July 27, 2014 Dionei Cleber Vieira
Bible, eschatology
MEANING:
escatologia1
feminine noun
1. doctrine of things that must happen at the end of the world.
teol the doctrine that is the final destiny of man and the world; can perform in prophetic discourse or apocalyptic context.
I'm working on an article about the various eschatological signs that we can see at the present time, but before that I believe is essential to explain the prophetic significance of the Jewish festivals. Unfortunately, for a large part of today's Christians, the passages in Leviticus 23 where the ordinances of the Parties, are dull texts related to Jewish culture only, no larger meaning. Big mistake, there is much more behind these parties than many realize.
First, note that in Leviticus 23.1, God defines the parties to be fixed and to be holy convocations, or are calls for a holy assembly for its people, a kind of dress rehearsal, and if it is something sacred and was instituted by God himself we can not ignore its importance. Christians have no obligation or commitment to observe or celebrate these holidays, but the understanding of its meaning brings a tremendous gain for the faith. Jesus, as a righteous Jew, celebrated the feasts, as can be seen in the records of the Gospels, including Hanukkah (also known as the festival of Lights or feast of Dedication, read emJoão 10.22-23) which is a festival celebrated by the Jews in memory of the purification of the temple of Antiochus Epiphanes of profanation, this celebration that is not in Leviticus 23 ratio .
It is interesting to note that in Leviticus 23, the first ordinance involves the Sabbath, which should be observed by the people of Israel as a solemn rest. In this article I will not address the Sabbath, but the other parties, because of their meanings. My goal is to present the seven established parties, where the first four, which occur in the spring during the times of planting and harvesting of barley, have been fulfilled by Christ in his First Advent, and the following three, which occur in the fall during the wheat harvest period, will be fulfilled prophetically in his Second Coming. The first four parties are also known as "the first rains" or "temples rains" (spring) and the following three parties are known as "latter rain" or "latter rain" (autumn), therefore, these two periods rains are related to the First and the Second Coming of Christ (read Hosea 6.3, Joel 2:23, Deuteronomy 11.10-17 and James 5.7-8). We will see that these parties are tests made by Israel, the various parts of God's plan for humanity.
To better understand the parties and their prophetic meanings, we need to better understand the Jewish calendar, as different from us that we have a solar calendar, the Jewish is based on the lunar cycle; thus, each month begins with the appearance of the new moon and every day begins with the appearance of the moon (often confused with the sunset). God in Genesis 1, instituted this system, declaring repeatedly that "... the evening and the morning were the days ...". Jewish months compared to our calendar, can be seen as follows:
Jewish Month Month Equivalent Approximate 01 Nisan / Abib March-April 02 Ziph / Iyar April-May 03 Sivam May-June 04 Tammuz June-July 05 Apr / (Av) July-August 06 Elul August-September 07 Tishrei September-October 08 Bul / Heshvan October-November 09 Chilseu / Kislev November-10 December Tebeth December-January 11 Sebat / Shebat January-February 12 Adar February-13 March Ve-Adar / II Adar (Adar Sheni) * February-March
* The Ve-Adar month can be understood as a leap year.
