Three Brides
Eve, Rebecca, and the Believers in Yeshua are the Three Brides.
"My Beloved spoke and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. He brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love."
Song of Solomon 2:10, 4
"We love Him because He first loved us." I John 4:19
Three Brides
Three Brides - Introduction 1
The Bride of the Spirit - Believers in Messiah 5
The Bride of the Covenant - Rebekah 17
The Bride of Creation - Eve 27
Three Bridegrooms 43
Three Brides: Summary 44
Preface
“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.”
Revelation 19:7
This is the relationship between the Messiah and the Believers at the very end of the Bible. This is what the Bible is all about. God is extending His hand to those who love Him, the Bride.
The Rabbi Shaul (Apostle Paul) quotes from the original marriage of Adam and Eve to explain the relationship between the Messiah and the Believers.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” (The Jewish Messiah, Yeshua, and the congregation of believers)
Ephesians 5:31,32
The marriage in the Garden of Eden is not only a real event, but a prophetic picture of the future relationship between God and mankind. If we look at Eve, the bride, we see the last being God created. All of creation was made to benefit this one person. The very next day is the Sabbath, and God calls it a Holy Day, a holiday, the very honeymoon of Adam and his Bride. Adam was put to sleep and his side split open to bring forth his Bride, Eve. This is a prophetic example of the ‘sacrifice’ of Isaac on the mount, and the crucifixion of Yeshua, Jesus, to win His Bride back from sin and death.
This book will explain God’s relationship with mankind through:
1) The Marriage of Adam and Eve, in the context of the Seven Days of Creation.
2) The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah, in the context of God's covenant with the Jewish people and the Seven Feasts of the Lord.
3) The Marriage of the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, and the congregation of believers.
We will show how the prophetic vision of the Seven Days of Creation
is clearly understood through the Seven Feasts of the Lord. Finally, we will
see how Yeshua, Jesus, and His Bride are the fulfillment of this prophetic
vision. This is what the Bible is all about, and I believe we will see these
prophecies come to pass in our lifetime.
God’s last plea to all of mankind includes an invitation from the Bride.
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him
take the water of life freely.”
Revelation 22:17
Three Brides
The Bible is a Love Story between God and His Bride. It is actually
the ‘courtship’ of God for his Beloved, those who trust in Him. This
relationship is represented by the union in marriage between a man
and a woman.
There are three Brides in the Bible that explain our relationship to our God. These Brides are Eve, Rebekah, and the Spiritual body of believers in Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah. The lives of Eve and Rebekah contain prophetic symbolism that is fulfilled by the Spiritual congregation of believers, the Messianic Jews and the Gentile Church.
The plan of salvation is the very ‘courtship’ of God for mankind. The
sacrificial love of Jesus Christ on the cross, in order to win His bride,
is the ultimate demonstration of God’s love for his people. But the plan
of salvation is not complete, until we see the Bride of Christ filled with the
Holy Spirit, married to God’s Son, and sharing in the eternal riches of the
New Heavens and the New Earth.
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage
of the Lamb is come, and his wife has 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 the saints.
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
This is the final purpose of the Bible, to bring forth a Bride for God’s only Son, Yeshua, Jesus Christ. This Bride, at the very end of the Bible, living
in Paradise with the Tree of Life, is linked to the very first Bride of Creation,
Eve, from the Garden of Eden. Paul the Apostle quotes from Eve’s
marriage ceremony in Genesis to explain the connection between these
two Brides.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be
joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Yeshua and the Church.”
Ephesians 5:31,32
The union of Adam and Eve is the prophetic picture of Yeshua and the
Body of Believers. It is a mystery, but so is the depth of God’s love for us.
The middle Bride, Rebekah, is the ‘prophetic bridge’ between the sinless
Bride of creation, and the Yeshua forgiven Bride of the eternal kingdom.
That ‘prophetic bridge’ is the entire lineage of the Jewish people that
would eventually lead to the Messiah Himself, Yeshua, Jesus. His blood
sacrifice on the cross was first promised to Eve in the Garden.
“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
Yeshua is the fulfillment of all the blood sacrifices, from the animals killed
in the Garden of Eden to clothe Adam and Eve, to the Passover Lamb
at the Jewish Exodus, and finally the sacrifices in the Temple on the
Jewish Feast Days. Rebekah participates in fulfilling the promise to Eve
by being the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob, Israel, the father of the
Twelve Tribes.
Rebekah’s husband Isaac, is the only man that God requested to be
sacrificed, representing the future crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Isaac is the
first man born to Abraham under the blood covenant of circumcision.
We will see how the ‘sacrifice’ of Isaac, together with his marriage to
Rebekah, demonstrates the entire plan of salvation. God’s promise to
Abraham, that all nations would be blessed through his seed, begins with
the miraculous birth of Isaac and his marriage to Rebekah. Isaac is not only the
first man born Jewish, but also represents the Messianic hope for
all people. Rebekah is the Bride, who is blessed to join with Isaac in
fulfilling God’s plan of salvation.
These three Brides show God’s love for mankind: Eve,
from the creation in the Garden of Eden; Rebekah, through the Lord’s
covenant people in the land of Israel, as given to Abraham and Isaac;
and finally, the Believers in Yeshua, living in the New Heavens
and the New Earth. God’s promise to His Bride always included a
Kingdom: a King, a Covenant, a People, and a Promised Land.
There is only one God, the same yesterday, today, forever.
