(233) “What Do the Feasts of Israel Mean to Us?”

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Passover Jesus fulfilled, he fulfilled the Feast of First Fruits, and he fulfilled the

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Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, by sending his Holy Spirit. So those are complete.

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But we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are illustrated by the Fall Feasts.

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God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Bus. And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.

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You know, we're in that season, we've entered that season of the Feasts of Israel. And some

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people are probably scratching their heads. What do the Feasts of Israel mean to us?

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us and have a life changing experience over Memorial Day weekend 2025. So today we're going

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to talk about this idea of the Feasts of Israel. You know, we love Israel. We are just absolutely

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dedicated to being a part of what God is doing in his land because it's a prophetic picture of

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of God's faithfulness. Yes. When you, if you love the word of God, you're going to see in his word

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that he has made all kinds of promises to Israel and he's fulfilling them. We're watching prophecy

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happen all the time now in our generation. You know, our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, talked about

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how when she was a little girl in the 1920s, she heard the elders in her house, you know, after

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after church service would be talking about how the Bible talks about how the Jews are going to

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come back to the land of Israel, wondering when that's going to happen, or maybe they were seeing

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that it was starting to happen and she heard it as a little girl. Yeah. And then it was called

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Palestine. Yeah, back then. That's because it was in the 1920s that the British mandate happened.

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And that may be what triggered everybody thinking that way was the British mandate. Yeah. And

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yeah, and particularly the British renaming at Palestine, because that's what was on their,

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their Bible maps, because that's what Rome had renamed it.

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Palestina. Yeah. And then, you know, the Ottoman Empire took it over and they didn't call it

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Palestine. They called it something about Syria, you know. So anyway, bottom line is we love Israel.

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We're dedicated to Israel. God has given us even a house in Israel. And, you know, that's miraculous

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in itself, but we understand that we as Gentiles are grafted into the root of the olive tree.

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The Bible talks about the olive tree as a symbol of Israel, that we, according to Romans 11,

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we are grafted in. Some of the branches were broken off. Some, not all of them, some were

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broken off so that there was room for the Gentiles to be grafted in because God really always had it

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on his heart to get everybody on the planet into his kingdom. And so Israel was being used by God

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as a symbol, as a picture of what he wants to do in the earth. And much of it is also a picture of

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what's going on in heaven and to bring it to earth, on earth as it is in heaven, like Jesus taught us

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to pray. So we want to look at how these feasts are and what's our part in them. Is this important

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or is this something Old Testament and we don't have to do it anymore? Or, you know, what is our

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job here? So we're going to dig. It's important that we compare Scripture with Scripture and that

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we get the picture of what God is doing because there's a whole lot of traditions as lots of

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believers in Jesus and Yeshua have begun to look to Israel to teach us more about what does it mean?

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What does it mean to serve God? And rightly so, because they were the ones that were given the

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word. I think Paul says probably in Romans 11 that unto them, the Jewish people, that unto them was

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given the oracles of God. Exactly. So they understand a whole lot about what it really means.

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The problem is that there's a whole bunch of pharisaical traditions that even Jesus was saying,

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no, your traditions are negating the word of God. So we need to sort out what's tradition

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and what's the word because there's a whole lot of traditions and traditions can be beautiful.

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Traditions can have really good roots and really good understanding that they can highlight things.

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But when it comes right down to it, we don't need to keep the traditions of men.

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We need to keep the word of God. And so we need to be very careful. And we don't want to be

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law police, like the Pharisees were. They were so concerned that they not offend God,

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that they got busy offending Jesus who is God because they didn't understand because all they

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were doing was going by what the rabbi said instead of what the word said. So we have to be careful

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that we don't be rabbinic Jewish wannabes and try and keep all these traditions that Jesus

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didn't even approve of. So that's the introduction to the importance of looking at this with a clear

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understanding of what is all of this? How do we fit in? How do we fit in? And I want to make this

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comment that much of what God did through the Jewish people, through Israel, because the Jewish

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people is only one tribe and a smattering of other tribes among them. But the thing that God did

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through Israel was to illustrate things about his kingdom. And so what we're looking at is the

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illustrations so that we can get an understanding of what our Father's heart is. And there's just so

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much we're going to dig, dig, dig. And I think we're going to find some beautiful revelatory

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ideas here. But what really these things are is like a rehearsal for what's going to happen when

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he comes with his kingdom. And if you look at the spring feast, we're not going to look at the spring

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feast today. We're just going to look at the fall feast because this is fall, at least in our

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hemisphere, in the Northern hemisphere. For those of you who might be listening in the Southern

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hemisphere, just imagine that this is fall for you because in Israel it's fall. So the spring

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feasts, Jesus fulfilled the spring feasts. So he died as the Passover sacrifice. Not only the

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Passover lamb wasn't necessarily a sin offering, but there is an atonement offering of a goat that's

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given on the same day. And that's really what Jesus was to forgive us of our sins. I don't want to

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take time with all of that, but Passover Jesus fulfilled. He fulfilled the feast of first fruits

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and he fulfilled the feast of Pentecost, the feast of weeks by sending his Holy Spirit.