The first day of the month is called Rosh (Head) Hodesh (Moon) that day oShofar (ram's horn) was blown and torches were lit for each person knew that this was the first day of the month (read Psalm 81.3-5 ). Some days of the Jewish calendar are particularly interesting and have relevant historical meanings, for example:
Four very important events occurred on the first day of Nisan: the Tabernacle of Moses was dedicated after they leave Egypt (Exodus 40.17-35), King Hezekiah cleansed the temple (2 Chronicles 29.2-3), Ezra began his return trip to rebuild the temple (Ezra 7.9), Artaxerxes issued the decree rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2.1-8) .On the 10th of Nisan was the sanctification of lamb for Easter as Moses instructed the people to prepare the lamb (Exodus 12.3 -6). Christ, our Passover Lamb, is "separate" on the 10th of Nisan (John 12.1-2) .The 9th of Ab / (Av) is historically a day of tragedies and misfortunes in the history of Israel, then an 8 ratio events that occurred on that day that the Jews traditionally resemble each year, plus 4 other events related to the same day: Ten of the 12 spies returned on the 9th of Av with the bad report about the promised land. Solomon's Temple began to be destroyed by the Babylonians on the 9th of Av, the beginning of the fire was on the 9th and the 10th was completely destroyed. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans on the 9th of Av in AD 70. According to the Jewish Flavio historian Josephus, the fire in the walls and part of the city began on 8 Av. In 71 AD the Roman army plowed around the Temple Mount in 9 Av. Bar Kochba was killed and his army destroyed on the 9th of Av in 135 AD in 1290 AD, Britain expelled the country's Jews on the 9th of Av. in 1492, Spain expelled all Jews from their country in the 9th of Av. in 1914, on the 9th of Av, World War I was declared. In eastern Russia, the Russian government began a campaign of severe persecution of Judeus.Urbano II called the Crusades in the year 1095, on 9 Av.Queima Talmuds of the year 1242 on 9 Av.No 1942 on 9 Av, began at the Treblinka extermination camp the first deaths of the Jews under the determination of Adof Hitler.Em July 18, 1994, the 9th of Av, were killed 86 Jews and over 120 were injured in a terrorist attack against the Israeli association in Argentina by a terrorist group, probably Hezbollah.
Now, based on what we have seen so far, we can see the table of the seven Jewish Feasts and their day to celebrate, as described in Leviticus 23:
FestaÉpoca Feast of Easter First month, on the fourteenth day Unleavened Bread First month, the fifteenth day of the twenty-first First Fruits (First Fruits) The first day after the Sabbath of Unleavened Pentecost Breads 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits Trumpets seventh month in first day Atonement seventh month, on the tenth day Tabernacles seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the twenty-first
Let us now examine each of the Feast of the table above in detail and its prophetic significance.
Easter
Easter is a festival that recalls the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, for us Christians, reminds us of our deliverance from the bondage of sin through Christ. Jesus is the Lamb definitive Pascal and provided by God for the salvation of men, as prophesied throughout the Old Testament, since the fall of man.
The lamb had to be sacrificed at dusk or early evening, the hours of 3 pm (the ninth hour) was the division between the Oblation (supply) and smaller Oblation (offer) higher. Jesus was crucified at 9 am on the 14th of Nisan and died (expired) at 3 pm (Mark 15:25), and was buried 6 pm that same day.
In the person of Christ, this party had its greatest fulfillment, on the Cross, which was nailed to the ballot of our debt to God (Colossians 2:14).
Unleavened bread
Easter is followed by a week of Feast of Unleavened Bread (not leaven). In the Old Testament, leaven could be milk; egg or any other ingredient which, when added to the mass, may cause fermentation. Normally yeast is the "yeast" and leavens the dough when it is added to other contaminated mass, this fresh and pure mass (Ga 5.9). The term leaven or yeast, in its broadest sense, is anything that can cause a change in a larger mass. Referring to the scriptures, it is something that corrupts when an ingredient is added.
And in the case of Christ, what is this? Let's see:
He is the bread of vida.Ele had not fermento.Ele was beaten, torn, wounded and bruised for us. Interestingly the Matzo (unleavened bread) is full of grooves in appearance, the Matzo is perforated so that the furnace heat can go through inside and Matzo is made from crushed seed.
Christ in the Feast of Unleavened Bread was fulfilled, as he is the bread unleavened life, which we must continually feed us to have life and life in abundance.