I hope that the faithfulness of God in the past will
encourage you to trust Him for what lies ahead. By his Spirit,
He is still ‘courting’ His Bride. The promise of God to Eve in the Garden
will be fulfilled at the end of the Bible. In the Book of Revelation, the
head of the ‘snake’ will be crushed, and the Bride of Yeshua will reign
with her Bridegroom, Yeshua, Jesus, the Jewish Messiah.
The Bride of the Spirit - Believers in Messiah
“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.”
John 3:16
This is the most well-known verse of the Bible, and it reveals God’s
heart and love for mankind. John the Apostle speaks again about
the love of God in his first letter.
“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if
God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. God is love.
We love him because he first loved us.”
I John 4:9-11,16,19
The sacrificial love of God is the foundation of the Bible. The entire
plan of salvation rests on the work that Yeshua, Jesus, accomplished on the
cross. As God’s Son took the sins of the world on Himself, He
demonstrated clearly His love for us, in His words and in His works.
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This begins God’s courtship for His Bride, those who believe in God’sonly Son Jesus, Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah. The Bridegroom initiates
the Betrothal by declaring His love for the Bride. Jesus’ love for us is
confirmed by the first three events of the plan of salvation, namely, His
Crucifixion, Burial, and Resurrection. These works can only be performed
by God’s Son, the Bridegroom. The Bride can only look on and believe
in the finished work of the cross, burial ,and resurrection of her
Bridegroom.
Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, fulfilled the prophetic vision of Isaac and
Rebekah’s children, the nation of Israel. Concerning the Lord’s Feast
Days of Leviticus chapter 23, we see that Jesus at his Crucifixion became
the sacrificial Lamb of the Feast of Passover, in his burial the uncorrupted
body of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and at His resurrection, the true
celebration of the Feast of First Fruits. Jesus accomplished each act on
the very same day as the Lord’s Feast. It was not a coincidence. It was
God’s plan of salvation for his Bride requiring the complete sacrificial
love of the Bridegroom.
Because the plan of salvation is foretold by the Lord’s Feasts in
Leviticus 23, the base of all ‘Christianity’ is from a Jewish root. We will
explore this connection further when we discuss the second bride,
Rebekah.
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The next part of God’s ‘courting’ His Bride, was to give her some
token of Engagement. As Jesus resurrected and then was taken up
into Heaven, He promised to send a ‘gift’ that would confirm His
love for His Bride. This is the gift of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus
promised in the Gospels, and faithfully sent in the Book of Acts.
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask him?”
Luke 11:13
“But wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. But ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea,
and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. “
Acts 1:4,5,8
Jesus sent the gift of the Holy Spirit fifty days after his resurrection,
on Pentecost, the Jewish Feast of Weeks, Shavuot.
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“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 three appeared unto them cloven tongues 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
As a faithful Bridegroom, Jesus did not leave us alone, but sent the
gift of the Holy Spirit to comfort, strengthen, and enable us to be his
witnesses here on the earth. God’s Spirit not only helps us in the present
time, but is also the promise for what lies ahead. A bride looks at her
engagement ring, knowing that it represents her future with her
bridegroom: marriage, home, and a life together. Jesus has promise
his Bride the same things. The Holy Spirit, like an ‘engagement ring’,
is the token of our future with the Lord.
“In whom ye also trusted, after that 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.....that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.”
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Ephesians 1:13,14,18
Truly God has a future and a hope for His Bride. It includes
fantastic riches beyond our imagination. Our inheritance, symbolized by
the promised land of the Jewish people, is a very real and wonderful
place. The plan of salvation includes a heavenly promised land that
lasts forever. The future three events of the plan of salvation will be
our actual entering and taking possession of that Paradise. These events
begin with the Rapture of the Believers, the Feast of Trumpets.
As in every engagement, there comes a day when the ‘waiting’ is
over, and the Bride is reunited with the Bridegroom. The Lord’s
Feast of Trumpets is that very day. This rapture of the ‘Believers’ is the
regathering of God’s people after the long summer harvest. After we
meet Jesus in the air, the Lord will carry us in His arms as His Bride, to
the wedding feast prepared in Heaven itself.
“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
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archangel, and with the trump 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
This is our blessed hope, to be united with the Lord in Heaven itself.
God, who is Spirit and truth, became flesh and blood in the person of
Yeshua, Jesus. The Holy God became like us, and through His sacrificial
love on the cross, we can become like Him and live forever in Paradise.
“And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption. Behold, I show 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 15:49-53
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So God’s Bride is joined with her Bridegroom. But there is still the
wedding ceremony itself. Let us look at John’s heavenly vision.
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has 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
After the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, is the Day of Atonement, Yom
Kippur. This is the Holiest day of all the Jewish Feasts. This is the one day
a year that the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies, clothed in a special
robe, representing the entire Jewish people and coming into the very
presence of God. In some Orthodox customs, the Bride and Groom fast and pray on their wedding day, as on the Day of Atonement. They want to start a new life together with a ‘clean slate’.
When Yeshua died on the cross, the first thing that happened was the
veil into the Holy of Holies was ripped in two. This opened the way
for every believer to enter into the holiest place of all. This opening of
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the way into the Holy of Holies, leads us past the Temple here on earth,
and follows Jesus all the way to heaven itself. This is where the true
wedding will take place.
“For Yeshua is not entered 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: Nor yet that he should offer
himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every
year with the blood of others; For then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”
Hebrews 9:24-26
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high
priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart.”
