Jewish Fall Festivals Start Rocky Road to War Beginning Prior to 2015
The most likely time for the war to begin will be between 2013 & 2015
July 5, 2011
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The following excerpt was extracted from Cultural Expressions Magazine article titled “Jewish Roots of Fall Festivals,” written by Rabbi Jack Zimmerman, Sep. 17, 2010.
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This time of year is particularly significant, because it is when the fall festivals of Leviticus are celebrated. Before you conclude that these are Old Testament observances that have no relevance anymore, it may surprise you to learn that Jesus Himself celebrated them, and for one obvious reason: these feasts were never meant solely to be “Jewish feasts.” Indeed, Leviticus 23 never says such. Instead, it refers to these as the “Lord’s Feasts,” since they have pointed to Jesus from the very beginning.
Here are some examples of how:
The first fall feast is “The Feast of Trumpets” and is found in Leviticus 23:23-25. On that day in ancient Israel, Jews would rest from all work, come together to worship God, bring an offering of fire, and blow a ram’s horn. The sound of that ram’s horn, or shofar, was to remind the people of their future—one day the day of the Lord would come, and the people would be judged for their sins. The shofar sound was thus a reminder to the people to turn away from their sin and get right with God, before that day arrived. But the blowing of the ram’s horn also reminded people of their past. One that in Genesis 22 told the story of a ram that was provided as a substitution sacrifice for Isaac, so that Abraham’s beloved son’s life would be spared.
Today, that feast is also known as “Rosh Hashanah,” two Hebrew words which mean, “The head of (or beginning of) the year.” And the ram’s horn is still blown, but for us as believers, the significance is even greater: we are reminded of our future in 1 Thessalonians 4, that Jesus will come in the clouds at the blowing of the shofar! Will we be ready for Him
? Will we have gotten right with God and truly turned from our sin? And the shofar reminds us also of an even greater past—one where Jesus himself was the lamb of God provided as a substitution sacrifice for us, so that all who believe would be spared a Christ-less eternity and instead reap the blessings and promises of eternal life.
After Rosh Hashanah comes Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. Traditionally, this was and still is, when Jewish people spend the entire day fasting, and most of that time they are in their synagogues asking God’s forgiveness for their sins. Jews believe that since the Temple was destroyed and thus, animal sacrifices could no longer take place, this is all that now needs to be done to receive atonement for sin.
But that’s not what the Word says:
Leviticus 17:11 reminds us that blood from a sacrifice made atonement for the people, and nowhere did God change His mind.
Am I saying we should start sacrificing animals again? Of course not, the penalty of the Law is obsolete.
But the principle of the Law is eternal. We still need blood from a sacrifice to make atonement for us, only now that sacrifice is not a temporal, annual one, but an ongoing forever one in Jesus! Should not the Day of Atonement therefore hold some importance for us in that regard?
Finally, the third fall feast is known as the “Feast of Booths.” The Word tells us that while the Israelites were wandering in the desert, God provided them booths to dwell in. In that beautiful scene, the people felt God’s presence dwelling among them, as they dwelt with God.
And when they entered the Holy Land, they were required on this feast to go to the Temple in Jerusalem to bring offerings to the Lord. Would Jesus have done the same? In fact, He did! John 7 is the story of Jesus celebrating this all-important festival.
We understand the great significance here is found in Revelation 21:3, where the fulfillment of this festival will come as God once again dwells with us, and we with Him. While the four preceding feasts in the spring are reminders of what Jesus has already fulfilled, the three remaining feasts are rehearsals for what is yet to come.
Let them be for you, signposts of God’s plan of salvation, through His Son Jesus, and as we say in Hebrew, “Hag Sameach!” Happy holiday!
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Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 86B
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 86B
September 21, 2002
SUKKOT – THE JEWISH FEAST OF TABERNACLES
The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (Tents) began at sundown on Friday and will continue for seven days. Although tourism is down drastically, there will be a few thousand Christians that will have processions during the feast.
