Shalom my Dear Brethren
Here it is a short study for you on the symbols of all the seven Jewish holidays and the plan of the end times in Yeshua Hamaschiah (Christ Jesus).
The first coming of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ)
1. The first holiday sacrifice is Passover, this is the crucifixion of Yeshua.
(Exodus 12:1-7)
2. The Second is the Feast of the Harvest:
It is of the Omer,that is the resurrection of Yeshua (Jesus).
(Leviticus 23:10-11)
(Deuteronomy 16: 9-10)
3. The third holiday is the holiday of Shavuot (Feast of weeks) , the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
(Leviticus 23: 15:20).
Three very big things:
–The Crucifixion.
-The Resurrection
-The Receiving of the Holy Spirit.
These were the symbols and roles of Yeshua (Jesus) in the first coming.
This is the first set of holidays.
The second set of holidays refers to the second coming of the Messiah,
which is linked to the great tribulation, as we know it as the tribulation of Jacob.(Jeremiah 30: 7)
The Second Coming of Messiah Yeshua
1. The first feast is the Day of trumpets: it is related to the seven trumpets of the law of Yahweh and the great tribulation.
(Revelation 8: 6-13)
(Revelation ch.9 and 10)
2. The second holiday is Yom Kippur: the day of atonement. It is considered the most and holiest day for the Jewish people.
This is the terrible day of the Lord.
(Leviticus 23:27-28)
3. The third holiday is Sukkot: it is related to the thousand years after the first resurrection (John 7:37), Yeshua himself mentions this.
(Leviticus 23:33-35)
4. The last holiday is called the eighth day of the Great Day Assembly, in Hebrew “shmiyniy hazeret”.
According to the Torah, this is to be considered the happiest day of the year, in which we celebrate the culmination of the holidays: Simchat Torah is the biggest day in the Jewish calendar (Leviticus 23:36) in which the Jewish people gather to celebrate the Torah dancing and singing joyfully.
Thus, if the day of trumpets is a day of great tribulation, if Yom Kippur (day of atonement) is the terrible day of the Lord and second coming of Yeshua,
and the day of Sukkot is the thousand years, when Yeshua returns it will not be perfect, it will be partially perfect, in a process of perfection.
After he reigns a thousand years, then there will be a new creation and there will be a holy day in order to start a perfect world.
If so, then, what is the eighth day?
The answer to this is to be found in Psalm 90: 4 (one day symbolizes 1000 years, according to God).
We have 6000 years of human history since creation and then we have 1000 years of the millennial kingdom, which corresponds to the seven thousand years.
After Jesus reigns a thousand years, a new creation will begin in the year 8000, on the eighth day: there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
It is a day of new creation, it is a day of perfection, the most perfect day, the day when eternal life does not end.
According to the Bible this will take place on the eighth day of Sukkot, which is also called the eighth day of the Great Day Assembly.
One of the amazing things in the Jewish tradition on this special day: when we finish reading the last parasha in the book of Deuteronomy we return to start the book of Genesis, so that we always read the Torah portions in cycles of one year.
God has a cycle of seven days for creation, he has a cycle of seven months for the holidays and he also has a cycle of seven thousand years for mankind.
When everything will be finished, and we will enter the eighth day in the year eight thousand, a never ending, new and perfect period will begin, which is called in the Bible: ETERNITY (Revelation 21:1-5)
These are the best news that can be shared with believers in Yeshua Hamaschiah (Christ Jesus).
Perfect news, perfect people in a perfect plan.
The plan did not begin in the book of Revelation, but in the book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2, and again in the book of Isaiah chapters 65 and 66.
Moreover, Jesus said:
“Blessed are the humble and poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”.
If we have heaven in our hearts we will also be the ones to inherit the new heaven and the new earth.
God has a perfect plan and it is a plan even before what we are told in Ephesians1:9-10:
“Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth in Him”.
The plan to gather everything in heaven and on earth, the central and main plan is: Yeshua HaMaschiah.
He is working on this plan and everything will take place at a time he has already determined, in the end times.
Nowhere else men can find the hope of eternal life and such a happy end to mankind history, except in the Bible, in the New Testament, in God’s plan, and in the good news of Messiah Yeshua.
The peace of the Lord be with you all.
Shlomi.