7 Days 7 Feasts
The Seven Days of Creation correspond to the Seven Feasts of the Lord, the entire Plan of Salvation through Yeshua.
Introduction |
“Seven Days and Seven Feasts “ will explain some foundational questions about the first chapters in Genesis:
Why did God create in the seven day creation week?
Why did God place the content of each day in a specific order?
(Light on first day, fruit trees third day, birds and fish fifth day)
Why are these 24 hour days and not millions of years?
Since many people, believers included, stumble over these foundational verses, this booklet will help explain these misunderstandings.
Basically, the theme of this writing is that the Seven Days of Creation are God’s plan of salvation before sin entered the world. These Seven Days are a Prophetic picture of the Seven Feasts in the Torah, and the fulfillment by the Jewish Savior Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ.
What does the complete plan of Salvation look like? It is a Bride and Bridegroom in fellowship with God living in Paradise.
This is what we see at the end of the Seven Days of Creation. This is also the picture of the New Heavens and New Earth at the end of Revelation 21 and 22. Before sin, it took God only 7 days to bring about the plan of salvation: Bride and Bridegroom in fellowship with God in Paradise.
After sin, the plan of salvation will take 7,000 years, blood shed, and the Sacrifice of God's Son Himself. This final plan of salvation occurs in Revelation 21 and 22, with the Bride and Bridegroom sharing Paradise in the open presence of God's Light.
The first prophetic picture in Genesis is before sin, and thus does not require a ‘blood’ sacrifice to attain to the salvation in Paradise. The salvation required through the rest of the Bible does require blood sacrifice, and so the ‘seed’ of the woman that is promised in Genesis 3, Jesus Christ, is prophesied.
This ‘seed’ will come through a people group, the Hebrews, and so the Torah and the Seven Feasts of God are introduced to give us the prophecies of Jesus the Messiah and eventually, His actual arrival in Israel 2000 years ago.
We will look briefly at the First and Third Days.
The First day is the creation of light, and the separation between darkness and light. This is the Prophetic picture of the Passover and the Crucifixion. The Passover was the 10th plague in Egypt, preceded by the 9th plague which was darkness that could be felt. The Hebrews experienced light at the same time. There is a division between those following God and those who are not. The 10th plague is the Passover itself, the blood of the sacrificial Lamb, a foretelling of Jesus himself who would be crucified on the very day of Passover. Before Jesus died there was a darkness covering the land, and then the veil in the Temple was ripped, opening the way to the true light in Heaven itself.
Jesus said “I am the light of the world”.
Psalm 27:1 “ The Lord is my light and my salvation.”
John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word..All things were made by Him…and the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehends it not.”
II Corinthians 4:6 “For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
This is a very clear correspondence between the Creation of light and the Prophetic fulfillment by Jesus Christ.
The most familiar scripture in the Bible, John 3:16, speaking of God’s love on the cross, is explained by Jesus himself, not mentioning ‘blood’, but only the division of light and darkness.
John 3:19-21 “light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.” Moral judgment is given concerning the salvation of mankind.
The Third day I call a “marker” day, because of the similarity of the Creation of Fruitrees, the Feast of Firstfruits, and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on the third day, the Firstfruits of those who rise from the dead.
Jesus Christ actually was Crucified on the day of Passover, in the grave on Unleavened Bread, and rose from the dead on the very day of Firstfruits.
I Corinthians 15:20,23 “ Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept…Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”
When did God so love the world?
Revelation 13:8 “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Matthew 25:34 “The kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God”
Hebrews 4:3 “Enter into my rest, though the works were finished from the foundation of the world.”
It is clear that the plan of Salvation is from the beginning of time, and that the Creator is the Savior. So the prophetic vision of salvation is imbedded in the days of creation itself. It tells a story, and it only makes sense if the days of creation talks about the Savior’s plan, from the foundation of the world.
How far back does it go? …to the very first word of the Bible, the Hebrew “Beresheet”.
B Beit a home , family , bride and bridegroom
R Resh B+R Bar –for the Son
A Aleph by the Father, the strong one
SH Shin Shaddai- by the power of
Y Yud the hand
T Tuff on the cross
‘God the Father is choosing a Bride and a Home for the Son by the Power of the Hand on the Cross.’
The plan of Salvation is in the First Word and in the First Week of Creation.
God’s number is Seven. Seven is not related to astronomical nor agricultural cycles or events. The number 7 is used through out the Bible.
Genesis 7 Days of Creation
Leviticus 7 Feasts of the Lord
Daniel 7 x 70 years
Matthew 7 x 70 times of forgiveness
Revelation 7 Judgments, bowls, etc.
The reason the Days of Creation are 24 hour days:
Numbering in consecutive order: first, second, third, etc.
Speaking of evening and morning each day
Man’s first full day on earth is the Sabbath, we know this was 24 hours
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, the Sabbath was made for man, thus the Sabbath of 24 hours only makes sense for a week of 24 hour days (not 2 billion years first day, 500 million years second day, etc)
Jesus the Messiah and His Bride are the reference points, time must relate to their lifespans and life cycles ( a seven day, 24 hours per day week)
The Bride, Eve, was the last being created, it was all for her. The Universe was spoken into existence and cost God nothing; the Bride cost everything, the death of the Son of God. God will have His Bride at any cost.
The 7 Days of Creation follow the same order and sequence as the 7 Feasts of the Lord described in Leviticus 23. The Creation Week is a preview or prophetic vision of the 7 Feasts, depicting the plan of Salvation of our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ.
What does the end of the plan of salvation look like: It is a Bride and Bridegroom living in the Light of Paradise in personal communion with God.
This is the picture at the end of the Bible in Revelation 21 and 22. It is also what the Sabbath Day looks like at the end of the very first week of Creation in Genesis 1 and 2.
The 7 Days of Creation seem somewhat random at our first reading, but if we place the 7 Feasts over these 7 Days, we will gain an understanding of why there are Seven Days in Creation, and the reason for the "order of the content" of these 7 Days.
Day 1 Creation Darkness to Light (God's Spirit lights world for three days) Feast Day Passover 10th plague, 9th plague darkness, Israel had light Yeshua Crucifixion Sacrificial lamb, dark 6th to 9th hour, Yeshua light of the world
Day 2 Creation Firmament, Waters divided from waters, only day not called "good" Feast Day Unleavened Bread, Purity, no sin, Israel crossed in waters of Red Sea Yeshua Only 24 hour day in grave, only sign is Jonah in whale (waters and waters
Day 3 Creation Dry land and Fruit Trees Feast Day Firstfruits Yeshua Resurrection Firstfruit from the dead
Day 4 Creation Sun,moon, stars Signs, Seasons (Date of moadim,Feast Days) days, years Feast Day Shavuot, Pentecost (God's Spirit is light inside man, His Bride) Yeshua Ruach HaKodesh, Holy Spirit Cloven tongues of fire,sun dark, moon blood
Day 5 Creation Fish and Birds(Fish only creature not on Noah's Ark,in waters of judgment Feast Day Trumpets Wake up call, separate birds and fish for judgment Yeshua Rapture of Believers How I bare you on eagle's wings
Day 6 Creation Animals and Man (Sacrificial animals ready for mankind) Feast Day Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement Most Holy Day Yeshua Return of the Lord to Jerusalem, Repentence of nation of Israel
Day 7 Creation Sabbath Day Bride and Bridegroom, Rest and fellowship with God Feast Day Tabernacles The Double Sabbath, 1st and 8th day, Harvest Time Yeshua 1000 year rule of Messiah the King from Temple in Jerusalem, Israel
There are 7 Days in the Creation week because God has chosen this number. The number 7 is God's number. It is used many times in the Bible: 7 Days of Creation; 7 Feasts of the Lord; 7 good years and 7 lean years in Egypt; 7 seventies in Daniel; and in Revelation, 7 Spirits, 7 Stars, 7 angels, 7 last plagues.
The number 7 is not related to astronomical or agricultural phenomena. It is God's number and it directs our thoughts to Him and to His plan of Salvation: which is in the Savior Yeshua.
Now Yeshua, Jesus, is the beginning and ending of our salvation, and He is also the Creator of all things.
