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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
Feast of Trumpets- Rosh Ha Shannah
Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur
Feast of Tabernacles- Booths
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Thank you Christ Community Church, His
Church International and our other
International Churches for blessing the
Jewish people and Beth Chaim.
Romans 15:27-29 They were pleased to do it, and indeed
they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the
Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share
with them their material blessings. So after I have
completed this task and have made sure that they have
received this fruit, I will go to Spain and visit you on the
way.
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full
measure of the blessing of Christ.
Let us pray for the Salvation of the Jewish people!
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
Feast of Trumpets- Rosh Ha Shannah
Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur
Feast of Tabernacles- Booths
• Understand that the Feasts are God’s appointed times and not Israel’s.
• Why the Fall Feasts are so important to Israel and the Jewish people!.
• What was God teaching Israel through the Feasts!
• What are the traditional Jewish customs in keeping the Feasts!
• What is the Relevance of the Feasts to our Church!
• Why the Church should keep the Feasts of God and how!
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
Weekly
Sabbath-Shabbat-7th Day
Spring:
Passover-Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Feast of Weeks Pentecost
Fall:
Feast of Trumpets- Rosh Ha Shannah
Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur
Feast of Tabernacles- Booths
Leviticus 23:1-2
The Lord said to
Moses, “Speak to the
Israelites and say to
them: ‘These are my
appointed feasts, the
appointed feasts of
the Lord, which you
are to proclaim as
sacred assemblies.
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The Fall Feasts of the Church
Three Annual Pilgrimages to Jerusalem
Exodus 23:14-19 “Three times a year you are to celebrate a
festival to me.
•“Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days
eat bread made without yeast, (Passover)
• “Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the
crops you sow in your field. (Feast of Weeks PENTECOST)
•“Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year,
(FALL FEASTS ending with Tabernacles)
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of
the Lord your God.
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1feast
\ˈfēst\ noun
1 a : an elaborate meal often accompanied by a ceremony or
entertainment : BANQUET
b : something that gives unusual or abundant pleasure
2 : a periodic religious observance commemorating an event or
honoring a deity, person, or thing
Merriam-Webster, I. 1996, c1993. Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary.
Includes index. (10th ed.). Merriam-Webster: Springfield, Mass., U.S.A.
God’s Appointed Times honor what God has done, is doing and will be
doing to redeem his people back to the paradise of God where the will
eat of tree of life and live with God for Eternity!
They are a blessing of God first given to Israel and now to his Church
which is Believing Israel and Believing Gentiles!
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
First Covenant: Israel
Second Covenant: Church
Weekly
Sabbath-Shabbat-7th Day
Special Sabbaths
Weekly: Feast of Eternity
Jesus Lord of Sabbath
Eternal Rest/Completeness
Spring:
Passover-Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Weeks, Pentecost-Birth of Israel
Fall:
Feast of Trumpets
Day of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles
Spring: Church Age Feasts
Jesus’ Death on the Cross
Resurrection- First Fruit of Resurrection
Holy Spirit/Birth of Church Age
Fall: End time Feasts
Warning/Repentance/Church Rapture
Judgment/Tribulation
Messianic Age
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
First Covenant: Israel
Weekly
Sabbath-Shabbat-7th Day
Special Sabbaths
Spring:
Passover-Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Pentecost-Birth of Israel
Fall:
Feast of Trumpets
Day of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles
Second Covenant: Church
Weekly: Feast of Eternity
Jesus Lord of Sabbath
Eternal Rest/Completeness
Spring: Justification
Redemption/Atonement through Faith in
Messiah and a growing relationship.
Holy Spirit convicts of sin and prompts us to
Holiness
Fall: Sanctification
Spiritual Awakening and Renewal
Consequences and Forgiveness
Glorification
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Genesis 2:2-3
And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he
rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Exodus 31:16-17
The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the
generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me
and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and
the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested.’”
Exodus 16:29
Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath;
(SABBATH is a GIFT)
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
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Genesis 2:9In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:4-5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of
the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and
forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 18:18-19 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful
nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have
chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after
him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that
the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
Revelation 22:14-15“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they
may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into
the city.