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So those are complete, but we haven't yet seen the things that God is going to do that are

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illustrated by the fall feasts. So we're making this recording on the eve of Yom Teruah. And

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I'm sorry you won't be hearing it until a few days from now, but it's important for us to understand

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what all of these are about. I thought it was called Rosh Hashanah. Isn't it New Year's Day?

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Okay. Well, sorta. It is, but it isn't. Okay. So it is the civil new year. You know, you have multiple

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new years, right? We have on our calendar, January 1st is New Year's Day, but we also have maybe the

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beginning of a fiscal year at a different time. And you might have the beginning of the school year.

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So there are different beginnings of years. But the reason why you have this as the beginning of

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the civil year, as I understand it, has to do with when they came back from Babylon. Because at the

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very beginning of their keeping of the laws in Exodus 12, 1 to 3, the Lord spoke unto Moses and

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Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, this month, which it was spring, it was the month of Aviv,

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this month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It should be the first month of the year

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to you speak to the congregation of Israel saying in the 10th day of this month, take every man a

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lamb according to their house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. So that was the beginning of

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the month where Passover is. Aviv means spring. So it's the month of Aviv and it's the beginning.

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But when they came back from Babylon, they started calling it Nisan because that's what they called

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it in Babylon. So the city Tel Aviv, yes, is Tel, which is, was built. A tel is a like a

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mound that a city used to be built on. It was crushed and rebuilt. But they built it out of

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the sand. Yeah, they built it on the sand. I don't know why they call it Tel. We saw the original

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picture of the settlers when they started Tel Aviv. There was like maybe 50 of them.

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They had shovels and stuff and they built that on the sand. Yes, they did. Nothing else around them.

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Amazing. Yeah, Joppa wasn't far from them, but they started an entire new city.

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Wow. And now Tel Aviv is. And Tel Aviv, but it means spring. It means spring.

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So that was a little bunny trail there. Yeah, a little bunny trail. So this idea of it being

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Rosh Hashana, what Rosh means head and Hashana means the year. So head of the year is what Rosh

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Hashana means. It became that because, you know, it's kind of like a tradition that comes from a

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biblical event, but it's not a biblical principle. Well, sort of. It's a sort of biblical principle.

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The rabbis figured it out that it works for them. I really want to see us celebrating New Year's

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on the beginning of Aviv. And we do, but we can also celebrate. I mean, hey, let's just have as

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much celebration as we can, right? So in Ezra chapter three, verses one and two, it says,

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when the seventh month had come and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered

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together as one man to Jerusalem. OK, this is the seventh month. Then Yeshua, the son of Yozadak

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and his brethren, the priests and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built

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the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it as it is written in the law of

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Moses, the man of God. And then in verse four, it says, they also kept the feast of tabernacles as

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it is written and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.

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Afterwards, they offered the regular burnt offering and those for new moons and for all

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the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated and those of everyone who willingly

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offered a freewill offering to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer

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burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple had not been laid. So what happened

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was they came back from Babylon and everything was destroyed. Everything was a mess. So they were in

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all of their cities, spread out wherever they were. And they all came together in the seventh month to

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come and build the altar. That's the first thing that they built the altar. So they built the altar

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and they started to offer sacrifices. So that I believe is the reason why they start the new year

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on Russia. They're calling it Rosh Hashanah, but it's the first day of the seventh month.

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It's a new start.

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Right. So then in Nehemiah 8.2, it says, and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation,

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both of men and women and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the

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seventh month. So he began reading to them also on the first day of the seventh month.

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So that's why they have started doing the civil year beginning there, because it was a new

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beginning for them. It was a wonderful new beginning. You start with offering sacrifices

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and you start with going back to the word of God. You know, some people will celebrate their

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their born again birthday in that way. You know, I started a whole new life on this day. It's kind

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of like drawing a line in the sand. And here is where I begin. I began my new life or maybe it was

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the baptism of the Holy Spirit or something that happened in your life that has caused you to have

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a life change. So why would God choose the seventh month for this?

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Well, he made the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. So it's a Shabbat.

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OK, so that's a holiday really in itself. And once a week, there is a holiday, a holy day.

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Right. And I remember being in Israel at the time of the feast, being in the choir and were there

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like three weeks ahead of time. And you would have you have these different holidays, then you have a

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Shabbat in there. And sometimes they call it a double Shabbat. Yeah. If the holiday was right

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next to it. So that's two days off. Right. Right. So God has a thing about sevens.

