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The Seven Feasts of Israel, on the Hebrew Calendar

The Seven Feasts of Israel began to come Into focus back around 1980 with a small booklet published by Zola Levitt. This was the beginning of some new insights. Pastor Carl Gallups was putting out some DVDs soon after YouTube came online for us. When I realized he lived just across the river we had some good conversations and did some radio sessions together. Since then the conversation on the Seven Feasts of the LORD has expanded very wonderfully throughout Christendom from many quarters. We are beginning to get a sense that these seven moedim, holy days, or divine appointments are in the process of laying out God's entire agenda. In them we can begin to see the outworking of His marvelous plan. Here is the video I put up back in that time when YouTubing and Vlogging was the new and growing thing.

https://youtu.be/FPpT715y1-s?si=lj8XF6LrwmG6Xrrq

The Spring Feasts are those first four of these seven appointed times. They were fulfilled 2000 years ago in the Passion Year with the death, burial, and resurrection of Messiah. He was Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb, the Suffering Servant of many Old Testament prophecies. He was crucified right on Nisan 14 of 32 A.D., the preparation day of Passover. He was buried at sunset, which in Hebrew reckoning marks the threshold into the new day. In this case it was the transition into Nisan 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread. He was placed in the tomb just before sunset. So in that epic year the sinless Unleavened Bread of Heaven was in the grave, fulfilling the Feast. Three nights and three days later at sunset after the 7th day Sabbath came to an end He arose from the grave. This was just as the first day of the week began. He rose to life again on Firstfruits Resurrection Sunday as the firstborn from the dead. On fiftieth day of the omer day count from Firstfruits came the promised Holy Spirit outpouring. This awesome Holy Spirit overflow fulfilled the Day of Pentecost. This came precisely on the day appointed, Pentecost Sunday.

The Fall Feasts are to some degree still in the mystery . They are somewhere up there in our future awaiting the year of their epic, precisely dated future fulfillment. Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets looks very much like an opener day for the 70th Week of Daniel, a day of alarm, a day of remembrance, a day of proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of David no less, returned to us at last, in Messiah, the Son of David, to replace the kings of the European West and the merchant rulers of the West who rule in the realms of global economic planning.

The Psalmist Asaph in Psalm 81 spoke of this day. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." Asaph goes on to say that as it was for Joseph, finding himself in a strange land among languages he did not know, the times of upheaval will be difficult. But as with Joseph, what man meant for evil God means for good, and to save many alive.

The prophet Joel also saw the day clearly. It was "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my Holy Mountain". Gather the people, declare a fast, let the priests, ministers, and rabbis weep before the porch and the altar. The threshold into the new global regime is in the permissive will of God. With the chastening, the refining, the scattering will come the plowman, the sowing, and the reaping. All these are part and parcel of the promised Harvest ingathering of the latter Days. Then at the end, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the Day of Reckoning, will bring the final deliverance and glorification of All Israel. In Revelation 7 John saw the redeemed as a fully regathered, reconciled, redeemed, and glorified company, of His Elect, His covenant people drawn from every nation, race, and tribe, all across this world, and clear out to the ends of the earth.

At present, there is a strange reluctance to study the Feast of Trumpets in its more biblical name, Yom Teruah. The word 'teruah" is mentioned 33 times in the KJV Bible, but is seldom studied out or spoken about by our popular Bible prophecy teachers. Then too, the musical spirit, character, and signaled meaning of the teruah, the third of the four traditional Jewish shofar blasts, is not appreciated for what it is. Nor do Messianic, Jewish, or Christian teachers venture to mention how and when it is almost certainly looks to be used of God, just as the future 70th Week begins, and the final 7 years of this age open up.

The Timeline of the Future 70th Week

and the Final 7 Years of this Age

Some 20 years ago the author discovered that the Future 70th Week of Daniel and the final 7-years of this age, a day count of 1260 + 1290 = 2550 days in certain seven years spans across 86 moons, (and not 87 moons), matches up precisely with the bridging inclusive day count between the two yet to be fulfilled Fall Feasts of the LORD. The author believes that when the saints enter into those final 7 years this precise timeline will be a welcome and very helpful roadmap of sorts for them. It also gives them full assurance that the Holy One of Israel is sovereign in the affairs of men, and sets the limits over unfolding holy history here on earth below.

The First 69 Sevens of the

Seventy Weeks Prophecy

From the Nisan moon of the Edict of Artaxerxes given to the cup-bearer Nehemiah, to the 10th day of the Nisan moon that shone over the First Coming of "Messiah the Prince" on Palm Sabbath in the Passion Year, ran a bridging day count of 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days. These are the first 69 Weeks (or "69 Sevens"), of the Seventy Weeks Prophecy. The author, used the NASA moon-phase tables from the Astropixels.com website to reconstruct the Hebrew calendar for the years of the Edict and the year of the Passion of Messiah and thereby lay out the timeline backwards from Nisan 10 of 32 A.D. This confirmed the wonderful work of evangelical Scotland Yard Inspector Sir Robert Anderson as outlined in his book, "The Coming Prince". The reason this study is so important is that it provides absolute irrefutable proof that up ahead, in a time window yet to unfold, is the Full Future 70th Week of Daniel, there in the Final 7 Years of this age. For a full expansion of this subject go to the introductory web page for the Seventy Weeks Prophecy.

The 2300 days of Daniel 8:

For 40 odd years many biblical Christians have wondered what the 2300 days are all about. Here is the immediate biblical context.

Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, "How long will the things in this vision-the daily burnt offering, the destructive rebellion, the surrender of the holy place, and the trampling of the army-take place?" 14 He told me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the holy place will be made acceptable to God."

