YAHWEH'S FEASTS
Yah's 3 APPOINTED TIMES or SEASONS
with SEVEN FEASTS
FIRST APPOINTED TIME:
Lev. 23
1. PASSOVER
2. UNLEAVENED BREAD
3. FIRST FRUITS
SECOND APPOINTED TIME:
4. LATTER FRUITS (PENTECOST) -
50 days after FIRST FRUITS
THIRD APPOINTED TIME:
5. TRUMPETS
6. ATONEMENT
7. TABERNACLES
For years now I am relying on the traditional Jewish Calendar (or the Hebrew Calendar) in determining the actual (annual) dates of Abba's 7 feasts - on the Roman Gregorian Calendar that we all use today.
This is no easy thing to do, for the Roman Gregorian Calendar is shifting around each year, with February only 28 days, every fourth year a 29th day - and it is based on the SOLAR movement - a sun-calendar, while the Jewish Calendar is said to be a LUNAR (moon) calendar
We all know by now, that Abba's Feasts are SET on DATES that do NOT MOVE AROUND. But, to fit His dates onto a SHIFTING AROUND CALENDAR [and DATES] on the in-use GREGORIAN CALENDAR is quite tricky.
With the traditional Jewish Calendar in which Yahweh is not playing any role, and a lot of add-on feasts of their own traditions, it becomes all the more complicated.
Since last year, I found that the Jewish Calendar is moving into the Lent-Easter-cycle of the Gregorian Calendar pushing the PASSOVER FEAST all the nearer to the TIME-SLOT of the EASTER/ISHTAR (LENT) FEAST.
THE FORCES BEHIND THE SCENES:
This year, the forces behind the scenes (the enemy of our souls and his agents) pushed it still to start exactly at the EASTER "GOOD FRIDAY" - "EASTER SATURDAY".
One Hebrew Calendar I could find pushed it right into the EASTER FEAST starting at EASTER-SUNDAY - the 21st till the 29th of April 2019 and I thought that this was the calendar that I would follow this year.
MISSED OUT:
Unfortunately, in the process of 'living' I have totally neglected the information I received - information Abba gave me regarding the Qumram-Zadok Calendar, and with a shock I realized in researching this now, that according to the Qumram Calendar, PASSOVER has ALREADY PASSED - to have started on the 2nd of April and ended on the 9th of April 2019.
The devil got his way:
The Qumram-Zadok Calendar was brought under my attention a while ago, but with some difficult situation and attacks that were made on me personally regarding some communal property still owned in South Africa, and some other earthly matters, my mind was not fixed on Yahweh's things.
DID NOT STAYED FOCUSED:
This was another learning process in how easily we can get distracted and let earthly things consume our thoughts and minds and taking our minds off of the things that matter most - the heavenly things.
With this, Abba showed me how EASILY we are MISSING OUT on HIS APPOINTED TIMES ... for HIS TIMES is NOT OUR TIMES and OUR TIMES ARE NOT HIS TIMES.
The DEAD SEA SCROLLS - HEBREW
TIME CALENDAR FRAGMENTS
With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there were also fragments of a Hebrew Time Calendar. These fragments are now called the QUMRAM-ZADOK fragments of the QUMRAM-ZADOK PRIESTLY CALENDAR.
The high priest - ZADOK:
It is called after Zadok - the high priest during the reigns of kings David and Solomon. Zadok was also the high priest who supported king David during the rebellion (revolt) of David's son, Absalom. Zadok was instrumental in bringing Solomon to the throne and was the Officiator of the ANOINTING CEREMONY of Solomon as king. He was also the high priest in the FIRST TEMPLE in Jerusalem, built by Solomon.
RIGHTEOUS AND JUSTIFIED LEVITICAL PRIESTS:
Zadok is biblically recorded as a patrilineal descendant (descent through the male lineage) of Eleazar, - the son of Aaron ( 2 Sam. 8:17; 1 Chron. 24:3; 1 Chron. 6:4-8). Zadok means "RIGHTEOUS" and/or "JUSTIFIED".