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It's pretty interesting how all of this comes together in a series of sevens.

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So you've got what God did like there's a there's a seventh year. That's a sabbatical year for your

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land to let the land rest. A Shemitah year, they call it. And when they went into Babylon,

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it was because first of all, it was idolatry and not keeping the word of God. But part of the stuff

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they didn't keep was letting the land rest every seventh year like they were supposed to.

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So the land rested for 70 years and 70 Shemitahs they didn't do. So it was like 490 years. They

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didn't keep that law. That's a long time. That's a lot of generations of disobedience. Yeah. We

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we thank God working within a quick time frame. But yeah, this is hundreds of years. Yeah. Time

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frame. So he is into doing things in cycles of seven. So giving these feasts in the seventh

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month, it's like he's sanctifying the month as well. Yeah. If you're in Israel at this time of

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year, you have to work around the non-work days to get anything done. You might as well postpone

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projects until after the feast. Yeah. And you have all this massive traffic because these holidays,

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people come from around the world to Israel to celebrate with their families. And so it

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creates all kinds of traffic. And then if you try to get a hotel and all that, just like the USA,

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you know, when there's a prime time, the prices go up. Exactly. Exactly. Should be a law about that.

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I'm sure when Jesus comes, it'll be fixed. Yeah. So there's something that God loves about wordplay.

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You know, he is the word. Remember, Jesus is the word. The word was made flesh. In the beginning

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was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. And the same was in the beginning

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with God. So he loves wordplay. If you could read Hebrew, you would understand that there's all kinds

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of wordplay going on in the word. It's just amazing. And so we're going to take a little bit of a dive

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here into this idea of these sevens and what God does. Like Shabbat is an amazing word and it's

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connected to the idea of rest, right? So if you're into taking notes, the Strong's Concordance

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number for Shabbat is 7676. And it means to repose or to desist from exertion. The Bible scholar

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Gosenius from the 19th century, he says Shabbat means to rest, to keep as a day of rest. The

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primary idea appears to be that of to sit down, to sit still. And that doesn't mean at a computer

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either. Yeah, that's probably true. To cease, to desist, leave off, to desist from doing anything.

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And it also means, of course, to celebrate the Sabbath. But you celebrate the Sabbath by stopping

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everything else. And it's a madhouse to get everything ready just before Shabbat. Yeah,

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I've got to hurry up so I can rest. Yeah, because in Israel everything shuts down at three o'clock

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in the afternoon on a Friday. Everything is closed. The last bus's transportation is done by three

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o'clock. And you have to be done with everything. Then you get it prepared. And then once it's all

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prepared, Shabbat starts, you light the candles. So now we can rest. Yeah. Hurry up and rest.

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Yeah. So where does it begin? Where do we see this beginning? It starts in Genesis 2, 2. It says,

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on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had done. And he rested on the seventh day from

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all his work which he had done. Now, you don't get anything from that of understanding when you read

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it in English. But if you insert the Hebrew words, you'll start to see words that connect.

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Uh-huh. Okay. So on the seventh day, so that's Shav-ee. Seventh is Shav-ee. Now, let me just

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give you this little piece. Greek has the alphabet, but Hebrew has the aleph bet. So the second letter

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is bet. And if you see it written, it has a ball in the middle of it, like a dot. I call it a ball

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to help me remember that when it's got a ball in it, it's a b sound. Okay. So it's Shabbat, okay?

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But if there's no ball there, it becomes a vet. So it's a V sound instead of a B sound. So some of

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these are going to have V sounds and some of them are going to have B sounds, but it's the same

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letter in Hebrew. It's just whether it has a ball or not. A jot or a tittle. Exactly. It's one of

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those kinds of things. So on the seventh day, Shav-ee, seventh, God ended his work, which he had done, and he

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rested Shabbot. And that is seven, six, seven, three. On the seventh day, Shav-ee, from all his work,

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which he had done. So Shav-ee is the word seventh. Okay. So we're already seeing this idea of seven.

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There's something special to God about seven. Right from the beginning, right from Genesis chapter two,

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the next one that is connected to it, I'm going to give you a few words here, is Shav-et. And that's

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seven, six, seven, five. It means seat. Like the seat of Solomon's throne was called Shav-et.