During the time of the earthly ministry of Christ, on the last day of the feast, a special priest would leave the temple mount and proceed southward to the old city of David, under which a spring flowed through the old tunnel of Hezekiah into the Pool of Siloam.
Fresh, flowing spring water that flowed throughout the year was looked upon as providing a source of water that provided life year round, as opposed to springs that dried up during
the non-rainy season.
So it came to symbolize something that provided eternal life. The special priest would collect two pints of water in a golden vessel, and then carry it back upon the temple mount.
It would then be carried to the top of the very high altar that stood in the court of the men in front of the steps that led up to the door of the temple’s Holy Place. In the southwestern corner of the altar a small hole had been made that led down under the altar into the subterranean cavern under the temple. This particular feast is a very joyous one, and as the people waved palm leaves they would cry out to the priest on the southwestern corner, “raise your hand, raise your hand,” to show he had poured the water, finally cheering and shouting for joy when he did. The water would proceed under the temple southeastward in a conduit that emptied into the Kidron Valley for drainage of the blood from the sacrifices. It was a picture of living water, which symbolized the living Spirit
of the God of Israel going out from the belly of the temple into the world.
It is very interesting to note the words of Jesus on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, probably uttered immediately after the priest poured the water.
John 7:2,37-39 – Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand. [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.)
During the time of Christ the Spirit of God in the temple’s Holy of Holies was to be proclaimed to all the world. It was a single, local, visible temple. Today there are many local temples that God recognizes individually as His local, visible, temples. And it is from these individual bodies that the power of the Spirit is to go forth into the world. The first such church was formed and organized by its head and foundation, Jesus Christ, during His earthly ministry. This church, which already existed as a local church of about 120, was empowered by the Spirit at Pentecost after Jesus was glorified. And, just as the water flowed out of the belly of the temple into the world was a symbol of the Holy Spirit, so does the Spirit flow out of churches of the same like faith and order as the one empowered at Pentecost.
All believers are indwelt by the living Spirit of God and make up the family of God, and truly their witness of the Spirit is to flow out from within them into the world, but a local church that teaches, preaches, and practices the faith once delivered to the saints is also indwelt by the same Spirit in a special way, and its testimony that goes out into the world is to proclaim the truths of all the Word written by the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Begin Excerpt from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
What Are the Palestinians Planning after September
?
Pinhas Inbari
(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)
July 5, 2011
What the Palestinians really envisage after September is to exploit a UN endorsement of statehood to legitimize an escalation of the conflict. After having the 1967 lines recognized so as to negate the results of the Six-Day War, they plan to seek recognition of the 1947 partition lines.
There are signs that the long period of quiet since the Second Intifada is going to end after September or just before it, and that Abbas’ Fatah organization is already preparing for the “Third Intifada.” Ahmad Abu Ruteima, a Hamas activist in Gaza, describes the objective of the Third Intifada: “The struggle is about the very existence of Israel and not about the 1967 borders. The defense minister, Ehud Barak, confirmed that the [Israeli] army is incapable of confronting a human influx from all directions.”
The post-September scenarios discussed in the upper Fatah echelons involve a return to the struggle. A senior member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Hatem Abd al-Qader, noted that in case Israel obstructs the Palestinians’ political plans, Abbas will step down, the PA will dissolve itself, and nothing will prevent the Palestinians from returning to the struggle. And even if elections are held, the new president will come from the younger generation, abolish the Oslo agreements, and lead the Palestinians back to the struggle.
Why does the PLO so adamantly refuse any discussion of swaps between
the Palestinian-populated areas in the Israeli Triangle region and the settlement blocs. The PLO, apparently, wants to leave the Palestinian-populated areas in Israel as an anchor for pushing Israel back to the 1947 borders or even further, as the territorial basis for exercising the right of return into Israel.
In his New York Times article, Abbas was straightforward: “Palestine’s admission to the United Nations would pave
the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice.”
The writer, a veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent who formerly reported for Israel Radio and Al Hamishmar newspaper, is a senior policy analyst at the Jerusalem Center.
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