Yeshua and the Feasts

[kejonn]

To all (especially Laurel),

I have been told by more than one person that Yeshua is a fulfilment of the various Hebrew feasts. Can anyone help me understand how that is so? I desire to learn so I can share this information with others as well.

Thanks!
LG&LP,

Kevin

[GeneBalthrop]

Kejonn…..> Jesus was the fullfillment of some of them like the day of Atonement, were He repersented the Scape Goat that was chosen to bare the Guilt of the people and was sent out side of the camp of Israel into the wilderness to die. This was like Jesus who like that goat died outside the city and bore our Guilt.

I have heard it put the other way also, that Jesus was the one chossen to die on the alter and the Scape Goat or in Hebrew the Azazel . Repersented Satan who suposely is the cause of all worlds sins, but I don't see it that way I Think Azazel represented Jesus Who is even Now before God making intersessions for Us.

The Feast of Tabernacles is equal to the end gathering or Fall Harvest of the earth, its concedered the large or full Harvest and is repersentive of the Second Resurrection of the dead and Judgement when all who ever lived will be raised. This Feast is sometimes called The End Gathering. I don't think this Feast has anything to do with somthing Jesus fullfilled in His life on the earth.

The Passover and Days of Unleavend Bread and Pentecost are Symbolic of our sins being passed over by the Blood of Jesus and as a result we are being unleavened by the oeration of Holy Spirit given on Pentcost. These Feast are concedered the Feast of the First Fruits unto God and like the First Harvest takes place in the Spring Time of the year.

Hope this helped some…….Peace to you and yours brother….gene

[charity]

Jerusalem

The Heart that comes to the feast, is seeking for….

Tears to be wiped away?
And has the former things pass away?

2Cr 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.

But How much they wish to remember, and work, keeping sin alive, when it has been removed. As in it He shall not remember it?

We are the product of seed that remaineth within, to fulfil the vision of prophecy

Fear God for what is written in the heart

Jer 17:1 ¶ The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
¶ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.
Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. ¶ The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

[kejonn]

Its surprising how much isn't out there one the net about this. I've found some sites but they really don't explain it too well. Hopefully God will show me more so I can put together how he fulfilled them in a coherent manner.

[charity]

Quote (kejonn @ Nov. 13 2007,14:15)

Its surprising how much isn't out there one the net about this. I've found some sites but they really don't explain it too well. Hopefully God will show me more so I can put together how he fulfilled them in a coherent manner.

CAN'T WAIT

YEP, there seems to be some fog and cloud around this day

grace is enough for the searcher

[Morningstar]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Nov. 13 2007,03:17)

Kejonn…..> Jesus was the fullfillment of some of them like the day of Atonement, were He repersented the Scape Goat that was chosen to bare the Guilt of the people and was sent out side of the camp of Israel into the wilderness to die. This was like Jesus who like that goat died outside the city and bore our Guilt. I have heard it put the other way also, that Jesus was the one chossen to die on the alter and the Scape Goat or in Hebrew the Azazel . Repersented Satan who suposely is the cause of all worlds sins, but I don't see it that way I Think Azazel represented Jesus Who is even Now before God making intersessions for Us. The Feast of Tabernacles is equal to the end gathering or Fall Harvest of the earth, its concedered the large or full Harvest and is repersentive of the Second Resurrection of the dead and Judgement when all who ever lived will be raised. This Feast is sometimes called The End Gathering. I don't think this Feast has anything to do with somthing Jesus fullfilled in His life on the earth. The Passover and Days of Unleavend Bread and Pentecost are Symbolic of our sins being passed over by the Blood of Jesus and as a result we are being unleavened by the oeration of Holy Spirit given on Pentcost. These Feast are concedered the Feast of the First Fruits unto God and like the First Harvest takes place in the Spring Time of the year. Hope this helped some…….Peace to you and yours brother….gene

Azazel in the book of Enoch lead the angels who fell.
he would be one of the angels who left their first estate and our bound in chains of gloomy darkness.

with that in mind read the 9th chapter of revelation. When the locust demonic type creatures are released from the pit and are lead by the angel king of the abyss, abbaddon or apollyon.

is Abbaddon the same as Azazel? Are they different? are these ideas even related?