THE SONS OF ZADOK:
Ezekiel 44:15 "But the LEVITICAL PRIESTS, the SONS of ZADOK, who KEPT the CHARGE OF MY SANCTUARY when the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT ASTRAY from Me, shall come NEAR Me to TALK to Me, and they SHALL ATTEND Me to OFFER to Me the fat and the blood, says Elohim YAHWEH.
:16 They shall ENTER INTO MY SANCTUARY, and they shall COME NEAR to MY TABLE to TALK to Me and THEY SHALL KEEP My CHARGE."
OPPOSING BAAL/ASHERAH WORSHIP:
In Ezekiel we read that the SONS of ZADOK was KEEPING THEIR CHARGE in the SERVICE of YAHWEH. They were FAITHFUL OPPONENTS of PAGANISM DURING the TIMES OF PAGAN (Baal/Baalim-Astoreth/Asherim) WORSHIP in Israel.
According to the Qumran fragments of the PRIESTLY CALENDAR, we have missed the REAL PASSOVER DATE which was to be the first week of April already - 2-10 April 2019 (14-22 Nissan/Abib). [Nissan is the FIRST month in the Hebrew year (Lev. 23) that was changed in Babylonian times of exile to the Babylonian name for the first month - "Abib".]
YAHWEH'S BASE YEAR - EXACTLY 364 DAYS - ALWAYS ...
According to the Qumram Zadok Calendar, Yahweh's Calendar year right from the beginning is exactly 364 days long with the year divided into four seasons - SPRING - SUMMER - AUTUMN and WINTER.
This is exactly the same as described in the Book of ENOCH and the Book of JUBILEES.
Yahweh's BASE YEAR is 360 days (12 months x 30 days) with each SEASON that has a INERCALARY or a "RENEWAL" DAY - a SEASONAL "DOORWAY" or a "RENEWAL" day of passing over into a NEW SEASON - SPRING - AUTUMN - WINTER - SUMMER. It is REFERRED to in SCRIPTURE AS CHODESH or CHADASH (RENEWAL) days.
RENEWAL DAYS were REPLACED with "NEW MOON":
In our English Bibles, and not without evil intentions, these 4 "RENEWAL" DAYS are MISTRANSLATED as "MOON" or "NEW MOON" [to usher in the deception of the hidden satanic agenda of the age old Babylonian MOON-goddess "Easter/Ishtar - the satanic queen of ancient Babylon - Semiramis - also the fertility goddess in satanic paganism in Canaan also the goddess of "Lent" now firmly embedded in the Christendom through Catholicism]
The word "MOON" is "YARACH" and is nowhere to be found in the original Hebrew manuscripts.
Month 1 = 30 days,
Month 2 = 30 days and
Month 3 = 30 days + 1 day as a RENEWAL DAY = 31 days.
Month 4 = 30 days,
Month 5 = 30 days and
Month 6 = 30 days + 1 day as a RENEWAL DAY = 31 days and so forth ...
YAHWEH'S FEASTS and SABBATHS are ESTABLISHED on HIS APPOINTED DAYS EACH YEAR all calculated and based on the NUMBER 7.
Throughout YAHWEH'S Calendar, there is NEVER ANY SHIFTING AROUND of DAYS and the SEVEN DAY CREATION WEEK given in the SCRIPTURES REMAINS FOUNDATIONAL - so HIS PROCLAIMED SEVENTH DAY SABBATHS.
EACH SEASON (3 months) is ALWAYS 13 WEEKS LONG = 13 weeks x7days = 91 or 30+30+31 = 91.
Father, how AMAZING You are. You GIVE us BACK what the ENEMY has STOLEN from us. You SHED YOUR LIGHT on the things HIDDEN - and breaks it open for us to understand and SET US FREE from the BONDAGES and the LIES and the DECEPTION we grew up in.
Thank You Father, Yahshua and Spirit of ALL TRUTH for revealing Your things to us, for drawing us closer to You ... giving us the chance to KNOW the TRUTH - to REALLY REALLY KNOW YOU and WALK in RIGHTEOUSNESS with You. In YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. Amen.