Because Yeshua is the Savior and the Creator, we would actually expect to see the plan of salvation in the Creation itself. The signature of God is the Sabbath day, representing His works and our receiving of rest, grace, and the love of God. the Sabbath represents the end of our faith and God's real plan for mankind. It is the only day with a name, for it is the culmination of the meaning of all the days, our final relationship with our Creator and Savior.
How do we connect the 7 Days of Creation with the 7 Feasts of the Lord?
1) Leviticus 23 contains the only complete list of the Feasts in their proper order: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Shavuot (Pentecost), Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles. But before this list, in Leviticus 23:1,2, is made mention of the Sabbath day with the six days of creation. The 7 days of creation are mentioned with the complete list of the 7 Feasts.
2) The Sabbath day is the only Holy day mentioned in the 10 Commandments. It is mentioned two times, the first time in Exodus 20:8-11 with the word 'zachor', to remember the creation. "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day."
So here the Sabbath references the creation.
The second mention of the Sabbath day in Deuteronomy 5:12-15, uses the word 'shamor', to keep or observe. We remember the creation, but observe the feasts. "Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day."
Observe the Sabbath as you observe the Passover, the beginning of the seven Feasts.
The Sabbath day is the middle of the 10 Commandments, it is the heart of the Law (Torah or teaching) of God, and it is the end meaning of the Bible. The Sabbath points to our Maker in Creation, and our Savior in the Seven Feasts of the Lord.
3) Mark 2:27 states, " the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." Yeshua is Lord of the Sabbath, so the Sabbath points to our Lord Yeshua. The rest, love, grace, the first full day of man on earth is the very heart of God. That first day of existence for man, was a 24 hour day. If man's first day is the Sabbath, a 24 hour day, it only makes sense that the celebration of creation on the Sabbath day, the declaration that "it was very good", means the other six days were 24 hour days. The Bible always means 24 hour days when it uses consecutive numerical order ( first day, second day, third day, etc.) and the words 'morning and evening'. Genesis 1 uses both of these formats to confirm they are 24 hour days. If Yeshua is Lord of the Sabbath day, He is Lord of all the days. And if the Sabbath was made for man, a 24 hour day, so were all the days.
4) Jeremiah 31:31-37 is the first clear mention of the New Covenant between God and man. He talks of bringing Isreal out of Egypt by His hand while He was a Husband to them. Then he speaks of writing His words in their hearts and all will know the Lord and be forgiven. This is the work of Yeshua himself in the New Testament. Verses 35 and 36 say the guarantee of the word of God is in the Creation itself: "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is his name. If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever." The Forgiveness by the loving husband Lord is confirmed in the creation itself. The forgiveness by God is what the 7 Feasts of the Lord are all about, beginning with the Passover, Yeshua the Lamb of God.
PROPHETIC MEANING OF THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION
John 3:16 God so loved the World He sacrificed His only Son
When did God first love the world?
Rev. 13:8 The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Matt. 25:34 The kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.
Heb. 4:3 Enter into my rest, though the works were finished from foundation of world
My Rest, the Sabbath Day, is the Key that links Creation to the Plan of Salvation
Matt. 12:8 Son of man is Lord of the sabbath day
Gen 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and rested from all his work which he created
(Sabbath is the Only Holy Day in the Garden of Eden)
Central Four verses in the Ten Commandments – God’s heart is mercy, rest, love
Ex 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, points us to the six days of creation
Deut 5:12-15 Observe the sabbath day, points us to deliverance from Egypt (Cross)
Seven Days of Creation are given before the only complete list of the Seven Feasts
Lev. 23:1-44 Beginning with Passover, the prophetic plan of salvation written by Moses
The Seven Days of Creation are a prophetic picture of the plan of salvation
Day 1 Darkness to Light - Passover and Crucifixion
(Darkness ninth plague, Passover tenth; Darkness sixth to ninth hour at Cross)
I John 1:7 If we walk in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin
Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation
II Cor 4:6 God commanded the light to shine out of darkness, gave light in Jesus
John 1:29 John the Baptist bore witness of the light said,’ Behold the Lamb of God.
Day 2 Firmament, Waters and Waters - Unleavened Bread and Burial of Jesus
(Only day not called good)
Matt. 12:39,40 Only sign is Jonah in whale for three days
Jonah 2:1-9 Yet thou hast brought my life up from corruption
I Cor 10:1-5,11 Our fathers were under the cloud and went through the sea, all Baptized
Psalm 16:9,10 My flesh rest in hope, not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption
Day 3 Dry Land and Fruit Trees - Feast of Firstfruits, Resurrection of Jesus (Double
Good)
I Cor 15:20-23 Now is Christ risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that slept
John 12:24 A grain of wheat falls into the ground, if it dies, brings forth much fruit
Mark 16:6 You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified,He is risen
Day 4 Sun, Moon, Stars - Pentecost (Moses on Mt. Sinai) , Giving of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2:1-21 Sound from heaven, cloven tongues of fire , sun dark, blood moon.
Ezek 1:26-28 Color of amber(St 2830 spectrum metal) , fire , rainbow as in the cloud
I Cor 15:40-41 Stars differ in glory, different gifts of Spirit, members of Christ’s body
Day 5 Fish and Birds - Feast of Trumpets, Rapture of Believers (God separates people)
I Thess 4:13-18 The trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first
Ex 19:4 How I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself
Gen 7:21-24 (Noah’s flood) All flesh died that moved on the earth, fish not on Ark
Day 6 Animals and Man - Day of Atonement, Return of Jesus, Repentence of Israel
Gen 1:24-31 Let us make man in our image to rule over all the earth
Gen 3:21 God made coats of skins, first animal blood sacrifice to atone for sins
Zech 12:6-10 Israel will look on me whom they have pierced
Rev 19:11-16 His name is The Word of God, armies followed him dressed in white
Rom 11:7-15 The fall of Israel leads to salvation of Gentiles, provoking jealousy
Day 7 Sabbath - Feast of Tabernacles, Millenium Rule of Jesus
Gen 2:1-3 The heavens and earth finished, Sabbath Blessed and made Holy
Zech 14:16-19 All the nations that are left will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles
Rev 20:1-7 Priests of God and of Christ, and reign with him a thousand years
Heb 4:1-10 Enter into his rest, cease from his own works as God did from His
Introduction
The Seven Days of Creation in Genesis, point to
the Seven Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23, which
prophecy of the Seven Events in the plan of
Salvation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
The seven days of creation represent a finished work, with God
resting on the Sabbath day to demonstrate the Holiness and
completeness of the work. These seven days of creation prophecy
of the same events as the seven Feasts of the Lord. That is why the
seven days are also listed in Leviticus 23, but before the feasts, in
Leviticus 23:1-3. The Sabbath is the only Feast mentioned in both of these:
The week of Creation and the Ten Commandments.
Our Lord’s plan of salvation is prophesied through the seven
days of creation in the number of the days, seven, and in the content
of what was actually created on each day: for example- Light on the
First Day.
The creation of Light on the First Day, the Jewish Passover, and the
Crucifixion, all speak of the exact same event: victory over death and
darkness. Jesus Christ was crucified on the Jewish Passover as he
was the Lamb of God. John the Baptist came ‘to bear witness of the
Light’. When John saw Jesus the next day, he said, ‘Behold the Lamb
of God, which takes away the sin of the world.’ To John, bearing
witness of the Light was the same as beholding the Lamb of God.
Indeed, Jesus himself explained the power of the cross in terms of
light and darkness. After declaring his love on the cross in John 3:16,
three verses later he says, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come
into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil.” John 3:19.
In John chapter One, the entire section of scripture is a reference to
Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made
that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the
light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not”.
John 1:1-5.
Jesus the Messiah is seen as the Word, the Light, and the creator of all
things. There can be no mistake in John chapter one, that God is speaking
of the plan of salvation, and the seven days of creation, especially Light
on the First Day. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world: he that follows
me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8:12.
Light is clearly associated with salvation through the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ himself, the witness of John the Baptist, and throughout
scripture: “The Lord is my light and my salvation” Psalm 27:1; “For God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ.” II Corinthians 4:6
In addition, darkness was the condition preceding the creation of Light,
the Passover, and the Crucifixion. In Genesis 1:2-4, “And darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness.”
The Book of Exodus describes the Jewish Passover, the tenth plague
in Egypt. This was the day of salvation and deliverance for the Israelites.
