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Christ fulfilled the 1st 3 and he will fulfill the remaining . He hasn't yet accomplished final fulfillment yet of trumpets, atonement or tabernacles . Just like the first 3 ,
Passover , unleavened bread and first fruits were exactly fulfilled in Christ to the very day of them.
I believe that the rest will be on the very same day as the future feasts.
There is more to come with Gods prophetic calendar. It has not all past. Yes , Christ is the substance , but He will come back again, judge the earth and rule for 1000 years. These are all future events. These events could very well fall on a feast day just like the 1st 3 did.
For example, no one knows the day of the rapture , so I believe it happens when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. It could fall on a feast day. No one knows this for sure. Most likely, I believe it could either happen on Pentecost or trumpets if it even falls on a feast day. The rapture will take the whole world by surprise.
God is very systematic and His planning is perfectly orderly and organized. We can see this all through Gods word.
All 7 feasts stand for something of significance . 3- fulfilled , 4- more to come with Pentecost in the middle with partial fulfillment with the coming of the Holy Spirit for the believer .
How the Jewish Feasts were Fulfilled
The Passover
The term "passover" is to be considered in the sense of "hovering over", i.e. to protect or deliver. God's presence overshadowed His people for their protection. The nation of Israel was transferred from physical slavery leading to death in Egypt, to lifelong service to God. Likewise, the believer in Christ is delivered from spiritual slavery (bondage to sin) leading to death, to a life of service to Christ, leading to eternal life. Jesus, the Lamb of God, is our Passover.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8, "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth."
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
This was a continuation of the Passover. Yeast (or leaven) promotes fermentation and Scripture uses yeast as a type of sin (1 Corinthians 5:6,7). Forgiveness for our sins can be obtained through the intercession of Christ, our mediator. Entry to this feast is possible only because "Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." Both the Passover and the feast without leaven show essentials for the believer. As there were 7 days eating bread without yeast, so for the believer there should be a complete life separate from sin. The sacrifice of Christ is of no benefit unless sinful yeast is excluded from our life.
The Feast of Firstfruits
This prefigured the resurrection of Jesus. The ceremony took place on
the third day from the Passover; Jesus rose
the third day (Matthew 16:21). 1 Corinthians 15:20, "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept." Until the sheaf of the firstfruits had been presented to the Lord, no one was permitted to eat bread, parched corn, or green ears. So, until God had reaped the firstfruits from the tomb in the garden, there could be no gathering of the harvest (1 Corinthians 15:23).
The Feast of Weeks (or Pentecost / Harvest)
This was held at the beginning of wheat harvesting, seven weeks from the Feast of Firstfruits (Leviticus 23:15-16). In the New Testament it is called Pentecost (Greek
'pente' = fifty). This festival commemorated the giving of the Law which took place 50 days after the Sabbath following the Passover. On the day of Pentecost following Jesus' resurrection (Acts 2), a new revelation was given to the people in the gospel preached by the apostles, with the invitation to all to enter a covenant with God through baptism into Christ.
Actss 2:38, "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
The Feast of Trumpets
Almost four months after the Pentecost, though not at a precise interval, the feast of Trumpets was a day of rest celebrated with trumpet blasts and sacrifices when the nation was presented before God. This prefigured the time when the Lord came down from heaven with the trumpet call of God. This was fulfilled in 70AD.
1 Thessalonians 4:16, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God..."
1 Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the
trumpet shall sound..."
The Day of Atonement
On this day the priests offered sacrifices of atonement for themselves and the people. The ordinance of the scape-goat was a
figure of the death and resurrection of Christ, and the atonement thereby made, which pointed forward to the work of redemption accomplished by Christ.
Hebrews 9:7,11, "But into the second went the
high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;"
Hebrews 9:24-26, "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself."
The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths)
The feast of tabernacles commemorated their wandering forty years in the wilderness, but foreshadowed when they were given a judgment period of 40 years to repent before the destruction of Jerusalem. In contrast to the Day of Atonement, during which the Israelites were to afflict themselves, during this festival they are commanded to rejoice. This third great festival held at the end of the harvest prefigured when the redeemed rejoiced before God (Revelation 7:9-17). The harvest of faithful ones represented the final ingathering developed out of the waving of the first single sheaf (typifying the Lord Jesus Christ) on the first day of the week following Passover.
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All Jewish Festivals Are Fulfilled! | Daniel T. Silvestri | Preterist Archive
This is a letter I sent to Edward Chumney, author of "The Seven Festivals of the Messiah". He is an avid subscriber to the currently popular belief that the key to Christ’s "second coming" lies in the law of the Judaism - most particularly - the seven Jewish Feasts. I agree that Jesus’ "appearing a second time" is wrapped up in the Judaic law, but to think we continue
to wait for atonement of sin and to be in the presence and tabernacle with God is simply not Biblical. Daniel T. Silvestri
Dear Mr. Chumney October 1998
I have been on the Messianic Judaism trail because of the deeper insights, into Christianity, gained through the study of the Jews, their faith and culture. I continue to study these things because of the richness and depth it reveals of our salvation. However, in my opinion it is a fruitful road to the point that it glorifies Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the Son of God, God incarnate, the fulfillment of the promises - NOT AS A JEW! This is not meant to be, in any form, an anti-Semitic statement. I have heard it said that Jesus is our Torah, and I have no problem with that, but I am bombarded with ‘Torah is Jesus’ and therefore we enter into a study of the law of Moses, and the rabbinical writings, and things of the Old Covenant. Although there is some spirituality mixed and woven throughout, for the most part, it becomes a study of "tradition" and things written on tablets rather than the heart. Ironically it is the "orthodox" Jews that miss Yeshua as Messiah. Things have not changed that much.
