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The Feast Days were
given to Israel and to the strangers that joined themselves to Israel,
today it is for all
peoples and nations.
These days are a package,
which need to be seen as beautiful and complete.
There are many
direct links between several of these special days.
It should be noted
that it is clearly stated that no work should be done on them.
They are days of
rejoicing.
Even the Fast Day
of Atonement gives us something to rejoice about.
Of course on these
days things which need to be done, such as giving aid,
and assisting those
in need, should always be carried out.
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
We believe that this still applies to the New
Testament believers.
In other words ALL of us
should obey the commandments and ordinances, See: Sabbath
And The Law.htm
although they do not earn us salvation.
It is not a matter of picking and choosing what we are
going to accept
and what we are going to reject.
They serve a great purpose and explain the plan of God
to us.
In the Old Testament there was a condition to the
eating the Passover.
Unconverted non believers should not eat the Passover.
We believe that this still applies today.
The Festivals were commanded assemblies.
Leviticus 23:1 These are the
feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Unfortunately as genuine believers can be widely
scattered, and separated by great distances,
this might not be possible.
When discussing the Feast days it is important to
notice that in Leviticus 23 where the Feast
days,
which are annual Sabbaths, are mentioned in order, the
very first Feast mentioned
is the weekly Sabbath. See:
Instead of observing this day, we do our utmost to do
away with this Feast Day.
The
weekly Sabbath was given at Creation, therefore it preceded the Jews
who only existed
thousands of years
later.
The weekly Sabbath
is directly linked to the Feast of Tabernacles, which it pictures.
We have written
several documents on the Sabbath, which are available on our Website.
The first annual
festival and festival season mentioned is Passover and Unleavened Bread.
Passover and Unleavened Bread
Leviticus23:5 In
the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S Passover.
6 And
on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto
the LORD:
seven days ye must
eat unleavened bread.
7 In
the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein.
The Passover
represents the Lords New Testament Supper. See: Passover
In the Bible Leaven
is used to represent sin, it is always used in a negative sense.
Therefore in the
Old Testament putting out of leaven represented putting out sin out of our
lives.
Of course the
important thing is to actually put sin out of our lives.
1
Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7
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:
8
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.
We can note that
the religious authorities at the time of Christ produced a lot of leaven,
much as is
happening today.
Luke 12:1 Christ said …… Beware ye of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
In the Old
Testament the Passover was the day when the lives of ancient Israel who were
slaves in Egypt,
were literally
saved because they obeyed the command of the Eternal God and killed a lamb,
which represented
Christ and daubed the blood over the doors of their homes.
When the death
angel saw the blood on the door posts and lintels, he actually passed over
their houses.
The Egyptians who
did not do this suffered the death of the first born of man and animals.
Exodus 12:12
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt
this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgment:
I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token
upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy
you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a
memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations;
ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread;
even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy
convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you;
no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
that only may be done of you.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of
the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in
Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Christ came as our
Passover.
The apostles who
had received the Holy Spirit became
the 12 foundations
in the wall of the New Jerusalem.
No
Passover and No Atonement, No Salvation.
He was the perfect
sacrifice who atoned and died for our sins.
The Passover is closely
linked to the Day of Atonement, which is a FAST day.
Since Christ died
for our sins all the requirements of animal sacrifices are no longer required.
These animal
sacrifices could not wipe out our sins whereas the blood of Christ did
precisely that.
Luke 22:1 Now
the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Mark 14:6 And
his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto
them:
and they made ready
the passover.
17 And
in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
18 And
as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you,
One of you which
eateth with me shall betray me.
22 And
as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them,
and said, Take,
eat: this is my body.
23 And
he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them:
and they all drank
of it.
24 And
he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
many.
25
Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until that day that
I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
The animal
sacrifices were replaced by the literal sacrifice of Christ.
As we have seen
above, Christ then instituted Bread and Wine as the symbols of His Flesh and
Blood.
They are symbols.
They are not the
reality as the Roman Catholics teach in their doctrine of transubstantiation.
Feast Of First Fruits - Pentecost
Pentecost 50th day
7 weeks after the harvest-consecrating, sheaf-waving ceremony,
the Day of the
First Fruits.
Numbers
28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
offering unto the LORD,
after your weeks be
out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Deuternomomy
16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
with a tribute of a
freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God,
according as the
LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates,
and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the
place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
It is easy to think that we were not slaves in Egypt, but the reality is
that we were all slaves to Satan.