However, note that the ninth plague was darkness,” And the Lord said
unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be
darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And
Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another,
neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of
Israel had light in their dwellings.” Exodus10:21-23.
During the crucifixion in Matthew 27: 45,46,50,51, it says,” Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lam sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.”
In each of these, the creation of Light, the Passover, and the crucifixion,
first there is darkness, then light overcomes the darkness, and followed
by a clear division between light and darkness, salvation and judgment.
Light breaks through the first day of creation, as much as the Cross
begins the first day of our Christian walk. In the same way, Passover
begins the Seven Feasts of the Lord. “For where a testament is, there must
also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force
after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator
liveth.” Hebrews 9:16,17.
The First day represents the creation of Light (E=MC2 all the energy of the universe), Time (in the beginning), and Space (Light shines through the Universe).
The power force of the Bible begins with Light, just as the Crucifixion
is what rips the veil in the temple and enables us to have direct access
to the Shekinah light of God himself in Heaven. The Passover enabled
the Jewish nation to walk out of Egypt, to meet with God at Mt. Sinai,
and then to the promised land. The creation of light, the Passover, and
the Crucifixion are not the end of our journey with God, but the door
which leads us to the Promised Land, and eternal paradise.
The confirmation that the seven days of creation represent Jesus’
plan of salvation, is understood by the last thing God created on the
sixth day: namely, Eve, the bride of Adam, the symbol of Jesus and the
church. “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be on flesh. This is
great mystery: but I speak concerning Jesus and the church.”
Ephesians 5: 31,32. Paul the Apostle has quoted from Genesis 2:24,
to represent Yeshua and the Assembly of Believers.
Praise God!
For His plan of salvation is also His love story between
God and man. The entire purpose of creation is to bring forth the Bride,
symbolized by Eve, the crown of God’s creation. It is not only a picture
of the deepest love in Marriage, but also the New Testament portrayal of
grace. Mankind’s first full day on earth is the Sabbath, the day of rest.
God says,You lived for part of the sixth day, now rest, take a day off, enjoy
fellowship with your Bride and your God. The first full day on earth is
none other than God and Mankind’s ‘honeymoon’ in paradise! What
a picture of Grace, for God did all the work in six days, man only has
to love his bride and his God. This is the same image of the eternal
marriage between Jesus and the Church, exactly what Paul said in
Ephesians 5: 31,32.
“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. 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. 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.”
Revelation 19:7-9.
God has one plan of salvation, it is his love story for mankind. It
begins on the first day of creation, with Light, it ends with the creation
of his bride, that he will win at any cost to himself. God’s desire is to
spend eternity with his bride in Paradise once again.
“All things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things,
and by him all things consist.” Colossians 1: 16,17. This is God’s plan.
This is God’s work. We need only to walk by faith in the steps of Abraham.
God has shown us that the end of creation is the Bride and Bridegroom in
Paradise, as is the Church with Jesus,in the New Heavens and New Earth.
“For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth
shall he be called.” Isaiah 54: 5.
The seven days of creation certainly point to God’s plan of salvation.
In the next few pages we will see how each day of creation points to
the corresponding Feast of the Lord, and the Messiah’s plan of salvation, leading
to the marriage of the Bride and Bridegroom.
FIRST DAY
The division of Light from Darkness and the Feast of Passover
together prophesy of the Crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God
saw the light, that it was good and God divided the light from the
darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Genesis 1:1-5
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand
toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of
Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from
his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in
their dwellings.
Exodus 10:21-23 (The Ninth Plague)
“Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill
the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the
blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts
with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at
the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass
through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood
upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
house to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance
to thee and to thy sons for ever.”
Exodus 12:21-24
“And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots...Now
from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the
ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus, when he had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the
temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth
did quake, and the rocks rent.”
Matthew 27:35,45,46,50,51
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be saved. And this is
the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For
everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither comes to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh
to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are
wrought in God.”
John 3:16,17,19-21
Jesus the Messiah himself explains the spiritual implications of the cross
in terms of Light and Darkness. From the beginning of creation,
God has divided the world in terms of Light and Darkness, and He
has placed a moral value on Light, calling it Good. This is so
important and so essential to the meaning of our entire existence,
that God has made the world itself to spin on its axis to create
Night and Day every twenty-four hours and to consider Light and
Darkness, Good and Evil.
We know this physical event has spiritual implications, issues of the
heart, for it says in II Corinthians 4:6, ”For God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
The knowledge of God is what God was trying to teach Adam in the Garden and Pharaoh in Egypt. “And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.” Exodus 5:2
Nevertheless, by the end of the ten plagues, Pharaoh, the Egyptians,
and all Israel knew that there was only one true God. Adam also
had a more complete knowledge of God after he had sinned. For
in the skins of the sacrificial animals used to cover Adam, God
was prophesying of the sacrificial love of the “seed of the woman”.
”We love him, because he first loved us.” I John 4:19
This love is on the first day of creation, signified by the Light that
was brought forth. That light came from Jesus Christ, for the sun,
moon, and stars were yet to be created on the fourth day.
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him
in love.” Ephesians 1:4
It is important to understand God’s motivation for creating this
universe. Love is that motivation, and it is because of the Bride,
the crown of his creation, that this love is real and all things
prophesied will come to pass. God will have his Bride, forever
in Paradise.
God loved his Bride on the first day. For although she (Eve)
was created last, she was in God’s thoughts first, and all the days
of creation were preparation (building the home) for the Bride.
God’s sacrificial love was manifested in His Son Jesus Christ, who
was there on the first day,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” John 1:1-4
Jesus Christ is the creator, and he is the representation of God’s love for mankind. Jesus Christ, the Light of the world, the example of God’s sacrificial love was there on the first day of creation.
God’s promise to Abraham to build him a nation took another step forward on the night of Passover in the land of Egypt. The Lord even told Moses to start the calendar all over again: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” Exodus 12:3
The Passover meant many things: freedom from cruel bondage, a more intimate knowledge of God through the miracles, the written Laws, and the victories in the promised land. But most of all, it prophesied of the coming true sacrificial lamb of God, Yeshua the Messiah himself. This was the symbolism of all the Feasts of the Lord and ritual animal sacrifices: to bring Israel into a relationship with God Almighty, and wait for the Son of God’s ultimate sacrifice for sin.
Our Christian walk begins with the sacrificial love of Jesus on the cross. Similar to the First Day of creation and the Passover, first there is darkness, and then Light enters in. Evening comes first. Then comes the Day. The Ninth Plague is darkness that can be felt, the Tenth Plague is the Passover, freedom and fellowship with God. When Jesus was on the cross,
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.” Matthew 27:45
“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom. “ Matthew 27:50,51
Spiritually, the darkness at the Cross was the sins of the entire
world, with the Son of God confronting this mass of sins himself.
When he gave up the ghost, the veil to the Holy of Holies was
ripped in two,”For Christ is not enterd into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God for us.” Hebrews 9:24
The veil being ripped, the way is open for us to fellowship
with Jesus Christ who is in Heaven. This is where the full light
of God’s Shekinah Glory shines day and night. God has returned
us to the true light of every man,”That was the true Light, which lights
every man that comes into the world.” John 1:9
Our high priest, Jesus Christ, now resides where the Shekinah Glory actually lights up the entire Heavenly kingdom. We have access to that Shekinah light by faith in the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross, when the veil first ripped in two.
That Shekinah Glory is what first lit up the skies for the first three days of Creation. The sun, moon, and stars, were not created until the fourth day. These first three days of creation represent the spiritual foundation of the entire universe, namely the Crucifixion, the entombment of Jesus, and his Resurrection. This is actually the price God paid to redeem or buy back His Bride from destruction.
These days are so significant that God would not share his Shekinah Glory with the sun, moon, and stars. God’s personal Shekinah Glory lit up the universe for three days, shared with no other source of light, and laying the foundation of the Earth. The third day God separated land from water and brought forth the first fruit trees. This corresponds to the Third Feast of the Hebrews, ’First Fruits’,and to the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”
I Corinthians 15:20
It is interesting to note that the Fourth Day of creation, when the
sun and stars were created, corresponds to the Fourth Feast,
Pentecost. This is when the Holy Spirit was sent to reside in the hearts
of men. Again, God will not share his glory with created things,
but chose men, who were made after His image, and who were to
become His sons, as the acceptable temple to house his Shekinah
Glory. God chose the hearts of men as his Holy of Holies.
