“Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old
leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth” (I Cor.
5:7) Oh, Father, how we need this in
our world today.
Hey Gang: Poll after poll after poll continues to show
the absolute depression that has set into so many of the hearts of the people
of our land. Unfortunately, this seems
to be more true of the more mature folks in our country. But then again they, like I, remember those
days when the roof was still very secure and everything that was considered
‘the anchors of our nation’ were so secure that they never could come
unglued.
If someone were to give you a
choice between a scrumptious piece of Grandma’s favorite cherry pie, piled high
with whipped cream and a big fat cheery on top or a piece of grungy maggot
filled pie, which would you take? That
may sound like a pretty dumb question, but is that not what many, even many in
the church, even many who say they are born-again Believers and committed to
Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of lords, are locked into.
As I closed the last morning
message I used he example of my cataract surgery that removed the film and
allowed my eyes to see all the wonderful things that God created for me to see
much more clearly. The same is true for
the Word of God. It is chucked full of wonderful promises of what He has
prepared for me, if I plug my electrical system into His power supply and let
Him do the driving.
Truth: God wants to dwell with man. He has always wanted to dwell with man and
one day soon it will be so. That is the
story of Feast of Tabernacles the seventh Feast. The word Tabernacle means to ‘dwell
with’. We have prayed diligently for an
opportunity to return to Israel for the Feast of Tabernacles, but the answer,
up to this point, has been “NO”. But one
day I will attend a Feast of Tabernacles Celebration when all whose names are
written in the Lamb’s Book of Life are invited to the Marriage of the Lamb
Feast.
As I mentioned in the last
message I will be seeking Dan Goodwin’s help in laying a clear foundation for
the true meaning of the feasts. The Seven Feasts are the key that unlocks the
door to prophecy. They are God’s
prophetic calendar. They take place
within the first seven months of the
Jewish year from Nisan to Tishri.
Keep in mind the dates of
these Feast vary on our calendar; they are set on the Jewish/Biblical Calendar
which is a Lunar/Solar Calendar based on both the sun and moon. The first Feast of the year is Passover. Christ went to the cross and died as the
Passover lamb. He paid our sin debt
dying on the full moon of Passover, the 14th of Nisan. He lay in the grave as the second Feast,
Feast of Unleavened Bread began, proving that there was no leaven or sin in His
body.
On the Feast of First Fruits,
Christ rose from the grave, victorious over sin and death. On the
Feast of Pentecost, the fourth Feast, Christ, through the Holy Spirit
,empowered the Church (Acts 2) to sow the seed of the Word of God to prepare a
bride for Jesus Chest, Each of these
four Feasts were fulfilled right to the day!
Soooo, in the next morning
message we will look at the three fall Feasts.
I pray that you are gaining an excitement of what God is doing, even in
this day when it seems the skies are getting darker by the moment. Please remember to pray for our Nation. Oregon announced today that they will pass a
law that allows fifteen year olds to have sex-change surgery. How much longer do you think God will
tolerate our total disobedience to His Word?
Blessings,
Gramps
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