Some were deceived and others willing served him.
All genuine believers have been freed from the captivity of Satan.
Note the command to rejoice.
In the New
Testament, Pentecost is regarded as the time of the birth of the Church.
Acts 2: 1 And
when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place.
2 And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled all
the house where they were sitting.
3 And
there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each
of them.
4 And
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other
tongues,
as the Spirit gave
them utterance.
We then see the
first group to be baptised and to receive the Holy Spirit as had happened
to the apostles in
the Upper room. They became the church.
Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
and the same day
there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
The apostles who
had received the Holy Spirit became
the 12 foundations
in the wall of the New Jerusalem.
Revelation
21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and in them the
names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
We should note that
the Strongs Number for tongues <1100>,
gives the meaning
of:
1a) the language or dialect used by a particular
people distinct from that of other nations.
Verse 5 states that there
were devout men from every nation under heaven were in Jerusalem
at that time. Therefore the tongues, that is the
languages spoken, related to the people who were
present. The apostles were not speaking gibberish
which the hearers would not be able to understand.
This was obviously a great miracle for a few disciples
to speak and to be understood by thousands
of Jews from every nation under heaven.
5 And
there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven.
Like all the Feast days, this is an exceedingly
important day to be acknowledged and remembered.
The definition of a Christian can be said to be
someone in whom, the Holy Spirit dwells,
and who obeys the leading of the Holy Spirit in their
lives.
No Holy Spirit no salvation.
It is truly a day of rejoicing.
The Feast of
Trumpets
Here are some aspects of the Feast of Trumpets in the New Testament.
The book of Revelation is introduced with a Trumpet.
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and
heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet,
Throughout
the book we have the strange situation where the speaking is said to be as a
trumpet,
as in the
above verse.
This must
signify that all the events in the book of Revelation are not normal but more
in the
nature of
war.
Trumpet
blasts herald a dramatic worsening of an already deteriorating situation as
Christ’s
return
becomes nearer.
Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying
through the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the
inhabiters of the earth by reason
of the other voices of the trumpet of the three
angels, which are yet to sound!
It is the signal to sound the alarm for the Tribulation both to the Jew and Gentile Churches.
Old
Testament Feast of Trumpets pictured the time of Jesus Christ’s second
coming.
Jesus Christ’s first
coming was a quiet affair, He came as a babe in a manger.
The New Testament
Feast of Trumpets pictures the second return of Christ in great power
and glory. This is a
world shaking terrifying event.
Everyone will hear
the supernatural blast of the trumpet, and everyone will see Him,
as he comes to
establish God’s Kingdom here on earth.
It is the time when Christ comes to take the veil away from all nations
Revelation
11: 15 And the seventh angel
sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdoms of
this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign
for ever and ever.
The Feast of Trumpets is a commanded holy assembly or holy annual Sabbath.
It is first mentioned in the book of Leviticus 23:24.
Leviticus
23:4 MKJV These are
the appointed feasts of Jehovah,
holy
convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons.
Leviticus 23:24 Speak to the sons of Israel saying: In the
seventh month,
in the first day of the
month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial summons,
and a holy convocation.
25 Ye
shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
The Feast of Trumpets is to be celebrated on the first
day of the seventh month.
It is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath with the blowing
of trumpets.
This day pictures the blowing of trumpets, to warn the world of impending disaster through the Tribulation.
It points to the imminent the dynamic return of Jesus Christ in power and great glory,
as ordained by His father.
Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him
was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
When the seventh trumpet sounds
1 Corinthians.15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever.
We can see that this is also a time of resurrection.
In
the Old Testament Trumpets were used:
v To call the people of Israel to assemble.
v To call the tribal leaders to assemble.
v To sound the alarm of war, and as a signal to attack the enemy.
v To accompany the praises of the congregation at the appointed Feasts/festivals.
v To announce the new moon celebrations, every month.
v To proclaim the crowning of kings
v And to announce the year of Jubilee.
Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the
voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth.
7 Let us
be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is
come,
and his wife
hath made herself ready.
8 And to
her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and
white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he
saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper
of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
The fulfilment of this great day of Trumpets is very near.
May the Lord help us to found worthy to partake of the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of
man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The Day of Atonement
This is a day of
fasting to afflict our souls.