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Oh, okay. And it also means dwelling. It's a place or a habitation. In other words, a place where you

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settle in or you settle on. So it's a place of rest, right? So that's Shav-et. So here's another word,

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Shavua, which is seven, six, two, zero. That is, it means seven. It means a period of seven days or

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seven years. So that's the word that you have for week. The feast of weeks is Shavuot. It means

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when you want to make Shavua, plural, you add Oat to it. So Shavuot. So that's where you get this

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feast of weeks. And that's where you get the word week. So if you're saying Shabbat is over and

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you're saying have a good week, you're saying Shavuotov. Shavuotov. Okay. So the next word is

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Shava. Shavua comes from Shava and that is seven, six, five, zero. And it means to swear or to take

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an oath, like to swear by the name of Yehovah or Yehovah swearing by himself. Okay. And the Brown

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Driver Briggs lexicon says that this verb swear probably means to, you could say to seven oneself

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or to bind yourself by seven things. So in Genesis 21, you have the story of Abraham and he's had all

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of these digging of wells. Okay. And the Philistines come and take them over and he'd build,

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he digs another well and the Philistines come and take them over. Well, it's his men. It's his

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people that are doing it, not him, but it's his well, cause it's his stuff and it's his people.

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So he gets to the last well and Abimelek, the king of the Philistines comes to visit him.

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the wells and Abimelek says, well, I didn't know anything about it. Yeah. And he may not have.

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It's possible. It's possible. He didn't know about it. There's lots of things that go on that the

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leader doesn't know about, but so they come to a place of agreement because Abraham wants the

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Philistines to leave his well alone. So he comes with seven ewe lambs and he presents them to Abimelek

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and Abimelek says, what are the seven ewe lambs for? What's this about? So if you think about

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Abraham has lots and lots of flocks, he's very rich with sheep, lots of flocks, but he's very rich

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with lots of flocks and he's going to bring something to Abimelek that is a value that he can take to his

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flock. You know, it's, it's good to introduce new DNA into your herd or your flock, right? You know,

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you don't want the same DNA going in this in generation after generations. You want to introduce

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new DNA into your stock. So he's offering him something good, but Abimelek is saying, why,

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why seven ewe lambs? And Abraham says, he wants this to be a witness. This is, this is my testimony

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that I own this well and we're going to swear together that I own this well and your people

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are going to leave it alone. You're going to order your people to take care of, to leave us alone.

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Okay. So we can use this well. So they swore to each other, they made this oath together

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and he took the ewe lambs and Abraham named the well, Be'er Sheva. Okay. Be'er Sheva we say today.

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Yeah. But Be'er means well and Sheva of course means seven, but it also means to swear together,

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to make an oath together. So that's just one more connection of the sevens, right?

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And we've been to this well. Oh yeah, we have. It's the well of the oath. It's from Dan to Be'er Sheva.

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Right. That was very, that's going way south. Yeah. It is. And so then you have the word Shabbat,

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which is seven, six, seven, six. And it is the intensive of that one that we introduced at the

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very beginning of Shabbot seven, six, seven, three. And the Strong defines it as intermission,

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like a Sabbath. Okay. So it's that seventh day, you're taking a break. What's an intermission?

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You know, you have a play or a long, long movie and they take an intermission, you just take a break.

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So Sabbath is your break. This is your break time. You're setting it aside. It is special to God

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and it's special to us. So now we have another word that I haven't run across a whole lot.

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Yeah. I've never seen this one. Okay. So this one is Shabbaton. Shabbaton. And it's seven, six, seven, seven.

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And it comes from seven, six, seven, six. We talk about sevens. Yeah. Even the numbers.

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Even the numbers in Strong. The Hebrew numbers, Strong's numbers are sevens. That's true.

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So it's a special holiday, a special day of rest, a special Sabbath. So it is your weekly Sabbath,

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but it's also the day of atonement is a Shabbaton. Sabbatical years would be considered Shabbaton.

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The feast of trumpets has Shabbaton. The first and last days of the feast of tabernacles are Shabbaton.

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They are like a solemn Sabbath or a great Sabbath. I'm thinking you could call it a super Sabbath

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for us to understand in English. Okay. Okay. It's a, it's a Sabbath on steroids. Okay.

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So it's interesting to me that first of all, Yom Teruah as it's being celebrated as Rosh Hashanah,

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they celebrate it for two days. The Bible gives it one day. Okay. So let's stretch it. Let's just

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make it longer. Right. And particularly the, the feasts that are held for the people of Israel,

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they might celebrate for one day and people outside of Israel, the Jewish people might have

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to celebrate it for two days because the rabbi said, you don't know exactly when it's going to

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happen in Israel. So you better just celebrate for two days and make sure you cover it.

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Not necessary, but you know, why not celebrate longer? It's okay. So on the feast of Yom Teruah

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or Rosh Hashanah, they read the story of the binding of Isaac. So that was when God took

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Abraham, take your son, your only son that you love, take him up to the place I'm going to show

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you in the mountains of Moriah and sacrifice him there unto me. And so we have this amazing story

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of how God is testing Abraham and Abraham must have figured that out in his mind that, okay,

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this is the son of promise. This is my son that I love and it must be okay with God for me to

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sacrifice him. So maybe he's going to raise him from the dead because that's the only way that he

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can actually fulfill all these promises that he's made to me.