God has placed in us the same Shekinah Glory that lit up the first
three days of creation, the fire on the Mount with Moses (he glowed
coming off the mount), the tongues of fire seen at Pentecost, and the
eternal all encompassing light where Jesus resides in Heaven.
“And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they
shall reign for ever and ever.” Revelation 22:5
It is important to see that God, through the Crucifixion and the
ripping of the veil in the Holy of Holies, brings us back to the original
light of creation and the light of our future home in the New Heavens
and the New Earth.
SECOND DAY
The creation of the Firmament with the separation of waters, and the
the Feast of Unleavened Bread, together prophecy of the body of
Jesus in the grave.
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day.” Genesis 1:6-8
“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. In the
first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.” Leviticus 23:6-8
“There came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also
himself was Jesus disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body
of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when
Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and
laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and
he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third
day.....so they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone,
and setting a watch.” Matthew 27:57-60, 64, 66
There is always a clear division between God’s declaration of his
love (the cross), and the new direction we take as we are born again.
The creation of Light is followed by the creation of the firmament and
the division of waters from the waters. This great division occurs between
the Light of the First Day, and the creation of Land and Fruit Trees of the
Third Day. This second day, representing Christ in the grave, is the
only day not expressly called ‘good’ in Genesis 1. It is the time between the
Crucifixion and the Resurrection. According to the Feasts of the Lord and the
life of Yeshua, Jesus literally was Crucified on the Feast of Passover,
in the grave on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and rose from the dead
on the exact day of the Feast of Firstfruits.
The Lord’s Feast of Passover, the sacrifice of the lamb without spot,
the great deliverance from Egypt and bondage, is followed by the
seven days of Unleavened Bread with the nation passing through the
Red Sea, literally between waters and waters. Since this was only
possible through a miracle of God, the Hebrew nation would have died
except through God’s intervention and the resurrection on to the other
side of the sea. Remember, the Egyptians died in the Red Sea when the
wall of ‘waters and waters’ returned on their heads. They all drowned!
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that
all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did
all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Jesus. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the wilderness... Now all these things happened unto them
for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the
ends of the world are come.” I Corinthians 10:1-5, 11
“Know ye not, that so many of us were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if
we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness of his resurrection..” Romans 6:3-5
The Second Day of creation, the waters dividing from the waters, the Hebrews
walking through the walls of waters in the Red Sea, and the Baptism in
waters, identifying with the burial of Jesus Christ, are all one and
the same.
Jesus said there would be no sign given except for Jonah
in the whale. “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40
While Jonah was in the whale’s belly under the sea, he was
quite literally between the waters and the waters. In the time of Noah,
the ‘Ark of Salvation’ was between the waters rising from under the earth
and the waters falling from the sky.
This was also symbolic of the great division between the nations before the Flood and those after. God is still speaking of Noah and his generations in Genesis chapter 10, and it is at the end of the very next chapter that Abram is first introduced, “the father of all them that believe”, Romans 4:11. Spiritually, God was making a great division, calling out a man, Abram, and his descendants the Jewish Nation, to bring
forth the Messiah to bless the entire world. In the Spirit, God was gathering together his people that would know him and his ways. This was in direct contrast to the dispersion of the nations at the Tower of Babel, also in Genesis chapter 11.
The following scriptures in I Peter 3 speak of the death of Christ,
Noah’s ark, Baptism, and the Spiritual purposes accomplished when
Jesus was in the grave. When this is seen as a prohetic fulfillment of
the Second Day of creation, we have a more complete understanding
of God’s plan of redemption, from Creation to Jesus the Messiah.
“For Jesus also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls were saved by water.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into
heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him.” I Peter 3:18-22
When Jesus was in the grave, He was claiming all the authority and
powers of things under the earth, until His resurrection, when He was
claiming authority of all things on earth and in the heavenly realm. Then
He sat down on the right hand of God the Father. Jesus was
exercising His Divine power over all things. He is the Creator.
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created.” Revelation 4:11
The Lord’s body did not decay or see corruption in the grave, for he is
the ‘unleavened bread’ of God. “Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory
rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
Psalm 16:9-11
“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,
as ye are unleavened. For even Jesus our passover is sacrificed for us:
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.” I Corinthians 5:7,8
The Second Day is the dividing of waters from the waters, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the time Jesus was in the grave. It is all about Jesus the Messiah. It is His story. He is God and His story is about the passion of His love for his Bride. He literally went down to the depths, and rose up above the starry realm to prove the height and depth and breadth of His love. The Second Day is the great divide between Jesus on the Cross and His resurrection into Paradise. It is the walls of water the Hebrews experienced going through the Red Sea: the Egyptians drowned within the same walls because they did it in the power of the flesh and not the power of God. Before crossing through the sea, the Jews had a chance to return to Egypt, but afterwards,
“ye shall see them again no more for ever. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace...and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the
dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand,
and on their left...And the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst
of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them;
there remained not so much as one of them....Then sang Moses and the
children of Israel this song unto the LORD...The LORD is my strength and
song, and he is become my salvation (Yeshua): he is my God..”
Exodus 14:13,14,21,22,27,28 15:1,2
It is only by God’s Spirit, ( the Shekinah Glory which led the children
of Israel by a cloud and a pillar of fire) can we cross the impassable gulf that separates the flesh from eternal life in Jesus, our salvation. The Lord was crucified on the cross on the Feast of Passover, the first Feast, He went through the impassable gulf of death on the second Feast, Unleavened Bread, and arose victoriously on the third day, the Lord’s Feast of Firstsfruits:this is the same as the third day of Creation, when the literal ‘firstfruits’ were created.
The Second Day is about separation, total separation, from living for
the flesh and living in the Spirit of God. It is between the Crucifixion and
the Resurrection, between one side of the Red Sea and the other,between
the time before the flood of Noah and the dry land with the ‘rainbow’
covenant, and it is our own testimony in Baptism, going in to
the waters and coming out to live a life in God’s Spirit.
Before we are born, we live in a water sack in the womb, we are
literally between the waters and the waters. There is always a division
of the waters from waters before a new birth. The Second Day is the waters of
separation before the new birth: whether it is the earth and fruit trees,
Noah’s flood and dry ground, the children of Israel on the other side of the
sea, or a Believer coming out of the water in Baptism, it is symbolic
of the new birth, a new land, a new life - Born Again, Resurrected from
the Dead!
Jesus went down to the depths to seal up His purpose on Earth, and to
affirm His authority over death and the grave. Then he was
resurrected and claimed his authority in the heights of Heaven. The
works were finished on the Cross, He was only claiming what was His,
past, present, and future.
The Hebrew Nation is the living testimony of God’s plan of redemption.
They actually had to put blood on the door posts of their houses
during the first Passover, they had to carry all their belongings through
the Red Sea, and trek through the desert into the promised land, the land
of Israel. God wrote his plan of redemption in the seven days of creation,
in the History and Feasts of the Jewish people, and in Spiritual life of every believer
in Jesus our Lord.
We all must come to the Light, the Passover, and the Crucifixion. We
all must by faith identify with the waters separating from waters(we are born into this world), the uncorrupted Feast of Unleavened Bread(eat of the Matzo), and the burial of our Lord Jesus Christ(identify with Jesus in Baptism, ritual immersion).
Then we all must rejoice with the creation of dry land and
fruit trees, the Feast of Firstfruits, and the Resurrection of Yeshua,
the ‘firstfruits of them that slept’, I Corinthians 15:20. Hallelujah!
THIRD DAY
The Separation of the Seas from the Dry Ground with the
creation of Fruit Trees, and the Feast of Firstfruits together
prophecy of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Yeshua HaMashiach.
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God
called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God
saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third
day.” Genesis 1:9-13
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give
unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the
sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after
the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye
wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt
offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth
deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD
for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the
fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn,
nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering
unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations
in all your dwellings.” Leviticus 23:9-14
“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they
came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared,
and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away
from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the
Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed there-
about, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they
were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them,
Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:
remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, saying
The Son of man must be deliverd into the hands of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third day rise again.” Luke 24:1-7
Now the victory of Jesus over sin and death is complete. He has
taken the sins of the world, gone into the depths of the earth, and has
risen from the dead. He will preach for forty days on earth and appear
to over 500 men and women.