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Ephesians 3:6
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles
are heirs together with Israel, members together of
one body, and sharers together in the promise in
Christ Jesus. (Yeshua HaMashiac)
Ephesians 3:10
His intent was that now, through the church, the
manifold wisdom of God should be made known…
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The Fall Feasts of the Church
John 10:9-12
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have
come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
The Appointed Times of God prophesy the Church and Endtime events, they are actually just as valuable to the Church
as to Israel. We are now grafted in to these blessings.
By the Church participating in them they would best Arouse
the Jews to Envy.
The Church would be blessed by God.
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What God promised to Abraham he is fulfilling!
Leviticus 23:41-43: Feast of Tabernacles
Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a
lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh
month. Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in
booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths
when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Ephesians 2:12-13
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from
citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without
hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once
were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Zechariah 14:16-17
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go
up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate
the Feast of Tabernacles.
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Paul’s Calling on the Church
Romans 9:1-5
I speak the truth in Christ— I am not lying, my conscience confirms it
in the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my
heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from
Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of
Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the
covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the
promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human
ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
Romans 11:13-15
I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the
Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow
arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their
rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be
but life from the dead?
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Acts 15:5-6
Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees
stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to
obey the law of Moses.”
The apostles and elders met to consider this question.
Acts 15:19-21
“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for
the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them,
telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual
immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and
is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
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1 Corinthians 15:45-49
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a
life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after
that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man
from heaven.
As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man
from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne
the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man
from heaven.
We now partake of God’s Feasts as God’s Spiritual Children, not as men of
dust but as men being transformed into the likeness of Yeshua Jesus!
Sabbath Candles
Egypt
Pharaoh
Blood of Lamb
Booths
Scape Goat
Jesus Light of the World – Our Eternal Rest
Bondage to Sin
Satan
Blood of Messiah
Bodies as Temples filled with the Holy Spirit
Messiah who died for our sins
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Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Romans 9:30-32
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue
righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but
Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why
not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works.
They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us
keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and
wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and
truth.
We keep God’s appointed times in faith and in love for God for what he
has done, is doing and will do for His Church!
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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Exodus 23:14-19 “Three times a year you are to
celebrate a festival to me.
•“Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, (FALL FEASTS
ending with Tabernacles)
• Feast of Trumpets
• Day of Atonement
• Feast of Tabernacles or Booths
• Feast of Trumpets should prepare your heart for the King who is
coming and will judge Israel.
• Ten Days of Awe to get right with ourselves and others.
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• Day of Atonement God judges the sins of Israel
• God had the Israelites to live in Booths and dwelt among them. As he
moved in a cloud of fire, Israel was to follow.
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
Exodus 23:18-19
..“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until
morning. “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil
to the house of the Lord your God.
Genesis 4:2-5
Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the
course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the
soil as an offering to the Lord. But Abel brought fat
portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The
Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on
Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain
was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah
“Beginning” or (Head) Ha means “the” and Shannah means
“year”.
•The more common Biblical name is “Feast of Trumpets.”
Lev.23:23-25
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, In the seventh
month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a
sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy
convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
• Yom in Hebrew is “day” Teruah means “Trumpets” so it’s
the day of sounding the trumpets, or known today as Rosh
Ha Shannah.
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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah
•Feast of Trumpets is about preparing to meet the King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. We sound the Trumpet as an alert. Wake up God our Judge and
King is coming.
•From Rosh Ha Shannah to Yom Kippur is called the TEN DAYS OF AWE
and we look to get right with ourselves and others first so we can go
before God with a clean heart on Day of Atonement. We ask forgiveness
of others so we can ask God for our forgiveness and be put in the Book of
Life.
Matthew 6:14-15
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your
Father will not forgive your sins.
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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah
•The trumpet sound was to confound and confuse Satan, who
was especially condemning Israel on New Year’s Day, bringing up
before the Lord all their shortcomings and sins. These are the blasts
of the Horn:
• One long blast
• Three short blasts
• Nine to twelve short, fast notes
Tekiah;
Shevarim;
Teruah
Shannah Tov
Means Good
Year
Rosh
HaShanah
Is the Jewish
Spiritual New
Year
Rosh HaShanah is one of the most attended synagogue days
along with Yom Kippur, together the are called the
High Holidays!