First Fruits (First Fruits)
During the year there were some Saturdays ( "Shabbat") known as extra "Shabaton" or "The Great Shabbat". These seven "Shabaton" extras fell into special calendar days and not just on Fridays nights. The first Shabaton of the year is on the 15th of Nisan. In the year that Jesus died, the 15th of Nisan fell on a Thursday night and the day Friday. So there were two Sabbaths, one right after the other, ie a GrandeShabat for Easter, on the 15th of Nisan, and the other on the 16th of Nisan which was umShabat Normal celebrated on Friday night and Saturday during the day . This can only be found in the New Testament only if read in Greek in Matthew 28.1 where the word translated Shabaté actually Shabaton and going to Mark 15:42 we find the text clearly stating that "and so was the preparation day, that is the day before the Sabbath (Shabbat), ... ", see also Matthew 19:31 and John 26.62. The "Day of Preparation" refers to any day of the week, at any time before a Shabbat.
The Feast of First Fruits or Firstfruits had its fulfillment in Christ through his resurrection on that day, so He is the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18) for eternal life, He was made the first fruits of them that sleep (1 Corinthians 15:20 ). The events described in Matthew 27.52-53 were the First Fruits of Christ offered to God the Father, those saints who were resurrected were the first of a great harvest that is about to happen. The Feast of First Fruits is the third and final feast that Jesus personally fulfilled on Earth. Jesus was physically present at Easter, the unleavened bread and the First Fruits. He rose (rose) to heaven after 40 days, 10 days before Pentecost. He also will physically meet three parties.
Pentecost
After the First Fruits is counted the Omer (beam), the counting of the 50 days is called "counting the Omer", counting the bundles. The nation of Israel raised when out of the Red Sea and 50 days later God gave them the Law, the Torah. Jesus rose and 50 days later God has given us the Ruach Ha'Kodesh (the Holy Spirit). Both these cases have the same purpose (John 16:13 eGálatas 5.22-23).
The Hebrew Feast of Shavuot is called Party. Shavuot means "weeks" and refers week that are among the Festival of First Fruits and Pentecost. In the First Fruits, a bundle of "unleavened grain" was moved before God, just as Jesus, sinless, was moved (raised) before the Father. On Shavuot, two leavened bread (porous) were raised before God. Since the two breads contain yeast (yeast), what they represent? Both breads are the two parts of the Church, the Jewish and gentile, but both contains sin. The end of the fourth festival brings the closure of the first rains Parties, temples rains. Jesus spoke of Pentecost at various times, including the day of his ascension (Acts 1.4-9).
We can summarize the first 4 parties as follows:
Easter: Messiah's death by Convocation.
Unleavened Bread: Messiah's burial at Convocation.
First Fruits (First Fruits): Call for the Messiah's resurrection.
Pentecost: Call for appointment and delegation of power to the people given by the Messiah.
Let us now observe the following 3 related parties latter rain, the latter rain, that are to be fulfilled. As we saw in the first 4 God the observance of the parties according to their meanings and we can expect relevant facts also for autumn parties.
trumpets
The 1st of Tishrei begins the Feast of Trumpets, or Yom Teruah (The Thunderous Awakening Day) or Rosh Ha'Shanah (Head of the Year, the Day of Shofar Sound). This is the only party that begins with the New Moon. The Shofar was very important in the celebration of the Jubilee Year. As every month of the calendar, the first day of Tishrei begins with the glow of a new moon. The watchmen in Israel Orient were watching until arose the first ray or sign of the new moon and the sign was quickly transmitted lookout on the lookout to reach the temple. The priest was standing on the ledge southeast of the Temple and sounded the shofar that was heard throughout the valley around. Once the priest sounded the Shofar, the God-fearing, true servants immediately interrupted the harvest even further stay to be harvested, left everything right there in the field. It was the time of wheat and they stopped everything and they went to the temple to worship the New Year's Day, the Feast of Trumpets.
Jesus used this illustration to describe his Second Coming. Paul clearly associates the "sound of trumpets" with the Second Coming of Christ in the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4.16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15.51-52). Isaiah associated with the use of Shofarcom the Messiah (Isaiah 51.9 e60.1). Paul associated the thunderous awakening with the Shofar and repentance of sins and quoted Isaiah 60.1 in Ephesians 5.14-17.