The Third Day of creation is when the literal Firstfruits appeared in the
universe. How appropriate that the corresponding Lord’s Feast is called
Firstfruits. “But now is Jesus risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in
Jesus shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Jesus
the firstfruits; afterward they that are Jesus’ at his coming.”
I Corinthians 15:20-23
God has given us his prophetic plan of redemption from the seven
days of Creation. On the Third Day He creates the Fruit Tree whose
seed is in itself, the Third Feast of the Lord is Firstfruits, and Jesus
rose from the dead on the Third Day, the exact same day as the Jewish
Feast of Firstfruits.
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
else: I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done...
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.”
Isaiah 46:9,10,13
“Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world...” Matthew 25:34
God’s plan of salvation, Jesus, his crucifixion, burial, and
resurrection is prophesied from the foundation of the world. The
foundation of the world means the seven days of creation, especially
the first three days, when God separated out the dry land and gave
us Fruit trees, the symbol of the resurrection.
God’s plan of creation and salvation involves dividing and separation.
God was pleased with Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, and separated
them out to demonstrate his plan of salvation. With Abraham, God
separated out an entire nation, the Hebrew people, who would be given
the Word of God, the weekly and yearly feasts that prophecy of the
Messiah, and finally the actual Saviour himself, Jesus the Messiah, the King
of the Jews and the author of eternal life. The creation and the Jewish nation with their Feasts prophesy of the coming Saviour. The land of Israel must also be included, because it is the promised possession given by God to Abraham, the father of the Jews and the father of faith to all who believe, Jew and Gentile. The land is the symbol of God’s faithfulness to a sinful and rebellious people, which includes all of us. The land demonstrates God’s mercy and the reality of the true promised land, the New Heavens and the New Earth, our hope of a real Heaven.
The land of Israel is intricately part of the Feast days which foretell
of the coming Yeshua. How can you raise animals for sacrifices, grow
grain offerings, and produce oil for anointing and lights in the Temple,
without a land to bring forth these things? The nation of the Jews, the
Feasts of the Lord, and the land of Israel is what God has separated
out from the rest of the nations: to be a light to the nations, by their King
and Saviour, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach. This land is where
our Lord was born, crucified, buried, resurrected, and first sent the Holy
Spirit on Pentecost, the Lord’s Feast of Shavuot, the feast of weeks.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
Matthew 12:24 Jesus had to live, die, and resurrect in some land.
Jesus had to be born to some family and be part of some nation. Jesus
the creator had to fulfill the prophetic words from some book. Of course,
the answer to all these statements is the Land of Israel, the family of
Abraham and David, and the Five Books of Moses, which includes the
Seven Days of Creation and the Seven Feasts.
“But some men will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what
body do they come?...But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him,
and to every seed his own body....So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown
in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in
power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is writtten, The first
man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit....The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven....And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly.” I Corinthians 15:35-49
It is interesting that the Apostle Paul brings up Adam in his discussion
of the resurrection. We are related to Adam and the Fall of man. God
is correcting things that went wrong from the beginning, in the Garden
of Eden itself. God’s plan of salvation was already in place when man
first sinned in the Garden. God’s victory over sin was prophesied right
there in the Garden, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15
God is speaking to the snake concerning death and evil, and the
victory by the seed of the woman, Jesus, Yeshua, which means Salvation. God’s
plan is already in place, prophetically built right into the Creation itself.
This is the Seven Days of Creation, with specific things created on
specific days, to foretell of special Feast Days, and finally a specific
individual, Jesus the Lord, who would fulfill all these prophetic Days and
Feasts. For it is really the Creator, Jesus the Messiah, telling his own story,
that of His saving love for mankind.
Fourth Day
The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Feast
of Weeks together prophecy of the giving of the Holy Spirit
on the Day of Pentecost.
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons,
and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made
two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to
rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and
over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw
that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”
Genesis 1:14-19
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from
the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths
shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall
ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the
LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two
tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven;
they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the
first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt
offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings,
even an offering made by fire,of sweet savour unto the LORD.And ye shall
proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto
you: ye shall do no servile work therein:it shall be a statute for ever in all
your dwellings throughout your generations.”
Leviticus 23:15-18,21
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as
of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where the were
sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and
it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
...And how hear we every man in our own tongue....we do hear them
speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God....But this is that
which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophecy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 2:1-3,8,11,16-21
This is the Day of God’s Fire, the Passion of the Lord will now reside
inside of man himself. The Fire was in the Sun, Moon (reflects the fire),
and Stars, the burnt offerings of the Feast of Weeks, and the cloven
tongues of fire resting on the apostles at the day of Pentecost.
God’s declaration of his unconditional love for us was demonstrated
on the Cross, and this is his ‘engagement’ to us. The Holy Spirit is the
pledge and promise of the ‘marriage’ still to come.
“..ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation
in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit
of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
Ephesians 1:13,14
This word ‘earnest’ in the Greek means a pledge, part of the property
given in advance as security for the rest (Strong’s Greek 728). This is
exactly what an engagement ring is to the Bride: a promise and pledge
from the Bridegroom. Jesus has promised to marry the Believers,
his body, and live forever in the New Heavens and the New Earth. He
has given us the token of the Holy Spirit to know this is true.
This is the Lord’s Feast of Shavuot or Weeks, celebrating the latter
Firstfruits of Spring, the wheat harvest. In Acts 2:41 we see the fulfillment
of this prophetic feast as 3,000 people (they were Jews who were commanded to be at the Temple) are saved on the very day of the Feast, “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” This is a time of thankfulness, looking forward to an abundant Fall Harvest, the Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot.
The Land, Eretz Yisrael, which brings forth the Harvest and offerings,
is very much a part of the celebration of these Feasts, and the harvest
is symbolic of the Plan of Redemption of God Almighty, and His Son,
the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus. The Land, Israel,
The People, The Children of Israel, and the instruction of the Feasts of
Israel, The Holy Word of God, are given as a light to the rest of the nations.
There are several aspects to this Feast Day, and God has brought
them all together in His plan of Redemption for mankind.
1) The latter firstfruits of Spring, the wheat harvest, celebrated by having the synagogue decorated with flowers and fruit.
2) The giving of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on Pentecost, the very day of the Lord’s Feast of Weeks
3) The very day Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai, about 1475 BC.
4) The reading from the Book of Ruth, concerning harvest, engagement, and marriage.
5) The reading from the Book of Ezekiel, concerning the vision of God’s Glory.
6) This is one of three Festivals requiring all Jewish males to go to Jerusalem. ( Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Tabernacles. )
7) The creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, on the Fourth Day, corresponding to the Fourth Feast, Pentecost, Feast of Weeks.
All of these different elements come together when we see God’s
master plan of redemption in his Son Jesus the Messiah. The first Sabbath is
again the key to understanding this plan, for it is really God’s ‘honeymoon’
with mankind in paradise. The end of the creation week is the prophetic
vision of the end of God’s purposes for all of creation. God desires a
Bride for His Son Jesus Christ. That desire is passionate, fiery, jealous,
and real, and God will have his way. God’s love is unconditional,
demontrated on the Cross of Calvary as he took the sins of the entire
world in order to give every person an opportunity to become his sons
and daughters, and to inherit paradise.
The First Day is the passion of God, the light and love of God on the
Cross. The Second Day is the passion of God in the Grave, the day
God made a ‘firmament’ in the midst of the waters. The word ‘firmament’
(Strongs Hebrew 7549, 7554) means an expanse, or to expand by
hammering, to pound the earth as a sign of passion. The Third Day, God
rises from the dead, giving hope to all of mankind that death is not the end.
The Fourth Day, the giving of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, is
none other than God’s engagement party for his Bride. God has placed
his Holy Spirit, personally, in each believer. This is the Token, the earnest
of the inheritance we will receive in the New Heavens and New Earth.
The Passover/ Unleavened Bread is the declaration of love to the Bride,
The Feast of Weeks is the Engagement to the Bride, and the Feast of
Tabernacles is the Marriage to the Bride, God dwelling among us.
