Be warned. After reading this you will no longer have any excuse for not studying about the return of The Lord. Yeshua Himself TOLD us to watch, stay alert, and be ready.
Yeshua said He was coming back to rule and reign from Jerusalem and I believe Him. He came as a real person in history and He will return a real person in history. “A Light for the Gentiles and the glory of His people Israel.” The natural branches will, and are, being grafted back in.
His first coming fulfilled the types and shadows of the Spring Feasts of the Lord: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Feast of Weeks or Pentecost; and His second coming will be in accordance with the Fall Feasts of the Lord: Yom Teruah or Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement, and Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles.
We’ve been duped. In 336 A.D. a council of men cut off the church from its natural ties to the Jewish nation with all her history and meaning. To our detriment, we lost the Jewishness of the faith.
According to scriptures, the lunar calendar is God’s method of calculating time. The lunar calendar (Jewish religious calendar) marks the seasons. In scripture, the word, “seasons” in Hebrew is “mo’ed” and means “appointed time”. This is referring to the “Appointed Times of The Lord” or “The Feasts of The Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 5:1, "Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you."
Okay, let’s stop right there. Times and Seasons. He’s referring to the lunar calendar and the Appointed Times of The Lord. They were Jewish believers (and Gentiles) who not only knew these feasts, but celebrated them.
1 Thessalonians 5:2, "For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night."
Remember that we are a kingdom and priests. I found out that according to Jewish history, the Captain of Temple was called “the thief in the night.” The priests and levites were in charge of guarding the Temple, including keeping the fire of God going. If the Captain of the Guard came in at night and caught the one of them sleeping on the job, he would hit the man with a stick then take the torch he was carrying and light the sleeping man’s white priestly / levitical garments on fire. The sorry fellow would wake up and have to tear the soiled, burning clothes from his body, exposing his nakedness. Shedding new light on these verses:
Revelation 16:15, “Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.”
Revelation 3:14, 18, “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation, . . . Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and salve to put on your eyes so you can see!”
“Priestly Guard”:
The captain of the guard saw that every man was alert, chastising a priest if found asleep at his post, and sometimes even punishing him by burning his shirt upon him, as a warning to others. (Mid. i. 1 – Jewish Encyclopedia)
The Captain of the Temple (the man of the Temple Mount) visited each guard, and burning torches were carried before him. And every guard which did not stand up (which was not standing), the Captain of the Temple said to him: "Peace be to thee." If he observed that he slept, he smote him with his stick, and he had authority to burn his dress. And they said, "What is the noise (voice) in the court?" "It is the noise of a Levite who is beaten, and his clothes are set on fire, because he slept upon his watch." (Perek I. – Mishnah-Middoth)
1 Thessalonians 5:3-10, “3 Now when they are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape. 4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would. 5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. 6 So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation. 9 For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.
The Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) was known as the feast that “no one knew the day or the hour.” Again, “YOU ARE NOT IN DARKNESS FOR THE DAY TO OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF!” 1 Thessalonians 5:4
http://fringers.org/2008/12/22/who-is-the-thief-in-the-night.aspx
Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah Calendar Dates
(Begins at sundown and Ends at sundown)
2012
September 16, Sunday - September 18, Tuesday
2013
September 4, Wednesday - September 6, Friday
2014
September 24, Wednesday - September 26, Friday
2015
September 13, Sunday - September 15, Tuesday
2016
October 2, Sunday - October 4, Tuesday
2017
September 20, Wednesday - September 22, Friday
2018
September 9, Sunday - September 11, Tuesday
2019
September 29, Sunday - October 1, Tuesday
2020
September 18, Friday - September 20, Sunday
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