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As for the fulfillment of the feast of tabernacles, I see a couple of possibilities. I suppose it would make the most sense for that to be fulfilled when the new heavens and new earth are ushered in at Christ's return (2 Peter 3:10-13) at which point the tabernacle of God will be with us.

I find it unbelievable that you would even propose this possibility, the fact when you and I discuss Zechariah 14:16-19, which involves the feast of tabernacles, you insist that can't be meaning post the 2nd coming because that would involve literal animal sacrificing resuming. Yet, it is during the NHNE that I am proposing that Zechariah 14:16-19 is involving, the fact it is meaning during the time involving Zechariah 14:11, where I take the Jerusalem meant in that verse to be meaning the new Jerusalem that comes down from God out of heaven. Thus, if it involves the new Jerusalem it involves the NHNE as well. Can't have one without the other.
 
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Actually, all the feasts are figurative of the church age. . .being figurative of both single and on-going events, the Sabbath and Unleavened Bread being figurative of on-going church-age events only, the Passover being figurative of a single church-age event only, and Firstfruits and Weeks being figurative of both single and on-going church-age events.

Sabbath--commemorating God's full-time rest from work, prefiguring our entering into God's full-time Sabbath rest in the full-time salvation rest of Jesus Christ, where we rest from our own work to save, and in Jesus' completed work which saved us.

Passover--commemorating salvation from the angel of death, figurative of our salvation from eternal death in our Passover Lamb. Christ was sacrificed on this feast as our Passover Lamb.

Unleavened Bread--commemorating the exodus, figurative of the purging of sin from our lives.

Firstfruits--first fruits (stem) of the wheat harvest presented to God, figurative of two things: the Branch (stem) of the Lord (Messiah) presented to God as firstfruits of the resurrection, Christ rose on this feast; and we now have firstfruits of eternal life on earth; i.e., the Holy Spirit indwelling us (Romans 8:23).

Weeks (wheat full harvest)--commemorating the giving of the law on Sinai, figurative of two things: the pouring out of the Holy Spirit who is the full harvest of the cross; and harvest time in the kingdom of God, when the (wheat) harvest of the cross is reaped, with joy in heaven at the repentance of the elect. The Holy Spirit was poured out on the church on Weeks (Pentecost).


Why was it important for Jesus to fulfill the Spring feasts on the same days they were fulfilled in the OT, but unimportant involving the Fall feasts in like manner, if they are all figurative of the church age? If it doesn't matter that the Fall feasts get fulfilled on the same days they were fulfilled in the OT, and that they are figurative of the church age, regardless, why did it matter that the Spring feasts got fulfilled on the same days they did in the OT? Or was it merely coincidental that they did?
 
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Why was it important for Jesus to fulfill the Spring feasts on the same days they were fulfilled in the OT, but unimportant involving the Fall feasts in like manner, if they are all figurative of the church age?
Let go of the bone.

Did you give consideration to what I presented regarding single events and on-going events in the church age?
An ongoing event; e.g, the gospel call (Trumpets), is an on-going event throughout the church age being continually fulfilled every day, across all the feasts.
 
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Let go of the bone.

Did you give consideration to what I presented regarding single events and on-going events in the church age?
An ongoing event; e.g, the gospel call (Trumpets), is an on-going event throughout the church age being continually fulfilled every day, across all the feasts.


I can't let go of anything until everything is at least clear to me first, thus why I'm still asking questions.
 
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I find it unbelievable that you would even propose this possibility, the fact when you and I discuss Zechariah 14:16-19, which involves the feast of tabernacles, you insist that can't be meaning post the 2nd coming because that would involve literal animal sacrificing resuming. Yet, it is during the NHNE that I am proposing that Zechariah 14:16-19 is involving, the fact it is meaning during the time involving Zechariah 14:11, where I take the Jerusalem meant in that verse to be meaning the new Jerusalem that comes down from God out of heaven. Thus, if it involves the new Jerusalem it involves the NHNE as well. Can't have one without the other.
You baffle me sometimes. Don't you believe that Zechariah 14:16-19 occurs after Christ's return during the thousand years? You always bring up Zechariah 14 to back up your Premil view. Now you're saying it relates to the NHNE, which is ushered in after the thousand years?

