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1. Relevance and Traditions of the Feasts to Israel

2. Relevance of the Feasts to the Church

3. Relevance of the Feasts to the Kingdom of God

Feast of Trumpets- Rosh HaShannahDay of Atonement – Yom Kippur

Feast of Tabernacles- Booths

The Appointed Times of the Lord!The Fall Feasts of the Kingdom of God

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The Kingdom of GodLuke 16:16-17 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached..It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

• The Kingdom of God is the eternal spiritual home where Believers will live with God in infinite blessing, provision, love, joy, intimacy & holiness as his children. (Everlasting Kingdom)

•The Feasts reflect God’s plan of redemption in Messiah as our path of faith into the Kingdom of God.

•Jesus taught us to learn from the Law how to Love God our Neighbors and Ourselves. (Kingdom Living)

Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. .nishmath chaiyim, the breath of Lives נשמת חייםRelated to Ruch which is Spirit or Wind found in Pentecost.

Genesis 1:27-30 God blessed them and said to them “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over.

Genesis 3:24-4:1 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life… so they would not live forever.

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The Kingdom of God is God’s Eternal Presence

Diaspora/Judgment followed by God’s Promise:

Genesis 3:14-15 So the LORD God said to the serpent, he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Jeremiah 5:19 (Exile) ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’

Jeremiah 31:32-34 (Promise) This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,..I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people… I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

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Leviticus 23:1-2 The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed feasts (appointed times) of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

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Ephesians 2:12-13 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

Weekly1 Sabbath-Shabbat-7th Day

Spring:2 Passover-Unleavened Bread

3 First Fruits4 Feast of Weeks Pentecost

Fall:5 Feast of Trumpets- Rosh HaShannah

6 Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur7 Feast of Tabernacles- Booths

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Exodus 23:14-17 Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. ..all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.

•“Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, (Passover)

• “Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. (Feast of Weeks Pentecost)

•“Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, (FALL FEASTS ending with Tabernacles)

Three Annual Pilgrimages to JerusalemRedeeming the Presence of God

Shabbat: 7th Day Holy

WeeklyGod’s BlessingsGod is CreatorGod is FatherJesus is Lord

Eternal Rest in GodJoy and Peace

Exodus 20 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. ..For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, ..Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Passover First Fruits Feast of WeeksPentecost

Unleavened Bread

Nissan 141st MonthNew Year

Lord’s SupperBlood of Lamb

Crucifixion

Nissan 151st Month

Bread without YeastBurial

Nissan 171st Month

BarleyResurrectionFirst Fruits

3rd Day

7 weeksGift of Torah

3000 DiedBirth of Church

3000 SavedHarvest of Souls

Bondage to Sin, Satan and Death (Egypt, Pharaoh, Bondage)Reveals the Messiah as Suffering Servant (Passover Lamb)

Way Home to God is Faith (Promised Land)Reveal God’s Word (Torah) and Spirit as One

Redeems the choice of the Tree of knowledge (Born Again)

Spring Feasts: First Coming and Justification by Faith

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Day of Atonement Yom Kippur

Feast of TabernaclesFeast of Trumpets

Rosh HaShanah

Tishrei 1: 7th MonthPrepare for the King

Spiritual RenewalRapture

Tishrei 10: 7th MonthBlood AtonementJacobs Trouble

Tribulation

Tishrei 10: 7th MonthGod with Us

Submission to Holy SpiritMessianic Kingdom

Fall Feasts: Second Coming and Sanctification and Glorification

Reveals End- TimesReveals the Messiah as Judge and Messiah King

Reveals Judgment for the UnrighteousReveals the Tribulation for the Unsaved Jew and Gentile

Reveals the Second Coming

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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah

Rosh Hashanah is a preparation of hearts for the second coming of Messiah on annual basis. The King is Coming.These are the blasts of the Horn- Shofar:

• One Blast Tekiah Awaken

• Three short blasts Shevarim Broken

• One long blast Teruah Alarm

• One longer/louder blast Tekia HaGedolah AnnouncingCoronation

Abraham’s Binding of Isaac Story

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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement

Matthew 27:50-53 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

God’s Presence and Promise: Progressing the Kingdom of God

Yom Kippur for Believers is a

time to express joy for the

Lord’s salvation and repentance

for our sin during the year

A time to fast and pray!

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Zechariah 14:16-17 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the Millennium Kingdom God redeems all the Nations under him.

All nations will know God’s love for Israel.

Diaspora/Judgment followed by God’s Promise:

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7 Major Feasts beginning with Shabbat and ending with Tabernacles

1. Shabbat reveals God’s plan of creation and Eternal Rest and Blessing in his presence

2. Passover was Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

7. Tabernacles represents Jesus’ Second Coming

8. The 8th day is new beginnings when Heaven and Earth become one and we eat freely of the Tree of Life.

Revelation 22:13-15 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

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How the Church may partake of the Feasts

• Teach on the Feasts. Lots of materials on the Web.

• If you can’t meet on actual date choose a date near by.

• Invite a Messianic Rabbi to visit your congregation.

• Join a Messianic Congregation on their celebrations

• Add all the Feasts not just Passover

• Add some of the special symbols and foods.

• Jewish outreach through ministry gifts and training.

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Addendum Slides

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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah

“Beginning” or (Head) Ha means “the” and Shannah means “year”.

•The more common Biblical name is “Feast of Trumpets.”

Lev.23:23-25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, In the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Yom in Hebrew is “day” Teruah means “Trumpets”

so it’s the day of sounding the trumpets

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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah

Last trumpet of Rosh Hashanah could represent the Rapture

• One longest and loudest Tekia HaGedolah

1 Corinthians 15:52-55 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised

imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

Last Great Trumpet of Tabernacles will announce the Second Coming

Diaspora/Judgment followed by God’s Promise:

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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement

Leviticus 23:26-32 The Lord said to Moses, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the Lord by fire. ..You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. ..you must deny yourselves.

• Day the Priest could enter the Holy of Holies to atone for Sins of Israel

• The Priest went through a formal cleansing ceremony for himself.

• Then the Priest made blood atonement on the Alter for himself and then Israel.

• Outside the Temple one Goat was sacrificed and one Goat was sent into the wilderness carrying Israel’s sin.

• A scarlet thread was said to have turned white every year until the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement

Usually and sundown to sundown FAST ending with a meal called Break-Fast.

Prayer services begin with the prayer known as “Kol Nidre,” which must be recited before sunset, and continue with the evening prayers (Ma'ariv or Arvith), which includes an extended Selichot service. The morning prayer service is preceded by litanies and petitions of forgiveness called selichot

Jeremiah 30:6-7 How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.

Diaspora/Judgment followed by God’s Promise:

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The Kingdom Feast of Tabernacles

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The Gospel of Messiah inThe Feasts of Tabernacles

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The Gentiles were originally excluded from the Feast of God with us.

Leviticus 23:41-43: Feast of TabernaclesCelebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

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Traditional and Biblical practices of Tabernacles

On the first day, you will take for yourselves a fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches, twigs of a braided tree and brook willows, and you will rejoice before the L-RD your G-d for seven days. -Leviticus 23:40

We say a blessing a wave the lulav and etrog in all six directions (east, south, west, north, up and down), symbolizing the fact that G-d is everywhere.