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He was already old when Isaac was born. So he's older now.

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Right, even older. So Isaac is bound. Abraham is about to do him in. The angel comes and says,

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stop. God says, I see that you have been faithful. I've been faithful to you.

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I've been faithful. I've counted it as though you've done it. And of course we've talked about this

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before, that this is something that was done on, I believe the temple Mount area, probably over

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where they quarried out the rock and that's the same place that Jesus was crucified. And so it was

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acting out as a rehearsal, what God was going to do in the big picture. Wow. Isn't that amazing?

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But it's interesting to me that they do this on Yom Teruah when the ram was caught by its horn.

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And some people say that this is the first shofar because the shofar is made from the ram's horn.

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Okay. Something had to die in order for you to get a shofar. So you have this story that's being

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told about the first shofar on the day of Yom Teruah.

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So what is Yom Teruah? The feast of trumpets?

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Yeah. It's known as the feast of trumpets, but there's more to it than that. And a good way to

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illustrate that is to look at Joshua 6, where Joshua has gone across into the promised land

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with the children of Israel and they've done step one and step two. And now they are about to take

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over Jericho, the first city that they're going to take over. And God said, it's all mine.

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Don't touch anything. That's another story. But what he said was in Joshua 6, 5,

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and it shall come to pass that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn,

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okay, that was the part that was caught in the thicket. So it's substituted. It was the substitute

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for Isaac. Get the principle of substitution. It's all through the Bible. It's all through

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the Bible that there's a substitute. You don't have to do it yourself. You can have a substitute.

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So when you hear the sound of the trumpet, well, that word in Hebrew is shofar.

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If you could read the Hebrew script, it is the word shofar. All the people shall shout

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with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat and the people shall ascend up

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every man straight before him. So the word shout there is the verb ruach. Okay. Okay. And it means

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it's the verb to shout. Okay. So they're going to make this loud shout sound. The Strong's

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definition on that one, it means to mar, especially by breaking. It means to split the ears with sound.

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It means to shout for alarm or joy, to blow an alarm, to cry aloud, to destroy, to make a joyful

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noise, sound an alarm, triumph. Gesenius says to make a loud noise, to cry out with a loud voice,

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to vociferate. That's a good word for you. I remember we were, we had a group of Chinese with

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us. Oh my, yes. And we're going down to, going down to Texas way. And they were just intercessors

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and they're praying and, and right behind me, you were driving. I was driving. One of the

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intercessors pulls out his long shofar and blows it right behind my head. And I just about ran

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off the road. I mean, yes, that was a trua. That was a trua. And the other thing that Gesenius says

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is that is to make a warlike clamor or by or over a conquered enemy. So this, this is the meaning of

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ruach. And, and then you take it into the word shout with a great shout. That's the word to ruach.

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So the feast of, of trumpets could also be called the feast of shouting or the feast of shouts.

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Yeah. Okay. Great. Because if you understand this principle and you want to have a shofar,

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but you don't have one yet, anytime it's called for a shofar, you can shout and it will do the

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same thing in the spirit. It's so powerful. You can use your voice too. You can use your voice.

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Yes, that too. So the word to ruach means alarm signal, sound of tempest,

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shout, shout or blast of war or alarm of joy, a war cry, a battle cry, an alarm for war,

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a blast. Like you're going to start out marching. It's a shout for joy. And that's from the outline

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of biblical usage from the blue letter Bible. And the Strong's definitions is to make a clamor,

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a clamor such as an acclamation of joy or a battle cry, especially clanger of trumpets

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as an alarm, blowing the trumpets. And it's also the sound for making the day of jubilee.

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It's a jubilee sound is this thing also. It's a loud noise. It's a tumult, a loud noise,

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joyful noise, rejoicing, joyful acclamations with which the people receive the king.

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Okay. So there's lots of things having to do with shouting and joyful shouting and rejoicing or

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you're going after the enemy. You make these strong sounds.

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Kind of like the Maori's of New Zealand. I was thinking that too.

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You know, they do the Hakka, you know, that war sick their tongues out and they do that before a

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soccer match, you know, to intimidate the, it is very intimidating.

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Yes. Shouting like that is intimidating. So this is, this is the kind of thing that we're going to

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see in this Yom Teruah. It's a time of the blowing of the shofar. It's a time of shouting,

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shouting joyfully, but there's something else that's special about it.

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Isn't it, it's the only feast that's held on a new moon.

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You know, Passover, Pentecost, Shavuot, you know, that's the feast of weeks and Sukkot are all held

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on the full moon. And I remember out in the desert, you know, when this would start,

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it was the opening night of the feast. Full moon over the Dead Sea.

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So beautiful.

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It was just the most amazing thing.

