Suzanne's ExtraOrdinary Thoughts

From the very beginning of Creation....the Feast Days have had a divine place in the lives of Man.

The Feast Days are Prophetic in their very Nature. The Feast Days remind us how much we need A Savior. The Feast Days show us in themselves the Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Messiah.

For those of you that deny the old testiment and deem it as something that used to be.....this page is for you....if you will open your ears.

There are only two places we gain knowledge. Either from Revelation or from Tradition. Obviously tradition is of man and needs to be proven against the Word of God. Revelation from God too must be proven in the Word of God before it can be deemed Revelation. So either we listen to God and rec've true knowledge.....or we listen to men and die.

The prayer i have prayed recently has been for God to remove from me traditional knowledge...what i think i know....and replace it with Revelation knowledge....what i know i know. Some folks call that apologetics i guess.

Me, its just what it is. A gift. Because God doesnt have to reveal anything to us. But HE does and expects us to use that knowledge.

Now having said that. The reason i am doing this study on the Feast Days of God is because it needs be done. We need to search this thing out and if what i post here is incorrect. Then please show me where its wrong and lets hash it out.

There are 7 Feast Days of God. As the above chart that i did shows us.

4 of them occur during the spring months. And the last 3 during the Fall months.

We find these feast days listed and described in Leviticus Chapter 23.

Notice the words Holy Convocations? That word literally means 'to rehearse' . So we are to 'practice' the sabbaths and the Holy Days of God. For what?

For the day when we get to celebrate these very same days WITH HIM.

Now from verse 5 thru to verse 22 God describes the First 4 Feast Days and when they are to occur. Before you can understand how the lunar calendar works you have to get an understanding of how months are counted. From New Moon to New Moon. And it will always vary from the solar calendar we use known as the Gregorian Calendar.

The 14th day of the First Month (Nissan) is the Beginning of the Passover ( Pesach)Feasts.

That will be on Shabbat this year (2008) The very next day and the whole week forward to the next Shabbat are all Sabbath days. And this week of Sabbaths is known as The Feast of Unleavened Bread. (Hag Ma'Hatzah)

Unleavened Bread is bread or any food without yeast. And God later on commands us to clean out our homes of any leaven and take it to the dump. For this entire week our homes are to be without leaven of any kind in the house.....Bread, biscuits, selfrising flour, anything that rises with yeast.

Why would this be a requirement? There are a couple of reasons that i know of that would be an answer to this question.

1. We are to remember that God delivered the Children of Israel out of Egypt.....(SIN) and while they were moving out and into the land that God was taking them to....all they had time to prepare was Matzah bread. Crackers. And you can make a soup with matza in it....sorta like dumplings.

2. But the removal of leaven from our lives is equal to the removal of sin from our lives. Being changed from a slave to a freeman.

 The Feast of First Fruits starting on the day after the (sunday) Sabbath and counting 50 days forward to the last day....which in the Greek is known as the day of Pentecost (50). This day in Hebrew is Shav-out.

Now the significance of these two feast days can no more be lost on the believer than the first day of Passover.

The Blood of the Lamb on the door posts saved the first born of those that applied that blood.

And then The Feast of Unleavened Bread reminds us of our sin that is forgiven. Rav' Shaul said that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump. (Galatians 5)

And then on the first day after the Sabbath is The Feast of First Fruits begun...The same day that Y'shua rose from the grave as the First Fruits of the Resurrection.

Because no one applied the blood on their doorposts to the redemtion of sin...Y'shua came as the Passover lamb. For the redemtion of sin. To remove sin (leaven) from us so that we might have everlasting life. And rose on the 3rd day as the 1st Fruits of the Resurrection. And then on the Last day of Sha'vout (pentecost) 50 days or 7 Sabbaths later we were to bring in the wave offerings of first fruits from our harvests. And this was the day that the Gift of the Holy Ghost was given to those that believed. Salvation as its described in Act 2:38 is a two part event. First we believe to the remission of sins and then accept the Gift of the Holy Ghost....The Ruach Ha'Kodesh.

Then after this Feast Of Weeks is finished and we have had a picnic....and a mik'vah in the Holy Ghost....we tend the fields and vineyards and orchards.

until

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