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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah
The Shofar is about taking the Promised Land of Eternal Life through the
power of God’s Spirit! It is considered by many scholars to represent the
Rapture of the Church.
Joshua 6:13-21 DUST-Humanity
So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets (shofars); and when the
people heard the sound of the trumpet (shofar), the people shouted with a
great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city,
every man straight ahead, and they took the city. They utterly destroyed
everything in the city,
1 Corinthians 15:52-54 Spirit-Church
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet (SHOFAR). For
the trumpet (Shofar) will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable,
and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. …then the saying that is
written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
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Feast of Trumpets (SHOFAR)- Rosh Ha Shannah
The System of Substitutionary Sacrifice:
•The Ram replaced Isaac as Abraham's sacrifice just as Yeshua Jesus would
replace us as the sacrifice. The RAMs horn Shofar reminds of the coming
of Messiah. The Ram represents the Animal Sacrifices that God would
command of Israel through Moses and Aaron. A temporary solution unit
Jesus our Passover Lamb.
• All the Feasts of Israel and Church prophesy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
are represented in the Stories of Abraham and Isaac!
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
Leviticus 23:26-32
The Lord said to Moses, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of
Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an
offering made to the Lord by fire. ..You shall do no work at all. This is to be
a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. It is a
sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves.
• Yom Kippur is the only day during the year the High Priest could go in to
the Holy of Holies
• Tradition has it that a scarlet thread would turn white if God accepted.
Israel’s sacrifice which it did until Jesus’ resurrection
Matthew 27:50-51
And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
Matthew 27:50-51
And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.
Jeremiah 30:7-9
How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble
for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it. “‘ In that day,’ declares the Lord
Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds;
no longer will foreigners enslave them. Instead, they will serve the Lord
their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
Morning (Tamid) Offering The Kohen Gadol first performed the regular
daily (Tamid) offering — usually performed by ordinary priests
Garment Change 1 The Kohen Gadol immersed in a special mikvah in the
Temple courtyard and changed into special linen garments, and washed his
hands
Bull as Personal Sin-Offering The Kohen Gadol leaned (performed Semikha)
and made a confession over the bull on behalf of himself and his household
Lottery of the goats At the Eastern (Nikanor) gate, the Kohen Gadol drew
lots from a lottery box over two goats. One
Sprinkling of Blood in the Holy of Holies The Kohen Gadol took the bowl
with the bull’s blood and entered the Most Holy Place again. He sprinkled
the bull’s blood with his finger eight times, before the Ark in the days of the
First Temple,
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
Many married men wear a kittel, a white robe-like garment for evening
prayers on Yom Kippur.[4] They also wear a tallit, the only evening service of
the year in which this is done.[5] Prayer services begin with the prayer
known as “Kol Nidre,” which must be recited before sunset, and continue
with the evening prayers (Ma'ariv or Arvith), which includes an extended
Selichot service.
The morning prayer service is preceded by litanies and petitions of
forgiveness called selichot; on Yom Kippur, many selichot are woven into
the liturgy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
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The Fall Feasts of the Church
Feast of Tabernacles : Booths
Harvest- Ingathering
Zechariah 14:16-17
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked
Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the
Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Both the Hebraic Tabernacle and Wedding Chuppa are the same in Jesus!
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The Appointed Times of the Lord!
The Fall Feasts of the Church
Feast of Tabernacles : Booths
Harvest- Ingathering
Ephesians 2:19-22
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but
fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s
household,
Both the Hebraic Tabernacle and Wedding Chuppa are the same in Jesus!
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How the Church may partake of the Feasts
• Join with a Messianic or Jewish congregation
• Teach on the Feasts. Lots of materials on the Web.
• Many books share the meaning and traditions and activities
• Invite a Messianic Rabbi or Member to join your congregation.
• If you can’t meet on actual date choose a date near by.
• Add some of the prayers in English or Hebrew.
• Add some of the special foods and decorations.
• Add all the Feasts not just Passover
• Develop a relationship with a local synagogue.
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The Fall Feasts of the Church
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