My reasoning for saying that Zechariah 14:16-19 can't be fulfilled after the return of Christ is if someone is interpreting it to be talking about literally observing the feast of tabernacles as it was observed in OT times, which involved the performing of animal sacrifices. But, it appears that you don't interpret Zechariah 14 that way? You interpret it in a figurative way? When did this happen? I don't recall that being the case when we've discussed it before.
 
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I can't let go of anything until everything is at least clear to me first, thus why I'm still asking questions.
I can appreciate that. . .

I had in mind the bone of your particular construct of "consistency" here.
 
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We all agree that Christ has fulfilled the Jewish spring festivals. (Passover, Unleavened bread, First fruits, and Pentecost) However differences of opinion arise when it comes to the fall/autumn festivals of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles.

Some say the fall festivals prefigure the resurrection at the last trump and are yet to be fulfilled. Others, in particular those of Preterist persuasion, say they were fulfilled in AD 70.

I'm not sure how amil Christians view this. (Im not sure myself) So, how did Christ fulfil the Jewish fall festivals, and if they haven’t yet, when?

If the fall feasts are not yet fulfilled, would the law then not yet be fulfilled?
 
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Actually, all the feasts are figurative of the church age. . .being figurative ...Sabbath--commemorating God's full-time rest from work, prefiguring our entering into God's full-time Sabbath rest in the full-time salvation rest of Jesus Christ, where we rest from our own work to save, and in Jesus' completed work which saved us.

Not really. How can the "seventh day" Sabbath of creation which is God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments be figurative of anything? It was made as a memorial (Remember) pointing backwards to the finished work of creation and as God as the creator of Heaven and earth (see Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11) not forwards to things to come (Colossians 2:16-17). Your mixing up the annual shadow sabbaths (plural) in the Feast days that are "shadow sabbaths" with God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments which is every seventh day of the week linked to creation as an everlasting covenant *Exodus 31:16-17. There was no Mosaic law, no prophetic shadow laws, no Feast days, no sin, no Moses, no Jew and no plan of salvation because mankind had not sinned. Your mixing up the Mosaic "shadow laws" given after man sinned which were prophetic laws of things to come with God's eternal laws that will be continued in the new earth (Isaiah 66:22-23). God's 4th commandment is one of Gods' 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4 and according to James if we knowingly break anyone of them we stand guilty before God of sin.

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If the fall feasts are not yet fulfilled, would the law then not yet be fulfilled?
No not really, as different Feasts have different prophetic meanings. Jesus perfectly obeyed God's law (10 Commandments) and perfectly fulfilled the prophetic laws that pointed to him from all the laws for remission and sins (animal sacrifices and sin offerings) in the annual Feasts. These of course all pointed to Jesus as the coming Messiah and God's perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world once for all, making Jesus our perfect sacrifice for sin (see John 1:29; Hebrews 10:10 etc). However, "fulfilled" as in the case on Matthew 5:17-20 does not abolish. It is the prophetic "shadow laws" that are fulfilled and continued in Christ as our perfect sacrifice for sin and our great high priest who now ministers for us on our behalf in the heavenly Sanctuary that the Lord pitched and not man. Jesus did not obey Gods' 10 commandments so that we do not have to. He obeyed them as our example that we are to walk in as we receive Gods' forgiveness and newness of life. Jesus would never have said in Matthew 5:20-28 unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees you shall in no wise enter into God's kingdom if God's 10 commandments were abolished and he starts off by saying do not think this in Matthew 5:17. This is why in the new covenant promise *Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 36:24-27 Jesus says, unless a man is born again we cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. This is because those who are born again do not practice sin *1 John 3:6-9; 1 John 2:3-4. This is God's new covenant promise in those who have been born again through faith to love as love fulfills God's law through the Spirit in those who believe and follow what God's Word says *see Romans 13:8-10; Romans 6:1-23; Galatians 5:16; Romans 8:1-4. According to the scriptures, faith does not abolish God's law like some people teach (lawlessness - without law). Faith establishes God's law in the lives of all those who believe what God's Word says *Romans 3:31.

God bless.
 
