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FreshwordApril 2010 Hello Friend, Thank you for stopping by
James Lay Ministry on the web today! I hope you will receive a blessing for your
time spent here. Having just
celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and being reminded of how He
fulfilled the Spring Feasts of Israel at His first coming. He became the Passover lamb which was
slain on Calvary. In Genesis 22 God commanded Abraham to take Isaac up to Mt
Moriah and offer him up as a sacrifice. As they journeyed, by and by, Isaac
inquired of his father, as to where the sacrifice was. Abraham responded by
saying God would provide himself a lamb. Gen 22:7
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where
[is] the lamb for a burnt offering? 8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering: so they went both of them together.
As Abraham was about to
slay his beloved son, God stopped him.
God told him lay not thy hand upon your son. Abraham looked and saw a
“ram” in the thicket and that ram became the substitute for Isaac. It is
interesting to note that Abraham told Isaac that the Lord would provide himself
a lamb for the sacrifice. God was going to provide a lamb. Yet on that
particular day God provided a “ram”.
Some eighteen hundred years passed before God provided that Lamb. Yes the
Lamb of God which was slain from the foundation of the world, crucified on that
same Mt. Moriah! Gen 22:12 And he said, Lay
not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know
that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]
from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his
horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son. Between those two events God also provided another substitute in Egypt,
the Passover lamb. For the next 1600 years multiplied thousands of lambs were
slain for the sins of humanity. Then came Jesus who was that spotless lamb! He
was the acceptable sacrifice! He
fulfilled Passover in his death. He
fulfilled the feast of unleavened bread in his burial. He fulfilled the feast of
First fruits at his resurrection. He was the first ripe fruit, but there is also a great harvest going
when the righteous living and dead shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the
air! Fifty days later he fulfilled the feast of Pentecost by sending the Holy
Ghost to the church there in the upper room.
That brings us to the fall feasts yet to be fulfilled! These are, feasts of Trumpets, Day of
Atonement, and feast of Tabernacles. The trumpets were used to call the people
of Israel together! There was a particular sound on the trumpets which called
Israel to war, another sound called them to solemn assembly. I believe the Lord
will fulfill this feast at his coming in the air to catch away the
saints, (Num 10:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make
thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou
mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the
camps. 3 And
when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation. 1Th
4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first: 17 Then we which are alive
[and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
) both living and dead! I also
believe at the sound of that trump Israel will be re-gathered from the four
corners where ever the Diaspora has taken them. Did you notice in the underlined
text above one sound for assembly and journeying? (The catching away of the
saints to meet the Lord in the air)
The second was a call to assemble at the door of the Tabernacle. (Israel
re-gathered to the Rebuilt Temple) Jewish tradition says the ten days from
Trumpets to Yom Kippur( Day of Atonement) are known as the Ten Days of Awe. ( A
type of ten plagues of Egypt) See
Rev. 11:3-13
Tradition says these days are to be used for repentance and reconciliation with
God and fellowman. Anyone who has not done so at the Day of Atonement,
(when
the gate of heaven will be shut) will
be left out! During this time
Israel will finally recognize Jesus as Messiah. There are five days between Yom Kippur and Tabernacles. They are know as “the building up of the house of Israel”. The feast of Tabernacles is celebrated in a booth built on the front lawn or rooftop. These are temporary structures. Those five days are used to build the booths for celebrating the feast of Tabernacles. Jesus will fulfill Tabernacles when he returns to earth the saints. He will rule and reign on the throne of David for a thousand years. See
Luk
1:31-33,
& Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years. There is one last feast
known as Simchat Torah, or rejoicing in the Torah or Word! Simchat Torah is a
two day feast which is also known as “one long day”. A very accurate description
of eternity don’t you think?
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