Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Today I want to just briefly talk about the "feasts of the Lord", as laid out in Leviticus
chapter 23. Now Leviticus chapter 23 lays out seven feasts of the year. 3 of those feasts
take place in the first month, then later on in the year you have the day of Pentecost,
what's called in the Old Testament "the feast of weeks", in the New Testament is called
Pentecost. And then you have 3 fall feasts, that are in the seventh month. Their year
started in the Spring, so therefore the seventh month is the fall, or the time of Harvest.
Well, Jesus Christ when he came to this earth, he fulfilled the first 3 feasts to a tee.
He fulfilled the Passover, he is our Passover, he was the Passover lamb, that taketh away
the sin of the world. He was the unleavened bread of the feast of unleavened bread, he
fulfilled the firstfruits by being the firstfruits of the resurrection. The day of Pentecost,
obviously in Acts 2 fulfilled the Old Testament feast of Pentecost, or the feast of weeks
as it's called. But the three feasts of the harvest have not yet been fulfilled. Now the
Bible says in Mathew chapter 13, "the harvest IS the end of the world". And so Jesus Christ
fulfilled the Spring feasts at his coming, he is going to fulfill the autumn, or "harvest"
feasts at his second coming. Now, what are these feasts, and what do they represent?
Well, on the first day of the seventh month, you have the blowing of the trumpets. On the
tenth day of the seventh month, you have the day of atonement. And on the fifteenth day
of the seventh month, you have the feast of tabernacles. Now a lot of people have erroneously
concluded "well, the blowing of the trumpets, there you go, that's your rapture! Your pre-trib
rapture!" That's not true at all, and let me explain to you a few reasons why it's not
true. They say "that's the last trump of the year, and Jesus is going to come at the last
trump! Blowing of the trumpets, first day of the seventh month." Well, that's not true,
and here's why. First of all, if you look at the term "trumpets", that's plural. Whenever
the Bible talks about the rapture in the New Testament, that's always a singular, a trumpet.
And not only that but on the day of atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month, there's
normally not a trumpet sounding on that day, at least not in Leviticus 23 or those type
of descriptions. BUT, every fifty years, what was called "the year of Jubilee", and in the
year of Jubilee, they would sound a trumpet, SINGULAR, on the tenth day of the seventh
month, and when they would sound that trumpet, they would proclaim liberty throughout all
the land. Well in Romans 8, the Bible calls the rapture, or the resurrection of the dead
in Christ, he calls it the "glorious liberty of the children of God." And on the year of
Jubilee when that trumpet would sound, they would return to their possession, they would
return to their family, they would return to their inheritance. Well, that's what we're
doing on the day of the rapture. The trumpet- singular- is going to sound, and then we go
home to be with the Lord. We return to our possession, we're going home to be with Jesus
Christ for all eternity. You say "wait a minute Pastor Anderson, what's that feast of trumpets
about?" Well, if you think about it, the first day of the seventh month is the mid point
of the year, is it not? Because you've got six months before and six months after. Well
if you remember, in the MIDST of daniel's 70th week, there is going to be the abomination
of desolation. And that's where the antichrist begins to make war with the saints. Well,
check the Old Testament, what does the blowing of trumpets represent? WARFARE. They would
sound the trumpets as an alarm, when they had an oppressive enemy coming, they would
blow with the trumpets, and the Lord would remember them, and the Lord would help them.
Numbers chapter 10 teaches that. So, the blowing of the trumpets is an alarm. It's an oppressive
enemy the Bible says, that's coming. And so when those multiple trumpets sound on the
first day of the seventh month, that is a picture of the warfare between the antichrist
and the saints, how God's going to remember us and God's going to help us. On the tenth
day of the seventh month, THAT represents the rapture, that year of Jubilee, sounding
the trumpet, proclaiming our liberty, and so forth. Now, you say "Pastor Anderson, that's
just your interpretation, that's just your opinion." Okay, well I've got proof, I've
got evidence. Remember how I told you the first day of the seventh month is the mid-point
of the year? Well think about this... The tenth day of the seventh month, where does
that line up with Daniel's 70th week? Well, the Bible says in Daniel chapter 12, verses
12 and 13, "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five
and thirty days"- and then the next thing he says to Daniel in verse 13, give me a second
to turn there, he says- "But go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand
in thy lot at the end of the days", the end of the thousand, three hundred and five and
thirty days. You see 1335 days into Daniel's 70th week, is when Jesus Christ will come
in the clouds, and when the trumpet will sound. Well, that matches up EXACTLY with the tenth
day of the seventh month. You say "prove it". Okay, take the number 1335, since we're talking
about a seven year period, divide it by 7, since the Hebrew calender only spans one year,
you take 1335 divided by 7, you come up with 190.71, well, what's the 190th day of the
year? the tenth day of the seventh month. Because of course there are 180 days in the
first 6 months, so the 190th day, 3 quarters of the way through the day, you're going to
be on the tenth day, and the seventh month! And so that right there lines up perfectly
with the blowing of the trumpets, lining up with the abomination of desolation, the trumpet
of the Jubilee sounding on the tenth day of the seventh month, representing the rapture.
The trumpet sounds, the glorious liberty of the children of God. Not only that but Revelation
2:10 has a symbolic meaning as well. When the Bible says "Behold the devil shall cast
some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation 10 days, be
thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Those 10 days are representing
the first 10 days of the seventh month of the Hebrew calender when it says, the blowing
of the trumpets on the first day, and of course the first 3 quarters of the way through the
tenth day, you've got the trumpet of the Jubilee sounding. And so, I don't believe that that's
all just a coincidence, it's very clear, it lines up perfectly, and the Bible is very
consistent when it teaches that the rapture is going to come after the tribulation, but
before God's wrath is poured out. It's going to be part way through Daniel's 70th week,
more than half way through, 1335 days in. Now you say "oh, this kind of went over my
head a little bit." Well, I encourage you to study further, Leviticus 23 and also there
is a chart on our church website and also on the website KJVprophecy.com, that shows
this all laid out on a chart, where maybe you can get a better visual representation
of it. But the feasts of the Lord are fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ. The springtime feasts
were fulfilled by his first coming, the harvest feasts are going to be fulfilled at his second
coming.