Leviticus
23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day
of atonement:
it shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls,
and offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And
ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement,
to make an
atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For
whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day,
he shall be cut off
from among his people.
30 And
whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day,
the same soul will I
destroy from among his people.
31 Ye
shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations
in all your
dwellings.
32 It
shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls:
in the ninth day of
the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
This day is related
to the Passover, which depicts Christ’s death on the cross.
This day pictures
some of the results of Christ’s sacrifice, by dying in our place, for our sins.
Since the time of
our first parents Adam and Eve, we have all been born under the generational
curse of death.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into
the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned:
In addition to
this, we all have sinned.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God;
Christ’s death as the perfect literal Passover Lamb,
made it possible for us to be At-One-Ment,
with God.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Our Holy and Righteous God could have no fellowship
whatsoever with sin and sinners.
It is like expecting an ice cube not to melt in the
middle of a nuclear explosion.
For this reason we needed a mediator to atone for us
so that the relationship which the Eternal God,
wanted all along could actually take place.
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the
new testament, that by means of death,
for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.
The Old Testament ordinances on the day of Atonement
were very significant.
There were two goats one was killed which represents
Christ,
and the other had the sins of the nation spoken over
it
and then it was released into the wilderness.
This is referred to as the scapegoat which represents
Satan.
Leviticus 16:
7 And he
shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door
of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
8 And
Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD,
and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And
Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for
a sin offering.
10 But the
goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive
before the LORD,
to make an atonement with him, and to let him
go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Without Christ’s
Sacrifice and His atonement for our sins we would not be able to be saved
and to have Eternal
Life.
The Feast Of Tabernacles
Leviticus 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
The fifteenth day of this seventh month
shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days
unto the LORD.
35 On the
first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are
the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations
38 Beside
the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows,
and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give
unto the LORD.
39 Also in
the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of
the land,
ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the
first day shall be a sabbath,
and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye
shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm
trees,
and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD
your God seven days.
41 And ye
shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year.
It shall be a statute for ever
in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
The Feast Of Tabernacles pictures the 7th
day in the plan of God, which is commonly
called the millennium. A period of one thousand years.
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
At present we are right at the end of the 6,000 years
or the 6th day
of the plan of God.
It completely ties in with the weekly Sabbath, which
is the seventh day, a day of rest.
It pictures the fact that the earth will be restored
as the Garden of Eden,
and Satan will be imprisoned for that entire period.
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old
serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and
shut him up, and set a seal upon him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season.
When you consider that at present Satan is the god of
his world, and all the lies, death,
and gross wickedness is instigated by him, it is easy
to see that the world will be a very different place
without his presence.
The source of power of the present political and
religious leaders will be locked up for 1,000 years.
This is also the time of the first
resurrection.
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again
until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is
he that hath part in the first resurrection:
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall
be priests of God and of Christ,
and shall reign with him a thousand years.
When we are discouraged with our present
daily grind in life, we should think on these things.
At the very same time Christ will be reigning on earth
for this entire period,
after He intervenes in world affairs,
in the dramatic way His entrance is pictured by the
Feast of Trumpets.
What follows will be a time of Peace, Joy, Happiness
and Harmony the like of which has not been seen
since the creation of man.
The very things
which we have all yearned for through our entire lives will become a reality.
This is a time of
the great harvest of souls.
Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the
stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out
of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the
poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and
the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice’ den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that
day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the
people;
to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
As we can see from the
above, even the nature of animals will be changed.
Today this is a period when we can rejoice for one
week on, and with the blessings which we have been given
in the past year. It is also a time when we should be
sharing these blessings with others.
We should never think that blessings are just for us
and our extended families.
We should also realize that this is just a tiny
physical foretaste of the soon coming future feast
of great spiritual blessings which are beyond our
comprehension.
The concept in the Old Testament was that a tithe of
income was to be saved, and this was to used
during this period of Feasting. For many this can be a
period of self-indulgence on a large scale.
This is totally wrong.
Our Christian calling is so far above what most conceive
it to be.
The Epistle of Barnabas puts it this way:
Barnabas 19:8 Thou shalt make thy neighbor partake in all things, and shalt not say that anything
is thine own. For if ye are fellow partakers in that which is imperishable,
how much rather shall ye be in the things which are perishable.
