YHWH's HOLY DAYS YHWH's MOEDIM
YHWH’S FESTIVALS SACRED ASSEMBLIES
HIS APPOINTED TIMES HOLY CONVOCATIONS
DRESS REHEARSALS HOLY DAYS
FEAST DAYS The TIMES OF YHWH
Our Heavenly Father has Graciously given us APPOINTED TIMES TO MEET WITH HIM! YES! HE CARES SO MUCH FOR US! HALLELUYHWH!
His appointed times are HOLY CONVOCATIONS which means He calls us to meet with Him on these very special, incredibly significant days that hold extremely deep meaning to Him and to us! He is our Beloved and He wants us to understand times and seasons so that we are not ignorant and unwise and without faith which is belief in action.
For us to understand times and seasons He has appointed His people from the very beginning to take part in 'Dress Rehearsals' or Holy Convocations in order to prepare for special occasions happening throughout history! He wants to meet with us on certain days every year.
I have found His Holy Days to be so fascinating, so amazing in details to the very events in which they symbolize and foreshadow! It is of utmost importance that we understand our Father's calender, seasons and days for therein lays the very revelation of the mysteries we seek to understand concerning humanity! In Colossians Paul is letting people know not to be offended because we keep the Holy Days (Sabbath, New Moon, Feast Days- All of which Abba calls His Moedim or HIS APPOINTMENTS with us) that He gave us to keep FOREVER. Messiah and Paul and every disciple also kept each of His Holy Days. For it is the Father's good pleasure to meet with us on these special set apart occasions that are a foreshadow of things to come.
1.SHABBAT: Messiah is Master of the Sabbath.
2.Matzoth: Unleavened Bread begins with PESACH wherein Messiah is the Lamb w/o blemish at Passover.
3.BIKKURIM:Messiah is the firstfruits raised from the dead on FirstFruits.
4.SHAVUOT:Messiah prayed the Father to send us the Comforter on Pentecost.
5.YOM TERUAH:Messiah will return at the last trump on the Day of Trumpets.
6.YOM KIPPUR:Messiah will open the book of Life on Atonement.
7.SUKKOT:Messiah will tabernacle with us on Tabernacles .
These are HIS DAYS. They are of MESSIANIC significance!He would never ask us to stop keeping them.
Many of Paul's teachings have been misunderstood over the generations when the 4th empire through Rome took over and changed the Father's calender as Daniel prophesied would happen. But He is full of love and forgiveness and compassion and wants us to know HIS ways. When Messiah returns he says yet will he find faith on the earth. This bothered me and I prayed about it because so many know about him and love him. Faith is shown by what we do to please Him. Messiah wants us to remember the Father's days and observe them as He did. Are we going to use the christian holidays that originate from pagan/worldly anti-messiah men to worship Him or are we going to worship Him following the Holy Days that He actually so lovingly gave to us?
Paul wrote to the Corinthians to learn from Israel- to not use mans ways to honor the Father, but rather use the Father's ways to honor Him. The new testament can only be properly understood in light of the old testament. The old testament is the only testament they had when the new was written. A better word for the new testament is actually renewed testament for through it we see how Messiah truly kept the Father's ways in the old from a true deep heart of love. HalleluYHWH!
W'ayiqra, Leviticus 23:4 “These are YHWH's appointed times,
the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim
at their appointed times. "
Holy Days
Leviticus 24 YHWH spoke to Moses: 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times, the times of YHWH that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies. 3 “Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live. . 4 “These are YHWH’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5 The Passover to YHWH comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. 6 The Festival of Unleavened Bread to YHWH is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work. 8 You are to present a fire offering to YHWH for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work.” 9 YHWH spoke to Moses: 10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,[a] you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. 11 He will wave the sheaf before YHWH so that you may be accepted; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb[b] without blemish as a burnt offering to YHWH. 13 Its grain offering is to be four quarts[c] of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart[d] of wine. 14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain[e] until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live. 15 “You are to count seven[f] complete weeks[g] starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering. 16 You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain[h] to the Lord. 17 Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts[i]of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to YHWH. 18 You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19 You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice. 20 The priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21 On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations. 22 When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.” 23 The Lord spoke to Moses: 24 “Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting[j]—a sacred assembly. 25 You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the Lord.” 26 The Lord again spoke to Moses: 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial;[k] you are to present a fire offering to the Lord. 28 On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before YHWH your God. 29 If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he must be cut off from his people. 30 I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day. 31 You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live. 32 It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.” 33 YHWH spoke to Moses: 34 “Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Booths[l] to YHWH begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days. 35 There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work. 36 You are to present a fire offering to YHWH for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to YHWH. It is a solemn gathering; you are not to do any daily work. 37 “These are YHWH’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day. 38 These are in addition to the offerings for YHWH’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to YHWH. 39 “You are to celebrate YHWH’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day. 40 On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees—palm fronds,boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook—and rejoice before YHWH YOUR ELOHIM for seven days. 41 You are to celebrate it as a festival to YHWH seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 You are to live in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths, 43 so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am YHWH your God.” 44 So Moses declared YHWH’s appointed times to the Israelites.