Psalm 19 of David brings together the Creation of the sun, moon and
stars on the Fourth Day, the Shekinah glory seen on Mount Sinai when
the Law was given, the speaking in tongues when the Holy Spirit was
sent, and the engagement of the Bride and Bridegroom. It is the heat
and desire of Jesus for his Bride. The Bride is to the praise of his glory.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night
sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their
voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the
sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth
as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the
heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from
the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple....Moreover by
them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great
reward.”
Psalm 19:1-7,11
On the Fourth Day God created the Sun, Moon, and Stars for “signs,
and for seasons (moadim-appointed times), and for days, and years.” Genesis 1:14
This is the prophetic symbol in the Creation itself that God used to tell
of His Holy Spirit, that would be given on the Fourth Feast.
Let us look more closely at the events in Acts chapter two. The
explanation of the Holy Spirit is given in Astronomical terms, the Sun,
Moon, and Stars. Remember, the Scriptures, could have gone into
details of the gifts of the Spirit, but instead speaks of things related to the
Fourth Day of Creation.
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with
one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there
appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each
of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:1-4
It was the day of Pentecost, the Lord’s Feast of Weeks. The sound
came from heaven, from above, where the sun and stars reside. The sound
was of a rushing might wind, and there is a wind from the sun called
the Solar Wind. The Solar Wind can vary in intensity depending on solar flares.
The ‘cloven tongues like as of fire’ are the same description as Solar
Prominences on the Sun. Webster defines prominence as “an eruption
of a flamelike tongue of relatively cool gas from the solar chromosphere.”
Psalm 19:3-5 spoke of the sun, which is as a bridegroom, and no speech
nor language where their voice is not heard. We have the sun, the bridegroom, and speaking in tongues all in a few verses. There is more.
Peter’s very first explanation of this experience is from Joel 2:28-32.
Of all the Scriptures, he was moved by the Spirit to speak of the prophetic
vision given on the Fourth Day of Creation to describe what was
occurring on the Fourth Feast of the Lord, the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost.
As in Psalm 19, the sun, moon, and stars will be for signs and declare
the glory of God.
“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall
come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon
all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days
of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven
above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of
smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come t
pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 2:16-22 (From Joel 2:28-32)
There are several references to Astronomical events, “wonders in
heaven above... the sun shall be turned into darkness...and the moon
into blood”. These phenomena occur in one special wonder in heaven,
which also demonstrates the token of engagement of the Bridegroom to
the Bride. This is the Diamond Ring Effect, which takes place
two times during a total eclipse of the sun, the time when the sun
is literally turned into darkness Once just before total darkness and
once immediately after. The effect happens when the edge of the moon
is surrounded by the light of the sun, and one jewel of light gleams
through the last valley on the moon. It is also during a total eclipse that
solar prominences can be viewed with the naked eye, available even
two thousand years ago.
If according to Psalm 19:4,5 that the sun is as a bridegroom, then there
are many parallels to the moon representing the bride. For indeed,
during a lunar eclipse, the moon does turn to a blood red color, the
moon goes through twenty-nine day cycles, and the imperfections and
craters on the moon is what causes the Diamond Ring Effect. I believe
God has given us a celestial dance of the sun and the moon to
demonstrate His eternal love for us and the token of the heavenly
engagement offered to us.
“The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their
wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their
names. Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is
infinite.”
Psalm 147:2-5
We have the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, healing broken hearts and
binding up wounds, combined with the one who can call each star by
name. Plus we have the great power of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is
associated with the Fourth Day of Creation, the sun, moon, and stars.
In the Book of Revelation, the Son of man has in his right hand seven stars, these are explained in chapter 1 verse 20:
"The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and
the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven
churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches".
churches.”
I believe the stars represent guardian angels for each
individual believer, which the Spirit knows by name. Remember,
Psalm 147:2 is addressing the ‘outcasts of Israel’. These are the same
descendants of Abraham, which God had promised, “And he brought
him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,
if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed
be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness....In the same day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of
Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.” Genesis 15:5,6,18
“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament;
and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”
Daniel 12:3 We are not stars, but as the stars. We will appear as stars,
if we are filled with the Holy Spirit, and with the ‘cloven tongues like
as of fire’ sitting upon us. We will be able to comfort and heal others
with the power of the Holy Spirit. Our Father must be in Heaven,
and we are to be the Bride of the Son of God, Jesus, Yeshua, the Jewish
Messiah.
“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in
glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption....The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second
man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that
are earthy: and as if the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly.”
I Corinthians 15:41,42,47-49
It is in the Jewish tradition to also read from Ezekiel chapter one
during this time of the Feast of Weeks. “And I looked, and, behold,
a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire....And I saw as the colour
of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his
loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it
had brightness round about. As the appearance of the bow that is in
the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness
round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of
the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice
of one that spake.”
Ezekiel 1:4,27,28
This is Ezekiel’s vision of the glory of the LORD. Again, we can find
this vision of God’s Shekinah Glory relating to the Stars. This color of
amber can be translated as ‘polished spectrum metal’ (Strong’s Hebrew
2830). We find fire and the spectrum of metal in the light of stars. The
spectrum is the colors of the rainbow, and verse twenty-eight describes
it as the ‘bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain’. The stars reveal
their metal content by their fiery spectra, their rainbow from fire.
The Shekinah Glory was also there when Moses received the Law
on Mount Sinai on the day of the Feast of Weeks. “And the glory of the
Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and
the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud...
and the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top
of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel....And (they) saw the
face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the
vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.”
Exodus 24:16,17 34:35
God’s glory was so bright, that even Moses’ face could not stop
from shining. This is the very first day of Pentecost, and the same Glory
came down upon Moses and Mount Sinai. The Glory was there because
God was there, giving His word to His people. On the Day of Pentecost, Shavuot,
God was giving His word from inside man’s heart, through the Holy Spirit.
The Fourth Day of Creation gives us a way to tell time in days, months,
and years. It is also for giving signs in the heavens. God knows we
need these things, for the next event, The Feast of Trumpets, is many
years away. God knows the necessity for keeping time, and the
Sun, Moon, and Stars, with the Holy Spirit, help guide our way to the
next Feast.
But the sun, moon, and stars were also to tell of the ‘seasons’, the moadim,
the time to meet with the Lord. The word ‘seasons’ really means the ‘appointed
times’, the time when God will show up, and we need to be there.
Indeed, the next appointed time is the Feast of Trumpets, and we don’t want
to be distracted and miss the ‘Rapture’ of the believers. We want to be listening and
watching and not miss His Second coming like a ‘thief in the night’, when He carries
us away on ‘eagles’ wings’.
Fifth Day
The Creation of Birds and Fish and the Feast of Trumpets together prophecy of the Rapture of Believers and the coming Seven Years of Tribulation on the Earth.
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creatures that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day.”
Genesis 1:20-23
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month,
shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy
convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.”
Leviticus 23:23-25
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet (shofar) of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.”
I Thessalonians 4:15-18
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman
with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in
darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night,
nor of darkness.”
I Thessalonians 5:1-5
The next great event in the prophetic calendar is the gathering of the
believers up to heaven, called by the sound of a great trumpet or Shofar.
This is the rapture of the church.
The words ‘caught up’ means, to seize, catch (away, up), pluck,
pull, take (by force). (Strong’s Greek 726) Christians often refer to this
as the ‘Rapture of the Church’. Rapture is defined as, ecstatic joy,
in religious ecstasy, of being transported to another place or sphere
of existence, the act of carrying off, raptura, poaching.(Webster’s 1991)
The relationship to ‘Birds’ becomes apparent when we look at the
following scriptures,”How I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought
you unto myself.” Exodus 19:4 “They shall mount up with wings
as eagles...” Isaiah 40:31
Eagles are a type of bird known as ‘raptors’:
“a raptorial bird; bird of prey, one who seizes by force, robber.”