Thou shalt not be hasty with thine own tongue, for the mouth is the snare of death.
So far as thou art able, thou shalt be pure for thy soul's sake.
Barnabas 19:9 Be not thou found holding out thy hands to receive, and drawing them in to give.
Thou shalt love as the apple of thine eye every one that speaketh unto thee the word of the Lord.
The problem with
this feast and really also with the others is that some
teach that they no
longer apply today.
This is simply not
true.
As we have
repeatedly written, although we might have some details which are not quite
right,
what is certain is
that the Sabbath and the Feasts will be kept in the future.
We can also see
that days that we do not observe today, because we have lost the knowledge,
such as ‘New
Moons’, will also be observed.
If the churches had
observed these “appointed Feasts of the Lord”,
we would not have
gone so wrong in engineering feasts and holy days which scripture lets us are
pagan,
and for which God
is now judging the world, especially His Church.
Isaiah
66:23 And it shall come to
pass, that from one
new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
The above has never
happened, but we are assured that it will.
If we refuse to
obey to rejoice, we will be punished.
Yes, even today we
bluntly refuse to rejoice and regard the command as a burden.
Zechariah
14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations
which came against
Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And
it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem
to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And
if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain;
there shall be the
plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep
the feast of tabernacles.
19
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come
not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
The above has never
happened, but we are assured that it will.
For those who say
it only applies to Israel need to read that it says in verse 17
that it is
referring to “all the families of the earth”.
Which of these
words do we not understand?
They are all very
basic simple words.
In case we miss the
point verse 19 spells out the consequences for disobedience
to observing
the Feast of
Tabernacles and to whom it applies, “the punishment of all
nations”.
We have the simple
choice to either accept what the bible says or throw the whole book out.
It is very clear that
these commands apply at least through to the end of the millennium.
The Festivals of
the Eternal pictures His great plan for mankind, which all links together.
I agree that my
understanding and observation of these feasts is inadequate.
To rebelliously
reject them means that we have no idea whatsoever about what the Eternal God
plans.
Because the
‘Christian Church’ has made the freewill decision to reject these days and
accept
the counterfeit
days of our adversary, they remain in ignorance of His marvellous plan
for us all. Further
more the rebellious live a lie utterly deceived by Satan, as instead they, at
least
superficially
honour Sunday, Easter and Christmas.
As the name Feast
implies these are days of rejoicing, even great rejoicing.
Instead of this we
regard them as great burdens and suffering which has to be endured.
It is really quite
unbelievable.
The Last Great Day.
This day
immediately follows the last of the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles,
and is referred to
as the Last Great day.
This brings us back
to the start of this discourse
I believe that it
is this Feast, on the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles which
pictures
several things.
1) The period of time when Satan who had been
locked away in the bottomless pit
is now released for
a short period.
Revelation
20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a
seal upon him,
that he should
deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a
little season.
We can see that the
first part of this verse dealt with the imprisonment of Satan,
during the 1,000
year reign of Christ. The last part of the verse deals with his subsequent
release
for a short period.
2) I believe that this will also be a time of
one of several resurrections and judgment.
During this period
when Satan is released, hard though it is to imagine, after 1,000 years of
peace,
he will again
deceive the nations one last time to fight against their Creator.
Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations
which are in the four quarters of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation
20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the
camp
of the saints
about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven,
and devoured them.
10 And
the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and
the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Here we see that
(most likely at the end of the short period after Satan is released),
3) Satan meets his fate in the Lake of Fire.
No wonder Christ
spoke on the Last Great Day of the Feast.
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.
4) On this day rebellious angels will be judged.
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
5) This is a day of God’s wrath against all
the rebellious human beings who refuse to repent.
Revelation
6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to
stand?
6) This is the implementation of what God had
planned for man from the very beginning.
At this time there will be the final opportunity for salvation of a vast harvest of souls.
All those who have not previously had an opportunity to
understand God's plan for mankind and how to be saved.
These souls will be taught how to keep the commandments, by the saints of God.
The
following is really our goal.
Revelation
22:1 And I saw a new heaven and
a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
2 And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
3 And
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men,
and he will dwell
with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God.
4 And
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more
death,
neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away.
5 And
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto
me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
7) This is the start of Eternity
The only way
out of our dilemmas is Jesus Christ.
He is the only way of escape.
Praise the Lord.
Come
soon Lord Jesus.
Amen.
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