(Ref. 0419)
The Biblical SET FEASTS or SEASONS
proclaimed by YHWH (God)
Scripture tells us that
7 FEASTS WERE PROCLAIMED BY YHWH HIMSELF : FOUR FULFILLED - THREE YET TO BE FULFILLED.
In Scripture (Lev. 23) YHWH HIMSELF PROCLAIMED:
FIRST OF ALL
The SABBATH DAY.
(PROCLAIMED BY SUMMONS) - A Day of total rest .
It was proclaimed to be the 7th DAY - (each and every SATURDAY )
(NOT the 1st day of the week that is SUNDAY)
Leviticus 23:1-3 “YHWH said to Moses, Say to the Israelites, The SET FEASTS OR APPOINTED SEASONS of Elohim which you SHALL PROCLAIM as HOLY CONVOCATIONS, even, MY SET FEASTS, are these: SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE, but the
SEVENTH
DAY is the SABBATH OF REST
a HOLY CONVOCATION or ASSEMBLY
by SUMMONS.
You SHALL DO NO WORK ON THAT DAY; It is the Sabbath of Elohim IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS.”
THEN
SEVEN SET FEASTS OR APPOINTED SEASONS
Lev. 23 from verse 4
:4 “These are the SET FEASTS or APPOINTED SEASONS of the Lord, HOLY CONVOCATIONS you SHALL PROCLAIM at their stated times;
:5 On the 14th of the 1st month at TWILIGHT is YHWH’S
PASSOVER.
:6 On the 15th of the same month is the
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
to YHWH; for 7 days you shall eat unleavened bread. [see also 1 Cor. 5:7,8]
Firstfruits
[Lev. 23:9-14] ...
Latter fruits (Pentecost)
[Lev. 23:15-22] ...
Trumpets
[Lev. 23:23-25 ...
Day of Atonement
[Lev. 23:26-32] ...
Feast of Tabernacles
[Lev. 23:33-44].”
The first 4 Feasts of YHWH or His Appointed Times/Seasons
were all fulfilled in and through Yahshua Messiah
1. PASSOVER : (fulfilled)
(Yahshua’s crucifixion & burial)
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Lev. 23:5 “On the 14th of the 1st month (Nisan) at TWILIGHT is YHWH’S PASSOVER”
Begins sunset April 10th 2017 Gregorian Calendar (14th of Nisan)
Ends nightfall Friday April 11th 2017 Gregorian Calendar (15th of Nisan )
Yahshua the PERFECT PASSOVER LAMB.
1 Peter 1:18-19 “... you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down from your forefathers, ... with the precious blood of Messiah, a lamb without blemish or defect).”
10th of NISAN
YAHSHUA ENTERED the CITY as the SACRIFICIAL LAMB
On the 10th of Nisan - Yahshua rode into the city of Jerusalem on the same day the lambs to be slaughtered (male and without any defect) were selected.
14th of NISAN
Four days later Yahshua was crucified on the day of the preparation for the Passover, and the lambs were actually slaughtered.
PREPARATION for PASSOVER
As Yahshua was standing before Pilate it was the day of the preparation of the Passover. (John 19:14).
Yahshua’s bones were unbroken which was the stipulation for the Passover lamb in Ex. 12:46. See also John 19:31-34.
The “LAMB OF YHWH God”
MESSIAH OUR PASSOVER
John the Baptist called Yahshua the “Lamb”of YHWH God Who takes away the sin of the world in John 1:29. Paul said in 1 Cor. 5:7 – “... Messiah our Passover is sacrificed for us.”
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15th of NISAN
2. UNLEAVENED BREAD (fulfilled)
The 7 Day Unleavend Bread Feast begins at sunset April 11th – 18th April 2017 (Month of Nisan 15 to 22 on the Biblical Calendar).
Begins and ends with Sabbath Rest
All to do with Yahshua and His burial – Messiah the PURE UNCONTAMINATED (UN-LEAVENED) BREAD
Lev. 23:6 “On the 15th of the same month is the FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD to YHWH; for 7 days you shall eat unleavened bread.”