Hebrews 10:20
A Bride wears a veil, it is a sacred moment between her and the Bride-
groom. When Rebekah first saw Isaac, she covered herself with a veil.
The High priest was separated from the congregation by two sets of veils
leading to the Holy of Holies.
“And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face...for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Jesus.”
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II Corinthians 3:13,14
The fine linen the Bride wears at the wedding feast is none other than
the righteousness of the Lord himself: she is washed in His blood.
Notice how Jesus is still referred to as the sacrificial Lamb of God.
Indeed, this is the whole reason for the High Priest to enter the Holy of
Holies, to receive forgiveness and mercy from God instead of
judgment. It is through the blood offering of a lamb that the High
Priest can even enter the Holiest place, and that Jesus did for us one
time forever. Now we can stand in the Holy place, in Heaven itself,
next to our Bridegroom, clothed in His righteousness.
We come to the time we are actually married to the Lord,
living and abiding with Him as Husband and Wife. This is the Jewish
Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot, dwelling with our Lord forever. Not only
is this the prophetic fulfillment of the seventh feast, but it is a return to the
paradise of the very first Bride, Eve. God rules the earth once again in
the Millenial Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah. He rules from
Jerusalem, Israel, the promised land of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
There is peace on earth, the wild animals are tame again, and
the Bride and Bridegroom dwell side by side.
Finally, there is the New Heavens and the New Earth. As in the
Garden of Eden, we see the tree of life and the pure river of water of life.
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The Lamb of God is there who gives light forever and ever.
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the
last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. and let him
that heareth say, Come. and let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
Revelation 22:13,14,17
We have come all the way back to the Garden of Eden. Because of
Man’s sin, Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden and kept from
the Tree of Life.
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way,
to keep the way of the tree of life.”
Genesis 3:24
Mankind was denied eternal life in paradise, but Jesus is the door
back to the tree of life and the open gate to the city of God.
“ I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and
shall go in and out, and find pasture. I am the good shepherd: the
good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
John 10:9,11
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I believe the Cherubims and the flaming sword guarding the tree of
life is really the heart of God. The flaming sword which turns every way
is God’s Word, Jesus, Yeshua, himself. He is looking at Adam and Eve as
they are leaving Paradise, knowing that He will have to become flesh,
just like them, and die in their place. This is the sacrificial love of God
on the Cross. For mankind to enter back through the gate, and eat of
the tree of life, they will have to come through Yeshua, the door.
The flaming sword is reflected in this description of our Lord Jesus, Yeshua, in the
Book of Revelation.
“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like
unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to his
feet...and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto
fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace...and out of his mouth went
a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun
shineth in his strength.”
Revelation 1:13-16
But in order to walk through that fiery sword, they must die to
themselves, and be born again of God’s Spirit. The Cherubims and the
Shekinah ‘flames’ also appear over the mercy seat in the Jewish Temple.
It is the sacrifice of God’s Son himself, His blood, that will be the
acceptable offering to God. This is God granting mercy to sinful man,
instead of judgment. The Cherubims and the flaming sword which
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turns every way is truly the heart of the Temple worship, and the heart
of a merciful and loving God. It is God’s heart beating and breaking for
his creation, His future Bride. He is willing to exchange places with them,
in order to share in His glor
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given
me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.”
John 17:24
Adam and Eve had sinned, but God himself came out to meet with
them at the East gate of Eden as they were leaving. He was reminding
them that He would not leave or forsake them, but that the promise
given to Eve would stand.
When we see the Bride of Yeshua at the wedding feast in the book of
Revelation, we are witnessing all the promises of God coming true.
The Bride and Bridegroom will rule a thousand years on earth. The
promise of victory to the first bride, Eve, is given in Rebekah’s seed,
Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, and fulfilled by the last Bride, the body of
Believers. They will have the right to the tree of life in the midst of the
Paradise of God. Jesus is the way through the gates into God’s
eternal city.
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The Bride of the Covenant - Rebekah
“And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our
sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy
seed possess the gate of those which hate them.”
“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her.”
Genesis 24:60,67
Rebekah, and the Jewish people, are the link between Eve, the Bride
of creation, and the Bride of the Spirit, Believers in the Jewish Messiah.
The complete plan of salvation for all mankind is portrayed by the life
of Isaac and his marriage to Rebekah.
God’s sacrificial love on the cross, is foreshadowed by Rebekah’s
husband, Isaac. As Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected, before
He sent the ‘gift’ of the Holy Spirit to His bride, so we see Isaac tested
by his father Abraham, before sending out his servant with gifts to find
a bride for his son.
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God’s courtship of His ‘Bride’ includes the testing of the ‘Bridegroom’s’
sacrificial love first. God asked Abraham to make a burnt offering of his
only son Isaac, whom he loved deeply. If this was a test of Abraham’s
faith, how much more a test of Isaac’s faith, since he was the one being
sacrificed.
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that
had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of
whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence
also he received him in a figure.”
Hebrews 11:17-19
The sacrificial love of the Bridegroom with the promise of the
resurrection from the dead, is the pattern set by Isaac, and actually
fulfilled by the Lord Jesus the Messiah. Because all of the nation of Israel
was bound up in Isaac, the history of the Jewish people with the writings
of their prophets help point us to their Messiah Yeshua, Jesus.