MAY WE ASSEMBLE ON YHWH'S HOLY CONVOCATIONS
Delve Deeper: How Messiah fulfills Our Father's Holy Day Calendar.
Our Heavenly Father's Calendar begins in the Spring. The first month is Abib.
1.Ruakh HaQodesh (The Holy Spirit) overshadowed Mary on Shavuoth, Pentecost.
2.Nine months later Messiah was born on Abib the 6th. As Adam was created on the 6th day so Messiah as the 2nd Adam fulfills his birth in Abib (Biblical month #1) on the 6th. He was born in Bethlehem Ephratah in the place named House of Bread and place of Fruit. He was born where the Temple Lambs were born and swaddled. He was born where Rachel bore Benjamin whom she first called Benoni Son of my Sorrow and then Jacob said no, Benyamin Son of My Right Hand. Messiah fulfills both as Suffering Servant of Joseph and Son of King David. As Micah prophesied so he was born. Mary was with child and ridiculed but the prophet Micah's words were to comfort her within whom a king of ancient was ready to be heralded by the announcement of a great heavenly host to the lowly Temple Shepherds.
3.Eight days later he fulfilled blood covenant when he was circumcised on Abib the 14th Passover.
4. Thirty-three years on Pesach (Passover) Messiah again fulfilled blood covenant as the Passover Lamb of YHWH in the midst of the week which that year would have fallen on day 4 (Wednesday).
5. He was buried before day 5 of the week on the 1st day of Chag HaMatzoth (Unleavened Bread) which is a Sabbath Day. (Wednesday to Thursday is day 1 of being buried; Thursday evening to Friday evening is day 2 of burial; Friday evening to Saturday evening is day 3 of burial.)
6.Three days later on the 1st day of the week, the day after the 7th day weekly Shabbat (Sabbath Day) he arose and fulfilled being the firstfruits from the dead on Bikkurim (the Feast of Firstfruits).
7.Fifty days later beginning with Bikkurim after the weekly Sabbath seven weekly Sabbaths are counted to end up on the 50th day occuring the 1st day of the week called Shavuoth (Pentecost). On Shavuoth the Comforter was given to his disciples in the Upper Room just as our Heavenly Father gave his Word to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Here we see that Messiah was conceived on Shavuoth and also prayed the Father to send Ruach HaQodesh on Shavuoth.
This completes the Spring Feasts.
We can see how that Messiah's life dots every I and crosses every T of our Heavenly Father's Holy Day Calendar.
Next we see the Fall Feasts Fulfillment:
8. Messiah will return at the last great trump which is the fourth blast being blown on Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets - the world knows this as Rosh HaShanah). This day heralds the King being made known and preparing for his later crowning in the Spring.
9. Ten days later Messiah will open the book of Life on Yom HaKippurim (Day of Atonement, Day of Coverings). We want to hear our name read from the Book of Life. All who are covered with His Robe of Righteousness who have put their trust in Him and consequently followed our Father's Commands will hear their name. Salvation is by faith alone and we show our faith by our works otherwise it is dead being alone.
10. Five days later we will Tabernacle with Messiah on Suqqoth (Feast of Tabernacles).
11. The tenth month we will dedicate the Temple on the 25th of the month during Chanukah the Feast of Dedication.
Shalom, Leslie Ann