of them, branches of palm trees and boughs of thick leafy trees and willows
of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. You shall keep it
as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year, a statute forever throughout your generations. You
shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths shelters for seven days. So that's why
they actually go and stay in the booth or the tabernacle. That your generations may know that
I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yehovah your
God. And so thus Moses declared to the Israelites, the set or appointed feasts of the Lord. So this
is like the grand finale of the feasts of the seventh month. And it's a picture of what it's
going to be like when God is with us. You know, Emmanuel, God with us. It surprised me that the
word tabernacle can actually be made into a verb. That God tabernacles among his people.
And when Jesus was born, he probably was born during the feast of tabernacles.
Yeah. So I won't go into how I believe that that's true. But if you will take the hint from
when Zechariah the priest in Luke chapter one, when his time would be in the temple to do the
incense offering, it was in the course of Abiah. If you go study that out, you'll find when
Elizabeth would have gotten pregnant and in her sixth month, Mary would have gotten pregnant.
And nine months later would have been the feast of tabernacles. And that's why there was no room at
the end. Well, yeah, everybody was coming for the feast of tabernacles, but they were also
coming to be registered for the taxing. Isn't that amazing that happened in the same season?
Well, I think Rome was smart enough to know that the people were going to be traveling then anyway.
So, you know, just go stop by your hometown and register. That's kind of what I think it was
anyway. Okay. So what do we do? What is the thing that God wants us to do? And I recommend that you
just tune into the Holy Spirit and do what he says. You don't have to necessarily go by what the
rabbis say, although the traditions may be beautiful. If you want to keep the traditions,
keep the traditions, but know that they're traditions and not law. Okay. It has nothing
to do with your salvation. Yeah. Good balance. Yeah. You just keep balance. And, you know,
if you want to dip apples in honey for the beginning of the year, even though it's not
really the beginning of the year, go ahead, enjoy apples with honey. Enjoy it and enjoy the
goodness of God and wish people a happy new year. You know, like I said, we don't have to be the law
police, even though we could probably dip apples in honey on the first day of Aviv as well. We might
as well. Let's just do it twice. But, you know, here's the thing. Some years ago, I guess it was
the year 2013. Our founder had just passed away. So we were kind of loose ends a lot. And things
that had been before, you don't necessarily keep doing things the way you did, but you keep doing
things the way you did until you get new orders. But Philip would say to me during that summer,
honey, how'd you like to go camping? Yeah, we haven't been camping in a long time. Yeah. Right.
But what did I say? It was a long time. It was a long time. It had been years since we'd gone camping.
And I just wasn't, I wasn't interested in thinking about camping. And when I say this,
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
voice was in my heart. I said, no, camping's too much work. I don't think I said it that way. Did
I? It was probably close to that. Oh, was it that close? Okay. You notice it was a while before I
asked you again. Yeah, but you did ask again and you asked at least two or three times. And I kept
saying, no, it is too much work. No. So we got into the fall and I realized that we were in the
seventh month or getting close to it. I don't remember. And I don't know why I didn't ask about
Yom Teruah and I didn't ask about Yom Kippur. I said, Lord, I was praying one morning and I said,
Lord, how do you want us to observe your feast of tabernacles? Because like I've said before,
we are not Jewish wannabes, but this is a scriptural feast. This is something that the Bible
says to do. And we're going to have another podcast coming up soon where we're going to talk
more about keeping the law, you might say. But I just wanted to hear from the Holy Spirit,
what's his vision for us? What does he want us to do? And all of a sudden, as I asked that question,
all of a sudden, up in my spirit comes this joy to go camping. And so ever since, we've been going
camping. Yeah, it's 11 years now. Yeah. This will be our 11th time. Yeah. And of course, every year
we streamline a little bit, you know, every year, a number of years to get it down to a system.
Yeah. And it's kind of glamping, kind of really. I mean, we're in a tent though. We're not in a
trailer. Yeah, it's in a tent. But, you know, we use a tall queen-sized air mattress. And we take
a refrigerator and a frying pan and a, what do you call it, a crock pot. And we fish. And we fish.
We park by a trout stream and we fish. And we have a good time. And we rest and enjoy the great
outdoors and enjoy the fresh air and enjoy camping out and having campfires at night. That's how
the Holy Spirit led us. Yeah. So I just want to encourage you to do the thing that God shows you
to do. Get bold enough to ask the Holy Spirit, how do you want me to do this? What do you have for us
to do? And this is really all about coming into a deeper relationship with the Lord, that we
understand that this is personal. Yeah. The feasts are personal. The Word of God is personal. It's
all about relationship with our Father. So Father, we just thank you for your greatness. We thank you
for your glory. We thank you that we have this opportunity to join in with what your Word says
and make it personal for us as we look at your feasts, as we look at the things that are in your
Word to make them personal for us. As you are in the process of working reconciliation, you became
the atonement for us to bring us into the ministry of reconciliation. We want to participate with you.
We want to co-labor with you. We want to co-operate with you. And we thank you for teaching us how to
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