Rebekah is the Bride of the covenant, for she was the wife of the
first man born to Abraham after he had received the covenant of
circumcision. Abraham and Sarah were too old to have children,
but God promised them a son while giving the covenant. Therefore,
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the entire Jewish nation becomes an example of life from the dead,
of a work of God, and of trusting God by faith and not the power of
the flesh. As you read the following verses, think of the lineage that
Rebekah was marrying into, and the Messianic promises that would
effect millions of believers.
“Abraham... who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to that which was
spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he
considered not his own body now dead, when he was about
an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God: And being fully persuaded,
that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.”
Romans 4:18-21
This is the faith of Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac. Consider their
relationship with God Almighty and the promises they received. When
the servant Eliezer, meaning helper of God, is sent to find a bride for
Isaac, think of the power of the Spirit when he meets with Rebekah
the first time. Abraham told Eliezer that God’s angel would go before
him and that he would find a wife for Isaac. God’s entire plan for salvation
was depending on these events, and God was going to fulfill His Promises.
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Rebekah is a virtuous, God fearing, honorable woman. When she
gives water to Eliezer and his ten camels, receives the golden earings
and bracelets, and hears of his mission, she is overwhelmed by God’s
presence. Rebekah’s entire family realizes that ‘ the thing proceeds from
the Lord’. The family wanted her to wait, maybe up to a year, before
she left for the land of Canaan. However, like each one of us, Rebekah
was asked about her own decision.
“And they called Rebekah,and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.”
Genesis 24:58
This is the calling of the Holy Spirit. It is God asking us to do
something, and eventually to join with the eternal Bridegroom. Just
like Rebekah, we have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, worth more
than much fine gold, and are asked to meet the Bridegroom by faith,
sight unseen. Do you think she knew of the ‘sacrifice’ on the mount?
Do you think she judged Isaac’s character by his servants, their gifts,
and their knowledge of her family? Even afar off, when we see the Lord
approaching, we make sure we are covered by the righteousness of
Yeshua. Just like Rebekah, we will not be standing outside the tent forever,
but will be joined unto our Lord. Rebekah trusted Isaac, and he loved her.
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All of this was hundreds of years before the Law of Moses. Yet these
two events, the testing of Isaac on the mount, and the marriage to
Rebekah, foreshadows the ‘Heart’ of the law, the Seven Yearly Feasts
found in Leviticus 23. Together, these seven Feasts give the complete
plan of salvation accomplished by Jesus the Messiah himself, the promise
of God to bless all the nations.
The first Feast is Passover, representing the Crucifixion of our Lord.
Isaac was tested by being asked to be sacrificed. The second Feast is
Unleavened Bread, speaking of our Lord’s body not decaying in the
grave. Of course, Isaac was not sacrificed, but in faith he believed that
if he had died, God would have raised him from the dead. Actually,
God did provide a ram caught in the thicket for Abraham to sacrifice. This
is just like Yeshua being sacrificed in our place.This brings us
to the third Feast, Firstruits, which Jesus accomplished by his resurrection.
It should be noted that Jesus the Jewish Messiah, fulfilled these
prophetic events on the very day of each feast. For Isaac, he was released
from his bonds and returned alive down the mountain.
The next Feast, Shavuot or Pentecost, involves the giving of the
Holy Spirit. This is symbolized by Abraham sending his servant, Eliezer,
to find a Bride for his son Isaac. We have already mentioned the
comparison between the Gifts of the Spirit and the gifts of gold given
to Rebekah and her family. These gifts were not the entire treasure of
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Isaac, but only a sample of the true riches and lands that she would own
together with her Bridegroom.
Next is the Feast of Trumpets, or what the church calls the ‘Rapture’.
This is the instantaneous regathering of all believers to meet the Lord
in the air at the sound of His trumpet. Eliezer, the servant of Abraham,
upon completing his task of finding the Bride, Rebekah, the very next
morning requested that they be sent away. When the Lord calls his
faithful servants to meet with Him, they must all be ready in the ‘twinkling
of an eye’. Jesus spoke of the ‘fields of souls being ripe for harvest’,
and so Isaac was meditating in the fields when he saw the camels
coming with his Bride. Eliezer, the helper of God, communicated all
things that he had done. The Feast of Trumpets is the wedding day of
the Bride, but it is done in secret in the Lord's tent . The Day of Atonement
is the time when the Lord returns with His Bride, and she is 'revealed'
to the entire world.
We finally come to the actual marriage between Isaac and Rebekah.
This is the most important and most sacred day for a woman, for she
enters into a covenant with her husband for life. It is interesting to
realize that the sixth Feast, the Day of Atonement, is considered by Jewish
people to be the Holiest of all the Holy Days. This is the one day each
year,the High Priest, dressed in a special robe, enters the Holy of Holies to
meet with God. After we are reunited with the Lord, it will be said
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“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 the saints.”
Revelation 19:7,8
This is the same reason the High Priest presents himself before the
Lord at the mercy seat. He represents the entire nation of Israel, to
receive forgiveness, God’s righteousness, instead of judgment.
The last Feast of Leviticus 23 is the Feast of Tabernacles, God actually
dwelling with us at the end of the harvest. Sukkot, or Feast of Booths,
foretells of the place where God will rule on earth in the thousand
year reign of our Lord. He is the Jewish Messiah, and the center of
His kingdom will be from the Temple in Jersusalem, Israel.
“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her.”