[Morningstar]

Quote (Morningstar @ Nov. 13 2007,14:37)

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Nov. 13 2007,03:17) Kejonn…..> Jesus was the fullfillment of some of them like the day of Atonement, were He repersented the Scape Goat that was chosen to bare the Guilt of the people and was sent out side of the camp of Israel into the wilderness to die. This was like Jesus who like that goat died outside the city and bore our Guilt. I have heard it put the other way also, that Jesus was the one chossen to die on the alter and the Scape Goat or in Hebrew the Azazel . Repersented Satan who suposely is the cause of all worlds sins, but I don't see it that way I Think Azazel represented Jesus Who is even Now before God making intersessions for Us. The Feast of Tabernacles is equal to the end gathering or Fall Harvest of the earth, its concedered the large or full Harvest and is repersentive of the Second Resurrection of the dead and Judgement when all who ever lived will be raised. This Feast is sometimes called The End Gathering. I don't think this Feast has anything to do with somthing Jesus fullfilled in His life on the earth. The Passover and Days of Unleavend Bread and Pentecost are Symbolic of our sins being passed over by the Blood of Jesus and as a result we are being unleavened by the oeration of Holy Spirit given on Pentcost. These Feast are concedered the Feast of the First Fruits unto God and like the First Harvest takes place in the Spring Time of the year. Hope this helped some…….Peace to you and yours brother….gene Azazel in the book of Enoch lead the angels who fell. he would be one of the angels who left their first estate and our bound in chains of gloomy darkness. with that in mind read the 9th chapter of revelation.  When the locust demonic type creatures are released from the pit and are lead by the angel king of the abyss, abbaddon or apollyon. is Abbaddon the same as Azazel?  Are they different?  are these ideas even related?

this backs up the ransom theory of the atonement. that all the early christians had until about 1000 AD when Anselm created the modern view of atonement.

in a nut shell. satan and the fallen angels. (like azazel) owned us. the ransom christ paid was not to the father but was to the ones who kidnapped us.

God didn't need to unleash his vengeful anger on us and instead chose to take it out on his son.

Rather, God loved us so much that he sent his son as a ransom in our place. an exhange for us. jesus in our place.

but haha, Jesus rose from the dead and defeated satans plan.

[Morningstar]

Ransom Theory early records of christian history until about the first millenium after christ. (1000 years of belief)

Satisfaction Theory from about the first millenium until the second millenium. (1000 years of belief)

Did Jesus pay the ransom to the kidnappers (satan and the fallen)? And then surprise them with a victorious resurrection making a spectle of them?

Or

Did Jesus pay the ransom to the Anger Father who needed to punish somebody in his righteous anger? He sent his son to earth to kill in our place to satisfy that righteous rage?

Just who are ransoms paid too anyway??

The Father of the stolen kid?

Or the bad guy who kidnapped the kid?

[GeneBalthrop]

MoriningStar…..> the word Azazel in Hebrew Means (Scapegoat) in Lev 16:10 it says that the Scapegoat i.e. (Azazel) Shall be presented alive before the Lord to make a Atonement to Him and He was sent away from the people.

Jesus is our Atonement by bearing our guilt before the Lord and has been removed from Us at this time but is before the Lord alive. It seams to fit more to me that Jesus is Azazel and the scapegoat for our sins.

IMO….gene

[Morningstar]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Nov. 13 2007,15:22)

MoriningStar…..> the word Azazel in Hebrew Means (Scapegoat) in Lev 16:10 it says that the Scapegoat i.e. (Azazel) Shall be presented  alive before the Lord to make a Atonement to Him and He was sent away from the people. Jesus is our Atonement by bearing our guilt before the Lord and has been removed from Us at this time but is before the Lord alive. It seams to fit more to me that Jesus is Azazel and the scapegoat for our sins. IMO….gene

I can see Jesus being the scapegoat, but not Azazel.

They are two different things.

The goat was sent to Azazel carrying our sins.

Jesus was sent out to the “fallen powers” in our place as a ransom.

Leviticus 16 CEV

8where I will show you which goat will be sacrificed to me and which one will be sent into the desert to the demon Azazel.

Historically speaking, all our resources. Talmud, midrash, early christian writings….etc.

completely believed the goat was sent out to the wilderness and dropped into a pit. this symbolized the pit that the fallen angel azazel is bound in.