Now we might say that Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, therefore we must study to find out what He fulfilled. This sounds agreeable, but do we sometimes lose sight of that which fulfills (Jesus) for the object of fulfillment (Torah)? Jesus is the way, the truth, the light. Much of the approach to these studies would suggest ‘Torah is the way, the truth, the light’.
Jesus certainly was a Jew, probably about as Jewish as you can be and he only ministered to Jews and there is no mention of spreading Judaism. We know that He kept the festivals. Many Biblical verses are pointed out that reveal Paul’s ‘Jewishness’ and the fact that he kept the festivals. However, it is also exceedingly clear that he did not endorse the Jewish traditions onto the newly accepted gentiles. The letter to the Galatians explicitly bears this out, as well as the Jerusalem counsel in the book of Acts. He did not instruct them in Torah, circumcision, festivals, etc.. "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come;
but the body is of Christ" (
Col. 2:16,
17). Rather he instructed them "in Christ". Why? Christ was fulfilling the law, not men, not Judaism. Obviously this was a period of transition. Both covenants existed side by side as did Ishmael and Isaac (
Gal. 4) so Paul had to very carefully not condemn Judaism, from which salvation has come out of - but simultaneously not place the Judaic yoke onto the gentiles. This point is made crystal clear repeatedly in the New Testament writings. What is the message here? I believe it was to keep the law and the traditions for those who were Jewish, at that generation, and yet not apply a pattern of these traditions (from which salvation grew out of) to the newly accepted gentiles. Never do we see anything preached but the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Is it meaningful that the N.T. is written in Greek, the accepted world language at the time, rather than Hebrew?
In addition, Paul makes it exceedingly clear that ALL are made ONE in Christ. There is no difference between men, women, Jew, Greek, etc. Christ is the "all in all". Jesus came to reconcile us as one to God in the Spirit. Today, one is "of Israel" if he is circumcised of the HEART. Is salvation of the Jews? Yes, of course. Without God’s promise to the Jews, there is no salvation for anyone. The gentiles are PARTAKERS of what is given to the Jews, and what has come through them as a nation and people. Is this a reason to thank the Lord if we are a Jew? Not unless you live in the Old Testament, because back then Jews were the only ones "to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen" (
Rom. 9:4,
5). Today it makes no difference what sex or race or position in life you hold. It is of the Spirit. Today the fountain of living water is given freely and flows to all people of all nations.
My Bible tells me that we are in the New Covenant and the laws (Torah, if you wish) of God are written on the human heart. That is what God said, and that is what I believe, period. Paul said, "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was
to be done away" (
IICor. 3:6,
7). Paul also said, "The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law" (
ICor. 15:56). Now, to be sure, there are also many verses that tell us to obey the laws of righteousness. How do we reconcile these?
The answer is Jesus Christ. Not Torah, Not tradition, Not "in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but
the body is of Christ. Didn’t Jesus say, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these
two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (
Mat. 22:37-40)?
Now I realize many are into a whole eschatological framework where Christ is coming back to the physical earth and that is why He is restoring the land of Israel. People are talking about a temple being built, and the red heifer and so forth. Arguably the most Jewish book in the New Testament, the letter to the Hebrews, makes it clear through shadows and types and Jewish idiom and speaking of earthly things, "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect" (
Heb. 10:1). The Hebrews letter makes it clear that animal sacrifices were never acceptable to God, but the blood of Jesus was complete. The letter also says that Abraham looked for a heavenly country and was a stranger and pilgrim on the earth. God has made that spiritual city above (the New Jerusalem) which Paul calls "the mother of us all" because the Sinai Jerusalem is in bondage with her children (Galatians 4). The letter to the Hebrews says, "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing" (9:8) It also says that Jesus is made way (is our way) into the holiest place. The letter says that He is in the very presence of God for us. Jesus says, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also" (
John 14:2,
3).
So the most Jewish book of the New Testament reveals to me an incredible amount concerning Christ and my salvation. I don’t see ANYTHING about a new EARTHLY temple or animal sacrifices. I don’t see anything about an EARTHLY Jerusalem being restored. I don’t see anything built by human hands. The entire letter talks about eternal things, in the heavens, made by God, not temporal, but eternal. Jesus says He goes (to the right hand of the Father IN HEAVEN) to prepare a place that we might be
where He is. Later Paul says, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens" (
IICor. 5:1). Hebrews says Jesus will "appear" (it doesn’t say "return") a second time for those who look for Him without sin to salvation (9:28). Doesn’t this match the typology of the high priest on the Day of Atonement "reappearing the second time" to let the people know the sacrifice was accepted? Has the sacrifice been accepted?
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