When did the "ingathering" of the houses of Judah and Ephraim take place? Where are they now? And where do you get the idea that this "ingathering" is something other than to the two houses of Judah and Israel? (Yes, there are gentiles in the mix, but they are not THE mix, not the elect, just spattered within it.)
Therefore, because the "ingathering has not yet taken place, the fall feasts have yet to be fulfilled.
The ingathering of all 12 tribes took place in the beginning of the Gospel, which is why the Gospel was to the Jew first, and why Jesus instructed his disciples to begin their preaching in Jerusalem and then Judaea, and then Samaria, and only afterward to the nations, and why even when visiting cities and nations outside Israel Paul always went first the synagogue and preached the Gospel to the Jews first. The 40 years between the institution of the New Covenant (30 A.D.) and the judgment of the nation of Israel and end of the Old Covenant (70 A.D.) was a period of grace God gave to the Jewish nation so that they might hear the Gospel and repent and be saved from the wrath and judgment that was coming upon that generation, and indeed did come, in a 7-year war in which the Jewish state was destroyed, millions of Jews were killed, millions more were sold into slavery, and the land of Israel, a once beautiful and fruitful land, was stripped clean, every city and village destroyed, and the Holy City itself, and God's Holy House, reduced to rubble and dust.
But for 40 years, before this terrible judgment and destruction upon a sinful nation, the Jews were given a period of grace to hear the Gospel and be converted and be healed. Many thousands of Jews did in fact receive the Gospel and were saved, rich and poor, priests and pious folks, from all over the Holy land and thoughout the diaspora. These redeemed Jews were called by James, the Lord's brother, the "twelve tribes," and by John in the Revelation the "firstfruits," because they were in truth the firstfruits of the harvest of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the first to be reconciled with God through faith in Christ, the first to be gathered into God's kingdom, the first to inherit the promises, the first to be saved, the firstfruits, the good seed, which was safely brought into God's storehouse before the chaff was burned up and destroyed.
God never promiesd to save the whole nation, regardless of how some try to spin Romans 11:26. All God ever promised to save was a remnant, but that remnant, those Jews who are born of the Spirit of God, they are the redeemed, they are the saved, they are the elect, they are the 144,000, they are the firstfruits of the harvest of the Gospel, and they alone count in God's eyes as "Israel." Those who reject the Word of God are cast out, disinherited, and they have no part with the children of the freewoman.
As far as Hebrews and Yom Kippur are concerned, yes, a portion of what this feast "shadows" has been fulfilled. BUT the larger part of that prophetic feast has not yet been fulfilled.
And just what, pray tell, is "larger" than the High Priest Jesus Christ entering into the presence of God and making eternal redemption for men's souls? What exactly would you say is larger than that? I want to hear your explanation of how there is something about the Day of Atonement that was larger or more important than the High Priest sprinkling blood to make atonement for sin? Please explain.
Yom Kippur is a "national" atonement, a national deliverance, a national salvation, not specifically focused on the individual.
Atonement under the New Covenant is also "corporate" atonement for the whole body of Christ, the entire church, all the redeemed, of all time. Jesus doesn't enter the Holiest and offer himself over and over for every one that is saved. It is a once-for-all-forever atonement for all the redeemed, Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male and female, past, present and future. The whole household of God is covered by the blood of that once-for-all-forever offering.
There are some "individuals" within the commonwealth of national Israel that have it all sewn up,
These "individuals" you are so flippantly speaking of are all the redeemed of the nation of Israel, beginning with Adam and Noah, including Abraham, Moses, and David, and right on through to Matthew and Peter and Paul, and including those Christian Jews who trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation even today. These aren't just "individuals" that God let in but don't really count as you are suggesting. Those Jews who have received salvation by faith are the
only Jews God counts as "Israel."
but the nation is not under the banner of "saved" yet - we're still looking forward to that Great Day.
Then you will look in vain. The majority of the nation will never accept Jesus, only a remnant will, but that remnant is counted by God as "all Israel" and they have already entered into his promises, Abraham is already dwelling in that country that he saw afar off, David is already worshipping at the throne of his Son, Moses is already seated with Peter and James on thrones reigning over the 12 tribes who have already been redeemed, delivered, saved, washed in the blood, reconciled with God, and even now stand in white robes before the throne of God singing the Song of Moses. Jesus came to redeem Israel, he did not fail.
The fall feasts are yet to be fulfilled. Study them out, on your own, I think you'll see that.
So what? In the scope of one short post you have gone from admitting that Jesus fulfilled at least some small bit of the Atonement to now again just willy nilly stating they have all yet to be fulfilled.
Perhaps instead of advising someone else to study the feasts ... you should study the Gospel.
In Christ,
Pilgrimer