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So beautiful. So beautiful. But now this Yom Teruah is the feast of the hidden moon.

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moon was, they would have someone out in the desert where, where it's pretty clear. You don't

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have a whole lot of clouds usually. And when you know that the moon has disappeared, you've seen

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the last of the little toenail of the moon, you know, little tiny bit of crescent and it disappears.

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to be able to say it's the new moon. So let's celebrate.

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So it's the feast that you don't know the day or the hour.

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Ah, isn't that neat?

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Yeah. So, you know, that reminds us of something that Jesus said about his own coming. He said in

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Matthew 25, 13, watch therefore, for you know, neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of

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man comes. And then in Mark 13, 32, he said, but of that day and that hour knows no man. No, not the

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angels which are in heaven, neither the son, but the father. And then first Thessalonians 4, 16,

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it says for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Oh, there's Teruah.

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Teruah.

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With the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.

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Trump of God.

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So there's your shofar. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. So when we're celebrating this

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feast of trumpets or feast of shouting, we are looking forward to the coming of Jesus.

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Hallelujah.

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We're rehearsing for it. You know, it's something that it enters into our thinking. You know,

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we don't always think about it. Maybe we should always think about it, but we don't always think

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about, you know, is Jesus coming today? Maybe we should, maybe we should make that decision.

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Maybe we should make that a habit that we think, okay, is Jesus coming today? Let's live like he's

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coming today. So that is what this Yom Teruah is about.

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So the feast of trumpets or shouting starts the 10 days of awe that lead to the most solemn day

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of the year, Yom Kippur.

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And, you know, during those, during those 10 days of awe, everybody's repenting to each other.

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If they've had a fallout with their neighbor or a family member or somebody in a business,

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they'll go to them to each other and humble themselves and ask for forgiveness and give

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forgiveness. And some people even start at the entire month before the month of Elul.

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They'll start this repenting process. And during the month of Elul, they're blowing the shofar

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every day, getting ready for the feast of trumpets. So it's a, it's a big deal.

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It's a really big deal.

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Yeah. You know, being in Israel, so I've been to the feast about probably about 10 times.

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I was a volunteer in the choir and we get to see this, you know, experience this with the people.

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And on the eve of Yom Kippur, of course, they fast, they don't even swallow their own spit.

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Some of them. Yeah.

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It's very, it's the most solemn day of the holiday of the year. And you could hear them,

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you know, in the synagogues, because, you know, in the synagogues all in the day.

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And then as it winds down towards sundown, this is the time believing their sins are forgiven.

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Yeah.

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And they start rejoicing.

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Yeah.

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You can hear from all the synagogues and you'll hear everything going on. And on the day of Yom

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Kippur, you know, you can walk in the streets because there's no traffic. You know, there's no

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cars unless it's an Arab taxi, maybe. But even the women are taking the baby carriages with a baby.

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They're walking down the middle of the street with the baby carriages because there's no traffic.

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There's no traffic.

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It's just the most, everything stops. And you know, there's no TV, no radio, it used to be.

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And that was the day back in 1973 when Syria came down, Jordan came over and Egypt came up.

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Surprise attack on the holiest day of the year when there was no communication.

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Right.

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It was a total surprise. It was the bloodiest war of Israel at that time.

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Yeah. I think what happened October 7th is very similar.

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They call that like the Yom Kippur of that time, which happened right at the end of the feast,

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after Yom Kippur. It was the last great day of the feast is when that happened.

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October 7th.

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October 7th. Yeah.

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So this event of Yom Kippur is described in Leviticus 16. And I won't take time to go

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through all of that. But it's telling about how all of the steps that the high priest has to go

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through and the thing that's so significant about Yom Kippur. Think of it as a rehearsal of the big

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one, of the thing that God was going to do. God was going to sacrifice his own son. And like I said,

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he wasn't sacrificed on the day of atonement, but he was sacrificed on Passover as the Passover

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atonement. There's an atonement sacrifice that is a part of Passover. But the idea is that he,

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Jesus became our high priest. And the book of Hebrews explains all that to us. I won't take

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time for that either, but you can go back and read it for yourself. But the thing that's so

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significant is that the people of Israel, their job was to fast, to afflict their souls. Now,

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it doesn't say fast in Leviticus 16. It says that they should afflict their souls. So for a long

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time, I was trying to figure out, well, can I afflict my soul without fasting? But then I found

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a couple of verses that spell it out. Ezra 8.21 says, then I proclaimed a fast there at the river

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of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God to seek of him a right way for us and for our

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little ones for all our substance. And Isaiah 58.5 says, is it such a fast that I have chosen a day

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for a man to afflict his soul? Yeah. So fasting means afflicting your soul.

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Yeah.

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But the-

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That's what it feels like a lot of times.