Genesis 24:67
So they are married, and Rebekah shares in all of the inheritance
of Isaac, and she is the mother of Jacob, Israel. All of the seven
prophetic feasts of Leviticus, telling of the complete plan of salvation,
are imbedded in the ‘living testament’ of the lives of Isaac and Rebekah.
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They are the first couple married under the covenant of Abraham.
It is a love story that foreshadows the love story between Jesus and the
church, Yeshua and the Kehilat, the Jewish body of believers.
There are some Rabbis who view the entire Torah, the Five Books
of Moses, as a Ketuba, or wedding contract. Isaac and Rebekah’s story
is found in Genesis, the First Book of Moses. We may think of the Law
as some heavy system of legalism and do’s and don’ts, but at the heart
of the Torah is a love story.
God gives the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy chapter 5, but
He explains how to do them in the following verses.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:4,5
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said
unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great
commandment.”
Matthew 22:36-38
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God desires an intimate relationship with us, even as a husband or
wife. The laws in the Torah go into every room of our hearts and homes.
The Lord enters into the front gates of our house, then to the door posts
of the front door. He wants us to love him whether we are sitting,
standing, lying down or getting up. He is in our living room, and then
moves into the kitchen, teaching us how to prepare food. His Laws are
concerned with our health, with our cleanliness, and the care of the sick.
He speaks to us concerning how to raise our children to worship God.
Finally, His Laws protect the most intimate relationship in the marriage
bed. Only a Husband or Wife has even the right to speak of such
personal subjects, and yet God is there with us.
“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
“And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God
rejoice over thee.”
Isaiah 62:5
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“Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,
thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou
becamest mine.”
Ezekiel 16:8
The foundation of the Bible is the Five Books of Moses, the Torah.
The cornerstone of this building of God, the love story between our
Lord and His Bride, is found in the Bride of Creation, Eve. The story
of God’s love for mankind begins in the Garden of Eden.
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The Bride of Creation - Eve
“And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of man. And Adam called
his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
Genesis 2:22,23 3:20
To understand the complete plan of salvation as it concerns Eve,
we must view her in terms of the entire creation account, the very
first seven days of our universe. Eve is the last ‘being’ created, so she
has great meaning to the Creator. God had prepared all things for the
Bride of Adam. It was a perfect ‘Garden Wedding in Paradise’, with
beautiful scented flowers, cool running streams, a wonderful sunset, a
handsome Bridegroom, and time for the ‘honeymoon’, the Sabbath Day.
The Lord also said these things to the Bride of the Spirit.
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
John 14:2,3
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We stated that the Seven Feasts of Leviticus 23 clearly describe the
plan of salvation for all of mankind. This is the sacrificial love of the Lord
on Passover, to the Millenial Rule from Jerusalem with His Bride, the
fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles. In front of this list of Seven Feasts,
in Leviticus 23:1-3, is actually the pre-eminent of all the Feasts: the
Sabbath Day. This is the only feast found in the creation account, in the
world before sin, and the need for blood sacrifices. Besides, all
of the other seven feasts are considered sabbaths, with no servile work
to be done. Additionally, the last feast, Tabernacles, is a double sabbath.
“When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep
a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath,
and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.”
Leviticus 23:39
The Sabbath Day is set apart from the beginning of Creation, and is
the only Feast mentioned in the Ten Commandments. We cannot
overemphasize the importance of this day, as it was Adam and Eve’s
first full day on earth. This is their literal ‘honeymoon’, a day of love,
exploring the creation, and fellowship with their Creator. We may think
that the Torah is a book of works, but the precedent that God has given
during the very first week, is really grace, love, and rest. It is the ‘New
Testament’ personified. Jesus said He was Lord of the Sabbath. The
Sabbath rest is God’s signature, the seal of His character. It is Yeshua,
Jesus himself. When man was created, God did not wake him up at
Four AM and give him a shovel and tell him to walk to the mine. No!
God saw everything was very good, and He said it is time for a Holy Day,
a holiday!
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“They shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from
the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from
all his works.”
Hebrews 4:3,4
This is the God of love and grace. He did all the works, for six days,
and then Husband and Wife could enjoy each other and the wonderful
creation their God had just made. Jesus has done the work on the
cross, we need to rest in faith in His salvation.
The Sabbath Day and the six days of creation are mentioned first
in the list of Feast Days of Leviticus 23. In fact, the full seven days of
creation, are the prophetic picture of the seven Feast Days. The end of
the story is the Sabbath Day, foretelling of Jesus and His Bride in the
millenial kingdom.
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The Sabbath Day is the fourth of the Ten Commandments, and the
center four verses of God’s Law: rest and grace. In Exodus 20:8-11,
God says ‘to remember’ the Sabbath, looking back to creation. In
Deuteronomy 5:12-15, He says to ‘observe’ the Sabbath, remembering
how God brought you out of Egypt: the Passover, the Feasts, and the
covenants. The Sabbath Day links the Seven Feasts to the Seven Days
of Creation.
The Seven Days of Creation are a prophetic vision of the
plan of salvation, in a pristine world, before sin and blood sacrifices.
As in the creation account, the end of the story is of a Bride and
Bridegroom, at rest, enjoying God’s bounty in the Millenial Kingdom
of Yeshua the Messiah.
The Seven Days of Creation are the template that God will follow
until all things are under the rule of Yeshua. The First day of
creation represents the sacrificial love of Jesus on the cross. John
the Baptist was instructed to testify of the true Light of God. The first
time he sees Jesus, he says, “Behold the Lamb of God which takes
away the sin of the world”. Light and the sacrificial lamb were the same.