Raptorial means,’preying upon other animals, adapted for seizing prey,
as an eagle’s claws”. ( Webster 1991)
God’s plan of redemption includes judgment, but also a way to
escape this judgment if we follow the Lord’s guidelines. God
purposely created Fish and Birds on the Fifth Day to coincide with the
‘Rapture of the Church’ and the ‘Waters’ of Judgment to follow, the Great
Tribulation. Indeed, raptorial birds, as eagles, catch up their prey like a
thief in the night: they have great night vision and can swoop down at
speeds up to 200 miles per hour. Small prey on the ground never even
know when they are coming. How much like the Lord’s return for his
people.
Obviously, the ‘Fish’ represent those who are left behind, caught up
in the nets of Judgment. The only creatures not on Noah’s Ark are the
Fish of the sea. Many times we are told that the ‘Last Days’ are as the
days of Noah. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that
were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one
shall be taken, and the other left.” Matthew 24:36-39
There is a clear division between those taken and those left behind.
God has given to us a graphic picture of Birds and Fish to describe
what will happen at the Feast of Trumpets. The prophetic next event,
The Rapture of the Believers, is understood through the dual prophecy
of the Fifth Day of Creation, Birds and Fish, and the Fifth Feast of the
Lord, The Feast of Trumpets. Trumpet, ‘the loud piercing or blaring
cry of an animal; Trumpeter swan, a large wild swan having a sonorous
cry.’ (Webster 1991)
The Hebrew Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah (The Day of Sounding),
has the idea of Regathering of Believers and taking account of your
spiritual condition. The First Four Feasts of the Lord are in the Spring of
the year, and in the Fall, Harvest Time, comes the last Three Feasts. The
First Four Feasts and their prohetic fulfillment have already been
accomplished: Passover - Crucifixion; Unleavened Bread - Jesus in
the Grave; FirstFruits - Resurrection; Shavuot, Weeks - Pentecost and
the Giving of the Holy Spirit. The Fall Feasts are yet to be realized in the
future: Trumpets - Rapture of the Church; Day of Atonement - Repentance
of Israel; Tabernacles – Yeshua’s Rule on Earth for a thousand years.
The sound of a trumpet is a Wake-up call, a time to get ready for
the Battle, something is about to happen. God warns us not to be
Spiritually asleep. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your
Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house
had known in what Watch the thief would come, he would have Watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore
be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man
cometh.” Matthew 24:42-44
“And he shall send his angels wih a great sound of a trumpet(shofar), and
they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end
of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:31 The Shofar sounds, the
faithful are gathered together. Birds migrate long distances, even
thousands of miles over the ocean water. They also only have a small
window of time in which to begin their journey before the winter will set in
and they will perish. Just like the migration of Birds, God will lead us
to a far away place, where he has gone before us and prepared a place
for us. Our window of time will be the ‘twinkling of an eye’.
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed, 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.”
I Corinthians 15:51-53
Deliverance for the faithful, and judgment for the disobedient seems
to occur on the same day. “And as it was in the days of Noah ,so shall it be
also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, the drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the Day that Noah entered into
the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it
was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, thy bought, they sold,
they planted, they builded; But the same Day that Lot went out of Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”
Luke 17:26-29
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.”
II Peter 2:9
Deliverance, the Rapture of the Church, and Judgment,The Seven Years
of Tribulation, seem to go together in rapid succession. It is possible
that right before some calamity on earth the Rapture occurs, so most
people may not even know that the Believers are missing. If worldwide
communications are disrupted, and some nations change governments
overnight, people could wake up to a whole new world, Israel signs a Seven Year peace treaty with the antichrist, and the Seven
Years of Tribulation begins.
Before we continue, let us look at Leviticus 23:22, the central verse
of Leviticus 23, the one verse not about the Feasts, but is really the
essence of this chapter: for it concerns mercy on the people around us
in the most practical way: Food -and Jesus is the Bread of Life.
“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make
clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt
thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the
poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 23:22
Let us not forget the poor in our cities, even our neighbors in need.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.” James 1:27 Let us love God, and love
our neighbors as ourselves.
SIXTH DAY
The Creation of Sheep and Cattle, Man and Woman, the First
Marriage, and the Day of Atonement, together Prophecy of the
Repentance of the Nation of Israel just before the Lord’s Return.
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:
and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created
man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to
every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to ever
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that
he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.”
Genesis 1:24-31
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of m
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:23,24
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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. 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.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in the same day,
he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it
be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy
from among his people. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be
a statute for ever throughout you generations in all your dwellings.
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.”
Leviticus 23:23-32
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy
all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit
of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they
have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness
for his firstborn. “
Zechariah 12:9,10
“...that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of
the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is
written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them,
when I shall take away their sins.”
Romans 11:25-27
“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s
sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,
and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles
shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be
called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and
a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any
more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy
land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be
married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry
thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy
God rejoice over thee.”
Isaiah 62:1-5
On the Sixth Day God created the sacrificial animals, Man, and
his Bride, Eve. God made man in His own image, but foresaw the need
for sacrifices on the same day. This is the Sixth Feast of the Lord, the Day
of Atonement. It also prophecies of the marriage of God and His People.
The Sixth Day concerns the repentance of the Jews in Israel. God
will have his Jewish Bride, the apple of his eye, even at the last hour
of the sixth day. This Day is considered by Jews to be the Holiest Day
of the entire Year. The High Priest enters the Holy of Holies to offer
sacrifice for the sins of the people. The ceremony involves two goats,
one to be sacrificed, the other to be a ‘scapegoat’, to be set free out
of the city and carry the sins of the nation.
“And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat,
and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their
transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat,
and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: and
the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited:
and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.”
Leviticus 16:21,22
“Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood, suffered without the gate.”
Hebrews 13:12
This Day is called Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Jesus was
the Atoning sacrifice for our sins. “For all have sinned, and come short
of the glory of God: Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Messiah Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God..”
Romans 3:23-25
The word ‘propitiation’ means, ‘an expiatory thing, an atoning victim,
or the lid of the Ark in the Temple, mercyseat, to atone for sin, God be
gracious,i.e. in averting some calamity.’ (Strong’s Greek 2433,2435,2436)
Jesus The Messiah is our atonement for our sins, and the day he was crucified,
the veil in the temple was ripped in two, opening the way for us to
approach God in the True Holy of Holies, in Heaven itself. Jesus is the
High Priest who can appear before God as our Advocate.
Let us return to the words, Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur in Hebrew.
“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.”
Leviticus 23:28
The word atonement means, ‘kippur, expiation (plural),atonement,’
(Strong’s Hebrew 3725), from ‘kaphar, to cover (specifically with
bitumen), appease, make an atonement, cleanse, forgive, be merciful,
make reconciliation’. (Strong’s Hebrew 3722); and finally,’kapporeth,
also from 3722, a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark):
mercy seat.’ (Strong’s Hebrew 3727)
Let us look more closely at that primary definition ‘to cover ( with
bitumen)’. Bitumen is defined as, ‘any of various natural substances,
as asphalt, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.’ (Webster 1991)
This Bitumen, or asphalt covering is the same word used to
cover Noah’s ark with ‘pitch’, to make the Ark waterproof. “Make thee
an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shall
pitch it within and without with pitch.” Genesis 6:14 This word ‘pitch’,
has the same reference word for ‘atonement’, the blood sacrifice of
God, Jesus, our covering for sins that enables us to appear
before the ‘mercy seat’, the lid ‘covering the Ark of God’ in the Holy
of Holies! This is the reference to ‘kaphar’ and ‘kopher’, (Strong’s
Hebrew 3722,3724) to cover (with bitumen) , forgive, be merciful.
Do you realize that Noah’s Ark was carrying the future of the
Human Race, including Abraham, Moses, David, and the Son of God
himself, Yeshua? In addition, all the sacrificial animals, sheep, goats,
bulls, and doves, were also present on the Ark. That was a sacred
cargo, to fulfill God’s plan of redemption for all of mankind.
When Noah finally finished his journey and the Ark rested on Mount
Ararat, as soon as it was safe the Ark was opened and Noah built an
altar for burnt offerings. The LORD smelled a sweet savour, and
introduced the ‘Rainbow Covenant’ with the entire earth, “ And the
bow shall be in the cloud: and I will look upon it, that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is upon the earth.” Genesis 9:16
This ‘Rainbow’, the spectrum of Light formed in water droplets after
a rain storm, is a picture of the ‘light’ of Christ, standing between God
and the Earth, and showing mercy upon us.