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It does. It's an affliction. You just don't want to do it, but God gives you the grace.

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But the thing that's so amazing is our job is just to fast. Our job is to humble ourselves before the

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Lord and the high priest does all the work.

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So it's definitely a fast day then.

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Yeah.

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So should we fast? You know, Jesus already paid for our sins.

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Right. We don't have to fast, but it's important for us to keep short accounts of our shortcomings.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so it doesn't hurt to take a day and draw back and make sure that everything's covered.

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Yeah.

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Make sure that you've really kept short accounts. But the beautiful thing is that the high priest

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does it all himself and Jesus is our high priest. So he has done that for us. So if you feel led to

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fast, I really think you need to fast if the Holy Spirit tells you to fast.

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Yeah.

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I think it's important for us to ask the Lord, how do you see us doing this? What do you want us to do

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in this process? How do you want us to celebrate your feast? So if he wants us to fast, let's fast

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and let's get his heart. Maybe we could be fasting for the veil to be taken away from their eyes so

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that they can see Yeshua for who he is. And the Muslims too, you know, they need that veil taken

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away. They need to be set free and, you know, the nations of the world, there's a whole lot of folks

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need to be seeing Jesus as our high priest, as our atonement. So doing a fast in intercession,

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I think is very appropriate. But do what the Holy Spirit shows you to do.

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Mm-hmm. Yes.

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So Philip, now you've been to Israel many times and you've spoken about that just now.

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So you've observed what happens right as Yom Kippur ends and they come out of the synagogues

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rejoicing. And then what's the next thing you hear?

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The next thing they start building their sukkahs, which is what Moses commanded them to do. And

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that's what they're doing. They're commemorating what the children of Israel went through

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in the desert.

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And the feast of Tabernacles.

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And they don't wait till the next day. It's like, you know, if we have a holiday weekend

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coming up, OK, it's coming up the next day. You know, it's just like, OK, we'll get up

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and we'll go picnic. No, they start that night as soon as sun is down. And Benyahuda Street

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is like the downtown hurrah street, you know, of any city. And by about nine o'clock, about

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three hours after sundown, everything opens up. It's like a big party. I mean, you know,

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everybody comes out and then they start building their booths. I mean, I mean, they're making

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noise, too. They're out there with hammers and, you know, two o'clock, three in the morning.

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They are building the sukkah because this is a great joy. Yeah. You know, to be able

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to do this. It's the as some they'll build it from scratch. They'll just have everything

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and others will. They'll close off an outside balcony somewhere and just do things. So

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people, wherever they can do it, they do it. And it's just the most amazing, joyful time

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for that. And it's just so exciting. Yeah, it's interesting to me since the Feast of

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Tabernacles doesn't actually happen until the 15th day of the seventh month. So Yom Kippur

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is the 10th day of the seventh month. So they start working on their sukkah for five days.

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They're going to make sure that everything's set up well. And so in their sukkah, they'll

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sleep in there. They'll eat all their meals in there. And they usually they'll have an

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empty plate on the end. And you don't hear this too many places, but that's for Elijah.

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Yes, because they're looking for the Elijah the prophet to come before the Messiah comes.

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Yeah. And so that's an amazing. There's always a plate there for Elijah. Yep. It's true.

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It's true. So in Leviticus, Chapter 23, it talks about the Feast of Tabernacles.

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It talks about the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths. I don't know why they call it a

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booth, but they call it a booth. But it was basically built out of whatever they could find

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in the wilderness to build it with. So in Leviticus 23, 34, verse 33 says, the Lord said to Moses,

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say to the Israelites, the 15th day of this seventh month, and for seven days is the Feast

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of Tabernacles or booths to the Lord on the first day shall be a holy convocation. That's that

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Shabbat Shabbaton. Okay. Okay. You shall do no servile work on that day. You don't do anything

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that you would do for work for your regular job. You're not going to do anything then for seven

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days. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord on the eighth day shall be a holy

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convocation and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. It's a solemn assembly.

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You shall do no laborious work on that day. And then verse 39 says, also on the 15th day of the

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seventh month, which is the month that we're just entering in now, when you have gathered in the

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fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, the first day and the eighth

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day, each a Sabbath or a Shabbaton. And on the first day, you shall take the fruit of pleasing

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trees and make booths of them, branches of palm trees and boughs of thick leafy trees and willows

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of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. You shall keep it

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as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year, a statute forever throughout your generations. You

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shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths shelters for seven days. So that's why

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they actually go and stay in the booth or the tabernacle. That your generations may know that

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I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yehovah your

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God. And so thus Moses declared to the Israelites, the set or appointed feasts of the Lord. So this

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is like the grand finale of the feasts of the seventh month. And it's a picture of what it's

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going to be like when God is with us. You know, Emmanuel, God with us. It surprised me that the

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word tabernacle can actually be made into a verb. That God tabernacles among his people.