The Rosh Ha'Shanah is also called deYom Ha'Din, Judgment Day, a time when the heavenly courts come together and make a complete analysis of each person's life. The 30 days of Elul, before the first day of Tishrei is then time to turn to God and the 10 days leading up to Yom Kippur (Day of Dread, Atonement), are called the Days of Awe or "Days Fearful ". Just as the Jew does every year, we see that precedes the end of Rosh Ha'Shanah and inaugurates the "Lord's Day" (Zephaniah 2.1-3). A relevant curiosity, the rabbis teach the following:
On Rosh Ha'Shanah each person is julgada.Deus opens three books and all those who had turned to him, their names were written in the Book of Justos.Depois that God divided the rest into two groups:
a) The first group is the Rashim (completely iniquitous) and their names are written in the Book of Rashim, a book containing the names of those who are utterly wicked. The fate of Rashimé sealed on Rosh Ha'Shanah because they rejected by their own choices, the salvation provided by God through His Messiah.
b) The second group is called Intermediates. This is the largest group and is not considered fair or completely wicked. This group is given 10 days more to repent before the start of Yom Kippur. If they repent until Yom Kippur, so their names are written in the Book of the Righteous, but if not, go to the Book of Completely Wicked. The fate of each is determined on Yom Kippur.
Atonement
The word atonement, kipper, literally means "covering of sin." The offer for the sins of God offers forgiveness to the offender, an atonement for sin. OYom Kippur occurs on the 10th of Tishrei and is the day most solemn and most holy worship in Judaism. It is called "Sabbath of Sabbaths". This is the day that all of Israel cry for their sins. This is the only day of the year when the high priest enters the holy place or "holy of holies", the most sacred place.
God revealed His intention that Yom Kippur should teach forgiveness of all debts; the release of those who were in some form of servitude and the return of possessions. When he instituted the Jubilee Year, every 50 Yom Kippur would be a jubilee same, ie a joy. It was a practice that should start 50 years after its establishment, however this celebration still was not really celebrated in truth. Israel still awaits the full celebration of its first Jubilee, which will happen when the Messiah returns.
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, comes from kaphar word that means "to cover". Jesus is our propitiation or covering, He is our atonement that completely erases our sins.
tabernacles
The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot is also called the "Feast of Tabernacles" or "Feast of Booths" (Sukkahs). The Feast of the Lord and the Feast of Harvest Gathering. This is the third Harvest Parties, a great season of joy and gladness. It begins five days after Yom Kippur, on the 15th of Tishrei, the full moon and lasts 7 days. The festival celebrates the provision and shelter of God during the exodus and illustrates His dwelling in the future world, the New Jerusalem. The Feast of Tabernacles will continue to be celebrated during the millennial reign of Christ (Zech 14.16-19).
The seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles was called Hosha'Na Rabba, which means the day of the Great Hosanna. Just as every day the priests poured water in the temple during the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus also was placed on the Temple Mount and declared to be the true Water of Life, the Life in the Spirit was being poured inside of Himself. During the Feast of Tabernacles, the Temple Mount was impressively lit with many torches and lanterns. In the fully enlightened Temple Jesus declared Himself to be the true Light. These traditional allusions to water and light, as mentioned herein, reminiscent of the description of the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven, as it is written in the book deApocalipse 21.9-27.
Jesus Himself is our Sukkot, our true tabernacle which dwell perpetually among men.
Thus we concluded that little study on the parties and their prophetic meanings. Compliance with the last three parties is close, the signs are increasingly visible. In the previous articles of this series of eschatology, as presented at that time we are in the next article I will present several signs related to this present time in which we live. If you want to study in more depth the topics addressed here of parties, I recommend reading the book "The Old Testament Jewish Feasts" Dr. Shannon Grady McMurtry (http://www.mediafire.com/file/kanr7d92ye26exu/As+Festas + Jewish + of + Old Testament + + - + + Dr. Grady + + SHANNON Mcmurtry.pdf), this article was adapted from several parts of the work.
May God bless and illuminate his face on you !!!
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