How appropriate is it that on the Sixth Day of Creation, God created
both sacrificial animals and mankind on the same day. The two goats
necessary for the High Priest on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the
Sixth Feast of the Lord, were created on the Sixth Day, just before Man.
God foresaw this Day of Atonement, and provided the blood sacrifice,
the proper sacrifice needed to approach before a Holy God. Indeed,
this Sixth Day prophetically foreshadows the animals that would be
sacrificed, and the ‘man’ that would be sacrificed, Jesus the Messiah, the
Son of God. This was the sacrifice that only had to be done once for
all of men for all time.
The idea that God needs to ‘cover’ mankind goes all the way back
to the Garden of Eden, when man first sinned. There God made for
Adam and Eve “coats of skins, and clothed them”. Genesis 3:21
God’s attempt to clothe mankind is not complete until the wedding
of God’s Son,
“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. 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.”
Revelation 19:7,8
For the nation of Israel, this robe of righteousness will not occur
until the last day of the Great Tribulation, when the Jews look on “Him
whom they have pierced”.
Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus the Messiah will reveal Himself to His
own people in the same way that Joseph showed his true self to his brothers.
“And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they come
near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
Genesis 45:4,5
Yes, Isaiah prophesied that the Spiritual Rebirth of Israel will happen on a single day,” Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth , and shut the womb? saith thy God. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her....Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.”
Isaiah 66:8-10,12
The Lord will have His Jewish Bride, the sons of Israel, in the land
called by the same name, Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel.
"The LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and
and his name one.”
Zechariah 14:9
This is the day that the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies, a
sacrifice is made for our sins,and we receive the Robes of Righteousness,
washed in the Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ. This is really the
Marriage of the Jewish Bride, washed and married in one day, even
as Eve was created from Adam’s rib and was married on the same Day,
the Sixth Day. What is created in one day is the new spiritual nation of
Israel, ready to reign with the Lord Yeshua for a thousand years.
The Son of God has his long sought after Bride by His side in the
land of Israel he promised to Abraham, so many years ago.
As the scripture has said, the First will be last and the Last will be
first, so the nation of Israel will be saved after the Gentiles. The Jews
were given the Holy Word of God, the Prophets, and the Promises,
but they did not believe in their Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus. Therefore
the Gentiles who believed will go into the Kingdom First, then afterwards
the Jewish people. Nevertheless, the Hebrew nation will be part of
God’s Bride, and Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, will
reign for a thousand years in the Land of Israel. King David will govern
the nation of Israel, and Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, will rule
the entire world. This will be the Seventh Day, the Feast of Tabernacles,
the thousand year Sabbath.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the Day of the Covering, is the Day
of Reconciliation of the Jewish Bride with God. On the Sixth Day God
created Man and also the animals necessary for the sacrificial cleansing
of Mankind. The animals were the symbol of the ultimate sacrifice of
Yeshua himself. As he took the sins of the world upon himself on
the Cross, we have received His robe of righteousness. Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement, is the day the Jewish People accept this
‘propitiation’ (kapparah) for their sins by Faith. However, let us not
forget that there was always a Jewish believing remnant, of whom the
the prophets and all the saints of the first century were part of:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, Mary and Joseph.
“I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my
God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath
covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels.”
Isaiah 61:10
SEVENTH DAY - SABBATH
The Creation is complete with God and man at rest, and the Feast of Tabernacles, together Prophecy of the Millenial Rule of the King of the Jews, Yeshua, Jesus.
Seventh Day - Sabbath
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
Genesis 2:1-3
Seventh Feast - Feast of Tabernacles
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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. On the first day
shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD:
on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
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. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall
dwell in booths: That your generations may know that I made the
children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the
land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 23:33-36,40,42,4
Prophetic Fulfillment - Millenial Rule of Yeshua
“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 Yeshua, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
Revelation 20:6
“...and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee....
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there
be one LORD, and his name one. 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.”
Zechariah 14:5,9,16
“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world.”
Hebrews 4:3
The Seventh Day, the Sabbath, is the day of rest, joy, and holiness.
God has finished his work of Creation, and has declared all to be Good.
Man and woman, Adam and Eve, have their first full day on Earth, and
it is their ‘honeymoon’. All of this is before sin has entered the world.
The Lord’s Feast of Tabernacles is a time of thanksgiving and rejoicing
at the harvest at the end of the agricultural year. The Prophetic
fulfillment of the Sabbath and of the Feast of Tabernacles is the peace
on Earth when Jesus rules a thousand years from Jerusalem.
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.”
Isaiah 2:4
“And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem..And the Lord shall be king over all the earth.”
Zechariah 14:8,9
Yeshua, the King of the Jews, who rose from the dead will
return one day and rule a thousand years here on Earth. Man has
proven that there is no end to war or sin. The Lord must return before
we destroy ourselves. The presence of the nation of Israel today, is
one the signs of the confirmation of the return of Jesus.
Jesus explained to his disciples that he will leave for a time, but
that he will definitely return. The Lord said the following words when
he was near to Jerusalem, and his disciples “thought the kingdom of
God should immediately appear. He said therefore, A certain nobleman
went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and
said unto them, Occupy till I come. But his citizens hated him, and sent
a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the
kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him,
to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every
man had gained by trading.
Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou has been
faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.”
Luke 19:11-17
Of course, Jesus the Messiah is the nobleman, when He died and rose
from the dead and went up to heaven, He did receive His Kingdom,
all of heaven and earth. Surely He will return to claim his Kingdom
on earth, that he purchased with his own blood. Those faithful servants
are his followers who believe he will return and will distribute rewards,
even to the rule of ‘ten cities’.
This thousand year ‘Sabbath’ is also God’s ‘honeymoon’ with
His Bride. The Bride has been washed clean in His own blood, and
now wears the white robes of righteousness. The Lord now literally
dwells, ‘tabernacles’, with his Bride. The end of faith is the reality of
living and ruling with our Lord for a thousand years, God claiming
his right to the world.
If the world is only six thousand years old, then the seventh
thousand would be the Sabbath of the earth. Written history only
goes back six thousand years. Jesus has purchased the
earth, he has redeemed it and thus will return and live here with
his Bride.
“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
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. 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.”
Isaiah 11:6,9,10
This is the world in the time of the Millenial Rule of the Jewish
Messiah, Jesus the Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach. The wild animals are
no longer dangerous, the knowledge God covers the earth, and
both Jews and Gentiles seek the ‘root of Jesse’, “...Jesus, the
son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Matthew 1:1
The world will once again be like the Garden of Eden, with the earth bringing forth
abundantly and God himself living among men. As Adam “heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day...” Genesis 3:8, so the presence of the Lord will be known in all the earth.
How deep is the idea of the Sabbath rest? God says it goes into
the very land we are standing on.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Six years thou
shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and
gather the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath
of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow
thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.”
Leviticus 25:2-4
God extends his sabbath to the land of Israel itself. The weekly
holy day of rest and joy, the Sabbath, is not only for his people Israel,
but for the land of Israel. It is all holy and it all belongs to God.
So the Lord has a right to return to the people and to the land he has
purchased with his own blood.
This sabbath blessing extends not only to the Israelites, but for
all those who have come to trust in the Lord. “And the sabbath of
the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy
maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth
with thee. And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land,
shall all the increase thereof be meat.”
Leviticus 25:6,7
The land of Israel belongs to God Almighty. It is the land that
provides the oil in the lamps in the temple, and the sacrificial offerings
required by God: sheep, oxen, flour, doves. Jesus, the ultimate
sacrificial offering, was born in Bethlehem, buried in a tomb in
Jerusalem, and rose from the dead in the land of Israel.
This chapter in Leviticus continues as the sabbath of the land
extends to seven sabbaths, forty nine years, and finally the fiftieth
year, Jubile. “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years
unto thee, seven times seven years: and the space of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout
all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you;
and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall
return every man unto his family. Ye shall not therefore oppress one
another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,
and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.”
Leviticus 25:8,10,17,21
What a picture of the Millenium! The earth in one year produces
enough food for three years, the land is returned to the rightfull
owners, people are united with their families, and everyone fears
the Lord, who rules the world. This is the ‘sabbath of rest unto the
land, a sabbath for the LORD.’ God has promised a thousand year
Sabbath when he returns to the earth with his Bride.