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And then, in the 7th month the harvest season of Israel prefigures the entire NT harvest of Christian salvation. Jesus said the fields are already ripe for the harvest. That isn't just endtime fulfillment, but includes the entire age.
Interesting that Jesus spoke those words (John 4:35) just before going to Jerusalem for the fall festival. (John 5:1)
 
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But there is one other possibility for its fulfillment that I see. It's interesting to note that on the last day of the feast of tabernacles, Jesus said this:

John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

So, if Jesus said this specifically on the last day of the feast of tabernacles for a certain reason then I think it's possible that Jesus was indicating that the fulfillment of the feast of tabernacles would relate to people receiving the Holy Spirit and having Christ dwell them in a spiritual sense since our bodies are the temple/tabernacle of God (1 Cor 6:19).

Yes, I’m sure that statement is significant. Like you say, on the last day of the feast.
 
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You baffle me sometimes. Don't you believe that Zechariah 14:16-19 occurs after Christ's return during the thousand years? You always bring up Zechariah 14 to back up your Premil view. Now you're saying it relates to the NHNE, which is ushered in after the thousand years?

My reasoning for saying that Zechariah 14:16-19 can't be fulfilled after the return of Christ is if someone is interpreting it to be talking about literally observing the feast of tabernacles as it was observed in OT times, which involved the performing of animal sacrifices. But, it appears that you don't interpret Zechariah 14 that way? You interpret it in a figurative way? When did this happen? I don't recall that being the case when we've discussed it before.


I'm pretty certain I have pointed out in the past to you that I take the NHNE to begin with the 2nd coming and that I also take the thousand years to be meaning the first thousand years of the NHNE. I also factor in some of Isaiah 60 and some of Isaiah 66, to name a few, that lead me to conclude some of these things. Isaiah 60, for example, some of it appears to involve the NHNE. And in that same context there is then this---For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted(Isaiah 60:12).

That is being applied to the time meant in verse 11 that just preceded it. Then compare verse 11 with some of Revelation 21. If Verse 11 is involving the NHNE, how does it make sense that anyone can be utterly wasted during the NHNE unless there is a time period allowing for this possibility? If one argues that verse 11 is indeed involving the NHNE but that verse 12 isn't, what in the world is verse 12 doing in that context then, a context having zero to do with what verse 11 is involving?
 
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We all agree that Christ has fulfilled the Jewish spring festivals. (Passover, Unleavened bread, First fruits, and Pentecost) However differences of opinion arise when it comes to the fall/autumn festivals of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles.

Some say the fall festivals prefigure the resurrection at the last trump and are yet to be fulfilled. Others, in particular those of Preterist persuasion, say they were fulfilled in AD 70.

I'm not sure how amil Christians view this. (Im not sure myself) So, how did Christ fulfil the Jewish fall festivals, and if they haven’t yet, when?

This is a really large subject actually. As a Hebrew from the tribe of Levi, house of Aaron, I have spent the last 8 years or so sitting alone with Jesus learning the scriptures to prepare for the coming assignment He gave me a long long time ago. I have learned from Him only and no one else, and of course I am still in school. I'll lay out what Jesus Himself taught me about these appointed times as briefly as I can here. To preface, without first explaining all the 7 of the appointed times of Christ, at least the 5 to come, the following will not make perfect sense. Most, if not all here, will reject this because it doesn't fit the house of understanding they have built but I will tell you anyway for the record since the times draw near. Also, the "feasts" as they are interpreted are actually "appointed times" in the Hebrew.

Another thing that must be understood in order to accurately align the 1290 and 1335 days in Daniel, the 1260 days in Revelation, etc. is to first know God's calendar. (Most will be lost right here and won't hear the rest.) The lunar calendar used by Israel is NOT the calendar God gave to Enoch or Moses. The lunar calendar is left over idolatry learned in the days of Egypt. God's calendar is the 364 day year, which includes the 4 intercalary days, 6 in five years. The 364 days are 4 - 91 day (13 week) quarters divided into 2 - 30 day months and 1 - 31 day month. (The intercalary days would take too long to explain here.) The first day of each year begins at the Spring Equinox when the sun crosses the celestial equator, (crosses into the 4th gate as Enoch described it) usually on or within a day of March 20 in the Gregorian calendar. The reason I had to include all this about the calendar is when scripture says, "1st day of the 7th month" for example you would need to know this the 183rd day from the equinox which will rarely line up with Tishri 1 in the Jewish calendar. The book of Jubilees was scripture from the days of Moses until the 4th century when it was cast out, so many cannot accept this today but here is the testimony of Moses speaking to Joshua that explains what I just told you.