1 Cor. 5:7-8 “PURGE (clean out) the OLD LEAVEN that you may be FESH (new) DOUGH, still UNCONTAMINATED [as you are], for MESSIAH, our PASSOVER [LAMB] has been SACRIFICED. Therefore, LET US KEEP the FEAST, NOT with OLD LEAVEN, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the UNLEAVED BREAD of PURITY (nobility, honor) and SINCERITY and UN-ADULTERATED TRUTH.” [Ex. 12:19; 13:7; Deut. 16:3]
THREE DAYS INTO UNLEAVENED BREAD
3. FIRST FRUITS. (fulfilled)
3 Days into the Unleavened Bread Feast – 13 April 2017 (17th Nisan on Biblical Calendar)
Yahshua rose from the dead on the Day of First Fruits.
Messiah’s resurrection was like a wave offering presented to the Father as the FIRST-FRUIT HARVEST to COME at the END OF THE AGE.
Paul said in 1 Cor. 15:20-23 “But the FACT IS that MESSIAH has BEEN RAISED from the DEAD, and HE BECAME the FIRSTFRUITS of THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP [in death]. For since [it was] through a man that death [came into the world, it is] also through a Man that the RESURRECTION of the DEAD [has come]. For just as [because of their UNION OF NATURE] IN ADAM ALL PEOPLE DIE, so ALSO [by virtue of their union of nature] SHALL ALL IN MESSIAH BE MADE ALIVE. But EACH in HIS OWN RANK and TURN. MESSIAH IS the FIRST-FRUITS THEN THOSE WHO ARE MESSIAH’S OWN WILL BE RESURRECTED at HIS COMING.”
Acts. 1:3-4
Messiah showed Himself ALIVE after HIS PASSION (His SUFFERING in the GARDEN AND on the CRUCIFIXION STAKE) by a SERIES of MANY DEMONSTRATIONS, UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES, and INFALLIBLE PROOFS, APPEARING to them during FORTY DAYS and TALKING TO THEM ABOUT the THINGS of the KINGDOM of YHWH God.
And while being in their company and eating with them, HE COMMANDED THEM NOT to LEAVE Jerusalem but TO WAIT for what the Father had PROMISED, OF WHICH [He said] they HAVE HEARD Him SPEAKING ABOUT. [John. 14:16, 26; 15:26].
4. PENTECOST (means 50)
(SHAVUOT) FEAST OF THE LATTER HARVEST
(The BAPTISM of the HOLY SPIRIT) – fulfilled – ongoing in fulfillment
Biblical calendar month of Sivan 6-7 – May 31-1 June 2017
50 Days after First Fruits (the resurrection of Messiah) (Lev. 23:15; Deut. 16:9) came Pentecost
Pentecost (means 50) was the coming of the New Covenant when the Holy Spirit was poured out on Jew and Gentile. (Eph. 2:14-15).
The Israelites had to count 7 full weeks (7 Sabbaths) after First Fruits which counts to 49 days. On the 50th day they had to bring to the temple 2 loaves of bread baked with leaven (Lev. 23:17). These two loaves of bread were to be waved before the Lord for the people pointing to - Jew and Gentile.
After Yahshua's resurrection He appeared to many people during a 40 day period. (Acts. 1:3)
Before He was taken into heaven, He commanded His disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father. (Acts 1:4 "And while being in their company and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised, of which [He said] you have heard Me speak")
On the day of the Feast of Latter Harvest (Pentecost) the Holy Spirit was POURED OUT on the BELIEVERS in a RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, TONGUES of FIRE ESTABLISING the NEW COVENANT.
