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“SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO THEM:
            THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM TO BE HOLY CONVOCATIONS, THESE ARE MY FEASTS……
     THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, HOLY CONVOCATIONS WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM AT THEIR APPOINTED TIMES…”

                                                                                             Lev. 23 excerpts

       If the first four Feasts of the Lord were           can we not with great certainty expect the last three
     fulfilled by Christ at their appointed times,         Feasts to also be fulfilled at their appointed times?

     1 23                                      4                                                 5 67

                                                                  PRESENT
                                                                  CHURCH

                                                                     AGE

           DEATH       BURIAL   RESURRECTION        HOLY SPIRIT                   RAPTURE OF THE RETURN OF REIGN OF CHRIST
       OF CHRIST    OF CHRIST-  OF CHRIST ON      SENT BY CHRIST                  CHURCH BY CHRIST CHRIST ON   ON
     ON PASSOVER  UNLEV. BREAD                    ON PENTECOST                    ON TRUMPETS  ATONEMENT TABERNACLES
                                  FIRSTFRUITS

                  THE FOUR                         BOOK      & 21                                BOOK OF
                   GOSPELS                        OF ACTS  EPISTLES                            REVELATION

     MESSAGE COMPLETED                     MESSAGE BEING COMPLETED                MESSAGE YET TO BE COMPLETED

     “FOR THE GRACE OF GOD                      TEACHING US THAT, DENYING         LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE
     THAT BRINGS SALVATION                 UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLY LUSTS,             AND GLORIOUS APPEARING
                                                                                            OF OUR GREAT GOD
             HAS APPEARED                         WE SHOULD LIVE SOBERLY,
               TO ALL MEN,                         RIGHTEOUSLY AND GODLY             AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST…”
                                                                                                    Titus 2:11-13
                                                      IN THIS PRESENT AGE,

                  ‘NOW THIS IS THE MAIN POINT OF THE THINGS WE ARE SAYING…” Heb. 8:1

     We now come to the strength, the absolute certainty, the very purpose for God hiding, in the Levitical
     Law of the feasts, a foreshadowing of the past, present, and future work of Christ on earth. We can
     look to the first three feasts depicting the message of the Gospels-salvation brought to all men by the
     appearing of the Grace of God. Jesus fulfilled this mission on the very days appointed in Leviticus 23.
     We can see that when Christ ascended, He sent forth the Holy Spirit to birth and empower His church
     on earth. When did He do so? The Scriptures are clear, “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come…”
     (Acts 2:1-4). Three remaining great events are prophesied throughout the Scriptures. Those three events
     are (1) The Rapture, (2) The Second Coming of Christ, and (3) the Millennial Reign of Christ on earth.
     These are commonly held beliefs by most of Protestant Christianity. However, applying those beliefs to
     the type and shadow found in the Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23 are NOT so common! In fact, I
     would sadly say it is rather most uncommon. Although these three beliefs are quite common, tying
     them to the feasts is not the norm. Rather, as a result of not paying any attention to the type and
     shadow of the feasts, what we now have is an undefined time-frame for events such as the rapture with
     the miss-applied cliché, “No man knows the day nor the hour” (Matt.24:36). However, in light of the
     feasts, we do know the appointed day of the rapture! It is the first day of the seventh month of the
     Lunar Calendar! What we don’t know is the specific year. The date of the Rapture is just as certain as
     were the appointed days of the first four feasts of the Lord that are now historical facts! Because the
     first four feasts were fulfilled on the appointed cycle in Leviticus 23, we can be sure that the remaining
     three great prophetic events yet to be fulfilled by Christ will also take place on their appointed days!

          THE RAPTURE OF THE                             THE RETURN OF                       THE REIGN OF
            CHURCH BY CHRIST                                     CHRIST                            CHRIST
              WILL TAKE PLACE
                                                        WILL TAKE PLACE                WILL TAKE PLACE ON
     ON THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS                  ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT            THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

                           5                                          6                                     7

                 “IN THE SEVENTH MONTH,         “ALSO ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS    “THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH
          ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH,    SEVENTH MONTH SHALL BE THE DAY OF        SHALL BE THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES FOR
          YOU SHALL HAVE A SABBATH REST,   ATONEMENT…TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR
     A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS,                                           SEVEN DAYS TO THE LORD…ON THE FIRST DAY
                                               YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD…        THERE SHALL A SABBATH REST, AND ON THE
                 A HOLY CONVOCATION…”          YOU SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS…”                  EIGHTH DAY A SABBATH REST”
                               Lev. 23:24                                                                     Lev. 23:34,39
                                                                   Lev. 23:27,32
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