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And when Jesus was born, he probably was born during the feast of tabernacles.

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Yeah. So I won't go into how I believe that that's true. But if you will take the hint from

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when Zechariah the priest in Luke chapter one, when his time would be in the temple to do the

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incense offering, it was in the course of Abiah. If you go study that out, you'll find when

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Elizabeth would have gotten pregnant and in her sixth month, Mary would have gotten pregnant.

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And nine months later would have been the feast of tabernacles. And that's why there was no room at

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the end. Well, yeah, everybody was coming for the feast of tabernacles, but they were also

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coming to be registered for the taxing. Isn't that amazing that happened in the same season?

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Well, I think Rome was smart enough to know that the people were going to be traveling then anyway.

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So, you know, just go stop by your hometown and register. That's kind of what I think it was

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anyway. Okay. So what do we do? What is the thing that God wants us to do? And I recommend that you

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just tune into the Holy Spirit and do what he says. You don't have to necessarily go by what the

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rabbis say, although the traditions may be beautiful. If you want to keep the traditions,

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keep the traditions, but know that they're traditions and not law. Okay. It has nothing

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to do with your salvation. Yeah. Good balance. Yeah. You just keep balance. And, you know,

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if you want to dip apples in honey for the beginning of the year, even though it's not

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really the beginning of the year, go ahead, enjoy apples with honey. Enjoy it and enjoy the

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goodness of God and wish people a happy new year. You know, like I said, we don't have to be the law

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police, even though we could probably dip apples in honey on the first day of Aviv as well. We might

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as well. Let's just do it twice. But, you know, here's the thing. Some years ago, I guess it was

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the year 2013. Our founder had just passed away. So we were kind of loose ends a lot. And things

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that had been before, you don't necessarily keep doing things the way you did, but you keep doing

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things the way you did until you get new orders. But Philip would say to me during that summer,

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honey, how'd you like to go camping? Yeah, we haven't been camping in a long time. Yeah. Right.

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But what did I say? It was a long time. It was a long time. It had been years since we'd gone camping.

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And I just wasn't, I wasn't interested in thinking about camping. And when I say this,

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I'm going to say it more like, I don't think I had this tone of voice in my voice, but this tone of

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voice was in my heart. I said, no, camping's too much work. I don't think I said it that way. Did

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I? It was probably close to that. Oh, was it that close? Okay. You notice it was a while before I

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asked you again. Yeah, but you did ask again and you asked at least two or three times. And I kept

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saying, no, it is too much work. No. So we got into the fall and I realized that we were in the

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seventh month or getting close to it. I don't remember. And I don't know why I didn't ask about

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Yom Teruah and I didn't ask about Yom Kippur. I said, Lord, I was praying one morning and I said,

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Lord, how do you want us to observe your feast of tabernacles? Because like I've said before,

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we are not Jewish wannabes, but this is a scriptural feast. This is something that the Bible

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says to do. And we're going to have another podcast coming up soon where we're going to talk

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more about keeping the law, you might say. But I just wanted to hear from the Holy Spirit,

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what's his vision for us? What does he want us to do? And all of a sudden, as I asked that question,

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all of a sudden, up in my spirit comes this joy to go camping. And so ever since, we've been going

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camping. Yeah, it's 11 years now. Yeah. This will be our 11th time. Yeah. And of course, every year

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we streamline a little bit, you know, every year, a number of years to get it down to a system.

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Yeah. And it's kind of glamping, kind of really. I mean, we're in a tent though. We're not in a

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trailer. Yeah, it's in a tent. But, you know, we use a tall queen-sized air mattress. And we take

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a refrigerator and a frying pan and a, what do you call it, a crock pot. And we fish. And we fish.

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We park by a trout stream and we fish. And we have a good time. And we rest and enjoy the great

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outdoors and enjoy the fresh air and enjoy camping out and having campfires at night. That's how

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the Holy Spirit led us. Yeah. So I just want to encourage you to do the thing that God shows you

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to do. Get bold enough to ask the Holy Spirit, how do you want me to do this? What do you have for us

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to do? And this is really all about coming into a deeper relationship with the Lord, that we

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understand that this is personal. Yeah. The feasts are personal. The Word of God is personal. It's

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all about relationship with our Father. So Father, we just thank you for your greatness. We thank you

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for your glory. We thank you that we have this opportunity to join in with what your Word says

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and make it personal for us as we look at your feasts, as we look at the things that are in your

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Word to make them personal for us. As you are in the process of working reconciliation, you became

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the atonement for us to bring us into the ministry of reconciliation. We want to participate with you.

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We want to co-labor with you. We want to co-operate with you. And we thank you for teaching us how to

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do this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate,

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