Jubilees 6:29 And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
30. And all the days of the commandment will be two and fifty weeks of days, and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets.
31. And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.
32. And command the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning- three hundred and sixty-four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.
33. But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order), [and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances.
34. And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years.
35. For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto you, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.
36. For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon -how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
37. For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees.
38. For this reason I [Moses] command and testify to you [Joshua] that you may testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

If anyone is still with me, I can now explain the fall appointed times.

Appointed Time of Trumpets - 1st day of the 7th month. (Usually near September 18-19.)
This is the appointed time of the 7th Trumpet in Revelation, the 6th appointed time of Christ.
(Daniel 9 is terribly translated from texts deliberately altered to deny Christ. See LXX version which is still accurate.) In Daniel 9 there are two time periods "until Messiah the Prince" because there are two orders to restore Jerusalem and the Temple. The 62 sevens was from the month of Nisan in the 25th year of Artaxerxes in 441 BC to Nisan 7, BC when Jesus was born. The 1 seven began with John's proclamation and the ministry of Jesus. Jesus made a covenant with many. Jesus is God's sacrifice and drink offering taken away in the midst of the seven. This seven was from 24 - 30 AD, with Jesus being crucified in 26 AD. Remember, the 70 sevens were determined for Israel. After this seven the gospel went to the Gentiles and Cornelius was the first to be saved. The 7 sevens still remain, but only for a few more months! The 7 sevens will begin with the order to restore Jerusalem and the Temple which comes from God Himself on the 1st day of the 7th month in 2022. That puts the 7th Trumpet in Revelation being fulfilled on the 1st day of the 7th month in 2071. On that day all Israel is gathered into the wilderness of Moab and protected, then Satan goes out to kill the rest of the gentile saints. See Rev 12, Isaiah 9:6, Daniel 12:1.
When Israel is in great distress and you hear that the Ark of the Covenant has been found east of the Jordan in Sept 2022, know that God has given the order and the prophet like Moses, the restorer of all things has come. John/Elijah.

Appointed Time of Atonement - 10th day of the 7th month (Usually near September 27-28)
This is the appointed time of the regeneration of all Israel. It is also the 1st day of the 50th year in Jubilee year. (A Jubilee year is essentially the second half of the 49th year so the cycle of sevens remain constant.)
This the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37, Daniel 12:2, and the two reapings in Revelation 14:14-20. This does not apply to the gentile church or the few believers from the house of Jacob. Israel only, pre-Christ and after Christ. All of Israel will raised in the valley of Jezreel, not resurrected, on this day. Some to everlasting life and some to everlasting condemnation. Those who kept the covenant will see life. Those who hated Jesus will be carried outside of the city of Bozrah (Isaiah 63:1-6) and stomped to death. Their blood will run down the mountains collecting into a stream that flows all the way to the Red Sea 185 miles away, hence the name Red Sea. All those who hate Jesus, He will personally repay by literally crushing them to death. Notice that Duet 32:41-43 ties this vengeance to making atonement for the land. Those who see life on this the 1st day of the Jubilee year will receive their inheritance in the land without any debts. This appointed time will be fulfilled on the 121st Jubilee, the 10th day of the 7th month in 2074.
Also, this is the day Jesus strikes the head of the Beast in Rev 13 giving him a deadly wound to one of his seven heads. In doing so, He transfers the sins of all mankind onto the Beast, a fallen angel named Azazel. (Usually translated "scapegoat." Study Leviticus 16. Read Enoch if you want to know about Azazel, the one to whom ALL sin is ascribed.) Then the Beast is sent out into the wilderness to die a few months later at the battle of Armageddon when he, Azazel, and the false prophet are cast alive into the lake of fire at the center of the earth.