2 peter 2:4

[Morningstar]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Nov. 13 2007,15:22)

MoriningStar…..> the word Azazel in Hebrew Means (Scapegoat) in Lev 16:10 it says that the Scapegoat i.e. (Azazel) Shall be presented  alive before the Lord to make a Atonement to Him and He was sent away from the people. Jesus is our Atonement by bearing our guilt before the Lord and has been removed from Us at this time but is before the Lord alive. It seams to fit more to me that Jesus is Azazel and the scapegoat for our sins. IMO….gene

btw,

whereever you heard that Azazel means scapegoat from is not a very good source.

that is just what the KJV guys decided to do with a name that they didnt understand, based off of their scholarly knowledge at the time.

scholars aren't exactly for sure what it means. but their best guess is

“strength of God”

notice the “el” at the end of the name.

[Morningstar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel

info on azazel

[charity]

Quote (Morningstar @ Nov. 13 2007,16:38)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel info on azazel

thanks for this Morningstar,

Ive got this saying in my head
When we discover the beginning, there we find the end, Im not sure but I think its from Enoch

[GeneBalthrop]

MorningStar……> I got that from Strongs Hebrew and Greek dictionary. I did read wikipedia's presention on the word Azazel and their first definition for the word was..>God Strength or God is strong, which may be what is really implied. I could be totally wrong about this. It would be interesting to hear what Kejonn thinks about the word and its implications. Like i said I have heard it expressed the way you say also. It's an interesting subject.
Peace to you and yours………gene

PS, Has anyone Heard how Mandy is doing. Lets not forget to Pray for Her.

[Not3in1]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Nov. 13 2007,17:50)

PS, Has anyone Heard how Mandy is doing. Lets not forget to Pray for Her.

Brother Gene,

This is just like you to remember me. God bless you, brother.

I am waiting still. I'm not as worried anymore because I know that something IS wrong with me, it's just putting a name to it now. The good news is that if I do have this tumor in my brain, they can remove it (brain surgery – ugh). If it's something else, well then, it's something else. I take it one test at a time.

I'll be sure to post any certain reports I get. Believe me, I'll need the prayer support. You all have been so wonderful to me.

Big hug and love to all,
Mandy

[Laurel]

The Feast Days were Ordained at the Creation
The very first reference in the Scriptures to the sacred seasons and feasts of the Almighty was made on the fourth day of creation: that is, before mankind had even entered the picture.
Genesis 1:14 “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night: and let them be for SIGNS, and for SEASONS, and for DAYS, and YEARS. ”
The capitalized words in this verse are extremely meaningful; because they link the creation of the sun, moon and stars with the sacred seasons and feast days of the Creator. Using Strong's dictionary a close look at those words reveals that:
•SIGN #0226 'owth' {oth} is translated a signal, a distinguishing mark, banner, a remembrance, an omen, a warning, a token, an ensign, miracle and proof!
In other words, the sun, moon and stars were created primarily to signal events of special importance. More about this later.
•SEASONS #04150 'mow`ed' {mo-ade'} or mo`ed {mo-ade'} is translated a congregation 150, feast 23, season 13, appointed 12, time 12, assembly 4, solemnity 4, solemn 2, days 1, sign 1, synagogues 1 making a total of 223 times.
In other words the sun and moon would signal the TIMES of the appointed Feast Days, Sacred Seasons (Passover, Firstfruits, Tabernacles etc) and Sabbatical Years when the people of God were to congregate to worship their Creator.
This verse (Genesis 1:14), right there in the very first chapter of the Bible, is the earliest reference concerning the awe-inspiring signs mankind would witness in the heavens on the Almighty's Feast days, sacred seasons and Jubilee years. It proves beyond any doubt that Jehovah's feasts were an integral part of His emergency plan; which would come into action should Adam and Eve choose to sin. The Plan of Salvation and the Feast days which concern the timing of that plan, were not a divine after-thought hurriedly put together by the Almighty when Adam sinned: but a pre-planned, standby schedule in which each major act in the drama of salvation was to occur at a divinely appointed time. It was a rescue programme held in readiness in the event of mankind sinning.
Yahweh's solemn festivals, in other words, are part of the Plan of Salvation; for they not only prefigure the seven major events in His plan, but they specifically identify the appointed times WHEN those mighty events are scheduled to take place.
Genesis 1:14 “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”