Jesus in John 3:16-19 explains the cross not in terms of blood
sacrifice, but in terms of light and darkness.
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“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....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 3:16,19
“If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
I John 1:6,7
In the creation, there was darkness before God said,”Let there be
Light”. In the Exodus, the plague before the Passover, was darkness for
the Egyptians, and light for the Israelites. Finally, just before Jesus
died on the cross, there was darkness over the land for three hours.
The light of the first day of creation points to the Passover and the
Crucifixion.
“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 the Messiah.”
2 Corinthians 4:6
When did God so love the world, that he gave his Son to die for us?
“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
“Written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.”
Revelation 17:8
God’s plan of salvation is from the beginning.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.... All things were made by him...And the light
shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
John 1:1,3,5
God’s love for the Bride he was going to create on the last day, was
in his heart at the onset of creation. The plan of salvation was already
in place.
“The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Revelation 13:8
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If Adam and Eve had eaten from the Tree of Life, they would have
lived forever in the paradise of the Garden of Eden. Since they chose
the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, all the blood sacrifices leading
up to the Crucifixion were necessary to restore man back to Paradise.
God had his plan of salvation from the beginning of time. God’s love
for his Bride was so perfect, that He was prepared to trade places with
her in death, to win her back to Himself.
Let us continue with the second Day of creation, the firmament
separating the waters from waters. The second feast is Unleavened
Bread, representing Christ who did not decay in the grave. Jesus told
his disciples that there would be no sign except for Jonah, who was
three days in the belly of a whale. Jonah was literally between waters
and waters. Before the resurrection, the new life, there is always the
presence of waters separated from waters.
A child is born, living in waters and waters in the womb. Before God
created the new world, Noah was floating between waters and waters.
The entire Jewish nation coming out of Egypt, walked through the Red
Sea, a wall of water on one side, a wall of water on the other.
“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; For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”
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I Corinthians 10:1,2,4
“Know ye not, that so many of us as 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 likeness of the Messiah's death is total immersion Baptism, we are literally under water, between 'waters and waters'.
This is God’s love for His Bride from the foundation of the
world. The first day is light, the love of God that fills all of time and space,
manifest in His Crucifixion. When he dies, he is as if ‘between the waters
and the waters’, as Jonah, as the children of Israel, and as we are in
Baptism. Then comes the Resurrection from the dead, the new birth,
and the Lord's Feast of Firstfruits.
God loved his Bride so much, he was willing to die in her place. But
He is God Almighty, and death could not hold him. The third Feast is that
of Firstfruits, and the third day of creation brings forth the very first
fruit trees of the earth. This is no coincidence. God has made it plain
for all to know of his plan of salvation, from the beginning of time.
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“But now is Christ 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 Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”
I Corinthians 15:20-23
This is the plan of salvation, written in the creation itself, God’s love
for his Bride. All things were made by Him and for Him: the First Day,
light overcomes darkness, Christ Crucified; The Second Day, waters
divided from waters, Christ Buried; the Third Day, firstfruits, Christ is Risen.
The Fourth Day of creation concerns the sun, moon, and stars. The
fourth Feast is Shavuot, Feast of weeks, Pentecost. We have seen
the sacrificial love of God demonstrated in the death, burial, and
resurrection of the Bridegroom, the Son of God. Now that he is risen
from the dead, and holds all the powers of life and death, he is going
to give the engagement gift to his Bride: literally promising a gift of more
value than the sun, moon, and stars!
In Acts chapter two, the first description of the Holy Spirit, we see many
references to the sun, moon, and stars. Peter could have gone into
great details of the gifts of the Spirit, but instead speaks in astronomical
terms.
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“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven...and there
appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire...and they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them utterance...and I will shew
wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath...the sun
shall be turned into darkness,and the moon into blood, before that
great and notable day of the Lord come.”
Acts 2:2,3,4,19,20
The ‘cloven tongues like as of fire’ is the same description as solar
prominences on the sun. Webster’s dictionary defines prominences as
‘an eruption of a flamelike tongue of the sun’.
Psalm 19 of David brings together the creation of the sun, moon, and
stars on the Fourth Day, the Shekinah glory of God, speaking in all
languages, and mention of the Bridegroom.
“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.” Psalm 19:1-5
The prophet David simply states that the glory and majesty of God is
revealed by the sun, moon, and stars, and that this knowledge is universal
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to all men everywhere. In the same way, the Holy Spirit, which came
down on those first disciples on Shavuot, the fourth Feast of the Lord, speaks
to all men of God’s power and glory.
In addition, the sun, moon, and stars, created on the fourth day, were
also given ‘for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years’. Joel’s
prophecy about ‘showing wonders in heaven above, and signs in the
earth beneath’, links the prophetic nature of the Fourth day of creation
with the Fourth Feast of the Lord, Shavuot, or Pentecost. We need the
sun and stars to count the thousands of years until the Feast of Trumpets.
We also need a way to meet with God at ‘His appointed times’ the ‘moadim’
or ‘Seasons’ of the Lord. These ‘Seasons’ are really our time to meet
with the Lord, reminding us of His plan of Salvation, Passover through Tabernacles.