Acts 2:1-4 "And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, THEY were all ASSEMBLED IN ONE PLACE, When suddenly there CAME a SOUND FROM HEAVEN like the RUSHING of a VIOLENT TEMPEST BLAST, and it FILLED the WHOLE HOUSE in which they were sitting. And there APPEARED to them TONGUES RESEMBLING FIRE, which were SEPARATED AND DISTRIBUTED and which SETTLED on EACH ONE of THEM. And they were all FILLED (DIFFUSED THROUGHOUT THEIR SOULS) with the HOLY RUACH and BEGAN to SPEAK in OTHER (DIFFERENT, FOREIGN) LANGUAGES (tongues), as the SPIRIT KEPT GIVING THEM CLEAR AND LOUD EXPRESSION...”)
THE 3 REMAINING FEASTS or APPOINTED TIMES proclaimed by ABBA - STILL TO BE FULFILLED
5. FEAST OF TRUMPETS:
(Rosh Hoshanah)
Biblical Calendar month of Tishri (the 7th month) on the first day (Tishri 1)
(21 September 2017)
This feast was proclaimed by Elohim as a SABBATH REST – a MEMORIAL of BLOWING the TRUMPETS – a HOLY CONVOCATION. (Lev. 23:23-25).
A TEN DAY of REPENTANCE is FOLLOWING the FEAST of TRUMPETS building up to YOM KIPPUR – the DAY OF ATONEMENT.
6. DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR)
Biblical Calendar month of Tishri (the 7th month) on the tenth day
(30 September 2017)
(Atonement defined – Compensation, reward, return, payment)
Yom Kippur is proclaimed by YHWH as the 10th and FINAL DAY after the Feasts of Trumpets (blowing of the Trumpet – the PROCLAMATION that SOMETHING IS GOING to HAPPEN) and the 10th day of the TEN DAYS OF REPENTANCE in between the two appointed times/feasts (Trumpets and Yom Kippur. (Lev. 23:26-32).
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement - represented the CONCLUSION of the VERY IMPORTANT REPENTANCE and FASTING period that began after the Trumpet Feast.
According to Leviticus Yom Kippur is a day of COMPLETE FASTING with no water or food consumption – A SABBATH DAY WITH NO WORK.
YHWH said in Lev. 23:29 “For whoever is NOT AFFLICTED [by FASTING in PENITENCE (repentance, atonement, remorse, regret, sorrow, apology) and HUMILITY] on this day shall be CUT OFF from among his people [so that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].”
***The ten “days” in between the two appointed times (Trumpets and Atonement) are widely seen as a time or a period - a LAST CHANCE of REPENTANCE – CLEAN UP of LIVES – to CHANGE and TURN FROM INIQUITIES and to TURN WHOLEHEARTEDLY TO GOD, AFTER WHICH THERE IS NO TURNING BACK.
6. FEAST OF TABERNACLES (SUKKOT)
(unfulfilled)
A ONE WEEK FEAST
(It can well be the designated ‘period’ of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb when it is to go into fulfillment)
Beginning on the 15th day of 7th month Tishri on the Biblical Calendar
(October 4 in the evening 2017)
SUKKOT is proclaimed by YHWH - 10 days after Yom Kippur. (Lev. 23:26-33). It is a DRASTIC TRANSITION from the REPENTANCE FEAST to the MOST JOYOUS.
In Jewish culture it is referred to as the Z’man Simchateninu (the SEASON of our REJOICING).
Historically
FESTIVAL of SHELTER
SUKKOT commemorates the 40 year wandering in the desert of the children of Israel when they lived in temporary SHELTERS or “BOOTHS”
FESTIVAL of INGATHERING
SUKKOT is a HARVEST FESTIVAL sometimes referred to as the FESTIVAL OF INGATHERING (Chag Ha-Asif) - prophetically and symbolically of the INGATHERING of the BRIDE of MESSIAH.
Tabernacle Feast will occur on the following days of the secular calendar:
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Jewish Year 5777: sunset October 16, 2016 - nightfall October 23, 2016
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Jewish Year 5778: sunset October 4, 2017 - nightfall October 11, 2017
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Jewish Year 5779: sunset September 23, 2018 - nightfall September 30, 2018
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Jewish Year 5780: sunset October 13, 2019 - nightfall October 20, 2019
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Jewish Year 5781: sunset October 2, 2020 - nightfall October 9, 2020