In other words: Let there be SIGNS in the sun, moon and stars to signal the Feasts days, sacred seasons (Passover and Tabernacles) and the Sabbatical/Jubilee years of the Creator!
The Feast Day Commandments and their Eternal Nature
Many sincere believers suppose that the Feast Days mentioned in the Bible were a temporary feature instituted by the Eternal only till the time of the Saviour's death and resurrection: that they were 'done away with,' 'nailed to the cross' and are therefore of little importance to Christians under the new covenant. Nothing is further from the truth. To prove this we will examine Yahweh's commandments concerning His Feasts to see if they were in fact temporary or eternal.
The commandments concerning the Feasts of Yahweh are found in the following passages: Exodus 12:14-24, Exodus 13:5-16, Leviticus 23 – the whole chapter but note carefully verses 14, 21, 31 and 41. Space does not allow us to quote all these verses, but let us look at one or two and refer to Strong's dictionary in order to appreciate the kind of language Yahweh used when giving His Feast Day commandments. The verse I have have selected is in the book of Exodus, but the other verses mentioned above are just as meaningful because they use similar or identical terms.
Exodus 12:14 “And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance FOREVER.”

According to Strong's dictionary the word Forever # 05769 `owlam {o-lawm'} or `olam {o-lawm'} means: everlasting, perpetual, evermore, always, everlasting, continuous, unending future or for eternity! In other words, Yahweh's feasts were appointed by Him to be celebrated from generation to generation, age after age, for all time, throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity! They were never to be abrogated. The word “abrogate” means to cancel, to nullify, to repeal, to do away with, to abolish. Does that sound as if He would a few hundred years later do away with them? Certainly not. The very suggestion is insulting the intelligence of the Almighty and casting doubt on His ability to say what He means and mean what He says. Also remember that there are other Bible verses – every bit as powerful as the one given above – which in exactly the same way define the eternal nature of Yahweh's festivals. Turn to them in Leviticus 23 verses 14, 21, 31 and 41. There, over and over again, you will see how the Holy One of Israel commands His people in everlasting tones to celebrate His feast days for all time.
So do not let anyone confuse you by saying that the Feast Days of the Almighty God of Israel have been done away with: because they haven't. All who make such wild and totally irresponsible claims – and you will hear them – are insulting the intelligience and ability of the Most High to formulate His own laws; and it is unthinkable that He who knows the end from the beginning would have used such enduring language, terms such as 'for ever and ever,' 'perpetual' and 'from generation to generation,' if all along His plan was to do away with the Feasts at Calvary. The very idea borders on blasphemy and is only being given this coverage because of the untold damage that false doctrine is causing in the ranks of the Christian church.
The Plain Truth is this: That as the supreme Judge and Advocate in the law court of Heaven, Yahweh knew perfectly well what He was saying when He commanded that His solemn festivals were to be celebrated for ever, from age to age, for ALL TIME!.
Further confirmation of this fact will be given later where you will see that in the coming millennial age, and in the age after that (on the new earth) the redeemed host of mankind will celebrate the Feast Days of the Almighty with great gladness and respect.
The Feast Day Sacrifices
Even a quick survey of this subject will surprise the reader; for whereas the Daily Sacrifice was 2 lambs, the Feast day sacrifice was a bull, a ram, 7 lambs and a male goat. Indeed during the Passover week some 49 lambs were slain, in addition to several bulls, rams and male goats. And even this number fades by comparison when one considers that during the Week of Tabernacles 98 lambs, 70 bulls, 14 rams and 7 male goats were slaughtered. All these sacrifices were made in addition to the Daily Sacrifice of 2 lambs. See Numbers 28 & 29 where these sacrifices are detailed.
This multiple slaughter of innocent victims was, bear in mind, carried out by the Almighty's command. “What was the purpose of all this killing on the Feast Days?” you may well ask. “Wasn't the sacrifice of one lamb at the Passover enough to illustrate the innocence of the Saviour?” or “What was the point in slaying some 200 animals at the Feast of Tabernacles when Christ – to whom all the sacrifices pointed – was slain at the Passover some six months earlier?”
The answer, briefly, is this: that whereas the sacrificial lamb symbolised the innocence of Yeshua (Jesus) the Lamb of God; the multiplied slaughter of victims – the sheer number of animals – prefigured in mathematical terms the manifold results the single sacrifice of the Saviour would bring about at certain appointed times in the great Plan of Salvation. For it is a fact that numbers describe the magnit
ude, the capacity, the value and the overall results of an achievement far more accurately and meaningfully than all the adjectives in the dictionary. Thus the significance of Yahweh's Feast Days are also numerically described by the massive number of sacrifices made upon them as days of supreme importance when the Almighty's greatest achievements will be made manifest to the whole universe.
The Sin of Jeroboam, Israel's Catastrophic Blunder
After the death of King Solomon the nation of Israel split into two kingdoms. The tribes of Judah and Benjamin (and some Levites) stayed loyal to Solomon's son Rehoboam and formed the Kingdom of Judah. The other tribes broke away under a man called Jeroboam the son of Nebat. They retained the title the Kingdom of Israel. The city of Jerusalem was in Judah and its crowning glory was the Temple which Solomon had built. Three times a year all Israelite males were commanded by God to go up to Jerusalem: at the Passover, at Pentecost and at the Feast of Tabernacles. (Exodus 23:17, Deut. 16:16). Israel's new king Jeroboam feared that his rebellion against Rehoboam would collapse if his people went up year by year to Judah for the sacred feast of the LORD. He was extremely worried. At all costs he must prevent the men of Israel from going to Jerusalem for the Feasts of Yahweh. And this is the record of what he said.
1 Kings 12:27 “If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
28. Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold, thy Gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.
29. And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
31. And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not the sons of Levi.
32. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he has made.
33. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eight month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, the burnt incense.”