King David also mentioned a ‘Bridegroom’ in his Psalm 19. As the
gift of the Holy Spirit is a token of the glory that shall be revealed to us,
there is one astronomical event that symbolizes God’s love through an
Astronomical event: the Diamond Ring Effect during the total eclipse
of the sun. The sun does ‘turn into darkness’ and the ‘moon into blood’
during eclipses. Just before a total eclipse of the sun, one jewel of light
gleams through the last valley on the moon, causing the Diamond Ring
Effect. This celestial dance is a token of God’s eternal love and the
heavenly engagement offered to us. It is also during an eclipse of the sun,
that the ‘flamelike tongues’ would be visible.
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In the plan of salvation and creation, when God is ‘courting’ His Bride,
there comes a time when the waiting is over, and they are reunited. On
the Fifth Day God created birds and fish, representing the Fifth Feast,
the Feast of Trumpets. Here God will gather together those that love Him,
carried on ‘eagle’s wings’. They will be taken up, ‘raptured’, to the
heavenly kingdom, and those who are left behind, will be like fish caught
in the nets of judgment, the Great Tribulation of Revelation.
The creation of fish and birds on the Fifth Day, clearly shows the
separation of one group of people from another. It is interesting to note
that several of the Apostles were fishermen, and they were told to leave
their nets and Jesus would make them fishers of men.
God could easily have created birds and fish on the sixth day with all
the other animals. But He seems to have chosen to paint his prophetic
picture of His love for His Bride. God must judge the world because of
its sin, but He desires to rescue His Bride.
“How I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.”
Exodus 19:4
Eagles are a type of bird known as ‘raptors’, a bird of prey that seizes
by force, a robber, with great night vision. The Lord said he would
return as a ‘thief in the night’. The Bride does not know which hour
the Bridegroom will return: at midday or at midnight. She must be ready and watching at all times.
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What about the fish?
“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, they 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.”
Luke 17:26-28
Fish were the only creatures not on the Ark. They were in the waters
of judgment with the ungodly men. Noah used doves to find out if the
waters had subsided. God has made a clear division between Birds and
Fish, creating them both on the Fifth Day, a prophetic warning of what
is to come, the Day of Trumpets, to call His Bride home. This is also the
secret Wedding Day of the Bride and Bridegroom. The Bridegroom receives
His Crown of Kingship, and also a Bride for His Kingdom. It is a secret day
so the 'enemy' will not be able to snatch away the 'Bride', like he did in
the Garden of Eden.
Several things were created on the Sixth Day: every animal, including
sheep and cattle, Adam and Eve, and the first marriage. As this
corresponds to the Sixth Feast of the Lord, the Day of Atonement, we again
see God’s prophetic plan imbedded in the Days of Creation. In preparing
for man’s sin, God created sacrificial animals on the same day as man.
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This is the Holiest day of the year, and it is the day when the Bride is revealed.
The entire creation was complete, and the last thing created was the
Bride, Eve, the mother of all living. All of creation was in preparation for
the Bride. God did all the works in six days, providing land, water, trees,
sun, moon, stars, the Garden of Eden, and even a husband, Adam. The
Bride, Eve, enters into the grace and the finished works of the Lord.
The First Adam and his Bride had sinned. The next Adam, the new
man, is Jesus himself, and the new Bride is she who is born again.
Adam and Eve were real, but also a prophetic symbol of the new
race of man born of the Spirit of God. Adam and Eve were created and
could have remained in Paradise, but their sin forfeited that option.
But there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth where the Spiritual
Bride and Bridegroom will dwell forever.
The Sabbath Day is the fulfillment of all the Days of Creation and all
the Seven Feasts of the Lord. It is truly the living marriage
between the Jewish Messiah and the Believers. It is God’s original plan
for mankind, where God is dwelling and resting with his people during the
Feast of Tabernacles, the double Sabbath.
It is literally Adam and Eve’s ‘honeymoon’ in Paradise. It is the
prophetic vision of Jesus and his Bride ruling for a thousand years
here on earth. It is the picture of God’s grace, as He did the works of
salvation, so we could be joined to Him as his Bride.
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Do you realize that the same ‘Great Commission’ was given to all
three Brides? Eve was told to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
This was the first Bride, already living in Paradise, before she had sinned.
Rebekah, the Bride of the Covenant, was told,
“Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.”
Genesis 24:60
Finally, the Bride of the Spirit is instructed by the Lord.
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
Matthew 28:19
God’s plan of salvation has been the same from the beginning.
His sacrificial love from the creation of light in Genesis, to the marriage of the Lamb
in Revelation, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has always
been the same gracious God, only man has been disobedient. He is
calling every person to meet him personally, and to flee from the wrath
to come. The prophetic picture is written in the creation itself, prophesied
in the Hebrew Scriptures, and fulfilled in the Believers in Yeshua, Jesus
the Messiah. Will you receive His sacrificial love and join those who will
escape the judgment of this world? He is the Bridegroom, and He is
calling for His Bride.
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“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were
foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise
took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And
at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh;
go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed
their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil;
for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so;
lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that
sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that
were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein
the Son of man cometh.”
Matthew 25:1-13
Three Bridegrooms
“As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
thy God rejoice over thee.” Isaiah 62:5
The three Brides are made complete by the three Bridegrooms:
Adam, Isaac, and Yeshua, Jesus. Each one was asked to experience
a kind of ‘death’ and ‘piercing’ before He met His Bride.
The Lord caused a ‘deep sleep’ to fall on Adam, while He opened
his side to form Eve. Isaac was asked to be sacrificed by the knife of
Abraham, years before he was introduced to Rebekah and the promise
of a multitude of descendents. Finally, our Lord Jesus was crucified
and His side pierced by a Roman spear. He actually died and
resurrected so He could win His Bride, those who trust in Him.