Appointed Time of Tabernacles - 15th-21st day of the 7th month (Usually near October 2/3 - 8/9)
This is the appointed time of repentance and celebration. It is fulfilled in the same year as the 7th Trumpet. (It will take a couple of weeks for all the scattered children of Israel to get to Moab.) This is the return of the Prodigal son that Jesus spoke of and the Gentile church will not be too happy about mercy to wicked Israel at this point. During this week Jesus will speak to them and plead His case to them in person. See Ezekiel 20:35+. Their sins will be forgiven and everlasting joy will fill their hearts. They will be as a people that were not cast off. This annual appointed time will be kept throughout the Millennium for all nations.

In the unusually hot summer of 2022, beginning in July, their will be disaster upon disaster in America as the earth prophesies coming events. Russia will raise its evil head. By mid September Israel will be broken in pieces and scattered by the four horns of Zachariah 1. Once everything is in complete disarray John will come in the spirit and power of Elijah to restore all things and prepare the way before the Day of the Lord. Prepare to pray. Prepare for battle. Prepare to see Jesus. The 3rd and 4th appointed times are near.
 
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Another thing that must be understood in order to accurately align the 1290 and 1335 days in Daniel, the 1260 days in Revelation, etc. is to first know God's calendar.
Don’t pin your faith to the 364-day calendar books of ‘Enoch’ and ‘Jubilees.’ Like you, I’ve looked carefully at them and my conclusion is that they were written during the inter-testament period in an effort to get back to the original Sabbatical calendar. Their motive was good, but they never got it right.
 
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However differences of opinion arise when it comes to the fall/autumn festivals of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles. Some say the fall festivals prefigure the resurrection at the last trump and are yet to be fulfilled. Others, in particular those of Preterist persuasion, say they were fulfilled in AD 70. I'm not sure how amil Christians view this.
I've never asked myself this question before but it coincides very well with an interpretation of Hebrews that has been on my mind for several months. Since I don't know the answer, I will just write write some random thoughts. The lunar month "Tishrei," for the sake of simplicity, I will call it "October," with the realization that they are not exactly parallel.

1) The Fall Festivals are:

a) Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanah. October 1st.
b) Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur. October 10th.
c) Feast of Tabernacles / Sukkot. begins on October 15th.
d) The 8th day of Assembly / Shemini Atzeret. October 22nd.

2) Our NT anchor is the Day of Atonement, which is a focal point in the Book of Hebrews. This is definitely fulfilled in Jesus' crucifixion. Note that in the cross, the Lord was cleansing the Heavenly Temple.

3) One interesting question remains about the Day of Atonement: significance of the scapegoat sacrifice, which is the only OT sacrifice that may be considered "vicarious."

4) The Feast of Trumpets begins a 10-day period known as the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe). Those 10 days are a time for Jewish people to reflect on sin and repent in preparation for the Day of Atonement. John the Baptist and later the Lord Jesus were heralds of the coming Kingdom of Heaven (Joh 4:35).

5) The Feast of Tabernacles could signify the bringing of the harvest. Jesus tabernacled among us and now people are being born from above through the work of Jesus and the Holy Spirit into the Kingdom of Heaven during the Millennium (Joh 7:37).

6) The ending of the Feast of Tabernacles is its Eighth Day. The number 8 signifies a new beginning. The Lord was resurrected on the 8th day, which is also the first day of the week. Does this signify the general Resurrection?

It sounds like a book could be written about this :).
 
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Not really. How can the "seventh day" Sabbath of creation which is God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments be figurative of anything? It was made as a memorial (Remember) pointing backwards to the finished work of creation and as God as the creator of Heaven and earth (see Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11) not forwards to things to come (Colossians 2:16-17).
You'll have to take it up with Hebrews, where there remains God's own full-time Sabbath rest for the people of God in the NT.
Your mixing up the annual shadow sabbaths (plural) in the Feast days that are "shadow sabbaths" with God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments which is every seventh day of the week linked to creation as an everlasting covenant *Exodus 31:16-17.
The Sabbaths within the feast days are not figurative of anything.
It is the feast/season that is figurative.
There was no Mosaic law, no prophetic shadow laws, no Feast days, no sin, no Moses, no Jew and no plan of salvation because mankind had not sinned.
Wrong. . .
As with the Lamb of God slain, (Revelation 5:12), all was decreed before the foundations of the world, not after Adam sinned.
Your mixing up the Mosaic "shadow laws" given after man sinned which were prophetic laws of things to come with God's eternal laws that will be continued in the new earth (Isaiah 66:22-23).
God's eternal law is Jesus' two commands of Matthew 22:37-40. (Romans 13:8-10)
God's 4th commandment is one of Gods' 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4 and according to James if we knowingly break anyone of them we stand guilty before God of sin.
Not according to the NT. . .you're in the wrong testament.