Believe it or not that seemingly insignificant act of worshipping two metal idols on unsanctified feast days was the most catastrophic blunder ancient Israel made. It is a sin so grievous that over and over again the wickedness of succeeding kings was measured against it. Repeatedly these words appear: 1 Kings 15:34, 16:2&26, 2 Kings 3:3
“And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin”
Why was Jeroboam's sin so grievous? Because by it, with one master-stoke, he allowed Satan to sever the nation's main spiritual link with Yahweh's appointed Sabbaths and form of worship. The sacred feasts were times for spiritual instruction and revival, when the men and families of Israel gathered in Jerusalem to learn of the Almighty and His requirements. (Exodus 34:23) Jeroboam's bogus feasts and substitute form of worship at Bethel broke that spiritual link and like a rudderless ship the nation of Israel began to drift away from the Creator.
The results were appalling, for very soon millions of Israelites completely lost their spiritual bearings and adopted the basest forms of paganism. Many were the calls to repentance, but the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat (the sin of using substitute forms of worship on unsanctified festivals) was not given up. As a result the Almighty carried out His predicted threats given through His servants the prophets and handed the people of Israel over to their enemies. After a serious of devastating defeats they were deported from the Promised Land and sold like cattle in the markets of the Middle East.
2 Kings 17:20 “And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
21. For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.
22. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them.
23. Until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.”

The action of Jeroboam, apparently trivial as it may seem, was obviously a most grievous sin. It was spiritual adultery at its worst; the act of mixing and diluting truth with error. In essence it consisted of merging the laws of the Almighty with human tradition and trying to worship Him on bogus festivals and sabbaths which were nothing but unauthorised imitations of Yahweh's appointed feasts.
Hundreds of years earlier the prophet Moses had foretold Israel's scattering and deportation if they forsook the commandments of God and here it was happening exactly as foretold.
Deuteronomy 28:64 “And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other Gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.”