All three Bridegrooms had a miraculous birth. Adam was
created directly from the dust of the earth and the breath of God.
Isaac was born to parents that were too old to have children. Yeshua,
Jesus, was born of a virgin. Only God can create life out of nothing,
or resurrect the dead back to life.
God’s plan for the Bride and Bridegroom living in Paradise begins
in the Garden of Eden, and ends in the New Heavens and the New
Earth.
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Three Brides: Summary
1) God’s Love story is the plan of salvation from the beginning of time.
God has been courting His Bride from Day One.
2) God’s revelation from the creation to the final Bride in Paradise was
given through the Jewish prophets: Abraham, Moses, David, Yeshua
the Messiah (Jesus Christ), Peter, Paul, and John.
3) The only true God, Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, is identified
as the only one fulfilling the prophetic vision of the Seven Days of
Creation and the Seven Feasts of the Lord.
4) Because the Messianic vision revealed to the Jewish prophets
begins at the creation of our universe, all the promises given to
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David, also hold true from the
beginning of time, and cannot be replaced or altered. This includes:
All the people of Abraham’s descent (All Jewish people)
All the land of Canaan promised to Abraham(Nile Riverto Euphrates)
All the blessings promised to those who bless the children of Abraham
All the curses promised to those who curse the children of Abraham
5) The Jewish People, the children of Abraham, can be identified as
those who were delivered by God out of Egypt through Moses:
They actually placed the blood of a lamb on the doorposts and lintels
of their houses at the first Passover, when it meant life or death
(Feast of Passover)
Ate the Unleavened Bread as they hurried out of Egypt
(Feast of Unleavened Bread)
Miraculously crossed through the Red Sea, the Egyptians drowned
Received the Ten Commandments by the finger of God at Mt. Sinai
Crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land
Ate of the Firstfruits and the Latter Firstfruits of the land of Israel
(Feast of Firstfruits and Shavuot - Weeks)
Gathered at the sound of the Shofar
(Feast of Trumpets-Rosh Hashana)
Sacrificed at the Day of Atonement
(Yom Kippur)
Rested in Booths at the final harvest in the Promised Land
(Feast of Tabernacles-Sukkot)
6) The Bride of Yeshua, Jesus, can be identified as those who:
Accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross
( Crucified on the very day of Passover)
Believe He died and was in the grave
(on the very day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread)
Believe He physically resurrected from the dead
(on the very day of the Feast of Firstfruits)
Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh)
(first given on the very day of the Feast of Weeks - Shavuot or
Pentecost )
Believe in the Second Coming of the Lord at the sound of a trumpet
Believe in a future Wedding to the Lord
(a future event possibly on the very day of the Feast of Trumpets)
Believe in a future return of the Lord to rule from Jerusalem
( a future event possibly on the very Day of Atonement-Yom Kippur-
the most Holy Day of the Jewish People, At-one-ment)
Believe in a Thousand Year Reign (Millenial) of Yeshua on Earth
(a future event possibly on the very day of the Feast of Tabernacles-
the Jewish Sukkot, God dwelling or tabernacling with us)
7) The Sabbath Day is the fulfillment and meaning of the Seven Days
of Creation and the Seven Jewish Feasts. It is the ‘honeymoon’
of Adam and Eve, the prophetic picture of the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) with His
Bride in Paradise, eating of the fruit from the Tree of Life.
8) The creation account in Genesis is absolutely true, for it is the
prophetic vision of the Jewish Messiah, the Savior of the world and the
God of all Creation.
The Seven Days of creation represent the Seven Jewish Feasts found
in Leviticus 23.
9) The Seven Jewish Feasts are a prophetic vision of the events of
the Jewish Messiah, Jesus, and how He is courting His Bride.
10) The creation of a man and a woman in marriage as the prophetic
vision of the relationship between the Bridegroom Yeshua (Jesus) and His
Bride (the believers), is established from the beginning of time. The
intimacy in marriage is holy and cannot be shared outside this
covenant.
11) The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people in order to
observe the Seven Feasts and testify of the Second Coming of their
Messiah and King. The Temple Mount itself belongs to the Jewish
people as this is where the Jewish King will rule for 1,000 years,
and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. The Land of Israel has always
been part of the Jewish heritage in order to provide for the sacrificial
animals, meal offerings, oil and incense required for the Seven Feasts.
“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 14:16
12) The promises to the Jewish people of the land of Israel, the Feasts,
and a Messiah for all nations, is verified in the universe 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
divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts
is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the
LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
before me for ever.”
Jeremiah 31:35,36
Those who try to destroy Israel will have to contend with the Maker
of the sun, moon, stars, and waves. The Lord will have and protect
His Jewish Bride.
Thus the Seven Days of Creation and the Seven Jewish Feasts
are ‘inscribed’ in the spiritual identity of every person who accepts
the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ. The Lord
has invited everyone on earth to share in His wedding day.
Will you accept His invitation and escape from the judgment day that is yet to come?
Lord Jesus, Yeshua, forgive my sins and grant me that eternal life that is found in You alone. I want to be seated with You at the wedding feast, to enjoy the eternal riches in paradise. Thank you Lord. Amen!
Even so, Come Lord Jesus, to receive your waiting Bride!
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
Revelation 21:2
"And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
Revelation 22:17