So it seems that the 2300 days are a future time period inclusive of the time of the future Temple sacrifices plus the ensuing time period of the desolation of the Holy Place. So we now move on to ask how this time period of 2300 days relate to the final 7 years of this age? The future 70th Week is accounted as 7 x 360 = 2520 days divided into two halves at the midpoint by the "Abomination that makes desolate". The exile of the woman is another perspective on the Great Tribulation and this is given to us in Revelation 12:6 and again in Rev. 12:14 using different time units. There we see that the latter half is given to us as both 1260 days and 3.5 prophetic years thereby confirming for us the 360 day year dispensed to us in the Seventy Weeks Prophecy.

We then move on to discover that the terminus of the desolation of the Holy Place occurs with the arrival of "the sign of the son of Man in the heavens", just as Messiah comes to terminate the Great Tribulation. This is also stated in Daniel 9:24 where we see reference is given to the Seventy Weeks ending with the time to "anoint ethe most Holy Place. So, the time of desolation ends right there. And from the end of that second 1260 day period we can run the 2300 days backwards from that point. 2520 - 2300 = 220 days. So we can conclude that the dedication of the Temple and the initiation of Temple sacrifices begins 220 days out from the beginning of the future 70th Week. Subtracting this Temple rebuilding time of 220 days from the first 1260 days we can conclude that the temple sacrifices will last for 1260 - 220 = 1040 days.

So, this is actually a very wonderful timeline, a road-map of sorts for those on the scene at the time of the end. They will know how long the Temple sacrifices will last, how long the Holy Place will lie desolate, and when the sanctity of the Holy Place will be restored by the returning Presence of Messiah.

Seven Verses, in Three Different Time Units Describe and Measure out the Final Half of the Future 70th Week of Daniel.

The Cosmic Signs, with

the TRUE Blood Moon.

A number of references in Holy Scripture mention a triad of apocalyptic cosmic signs, those being a darkened sun, the TRUE blood moon and stars falling. These cosmic signs are spoken of by Jesus in the Olivet discourse, by His disciple Matthew in Mat. 24, by Luke the physician in Luke 21, by the Prophet Joel in Joel in Joel 2:28-32, and the Apostle John in Revelation chapter 6. Here is a link to a YouTube video on the subject. https://youtu.be/55-ylUDEqVo?si=zSJMOZniZW1TGOzn

When it comes to chronology, and we begin to address the question as to just when this period of the cosmic signs will occur, we can start by gathering the biblical information provided for us. Then we can proceed to put the jigsaw pieces together.

In the Olivet Discourse Jesus tells us that “Immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be turned to darkness, the moon to blood, and the stars will fall from the sky.” So, straight away, we can conclude that the cosmic signs come AFTER the 1260 days of the Great Tribulation. Next we go back into the Old Testament to the prophet Joel. In Joel 2:28-32 he writes, “the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, BEFORE the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.” So with these two references, with no speculation, and with 100% assurance, we can begin to put our end-of-age chart together with the cosmic signs sandwiched in between the tribulation period and the Day of the Lord at the end of this age.

Then we move on to establish the timeline and day count of these cosmic signs. For this we need to have a basic understanding of the Seventy Weeks prophecy, at least sufficient to know that there is yet to run a final 70th Week, or sabbatical, or shmittah. This is a period of 7 x 360 = 2,520 days, and in the many cross-references we see that this is being divided into two halves. The latter half is the 1260 day time period Jesus spoke of as the time of the great tribulation. This is variously described as 1260 days, 42 x 30 day prophetic months, or 3.5 360 days prophetic years. Seven verses, using three time units, describe the final half of the future 70th Week. Each are based upon the 360 degree circle, which is made up of 360 degrees and 12 sectors of 30 degrees. Further proof of the 360 day prophetic year comes to us in Revelation 12:6 and 12.14 in which the end-time exile of the woman, God’s covenant people, is given to us twice, in verse 6 as 1260 days and then in verse 14 as 3.5 years. See this video. https://youtu.be/lyg5pJhwVAM?si=ECXSb2U-m33fn957

Once we have established the day count of the Great Tribulation / trampling of Jerusalem / reign of the Antichrist / exile of the woman of Revelation 12, as 1260 days we have a basis for looking further to measure the days of the cosmic signs. For this we need to go Daniel’s prophecy in Daniel 12:11. There the angel Gabriel tells Daniel that from the abomination of desolation there will be 1290 days. From there, it is a simple matter of subtracting the 1260 from the 1290 to arrive at this overlap period of the cosmic signs which is 30 days.

The 19 Year - 235 Moon Metonic Cycle as a basis for the calculated Jewish Calendar of Hillel 2 set forth in 359 A.D.

The Feast of Trumpets, Tishri 1 on the Hebrew Calendar, in its Metonic Dance across the Fall Season in the month of September.

Future Shmitta or Sabbaticals in which the Bridging Day Counts between the Fall Feasts precisely match the 1260 + 1290 = 2550 days of the Final Seven Years of this age

The Constantinian Accord, of God and king, the establishment of a power-sharing arrangement between Church and State, God and Country.

The Constantinian Accord was a marriage of sorts between substantially non-Jewish church and the European princes. Back in the time of the early church it was the Judeo-Christian congregation of Messiah. However, after the sack of Jerusalem on 70 A.D. and the Diaspora, Jewish believers in Messiah had been dispersed. They were also being greatly outnumbered by the influx of non-Jewish believers. Then too, even more so that the early Christians, they had continued to be despised by the Roman powers and driven underground.