Strange as it may seem, that selfsame sin of adulterating truth with error, of introducing bogus religious festivals into true worship has been repeated on a world scale by the Christian Church. Yes it is true, the mighty congregations of Christendom have done – and are still doing – what ancient Israel did under king Jeroboam. Over the centuries truth has been diluted with error and the introduction and acceptance of unsanctified sabbaths and feast days is now so widespread that comparatively few believers are even aware of the deception.
This may sound like a shocking statement, but it is absolutely true; and if the reader is not afraid of truth he/she must read on, for proof of this fact will follow in abundance.
At this very moment the whole of Christendom is steadily – yea almost imperceptibly – splitting into two distinct camps:
1.Those who respect the laws of LORD God of Israel and add to their faith obedience, especially that form of obedience which manifests itself in keeping the Bible Sabbaths.
2.And those who look upon obedience almost as though it were a competitor of faith. This persuasion, surprisingly, sees little amiss in clinging to the popular but unsanctified festivals of Christendom and the bogus sabbath of Sunday. Like Israel of old these believers are, in the main, refusing to keep the Almighty's feasts; but like Jeroboam of old, they worship on man-made feasts which have no divine authority whatsoever.
Sooner or later all those who classify themselves as believers in the Creator will move into one or other of these two camps.

[Laurel]

The Week of Unleavened Bread
The week of unleavened bread is often referred to as the Passover Week. The first and last days of this week (15th and 21st Abib) are Sabbath days, on which all believers are commanded to rest from their labours and to assemble to worship the Almighty. (Leviticus 23:5-8)
Leaven (yeast) is a symbol of sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine, a week represents eternity and a house represents the church of God. Thus the week of unleavened bread (when every trace of leaven is cleared from the houses of believers) symbolises the church which is to be purged by God: of sin, hypocrisy and false doctrine – for all time. Only when that work has been done will the church be a fit “Temple of God,” a spiritual home the Almighty will inhabit for all eternity. Yes, before Yahweh's Holy Spirit takes up permanent residence in 'His house' (the church) He has scheduled Himself to purge His people of every trace of (leaven) sin. (Matt. 16:6-12, 1 Cor. 5:6-8, Luke 12:1).
I repeat, there is coming a time when the Almighty will purge hypocrisy, false doctrine & sin (leaven) from the minds of His people; and only when that time arrives will the Week of Unleavened Bread have found its fulfilment, not before.
Scripture tells us that this Feast of Unleavened Bread is a Sacred Sign on the believer's hand and mind that the Almighty's law is inscribed therein. This Feast is, in fact, the appointed sign of faithful obedience, as opposed to the Mark of the Antichrist, which is the brand mark of disobedience.
Exodus 13:6: Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
7: Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8: And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9: And IT (this particular Feast) shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
10: Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Note: that specific reference to this Feast being a sign on the hand and a memorial between the eyes (the mind).
The Feast of Pentecost
The Feast of Pentecost, also called the Feast of First Fruits, falls on the 50th day after the Passover Sabbath. This feast is a reminder, a guarantee of Yahweh's power to produce spiritual fruit in the field of human salvation. The literal first fruits of the soil are merely the physical types or expressions of the real first fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The first fruits of the Holy Spirit are the true believers won to God by His Son the firstborn. (1 Cor. 15:20&23, James 1:18, Rev. 14:4)
The ancient ceremony of presenting the Almighty with the firstfruits of the earth (Deut. 26:1-11) with two oven-baked loaves, in which the leaven had been de-activated (Lev. 23:15-17), was a figure, a type, a shadow of the spiritual harvest of human souls in whom the yeast of sin will one day cease to exist. There is coming a day when the power of sin will be de-activated in us believers just as the power of leaven is neutralised in an oven baked loaf.
The breathtaking experience recorded in Acts 2 was but the early harvest, a kind of “firstfruits” of an even greater out-pouring of divine power scheduled to fall upon the church in the near future when the main harvest of human beings will be gathered in.
The Feast of Pentecost, in short, prefigures, guarantees and commemorates the early harvest, the first fruits of human souls: and those who celebrate it declare their willingness to be part of that spiritual multitude which will one day be gathered in and presented to the Almighty by His Son – the Firstborn!

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Two identical goats. Lots were cast. One was chosen to bear the sins of Israel. That goat was set free. The two goats represent the Messiah. His death and His resurection. One goat was “For YHWH our Elohim”, the other goat was “For azazel.”

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The goat for Elohim was sacrificed.

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DAY OF ATONEMENT
The word “atonement” means to make amends for, to reconcile, to restore, to repair, to make at-one again. And that is exactly what the Day of Atonement prefigures. It points to a specific time in the future when the great High Priest of the Melchizedek Order (Yeshua the Messiah) will literally bring the redeemed host of mankind right into the very presence of His Father, in order that we may be AT-ONE with YAHWEH.

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