The Ten Commandments are subsumed in Jesus' two NT laws (Romans 13:8-10).
The ceremonial laws (sacrificial, defilement, cleansing, food, etc.) have been abolished on the cross (Ephesians 2:15) and set aside (Hebrews 7:18).
The civil laws were rendered inoperative when the nation was destroyed.
The Mosaic covenant has been rendered obsolete (Hebrews 8:13).
A totally new order (Hebrews 9:9-10) has been established with a new priesthood (Hebrews 7:24-28).

The NT order is not adequately apprehended in your response.
 
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I've never asked myself this question before but it coincides very well with an interpretation of Hebrews that has been on my mind for several months. Since I don't know the answer, I will just write write some random thoughts. The lunar month "Tishrei," for the sake of simplicity, I will call it "October," with the realization that they are not exactly parallel.
1) The Fall Festivals are:
a) Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanah. October 1st.
b) Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur. October 10th.
c) Feast of Tabernacles / Sukkot. begins on October 15th.
d) The 8th day of Assembly / Shemini Atzeret. October 22nd.

2) Our NT anchor is the Day of Atonement, which is a focal point in the Book of Hebrews. This is definitely fulfilled in Jesus' crucifixion. Note that in the cross, the Lord was cleansing the Heavenly Temple.
3) One interesting question remains about the Day of Atonement: significance of the scapegoat sacrifice,
The scapegoat was not sacrificed, it was released into the wilderness (Leviticus 16:20-22).
There were two goats: sin goat and scapegoat--one sacrificed for the sin of the people, one released into the wilderness, removing their sins from the tabernacle.
which is the only OT sacrifice that may be considered "vicarious."
All the sin sacrifices of Leviticus 4:1-5:13 were vicarious, the individual offerer laying his hand on the head of the animal identifying with it as the substitute for his sin (4:4).
The Day of Atonement sacrifice was for all the people (Leviticus 16:15).
4) The Feast of Trumpets begins a 10-day period known as the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe). Those 10 days are a time to reflect on sin and repent in preparation for the Day of Atonement. John the Baptist and later the Lord Jesus were heralds of the coming Kingdom of Heaven (Joh 4:35).

5) The Feast of Tabernacles could signify the bringing of the harvest. Jesus tabernacled among us and now people are being born from above through the work of Jesus and the Holy Spirit into the Kingdom of Heaven during the Millennium (Joh 7:37).

6) The ending of the Feast of Tabernacles is its Eighth Day. The number 8 signifies a new beginning. The Lord was resurrected on the 8th day, which is also the first day of the week. Does this signify the general Resurrection?
It sounds like a book could be written about this :).
The feasts are figurative of the church age, a summary of the Fall Feasts following:

Trumpets commemorating the trumpet call on Mount Sinai calling the people to God is a prefigure of two things: preaching the gospel, calling in the sons of God; and the trumpet call of Christ, calling the nations out of their graves at the resurrection.

Day of Atonement is a prefigure of the blood of Christ that continues (Hebrews 10:4) cleansing until he comes.

Tabernacles (In Gathering, wheat and grape harvest) commemorating the 40 years in the wilderness is a prefigure of the church passing through the wilderness of time, to the final gathering in of the nations (grape harvest, Revelation 14:10) at the Second Coming and joy of the saints at the completion of God's plan to glorify his mercy in the elect (wheat harvest) and his justice in the reprobate (grape harvest).

Sacred Assembly commemorating the closing of the cycle of feasts is a prefigure of the end of time and the church assembling in eternal rest in heaven.
 
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